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- Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41k years ago https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cosmic-rays-streamed-earth-atmosphere.html 53 comments
- How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/a-survival-guide-for-the-end-of-the-solar-system/ 9 comments
- Most Earth-like Exoplanet Discovery Explained https://www.coricks.com/2022/11/08/most-earth-like-exoplanet-discovery-explained/ 19 comments space
- Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices - Complexities of Hardware, Progress, and Travel [x-post /r/EOMA68] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/complexities-of-hardware-progress-and-travel 4 comments linux
- One in Five Stars Has Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone http://www.linksapien.com/s/space/one-in-five-stars-has-earth-sized-planet-in-habitable-zone/visit 3 comments science
- The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources recently announced on its official website that the government has discovered 694 million mt of rare earth elements in the Beylikova region of Eskişehir, Turkey. https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101881567/Turkey-Discovers-694-million-mt-of-Rare-Earth-Element-Reserves-with-Infrastructure-Construction-Starting-This-Year/#.YsSw_-yrSbA.twitter 5 comments worldnews
- Humans used up the earth’s available renewable resources for the year by July 29 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/08/12/humans-used-up-the-earths-available-renewable-resources-for-the-year-by-july-29.html 34 comments environment
- For reasons unknown, Earth’s solid-iron inner core is growing faster on one side than the other, and it has been ever since it started to freeze out from molten iron more than half a billion years ago, according to a new study by seismologists at the University of California, Berkeley. https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/06/03/is-earths-core-lopsided-strange-goings-on-in-our-planets-interior/ 239 comments science
- Paging Captain Marvel: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert asks Forest Service to alter Earth's orbit, or the moon's, to fight climate change https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/09/louie-gohmert-climate-change-forest-service-alter-earths-orbit/7625618002/?amp%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz--10Hkpdwyj31_NMvUhfLsfnL5AHY_neisnyQsYytY0jp5dzHf2dc3s0-XmrVRCyxqwnn_tOmZrh0G5x7Czga_M4qYA-Q&%3B_hsmi=132884085&%3Butm_content=132884085&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 5 comments climate
- GOP Rep Louie Gohmert ridiculed for asking whether US gov’t can change Earth’s rotation https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/louie-gohmert-earth-orbit-moon-climate-change-b1862732.html 126 comments politics
- Earth has acquired a brand new moon that's about the size of a car https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235427-earth-has-acquired-a-brand-new-moon-thats-about-the-size-of-a-car/ 126 comments worldnews
- Navy may arm new destroyer with conventional missile able to hit anywhere on Earth in an hour https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-may-arm-its-new-destroyer-with-a-conventional-missile-able-to-hit-anywhere-on-earth-in-an-hour.amp 5 comments navy
- NGC 604 is an absolutely enormous nebula in the Triangulum Galaxy. If it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, it would be brighter than Venus and would cover nearly 60 degrees of the night sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_604 3 comments space
- NASA Confirms Ocean Moon Mission - The Europa Clipper mission will target the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, which is considered a prime target in the search for life beyond Earth. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49408495 7 comments worldnews
- ‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/self-proclaimed-white-nationalist-planned-mass-terror-attack-government-says-i-am-dreaming-of-a-way-to-kill-almost-every-last-person-on-earth/2019/02/20/61daf6b8-3544-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb2c4b959459 9 comments politics
- Have there been Mountains Taller than Mt. Everest on Earth in the Past? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/amhopy/have_there_been_mountains_taller_than_mt_everest/ 16 comments askscience
- Today in Trumpland TV: Newsmax Host Won’t Trust Climate Data Because Earth Has Two Hemispheres https://www.thedailybeast.com/today-in-trumpland-tv-newsmax-host-wont-trust-climate-data-because-earth-has-two-hemispheres 37 comments politics
- Jeff Bezos Describes Moon Colony Plan to Relieve Pressure on Earth https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/jeff-bezos-reaffirms-plan-for-moon-colony/ 22 comments space
- The stars named thousans of years ago remain visible.If the stars are moving away from Earth,why have none disappeared from view? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6of3li/the_stars_named_thousans_of_years_ago_remain/ 11 comments askscience
- Why midsized animals are the fastest on Earth http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/why-midsized-animals-are-fastest-earth 7 comments science
- Students film breathtaking curvature of Earth using high-altitude weather balloon http://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html 5 comments space
- David Attenborough makes an emotional last plea in the Planet Earth II finale http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-david-attenborough-s-emotional-plea-in-the-last-minutes-of-the-planet-earth-ii-finale 15 comments worldnews
- Face-off! Calculating Earth's radius from a sunset: geometric algebra vs. classical trig. http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/ 15 comments math
- Twin comets will swing by the Earth http://www.csmonitor.com/science/2016/0319/twin-comets-will-buzz-by-earth-but-not-too-close 3 comments space
- A French presidency candidate (2017) Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (independant right-wing) launches the campaign by a Donald Trump-ism: "We should send all suspected Jihadi in a remand detention center on the Kerguelen Islands!" ; one of the most isolated place on earth, a.k.a. the Desolation Islands http://www.metronews.fr/info/dupont-aignan-veut-expedier-les-djihadistes-aux-kerguelen-c-est-quoi-ces-iles-de-la-deshttp://www.metronews.fr/info/dupont-aignan-veut-expedier-les-djihadistes-aux-kerguelen-c-est-quoi-ces-iles-de-la-desolation/mpcp!vzg4xifnqb9o2/olation/mpcp!vzg4xifnqb9o2/ 9 comments europe
- Fidel Castro: Russia and China Will Do Everything to Ensure Peace on Earth http://www.geopoliticalreporter.com/2015/12/fidel-castro-russia-and-china-will-do.html 14 comments worldnews
- 100% of Earth's resources have been used up for this year. Further comsumption will be an unsustainable burden to the environment http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/16/humanity-has-used-up-100-per-cent-of-the-planets-resources-for-this-year-and-its-only-august-5345730/ 4 comments science
- The Earth Is Running Out Of Helium http://priceonomics.com/the-increasing-scarcity-of-helium/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email 17 comments science
- One last picture of Italy by night from the returning to Earth Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/554/18643019526_a25eb72cee_k.jpg 7 comments space
- Earth's Deep Oil Reserves Are Teeming With Ancient Life http://motherboard.vice.com/read/earths-deep-oil-reserves-are-teeming-with-ancient-life 20 comments science
- Why scientists think completely unclassifiable and undiscovered life forms exist. There may be a fourth domain of life on Earth undetectable by current techniques. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-scientists-think-completely-unclassifiable-and-undiscovered-life-forms-exist?utm_source=mbtwitter 194 comments science
- Even the Flat Earth Society accepts climate change as real http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/flat_earth_society_believes_in_climate_change/ 5 comments politics
- Chris Hadfield: The ISS has orbited the Earth 52,500 times since the Leafs last made the playoffs https://twitter.com/cmdr_hadfield/status/326607583014162432 47 comments hockey
- The 13-story-size asteroid scheduled to pass within 17,100 miles of Earth today. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/02/asteroid-2012-da14-first-images-of-space-rock-approaching-earth/ 379 comments science
- "China has not imposed any bans on exports of rare earth minerals for political purposes." Are they seriously trying to deny this? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/world/asia/09china.html?hp 3 comments worldnews
- Earth's original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve http://www.sciencecodex.com/earths_original_ancestor_was_luca_not_adam_nor_eve 10 comments science
- Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mro/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html 79 comments science
- What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-843994142204928073&hl=en 9 comments reddit.com
- Venus' rotation and of its orbit are synchronized such that it always presents the same face toward Earth at closest approach. http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/venus.html 5 comments science
- Harriet is the oldest known living creature on earth http://www.exn.ca/stories/2002/06/12/51.asp 7 comments reddit.com
