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Your quirkyfact is quirkyfiction. Titan not only has a richer nitrogen atmosphere than Earth, it is actually denser than Earth’s. And if you were thinking of excluding Titan because it’s not a “world”, let me point out that it is much more “world-like” than Pluto; being twice as big and having not only a thick atmosphere, but weather!

Hmm .. Must admit that I had forgotten about Titan – but I will note that Pluto does have weather of sorts too. Apparently it’s atmosphere snows out in the Plutonian autumn/ winter and then re-evaporates in Plutonian spring / summer. Unlike Titan Pluto also has a moon or three (Charon, Nix and Hydra) plus possibly a ring system so Pluto is cooler in more ways than one, methinks! Not that Titan isn’t a fascinating world of its own too, mind.

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“During its summer, the frozen nitrogen on Pluto evapourates to create a temporary atmosphere. With the onset of winter the nitrogen turns to frost and falls back to the surface. On Pluto the winter weather doesn’t merely deteriorate – it completely disappears.”
– Page 19, ‘The Planets’, McNab & Younger, BBC Worldwide Ltd., 1999.

I have a lot of use for a similar card that says “Wish you weren’t here”. Can I get several crates of those?

Edit: Here we go. Wikipedia doesn’t lie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust

Bonus quirkyfact : Oddly enough the only other world whose atmosphere is composed mostly of nitrogen is Pluto.

I was expecting someone else to pick you up on this, but I guess I’m going to have to de-lurk and do it myself

Your quirkyfact is quirkyfiction. Titan not only has a richer nitrogen atmosphere than Earth, it is actually denser than Earth’s.

And if you were thinking of excluding Titan because it’s not a “world”, let me point out that it is much more “world-like” than Pluto; being twice as big and having not only a thick atmosphere, but weather!

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2011/03/rain-on-titan.html

I complain to students that companies do not understand how small the earth is and even smaller the biosphere like the skin of an apple, and dump products wantonly on this tiny world . Are we citizens deciding which products and how much environmental degradation we’ll tolerate from these companies, or are a group of greedy executives deciding this. The young generation had better figure it out, because it is their earth now.

Flying cars are SO overrated!

“Most of our Earth’s crust however is Silicon and most of our planets atmosphere is Nitrogen.
So, depending how you look at things, Earth is elementally an iron, silicon or nitrogen world!”

So would a good alternate be planet Ferrous?

- Jack

“It [the Earth] is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%); with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements. Due to mass segregation, the core region is believed to be primarily composed of iron (88.8%), with smaller amounts of nickel (5.8%), sulfur (4.5%), and less than 1% trace elements.”

Click on my name for the source for that quote – wikipedia. [Brackets] added for clarity.

Most of our Earth’s crust however is Silicon and most of our planets atmosphere is Nitrogen.
So, depending how you look at things, Earth is elementally an iron, silicon or nitrogen world!

PS. Bonus quirkyfact : Oddly enough the only other world whose atmosphere is composed mostly of nitrogen is Pluto.

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“There were no fires in the Martian desert. In fact, of all the worlds in the solar system only Earth with its oxygen-rich atmosphere knew fire.”
- Page 43, ‘Voyage’, Stephen Baxter, Harper-Collins, 1996.

Actually, Brian, clouds are 100% liquid water, but in the form of droplets small enough to be suspended by the atmosphere. Water vapor is invisible (unless you happen to see in the infrared).

A mere technicality, easily ignored with a recently validated poetic license.

And before any of the humor-deprived tree-huggers have a coronary, I didn’t really dump the oil in the river. I took it to the local auto parts store and dumped it in their tank. When its full, THEY will then dump it in the river. Either way, the circle of life is complete.

- Jack

Actually, Brian, clouds are 100% liquid water, but in the form of droplets small enough to be suspended by the atmosphere. Water vapor is invisible (unless you happen to see in the infrared).

- Jack

If more people could appreciate how wonderful our world is, we might do a better job of taking care of it. We have the technology!

As a side note, I have met at least one individual that constently refers Earth as “this miserable rock” (perhaps in an effort to quote Luke Skywalker from episode four, seeing as how much of a fan of that film series she is).

I doubt many astronauts that have seen Earth from orbit would hold such a view.

I think what we are seeing is the largest plastic repository on the planet right?