THE EARTH


Estimated Weight (mass)
(5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons) <-thats like 5.94 sextillion metric tons.


Estimated Age 4.6 billion years
Current Population 6,398,000,000
Surface Area (510,066,000 sq km)
Land Area (148,647,000 sq km) 29.1%
Ocean Area (335,258,000 sq km)
Total Water Area (361,419,000 sq km) 70.9%
Type of Water (97% salt), (3% fresh)


Circumference at the equator (40,066 km)
Circumference at the poles (39, 992 km)
Diameter at the equator (12,753 km)
Diameter at the poles (12,710 km)
Radius at the equator (6,376 km)
Radius at the poles (6,355 km)


Orbit Speeds The earth orbits the Sun at
(66,700 mph), (107,320 km per hour)
Sun Orbit The earth orbits the Sun every 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds


http://worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm

And according to Albert Einstein:

Pure energy about the size of a watermelon can split it in half http://www.gixxer.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

And according to Albert Einstein:

Pure energy about the size of a watermelon can split it in half http://www.gixxer.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif



Lets hope that never happens

Pure energy the size of a banana can split a girl in half.

Pure energy the size of a banana can split a girl in half.



sounds like when a vibrator malfunctions

Wow, I did not realize the circumference of the equator vs the circumference of the poles only differed by 74 kms. I thought it was a greater difference. So the earth is virtually round but technically elliptical but not by very much. Thanks for enlightening my day.

30.1% IS COVERED WITH ASSHOLES

The Galaxy Song


from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life


Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.


Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us its just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe.


The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.


So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on earth.

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