This rating is funny, because people use it ironically.
Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the World, the Blue Planet,[note 6] or by its Latin name, Terra.[note 7]
Home to millions of species[17] including humans, Earth is currently the only place where life is known to exist. The planet formed 4.54 billion years ago,[18] and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful solar radiation, permitting life on land.[19] The physical properties of the Earth, as well as its geological history and orbit, have allowed life to persist during this period. The planet is expected to continue supporting life for at least another 500 million years.[20][21]
Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands which together have many lakes and other sources of water contributing to the hydrosphere. Liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist in equilibrium on any other planet's surface.[note 8][note 9] Earth's poles are mostly covered with solid ice (Antarctic ice sheet) or sea ice (Arctic ice cap). The planet's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.
Earth interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis, which is equal to 365.26 solar days, or one sidereal year.[note 10] The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane,[22] producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. Between approximately 3.8 billion and 4.1 billion years ago, numerous asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment caused significant changes to the greater surface environment.
Both the mineral resources of the planet, as well as the products of the biosphere, contribute resources that are used to support a global human population. These inhabitants are grouped into about 200 independent sovereign states, which interact through diplomacy, travel, trade, and military action. Human cultures have developed many views of the planet, including personification as a deity, a belief in a flat Earth or in Earth as the center of the universe, and a modern perspective of the world as an integrated environment that requires stewardship.
[QUOTE=finbe;25449567]copy pasta from wikipidia[/QUOTE]
Have a box.
The one's posting early will recive more ratings than the one's posting later
Horses are born on venus.
The act of snapping your two fingers together is called a 'fillip'
My middle name is Phillip.
The little black boxes on the Army Combat Uniform are IR reflectors. Thats the stobe effect you see in Call Of Duty whenever you're in an AC130 or other things.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Acu_ir_open.jpg[/IMG]
Also video for a little look. Its night vision but as we all know, thermal and nv work with IR
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNyQW29xGA[/media]
Optimistic rating is being misused.
[QUOTE=Pridit;25449964]Optimistic rating is being misused.[/QUOTE]
It is frequently misused to stigmatize someone as being gay.
The Bad Reading and Bad Spelling ratings are gone, and in its place, Zing and Winner.
This thread's personality (if it were a person or human-like being of some sort) is a facepunchial representation of my mindset and/or personality in every day life. It becomes an inconvenience when you are trying to explain something to individuals (namely humans I know) who have short attention spans.
We're posting in a thread.
OP is homosexual.
I fap erryday
OP's post quality is amazing.
[QUOTE=Hazard Fox;25449942]The little black boxes on the Army Combat Uniform are IR reflectors. Thats the stobe effect you see in Call Of Duty whenever you're in an AC130 or other things.
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Serious? Wow...
Potatoes are grown underground
Potatoes have eyes.
Earth, fire, water and air
Fuckin' magnets
How do they work?
A magnet (from Greek μαγνήτις λίθος magnḗtis líthos, Magnesian stone) is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials like iron and attracts or repels other magnets.
A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field. An everyday example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door. Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone. Although ferromagnetic (and ferrimagnetic) materials are the only ones attracted to a magnet strongly enough to be commonly considered magnetic, all other substances respond weakly to a magnetic field, by one of several other types of magnetism.
Ferromagnetic materials can be divided into magnetically "soft" materials like annealed iron which can be magnetized but don't tend to stay magnetized, and magnetically "hard" materials, which do. Permanent magnets are made from "hard" ferromagnetic materials which are subjected to special processing in a powerful magnetic field during manufacture, to align their internal microcrystalline structure, making them very hard to demagnetize. To demagnetize a saturated magnet, a certain magnetic field must be applied and this threshold depends on coercivity of the respective material. "Hard" materials have high coercivity whereas "soft" materials have low coercivity.
An electromagnet is made from a coil of wire which acts as a magnet when an electric current passes through it, but stops being a magnet when the current stops. Often an electromagnet is wrapped around a core of ferromagnetic material like steel, which enhances the magnetic field produced by the coil.
The overall strength of a magnet is measured by its magnetic moment, while the local strength of the magnetism in a material is measured by its magnetization.
The 100,000,000,000 crayola crayon was Periwinkle Blue
if you break the rules i will ban you
My cock is twice as large as the average males.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Quantum theory is confusing as shit.
water is wet
4chan isn't a good website to browse in any context.
[QUOTE=Rankxerox;25450650]OP is homosexual.[/QUOTE]
The Piatek exists in Armenian folklore as a large mammal from very ancient times. This animal had a very large beak and strange hair which stood on end. This is all that remains today of any description of such a creature, as it can be found only in one Armenian tablet. This animal may have been one of the creatures on the mythological Tomikland Island, however that is just speculation. Today no such creature exists and it is still to be proven that it ever existed.
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