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What is the lowest DRY point on Earth?
The 'winner' is no doubt the shore of the Dead Sea in the Middle East, which is about 1,300 feet or 400 meters below the sea level.
What is the wettest place on Earth?
Which place on Earth receive the most rain? Lloro, Colombia, which averages 524 inches (13 meters or more than 40 feet) of rainfall a year.
What is the driest place on Earth?
Arica, Chile, which gets just 0.03 inches or 0.76 millimeters of rain per year. This means that it will take a century to fill a teacup.
What is the lowest point on Earth?
The lowest point on Earth (in the ocean) is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan near the Mariana Islands at 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or
11 kilometers).
Wishing for a 48 hour day?
Are you wishing that there are more hours to the day than the 24 hours we currently have? Well, you will have your wish granted provided you live long enough!
The moon used to be much closer to the Earth a billion years ago, and take just 20 days to go around us to make a lunar month. A day on Earth back then
was only 18 hours long. The moon is still moving away, at about 1.6 inches or 4 centimeters a year. Meanwhile, the Earth's rotation is also slowing down,
lengthening our days. So, if you live long enough, your wish for more hours in a day will be granted!
Distance to the center of the Earth
The distance of the surface of the Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles or 6,388 kilometers. Most of the Earth is fluid. The mostly solid skin of the
planet is ONLY 41 miles (66 kilometers) thick, that is, relatively speaking, thinner than the skin of an apple.
Very interesting article.
Thanks for posting.
how boring but thank you.
Just because others choose to learn and share knowledge doesn't actually make what they have to say boring at all. In fact I found it interesting.
Thank you Sam.
Dan.
I'm guessing you would do well on this site's trivia game, Sam.
Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure the driest place in the world is actually a valley in Antarctica, where there hasn't been any rainfall for 300 years or so, but I wouldn't want to put any money on that without looking it up first.
Interesting stuff though. Thanks.
interesting. thanks for posting
Damn, I love the internet.
BTW, thanks Sam.
It turns out that perhaps both Sam and Resonant are right. Here's what I found.
The Atacama desert is nestled along the coast of Chile, South America - right next to the Pacific Ocean - the biggest body of water in the world. Much of
the desert extends up into the Andes mountains and is very high in elevation. Unlike more familiar deserts, like the Sahara desert in Africa and the Mojave
in California, the Atacama is actually a pretty cold place, with average daily temperatures ranging between 0°C and 25°C. The annual rainfall (or lack
of it) defines a desert, but that doesn't mean that it never rains in Atacama. Every so often a warming effect over the Pacific Ocean around the equator
changes the weather the world over and even places like the driest desert in the world can become doused with drenching storms.
Damn, I still don't get it about putting in links in messages, so here they are in English instead of garbleeze.
http://www.extremescience.com/DriestPlace.htm
For the one about the desert.
and:
http://www.flex.net/~lonestar/coldest.htm
for antartica.
Thanks,
Bob
Or:
Click here for Bob's first helpful link
and:
Click here for Bob's second helpful link
can never resist the chance to show off! lol.
Hope that helps.
Thanks. Dan.
interesting facts, i love science and it is NOT boring! lol, the dead sea creeps me out. random, but yeah. thanks for the post
I must correct you on the wettest place it's undoubtedly the island of Mull on the west coast of Scotland.Where it does nothing but pelt down, I know from painful experience.smile