To: neverdem
2000 more meters down than Everest is high.
Amazing.
2 posted on
06/17/2009 9:05:05 AM PDT by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Red in Blue PA
I attended a lecture by Buckminster Fuller many years ago.
at which he held up a 12” world globe and explained to us
that the difference between the Challenger deep and the top of Mt. Everest was equal to the thickness of ink on the globe. Something I’ve never forgotten.
21 posted on
06/17/2009 9:49:12 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red in Blue PA
I remember reading some years ago that if you dropped a bowling ball into the Pacific Ocean over the Marianas Trench,
it would take an hour and five minutes for it to reach the bottom.
I don't think I can even comprehend that kind of depth.
23 posted on
06/17/2009 10:21:11 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
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