Down to earth

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. (Thomas Merton)

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id you know that we are stuck to a rock (called earth) and that this rock is orbiting a giant ball of fire and that our entire solar system is orbiting a giant black hole?

v This rock, called earth, is 12756 km wide

v The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

v It is spinning at a speed of 460m per second

v Earth rotates at 1,000 miles per hour.

v The earth’s revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.

v It is orbiting the sun at a speed of 30 km per second

v It’s path around the sun is 583,400,000 miles long

v Our solar system is orbiting a giant black hole at 220km per second

v There is enough water in our atmosphere to cover the entire surface of earth with one inch of water.

v If earth was any farther or any closer from the sun, all that water would either freeze or boil away.

v Earth is the third planet from the sun

v It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the earth

v The largest diamond ever found on the earth was 3,106 carats

v 0, 3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.

v 90% of all volcanic activity on earth occurs in the oceans.

v The earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

v The oceans cover 71% of the earth’s surface

v The oceans contain 97% of the earth’s water.

v There is ¼ pound of salt in every gallon of sea water.

v The longest coastline is in Canada at 56,453 miles.

v At the deepest point in the ocean the pressure is more than 8 tons per square inch.

v There are 1 million ants for every person on earth.

v The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

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ARTH PROVIDES ENOUGH TO SATISFY EVERY MAN’S NEEDS, BUT NOT EVERY MAN’S GREED – (Mahatma Gandhi)

Computing or driving

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

"If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, Ford issued a press release stating:

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........twice a day.

2.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 

3... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4.... Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 

5..... Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6...... The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. 

7....... The airbag system would ask,"Are you sure?" before deploying.

8........ Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 

9......... Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10.......... You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. 

WOW !

Water

 It’s amazing that people prefer to drink cool drinks, coffee and tea instead of water.  Ask someone if he/she drinks water and look at their faces!  People will tell you straight that they do not drink water. 

They will tell you that they don’t like the taste of water.  They will tell you that it tastes BAD!  (everything without sugar seems to taste bad)

Water is so important in our everyday life.  Without water no man, animal or plant can exist on earth.  But where does water come from?

In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, except for water, on the earth.  The earth was completely empty and God’s spirit moved over the water. Unfortunately, it is a fact that today, natural water can be poison to man and animal.  Our rivers are polluted into such an extend that it became dangerous to take a sip of water from it.

All over the world it became necessary to purify our precious water before anyone can drink it.  Bottled purified water became a booming business all over the earth.

Did you know that :

One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University study: 
  
Lack of  water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue. (and what do we do, we drink energy syrup or red bull instead of water)

Preliminary research indicates that  8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly  ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.(and what do we do, we swallow pain killers instead of water) 

A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.

Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. (WOW ! What a cheap way to live a more healthy life)

Now that you know how important water is for your health, ………….
are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?

If not, why not give it a try.  I’ve done it!  Since I’ve decided to drink more water and less tea / coffee a day, my fatigue vanished!  I’m already feeling so much better. 

REMEMBER – It’s never to late to start a new habit!  They say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away……but, enough water a day, will wash most of sickness away!

KEEP ON DRINKING !