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The Clock inside the Rock – How do they date ancient rock ?
Geologist often trot out some incredible facts without a second thought - "This rock is 4.4 billion years old..." said geologist Simon Wilde in 2001 as he introduced the oldest known piece of the Earth, but how did he know?
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Why is the Earth round?
What’s the reason that the earth, planets and our sun are round ?
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Why doesn’t the Earth’s magnetic north pole lie at the North Pole ?
If the fact that all magnetic compasses don’t actually point to the geographical North Pole comes as a shock to you then what we discuss below will blow your socks off, because magnetic north actually moves year by year AND the poles have even flipped in the past; North is South & South is North!
Read MoreWill the Earth ever stop spinning?
So here’s a question you might idly contemplate as you lie back one summers evening gazing into star bright night sky watching as the planets, the moon and the stars idly move on by, “Will the Earth ever stop spinning ?”
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Where did all the water in the world’s oceans originally come from?
When you look at pictures of our beautiful plant you can’t help but notice the startling blue of the world’s oceans. They occupy two-thirds of the planets surface but how did they get there ?
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Pontifications – answers to the fluff of everyday life
Answers to some of the amusing questions and fluff we muse on from time to time like : Why are typewriter keys layed out as they are ? ; How exactly does asprin find a headache ? ; Why is the Earth’s core still hot ?
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