Nothing Trivial

Trivia Earth facts are funny things.  Standing alone, they make one think in terms of higher consciousnesses.  Consider:

Space

• The International Space Station is the most expensive structure ever built at a cost of $150 Billion
• Human beings can only survive in space unprotected for 2 minutes
• The time for the Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds.  That's why we have leap year every fourth year
• Since 1957, when Sputnik was launched, the Earth has collected 38,000 man made objects in orbit
• Of those, 5% are functioning satellites, 8% are spent rockets, and 87% are fragments and inactive satellites
• 12 miles is the limit to which a human can survive without a pressurized suit.  Called the Armstrong Limit, at that altitude water will boil at normal body temperature.

Oceans

•  Water on earth is 97% salt, only 3% fresh
• Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water
• Probably 1,000,000 species of life live in Earth;s oceans, and two-thirds have yet to be described
• 90% of Earth's volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.
• The deepest part of the ocean, the Marianna Trench, is over 6.7 miles deep
• Only 8 to 12 deaths by shark occur each year, yet 100 million sharks are harvested annually for their fins

Earth's Core

•  Lutetium is the rarest earth element, yet it's 200 time more common than gold in the Earth's crust
• 99% of Earth's gold lies within the core itself
• The core's temperature is 9,900 degrees Fahrenheit, as hot as the surface of the Sun
• The Earth's solid iron core is 1,500 miles in diameter, but the intense pressure prevents iron from melting
• Two and one-half miles below the Amazon River flows the subterranean Rio Hamza river
• Bacteria have been found 1.7 miles deep in the Earth. They survive by using radioactivity from uranium to convert water in to energy

Okay, that's enough distraction.  Now back to work.