Time wasters, part 23,523,352.6
Apr. 13th, 2008 04:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_rich(I used my "science" icon from the Oppenheimer movie about the Manhattan Project!)
Status report in the Midwest: It's April and still no spring in sight. Winter has a deathgrip and is not making it easy to get outside and do much of anything. So ... how about some educational geology?
Tired of seeing all those news reports and History Channel specials (for which I have a certain morbid fondness) about the end of the world? Are you tired of people just talking about it and wish someone would DO something to make sure the Earth just isn't there anymore? Try your hand at How to Destroy the Earth, an oldie but goodie. This guy examines all the possible ways our favorite planet could go kablooey! and why its unlikely you need to take out an insurance policy against it.
The perfect antidote to global warming: Snowball Earth, the hypothesis (theory?) that a Very Very Very Long Time Ago - literally millions of years before electric blankets - the third rock from the Sun was a gigantic snowball with a supercontinent and one big fucking frozen ocean. Too extreme even for the Polar Bear Club!
Check out the world of the future using the toolbar at the left, or have a gander at what Earth looked like hundreds of millions of years ago. (I think I saw something on History about how when everything's reassembled someday into Pangea Ultima again, in about 2 billion years, coupled with the loss of geothermal energy, the Earth will simply burn off all life and water and be a big ball of dust waiting to be swallowed by the sun. Depressed yet?)
I'm willing to take more links if anyone has them. I like random facts like these - Earth, space, the body, history, you name it.
Status report in the Midwest: It's April and still no spring in sight. Winter has a deathgrip and is not making it easy to get outside and do much of anything. So ... how about some educational geology?
Tired of seeing all those news reports and History Channel specials (for which I have a certain morbid fondness) about the end of the world? Are you tired of people just talking about it and wish someone would DO something to make sure the Earth just isn't there anymore? Try your hand at How to Destroy the Earth, an oldie but goodie. This guy examines all the possible ways our favorite planet could go kablooey! and why its unlikely you need to take out an insurance policy against it.
The perfect antidote to global warming: Snowball Earth, the hypothesis (theory?) that a Very Very Very Long Time Ago - literally millions of years before electric blankets - the third rock from the Sun was a gigantic snowball with a supercontinent and one big fucking frozen ocean. Too extreme even for the Polar Bear Club!
Check out the world of the future using the toolbar at the left, or have a gander at what Earth looked like hundreds of millions of years ago. (I think I saw something on History about how when everything's reassembled someday into Pangea Ultima again, in about 2 billion years, coupled with the loss of geothermal energy, the Earth will simply burn off all life and water and be a big ball of dust waiting to be swallowed by the sun. Depressed yet?)
I'm willing to take more links if anyone has them. I like random facts like these - Earth, space, the body, history, you name it.
