There's 10⁹ living cells in a gram of surface soil, and in 20 km depth that reduces to 10⁶ cells per gram, but they're still alive and actively metabolizing down there! eating rock, mmhm tasty rock oh yeah! :p
they have cell turnover rates of hundreds of years though, so they age very slowly and multiply very slowly due to energy shortage.
Life uhh.... find a way.
I wonder if they ever check samples from like meteors, asteroids or moon rocks for evidence of that kind of organism.
Yes, it’s done often.
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.
:P
There a more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water, than there are stars in the entire solar system.
Told that joke to my daughter. Didn't understand it. Fine, hydrogen, atoms molecules... thought one for a 10 y/o with no particular interest in science.
But then I asked how many stars our solar system had.
Answer: "I don't know"
Asked with emphasis on "our solar system".
Answer: "Infiite number of stars"
Asked how many stars are in out living room
Answer: "Zero"
Asked how many stars are on our planet
Answer: "Zero"
Me thinking we are on track and that she understood the scoping error in her first assessment asking the original question again with emphasis on sun (in german its sonnensystem, I.e. sun system, so it makes sense)
Answer: "Zero"
Lovely seeing extrapolation in real live.
I'm sorry, you are raising an AI.
Sharks are older than trees
They are also older than the rings of Saturn.
All the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon
Australia is wider than the moon. If earth had the size of a football (soccer), the moon would be about 7m away. If the sun had a diameter of 1m, Neptune would be 5.6km away. In that scale model, the next star would be placed in the outer planets. Space is insanely big.
I’m confused what you mean by wider. As far as I can tell Australia is about 4000km wide and the moon’s circumference is about 11000km
EDIT: it’s late and I am dumb, I take it you mean the moon’s diameter! 3474km
Time derivatives!
Toads swallow food with their eyes. When they snag some food into their mouth they close their eyelids, and their eyes go inside and help push food down the throat before coming back up to the front of the head.
If you took all the DNA from every cell of one person and laid it in a straight line they would die
Fundamentally everything and everyone, even nothing, is made of the same fields of invisible...stuff. We can measure them in very accurate detail. We are all connected. We are all ripples and waves in those fields. Everything is. If only you could see the entire spectrum of light, you would see one of those fields.
All I can see when I look in your eyes are the waves of love that connect us.
Red grapefruits were originally created by planting yellow grapefruit near a radioactive source with the express purpose of creating mutations in the plant.
98.62% of the uranium-235 in the Little Boy bomb was blown apart before fission. That leaves 1.38% that actually fissioned. That was 0.7 grams of U-235, about the size of a bb and the weight of a butterfly that destroyed Hiroshima.
The moon is currently drifting away from the Earth. Eventually, that will make total eclipses impossible, so enjoy them while they last.
Fast forward a few billion years, and the Sun begins to swell up, engulfing the closest planets. At some point, the atmosphere of the Sun could begin to cause drag on the Moon, slowing it down. If so, the Moon begins to crash down on Earth. Once it reaches the Roche limit, it gets shredded into kwazillion bits, and the Earth will have rings, just like Saturn.
Male ducks have a corkscrew penis almost as long as their body. Female ducks have vaginas that corkscrew in the opposite direction, with false endings. Ducks do not have consent, so nature found a way.
The rape labyrinth
Trump branded hedge maze
Something like a fifteenth of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
~~Pluto is smaller than Russia~~
Edit: this fact seems to rely on a contested measurement for pluto. I guess it would still be true if we look at volume but that's kinda weird.
What
Edit : apparently, counting surface areas, it's wrong, but by surprisingly little
Maybe the factoid first became popular when the USSR existed
If you do not vote, you support political parties that you do not agree with at all.
That's neither scientific or real.
80% of the neurons in your brain are in your cerebellum
The chip on my shoulder wants to rattle off a litany of facts related to women's health, but I imagine this was intended to be a lighthearted post so I'll grab my popcorn and wait to see what others share
You can't just tease us like that and not deliver...
I wanna hear all of them!
Clouds.
And there’s much more to be found.
There's more ships in the ocean by weight than there's fish.
[edit]
See my other comment below, probably more accurate to say the total weight of all ships is around the same as the total weight of all ocean fish.
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