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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
There were an estimated 2,179,140 burglaries in the United States in 2007 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
As of November 2009, the Earth's population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.795 billion. About 227,000 people are added to the world each day. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Contrary to popular belief, the White House was always white. A lime-based whitewash was used in 1798 to protect the sandstone from the elements. The earliest known written mention of "White House" is from 1812. President Theodore Roosevelt made the name official in 1901. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Fact of the Day: atmosphere Without the atmosphere, it would be impossible to live on earth. The atmosphere's layers form a "blanket" around the earth, protecting us from dangerous rays of the sun and from the cold of outer space. The atmosphere contains the air that we breathe, water vapor, and dust. Air contains carbon dioxide and nitrogen, vital for life, and water vapor forms the clouds that bring rain. The atmosphere is held in place by the pull of the earth's gravity and extends to about 1,250 miles above the earth. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
What about a little oxygen? Tullio |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65768 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
And without a planetary magnetic field(Look at Mars and Venus, Both are losing their atmosphere), the Earth would be stripped of Its atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide would be last to go. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
AFAIK Mars has lost most of its atmosphere. Venus has a very dense atm, made of CO2. So maybe Venus is Earth's past, Mars is Earth's future. In between, life. Tullio |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65768 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
AFAIK Mars has lost most of its atmosphere. Venus has a very dense atm, made of CO2. So maybe Venus is Earth's past, Mars is Earth's future. In between, life. The CO2 atmosphere of Venus is being stripped slowly by the solar wind(like explained Here), So Venus will one day look more like a bigger version of Mars, Earth as long as It has a Magnetic field will have an atmosphere far into the future as It does now as long as the magnetic field exists and protects the Earths atmosphere from the solar wind(solar particles). The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Our collective weight is going up. The average American male has gained 17.1 pounds and the average American female has added 15.4 pounds since 1988. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Meet the Press, which is the all-time longest-running television show and is still on the air, began in 1945 as a radio show called “American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press.†LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Most of us dream every 90 minutes, and the longest dreams (30-45 minutes) occur in the morning. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Canada has the world's longest coastline of 202,080 kilometres (125,567 miles) and Monaco has the shortest coastline of 5.632 kilometers (3.5 miles). How about countries like Paraguay - no coast, so 0 coastline. BOINC WIKI |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30683 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Canada has the world's longest coastline of 202,080 kilometres (125,567 miles) and Monaco has the shortest coastline of 5.632 kilometers (3.5 miles). Monaco has a huge coastline compared to the Principality of Sealand. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
FACT OF THE DAY: Support Refdesk The iron framework of the Statue of Liberty was devised by French engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, who also built the Eiffel Tower in Paris LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
In 2007, the Toyota Camary was the top-selling passenger car in the U.S. with 473,103 sold. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Juneau, Alaska, can be reached by cruise ship, ferry, or air, but it is the only U.S. state capital that cannot be reached by road LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65768 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
With six commercial storage sites -- more than any other state in the union -- Illinois is currently home to over 7,000 metric tons of spent uranium from nuclear reactors. There are 121 storage sites in the U.S. -- 66 of them are commercial sites, 55 are military sites -- and they're spread out across Illinois and 38 other states. All of the "waste" is awaiting a more permanent home, which for two decades had been assigned to Yucca Mountain Repository in New Mexico, a plan that has been all but scrapped. Well lets see, Then there is reprocessing the spent fuel into MOX fuel(usable in a nuclear reactor) by mixing the old stuff with some new stuff, But then We've been doing that with old Soviet era Nuclear warheads(It makes real good fuel then, Eventually all that should be left will be either lead or something not so hot, There's a plant being either constructed or expanded over in Georgia(USA) that will or does do this. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30683 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Juneau, Alaska, can be reached by cruise ship, ferry, or air, but it is the only U.S. state capital that cannot be reached by road Depends on how far you mean. Try driving to Hawaii from any of the other states. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
In 2001, 59-year-old Robert Tools received the world's first fully implantable artificial heart. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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