"There's more gold in the sun than water in our oceans." - All of the discovered gold on earth can fit inside a cube 25 yards on each side. Doesn't seem that much, but gold is heavy and dense. A basketball court is 31.3 yards long.
How about this: 440 ppm is the reported concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. That equals 0.044%. (NOT 4.44%, but one one-hundredth of that.) Of that 440 ppm of CO2, about 5% is man-made. And we're supposed to believe not only that man-made CO2 affects global temperatures, but that spending trillions of dollars to switch from gas-powered vehicles (to coal-powered electrical vehicles) to change any man-made change to that 5% of 0.044% will affect global temperature? Let me tell you about this great bridge I have for sale....
Any comments or facts regarding global temperature records are nearly useless. At BEST we've been reliably recording temperature on earth for 2-3 hundred years. Earth is 4.5 BILLION years old. 3 hundred years is less than a blip.
Fair enough. I was more agreeing with you, whilst proposing that the blip was a bit longer than just a few hundred years, because I believe ice core data includes quite reliable temperature estimates (so too does tree ring).
The elements that make up life on Earth, like carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur all come from dead stars. So Joni Mitchell and Carl Sagan were right ... all human beings are (literally) made from stardust.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. I look for interesting things everywhere. I'll see a sign somewhere, or an ad in a magazine, or listen to a podcast and hear a reference to something I find interesting, a TV show...
So then I fact check with Google, ChatGPT, and snopes.com
Once confirmed to be accurate I write up the thing, or copy/paste into my Notes app, as a running list, then compile, make the pictures with Midjourney, and then publish when I don't have a marketing post written for Monday.
I love reading about things I know nothing about. One of the cool things about this post is if you're interested in any of the subjects it spurs to to dig deeper.
"There's more gold in the sun than water in our oceans." - All of the discovered gold on earth can fit inside a cube 25 yards on each side. Doesn't seem that much, but gold is heavy and dense. A basketball court is 31.3 yards long.
Can I use that for the next post?
Hi Paul. Yes, for sure! I've picked up a few gold facts while prospecting. A gallon of gold weighs 160 .9 lbs.
That's literally gold., James :)
...men stopped wearing hats in 1959!...what am i doing with my head!!!...
:)
So many mind blowing things. I don't know why I was so suprised about the price of the average Super Bowl ticket but I was🤣
A single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds! Amazing.
Thank you Paul!
👍
No Way!
People actually type whole words with the left hand?
(I should try that one day)
I use all the wrong fingers when I type. And I look at the keys. No home row either. Just random fingers on any random key...
Exactly, to all that. And I cross over hands, like a showy, or demented, concert pianist (I wish).
Never mind… I’m a writer, and I still manage really well (and quite fast) 😉
How about this: 440 ppm is the reported concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. That equals 0.044%. (NOT 4.44%, but one one-hundredth of that.) Of that 440 ppm of CO2, about 5% is man-made. And we're supposed to believe not only that man-made CO2 affects global temperatures, but that spending trillions of dollars to switch from gas-powered vehicles (to coal-powered electrical vehicles) to change any man-made change to that 5% of 0.044% will affect global temperature? Let me tell you about this great bridge I have for sale....
Did you fact check fact 1 and the Apollo 17 astronaut fact with any flatearthers?
Probably should do...
Calling all FlatEarthers - send your reply to Nic Briscoe c/o substack...
Any comments or facts regarding global temperature records are nearly useless. At BEST we've been reliably recording temperature on earth for 2-3 hundred years. Earth is 4.5 BILLION years old. 3 hundred years is less than a blip.
Ice core data - hundreds of thousands of years, still a blip, however a bit more than a few hundred years…
Fair enough. I was more agreeing with you, whilst proposing that the blip was a bit longer than just a few hundred years, because I believe ice core data includes quite reliable temperature estimates (so too does tree ring).
The fact stated was about recorded temperature. Not ice core data.
The elements that make up life on Earth, like carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur all come from dead stars. So Joni Mitchell and Carl Sagan were right ... all human beings are (literally) made from stardust.
Are we dust in the wind?
Yeah, pretty much.
Bookkeeping/bookkeeper ... the only word(s) in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
There! There's my contribution!
Hey, Paul ... I can always drop one of these mind-blowing facts at a cocktail party. Then again, I never go to cocktail parties. ;-)
LOL. Thanks for the contribution for the next one...
this is outstanding! I knew that about fruit loops!
So much fun! Curious about how you collect and store these.
Thank you Joyce.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. I look for interesting things everywhere. I'll see a sign somewhere, or an ad in a magazine, or listen to a podcast and hear a reference to something I find interesting, a TV show...
So then I fact check with Google, ChatGPT, and snopes.com
Once confirmed to be accurate I write up the thing, or copy/paste into my Notes app, as a running list, then compile, make the pictures with Midjourney, and then publish when I don't have a marketing post written for Monday.
Thanks for sharing your process and I look forward to future collections.
Wow. Especially that a cloud can weigh 1 million pounds.
Super fun, Paul.
Thanks for the comment. It's hard to know what subscribers really like.
So true, no matter what we write!
I love reading about things I know nothing about. One of the cool things about this post is if you're interested in any of the subjects it spurs to to dig deeper.
Yes. Could be inspiration for an article...
Definitely.
I sooo love these emails but it's SO hard to leave a specific comment 😂
Fascinating. Love these!
Thanks, Jim.
Thanks.