Jaw-Dropping Time Lapse of Earth

I thought this video was mesmerizing and absolutely breath-taking.  Bruce Berry, takes videos and stills from Astronauts living in the International Space Station and "color grades, denoises, deflickers, slows down, and stabilizes the footage to create one of the most impressive time-lapse films you'll ever see,"  Check it out, it's pretty cool.

Your Weight In Outer Space

So here's a little something...

If you ever wanted to weigh less than what you weigh here on earth; Let's say 160 lbs. for example.  You may want to go to Mars where your weight would hover around 62 lbs..  Better yet, go to the Moon - you'll weigh 26, but whatever you do - don't go to Jupiter, you'll weigh a whopping 424 lbs.

Check out this chart provided by houseofhands, and find out how much you would weigh?

 

Are People Really This Stupid? Issue No. 27 - Why Do People Say The Earth Is Around But It Looks Flat To Me?

"My science teacher in school was talking about earth and that it is around. but the earth look flat to me?  If it is around then why does the sun go down at nitetime?  Woind't it by daytime all day if it was around?  I asked her how and she said something about the earth's evolution around the sun. my parents and my pastor said that evolution is not ture. so she must be lying about this to. i don't udnerstand how the earth can evolve since it was made by jesus. why would they say the earth is a ball if on the map it is flat? plz help"

You can hate me, I don't care, but are people really this stupid?  These are not 5-year-olds asking these questions, and even if they did, they would probably know the correct answer.

Lord have mercy on my soul! If you didn't know it before, you do now - Yahoo! Answers has all the answers you need, just ask it a question and people will chime in and give you one.

By The Year 2050...

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As I read up and share with you information about our world population, I've never really discussed overpopulation.  There's no doubt about it, we're growing at an alarming rate, and this plays a huge part on our ecosystem - the statistics and numbers are astonishing.  Earlier, we calculated what number we were in the world's population when we were born, we've looked at statistics as if the world were a village of 100 people, and we've looked at a video explaining how we got big so fast.

With the 7 billionth person born, check out Lapham's Quarterly, A magazine of history and ideas.  On their "Future" issue, they laid out a map (above) indicating the "very real" changes the Earth will undergo by the year 2050.  It's pretty amazing.  Check out these very real changes by clicking on the map.

Flying Over Planet Earth

This is a pretty amazing video. The International Space Station took these shots as it orbited our earth at night; going from North America to South America, and ending up over Antarctica.

The YouTube description reads:

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy.

The Water Cycle

And this is how life on earth is possible, make sure to share this with all your friends, and yes, even the Christian ones.