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)