but we were too damn cheap and lazy."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The
good Earth -- we could have saved it,
but we were too damn cheap and lazy."
-Kurt Vonnegut
EARTH
3rd stone from the Sun
Mean Distance from Sun 149 597 890 [km] = 1 AU (astronomical unit)
Orbital Period 365.26 days
Rotational Period 23 h 56 m
Diameter 12 756 [km]
Mass 5.9742 x 10ˆ27 [g]
Density 5.515 [g/cmˆ3]
Gravity 980 [cm/sˆ2]
Atmosphere
(primary components)
78% nitrogen, 21%
oxygen, 1% other
Mean Surface Temperature 15 [°C]
Number of Moons 1
Population 6.5 billion (2005)
Age 5 billion years
The weight
of all the ants on Earth is greater than the weight of all the humans on
Earth.
leaving earth
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Top 10 cities prone to MEGARISK
1. Tokyo
2. San Francisco Bay area
3. Los Angeles
4. Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto
5. Miami
6. New York
7. Hong Kong
8. Manila/Quezon City
9. London
10. Paris
-MunichRe, May 2005
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What
is your "ecological" footprint?
Worldwide, there are 4.5 biologically productive acres per person.
Find out how much you are using here.
If
Yucca Mountain is used to store radioactive waste, it would receive 1 to 6 shipments
per day, every day, for 24 years. Planners say most of the shipments would be
transported via rail,
with 1/3 of the shipments going through downtown Chicago.
The Federal Government owns 87% of the land in Nevada.
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Evolution
• zircon crystals found in sedimentary rocks in western
Australia are 4.0 to 4.2 billions years old
• rocks found in the Amitsoq gneisses in western Greenland are 3.7 to
3.8 billion years old
• bilateral symmetry found in a 300 million year old fossil in southern
China
• nine 4.5 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus skeletons found in northern
Ethiopia
• 3.6 million year old human-like footprint in volcanic ash in Tanzania
• 1.5 million year old remnants of campfires found in caves in Swartkrans,
South Africa
• 70,000 year old ochre lipstick found in South Africa
• Russian archaeologists find 30,000 year old evidence that humans lived
in Siberia
• 23,000 year old remains of wild grains, grinding equipment, and stone
oven near the Sea of Galilee, Israel
the evolution of antibiotic resistance among bacteria is beyond dispute
Creationism
• God created the Earth and all the species
on it, in six days,
6000 years ago
During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers on
August 2, 2005,
President Bush said he believes schools should discuss "intelligent design" alongside
evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.
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Vernal Equinox
everyone sees the sun rise due east, provide 12 hours of daylight, and set
due west
2005.03.20 = first day of spring in 2005
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