Every child knows the water cycle and that the total volume of water on the planet stays the same. However, recent research suggests that snowballs the size of houses enter the atmosphere every few seconds, adding an additional 300 million tons of water a year, enough to increase sea levels by 0.1mm.
A bit more about it here here.
Archive for the ‘Fun stuff’ Category
Snowballs Entering The Earth’s Atmosphere?
Posted by lindym on October 2, 2009
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Tractor run
Posted by lindym on September 8, 2009
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Not really geography but a great movie
Posted by lindym on April 21, 2009
more about “Not really geography but a great movie“, posted with vodpod
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A Glaciation poem by Mark Cowan
Posted by lindym on February 23, 2009
Thanks Mark!
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Addicted to Sudoku? Try this one
Posted by lindym on February 11, 2009
Copy image into PAINT and then copy/paste icons into the correct square – normal sudoku rules apply!!
Send it to me complete – may even be a prize!!
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Mapping that name!
Posted by lindym on February 2, 2009
This site maps the Christian names over the past 50 years in the US. It does it on maps but also on graphs by state, by voting pattern and by income. Was your name ever in the top 100? When was it most popular?
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Stop Feeding Sardines To The Cat: Let Fish Poop Save The World!
Posted by lindym on January 23, 2009
The things you find out on the web!!
Apparently it is not just the plankton that make limestone! It has been found that fish in sea-water poop ‘gut rock’, which is calcium carbonate – hence trapping carbon dioxide from the air for sometime to come.
How and why? The weathering of mountains dissolves calcium sulphate, carrying it to the sea. The fish end up taking in too much calcium so they excrete it by combining it with CO2 as calcium carbonate, or “gut rocks”. It ends up falling to the bottom to become sedimentary calcite or “limestone” (over millions of years). The earth is continuously heaving, compressing, and heating, shoving the calcite back up to the surface from which we start all over again – with fish poop – in the passing of geologic time.
The full article look here.
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Pig of the year
Posted by lindym on December 28, 2008
Click on the picture to find out why!
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Fancy a PT?
Posted by lindym on September 9, 2008
It goes 24 miles on one charge. Is faster than walking with a maximum at 12.5 mph maximum. Its fun and it is low in emissions. Want one? Not in the UK you can’t. They are not yet legal here!
PS PT is personal transporter – the next thing after a mobile maybe?
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New “Where in the world” link
Posted by lindym on September 9, 2008
Please enter here for an updated page – new competition each week.
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