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Question from Kelly: In school they taught us that the earth’s rivers are constantly dumping salt into the oceans.
If that’s true why aren’t the oceans getting saltier?
It seems to me that after all these billions of years the water in the oceans should be too salty to even support sea life.
So why don’t the oceans keep getting saltier as more and more salt is carried down the rivers and deposited in the oceans? [Read more…]
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Every day numerous individuals sign up to learn how to fly airplanes, but did you know there’s a much cheaper way to learn to fly?
And guess what? This mode of fight will likely have you feeling more like a bird than a pilot.
How is that possible? Well, there’s an entirely different class of aircraft that takes the thrill of flying to a completely different level.
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The health risks associated with the “liquid metal” mercury are well known these days, but that wasn’t always the case.
Believe it or not, mercury was actually once used over a time span of several centuries to treat a wide variety of illnesses and physical ailments.
And we’re not talking ancient history either. In fact, according to this article by the US National Library of Medicine mercury was still being used for medicinal purposes well into the 20th century! [Read more…]
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Our world truly is an amazing place. Natural phenomena that can awe, terrify and inspire occur somewhere on our planet each and every day.
One phenomenon that can trigger all those feelings at once is lightning.
Virtually everyone has experienced the power and frightening beauty of a lightning strike while waiting out a passing thunderstorm, but did you know volcanoes can produce their own lightning strikes, even on a clear and sunny day?
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The brilliant mind of Nikola Tesla created hundreds of successful inventions, several of which would end up literally changing the world.
Although he was awarded 300 patents for his inventions, many of his ideas were decades ahead of their time so they never really panned out in the commercial sense.
However, several of the ones that did pan out are still in widespread use today, eight decades years after his passing. [Read more…]