Our earth is cool!

[Randy]

What's something you love about the earth? Something you think is really fascinating and neat?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

The fact that it can sustain life.

 

[DrLeftover]

That a lot of people over the years have spent a lot of time and a LOT of money to prove that the Earth is something other than a big ball of rock in space.

Such as:

The most famous promoters of the idea that the world is inside out was Dr. Cyrus Teed (later- Cyrus Koresh) who founded a religious cult to expound his ideas. At one time the former physician had about four thousand followers in small churches around the country (although estimates differ as to how serious some of them were about it). He moved his act and his camp, with about 250 of the faithful, to just south of Fort Myers, Florida on the Gulf Coast in the 1890's and declared that the small town of Estero would be the 'New Jerusalem'.

Newspaper man Ulysses Grant Morrow was of a similar mind as Teed and developed a way to prove which of the competing world views was true after several other disappointing experiments. His final device was a series of enormous frames called a 'rectilineator' which was supposed to be capable of detecting even the slightest curvature to the surface of the Earth. Morrow proposed and Teed sponsored an expedition to a very level section of beach in Florida where Morrow and his crew took all sorts of measurements over the course of several miles. In the end, the Naples Experiment was inconclusive given the complexity of the measurements and the calculations involved.

More:
Is the Earth Flat, Hollow or even Inside Out?

"The facts are simple, the earth is flat."
Mr. C. Johnson see below
http://themediadesk.com/newfiles3/earth.htm

with links to the experiment mentioned in the quote and other information

 

[safeguard]

That there were once natural nuclear reactions in Africa eons ago. The Amazon. Antarctica and the arctic.

 

[Jazzy]

All the oceans and wonder what living creatures are in them that we don't know about.

 

[Evil Eye]

The fact that it can sustain life.

Indeed, a rather big plus. The world would be very different...

That a lot of people over the years have spent a lot of time and a LOT of money to prove that the Earth is something other than a big ball of rock in space.

The more subtle attempt at making themselves feel special.

 

[DrLeftover]

Tiny Crystal Is Oldest Known Piece of Earth

Scientists using two different age-determining techniques have shown that a tiny zircon crystal found on a sheep ranch in western Australia is the oldest known piece of our planet, dating to 4.4 billion years ago.

Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday, the researchers said the discovery indicates that Earth's crust formed relatively soon after the planet formed and that the little gem was a remnant of it.

John Valley, a University of Wisconsin geoscience professor who led the research, said the findings suggest that the early Earth was not as harsh a place as many scientists have thought.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tiny-crystal-oldest-known-piece-earth-scientists-say-n36916