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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

If you think about it, Earth can be seen as a living, breathing organism: it regulates temperature, burns energy, continually renews its skin, and experiences changes to its face as it ages with time. But the world we know is a precariously balanced system. In fact, the world we know wouldn't exist at all except for a number of very specific conditions; such as...



Today's Random Fact:

If you think about it, Earth can be seen as a living, breathing organism: it regulates temperature, burns energy, continually renews its skin, and experiences changes to its face as it ages with time. But the world we know is a precariously balanced system. In fact, the world we know wouldn't exist at all except for a number of very specific conditions; such as...

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Bonus Fact:

Earth's greatest source of heat, besides the sun, is its interior, which conducts a hundred billion billion calories of energy to the surface each year - or 1.5 microcalories per .155 square inch of the earth's surface each second. So much energy radiates from inside the Earth that it could satisfy all human energy needs three times over.