Real Facts That "Feel Wrong"

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Most life on Earth is (ultimately) powered by nuclear fusion.

Most of the Earth is solid. The crust, mantle, and inner core are all solid. Yes, the inner core is under so much pressure that it is solid, despite its high temperature. Only the outer core is liquid.

More is known about the surface of the Moon than the bottoms of the Earths oceans.

The most abundant protein in the world is RUBISCO, which is the protein responsible for carbon dioxide capture during photosynthesis. It is a very inefficient protein, and because of this more than half the protein in an actively photosynthesizing plant cell is Rubisco. It is also seen by many biologists as the most important protein ever to evolve. Without it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

The common amoeba has 50 chromosomes. Humans have 46. There appears to be no rhyme or reason whatsoever between chromosome number and the complexity or lack thereof of the resulting life form.

^tobacco has even more.

it most likely would be because of places like subsaharan africa or PNG where there are so many indigenous languages that haven't all been categorized and where more are still being discovered.

and where do you draw the line between dialect and language? do creoles count, pidgins?



i know what he said

i just find that baffling.

In plants, an event can occur where chromosomes can double without cell division. This is a common means of speciation and macroevolution among plants. This can result in species that have hundreds of chromosomes.

As for language, it counts in my mind if its dissimilar enough that two dialects cant understand each other.

Skunks also have 50 chromosomes.

The planet Saturn would float if you had a bathtub large enough to put it in.

There are people alive today who think the world is flat, the sun goes round the Earth, dinosaur bones are only a few hundred years old, the first woman was made from a rib, and that the light from distant stars is visible to us because it was created en route.

All of the atoms in your body except hydrogen were made by nuclear fusion inside of now dead stars. Your energy also ultimately comes from sunlight. So you are made entirely of star stuff (stars are mostly hydrogen, this is what first undergoes fusion to make the heavier elements) and powered by a star.

I find it baffling that the can opener was invented 50 years after the can.

I find it hard to believe that the year 1900 was not a leap year.

I can explain this. Adding one day every four years is actually a wee bit of an overcorrection of the tropical year. (The reason we have leap years at all is because the tropical year is really 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 45 seconds).So to correct for the leap year overcorrection, every XX00 year that normally would be a leap year is not.

The tropical year being the amount of time it takes the Sun to go through a full cycle of seasons which is not the same length of time it takes the Earth to go around the Sun (this is the sidereal year, and it is 365.26 days). (Tropical year being measured by the solstices and equinoxes, where as the sidereal year based on the suns position with respect to the stars).

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Lol!

It just is.

238 thousand miles from earth. But the earth is only 8000 miles wide, and the moon, is only 2000 miles wide. If the earth were a foot wide, and the moon three inches wide, the space between them would be more than two thirds the length of a football field. Plenty of room for the eleven foot wide Jupiter, and all of the other planets.

France has the greatest number of time zones. I always thought Russia had the most.