Biggest Ocean Covering 32.6% of the Earth's surface or 64,186,300 miles, the Pacific Ocean is officially the world's biggest ocean.
Deepest Lake, is Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. The Olkhon Crevice, the deepest point of the lake, has a depth of 5,370 ft, of which 3,875 are below sea level.
Biggest Lake, is the Caspian Sea, an inland sea which covers parts of Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. It is 760 miles long, with a surface area of 143,560 miles and an estimated volume of 21,500 cubic miles. LEARN MORE
Smallest Ocean, more than ten times smaller than the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, which has a surface area of 5,105,700 miles, is the world's smallest ocean. LEARN MORE
Biggest Lake Shrinkage Due almost entirely to the extraction of water for irrigation purposes, the Aral Sea has shrunk the most in recent times having lost almost two-thirds of its original size. By 1994 (with 10,500 miles left compared to 26,300 miles in 1950), it had divided into two smaller bodies of water.
Surface Area of the Earth: 196,935,000 Sq. Miles Land Area on the Earth: 29.1% Total Water Area: 70.9% Type of Water: (97% salt), (3% fresh) Circumference at the equator: 24,901.5 miles The earth orbits the Sun at: 66,700 mph per hour.
Fossil fuels supply over 80% of the world’s energy needs .
All fossil fuels, whether solid, liquid, or gas, are the result of
organic material being covered by successive layers of sediment
over the course of millions of years.
Oil and natural gas were formed from the slow
decomposition and burying of planktonic marine plants
and animals that sank to the muds of the sea floor.
...........Every year, the world burns through some thirty-eight billion barrels of oil, six billion tons of coal, and a hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The combustion of these fossil fuels will produce, in aggregate, some four hundred quadrillion B.T.U.s ....of energy. It will also yield around thirty billion tons of carbon dioxide The Sun is about 4.5 Billion Years old, is some 333,400 times more massive than Earth, and contains 99.86 percent of the mass of the entire solar system. It's 93 Million miles away from the Earth, so by the time it's light reaches us, (at 186,000 Miles Per Second), it is 8 minutes old. ./ We shouldn't waste our time following others... Look for the glimpses of your true self. Spend time alone; identity is found in silence and solitude. Risk fulfilling what you really are. The most important way to awaken is to return to the wonder of the child; seek the occasions and seize the day as a child does. "Use your eyes," wrote Hellen Keller, "as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices and the song of a bird as if tomorrow your tactile senses would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell or taste again." Inevitably, we live between light and darkness, live in the bright bowl of the sun, and then return to the fall of night. "Now I lay me down to sleep". It's about the immemorial rhythm of life that the prayer speaks. When we have lived a day richly and warmly, running in the sunlight, laughing and loving, then the night comes sweetly and without regret. Perhaps that other night, the longer night we call death will come sweetly too. If we have spent our lives wisely, blessedly, with others we love around us, then death may come sweetly, and bring, like all the nights we have ever known, a new and fresh awakening... No matter how you measure it, the speed of light is always the same.
Einstein's crucial breakthrough about the nature of light, made in 1905, can be summed up in a deceptively simple statement: "The speed of light is constant."
So... what does this sentence really mean???
Surprisingly, the answer has nothing to do with the actual speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second through the "vacuum" of empty space. Instead, Einstein had an unexpected —and paradoxical— insight: that light from a moving source has the same velocity as light from a stationary source. For example, beams of light from a lighthouse, from a speeding car's headlights, and from the lights on a supersonic jet all travel at a constant rate as measured by all observers— despite differences in how fast the sources of these beams move.
The Special Theory of Relativity is based on Einstein's recognition that the speed of light does not change even when the source of the light moves. Although it might seem logical to add the speed of the light source and the speed of the light beam to determine the total speed, light does not work this way. No matter how fast Einstein rides his bike, the light coming from his headlight always moves at the same speed.
Thus, contrary to everyday experience with phenomena such as sound waves, the velocity of light is the same for an observer travelling at high speed towards a light source as it is for an observer travelling rapidly away from the light source. To Einstein it followed that, if the speed of light is the same for both these observers, the time and distance framework they use to measure the speed of light cannot be the same. So... Time and distance vary, depending on the velocity of each observer. Interesting? Theres A (Relatively!!!) Clear Explanation Clicking Here
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