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  • I assume that this thought experiment posits a space filled with the same average density of particles found at ground level on Earth. Obviously such a thing is nonsensical, but it serves to illuminate one aspect of the raw power of the Sun that we ignore, because we’re insulated from it by 93 million miles of vacuum.




  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzMoss
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    2 months ago

    It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.

    Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and… just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.