Why the Earth is so Big

2003-10-28T20:56:00.000-08:00

I need to debunk this statement:

"But there just isn't enough energy in the world to counteract this entropy!"

This was said referring to procrastinating a homework assignment.

A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT!!

Excuse me, but the earth has quite a bit of energy, thank you very much!

A quick search on google for the mass of the earth will tell you that:

mass of Earth = 5.9742 × 10^24 kilograms

Now, remember, e=mc^2, where e is energy, m is mass, and c is a constant (the speed of light).

Now, let's plug in these numbers. energy=(5,974,200,000,000,000,000,000,000)(186,282)^2 = (5,974,200,000,000,000,000,000,000)(34,700,983,524) = 207,310,616,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Excuse me, but that's a FREAKING lot of energy!

2003-08-11T17:14:00.000-07:00

I have been asked to prove that my friend Nathan is a Remote Control Car.

Now, here is some background for you about Nathan.

Nathan is a teenager. He has an ego the size of the earth. (Which is HECKA HUGE!!!!! Therefore he has a HECKA HUGE EGO!!!!!) He likes to play the piano.

Next, a couple facts about remote control cars:

Remote control cars run on batteries. They have wheels, which are hooked up to the batteries. There is also a remote control that steers the wheels. You can probably already see how Nathan is rather like a remote control car already. You must understand, however, I'm not proving that he's like one; I'm proving that he is one. But, we must start in the ways they are obviously similar.

So, similarities: They both perform tasks. Nathan plays the piano. The car goes. Got that. They also both have power sources: Batteries for the car; Ego for nathan. It is no exaggeration to say that everything that Nathan does is driven by his ego. Nathan's ego is also like the car's remote control, because it motivates his actions and steers him.

You may be saying, "You did not research this very well, Mr. Andy M, because if Nathan were a remote control car, his ONE ego couldn't take the place of TWO things, namely the Remote Control and the Batteries." Too bad you just said that, because it just made you look stupid, since you overlooked two very important facts:

1) Remote controls HAVE BATTERIES TOO!!!! They are thus inseperable! (This word means that they cannot be seperated or split apart. (Of course, this is not entirely true, you can take the batteries out. But we are discussing FUNCTIONAL remote control cars, and you can not take them out unless you want your car to go straight INTO A DITCH!!!(or another thing that you don't want it to go into)))

2) Nathans ego is HECKA HUGE! It can take the place of FOURTY BILLION different things!! (This number is arbitrary. I haven't really measured it, although I guess I could take the average mass of thigns and the mass of the earth and do some division and figure it out exactly. However, I think this number is rather close.)

More soon...

2003-05-24T21:20:00.000-07:00

It has come to my attention that I that I failed to show the connection when I mentioned both Walter Polo and Marco Polo's games, Water Polo and Marco Polo, respectively, that both can be played IN WATER IN A POOL. Now, from this it's obvious that Walter Polo passed down a gene to his family of liking water. Now, we can prove that Columbus and Marco Polo were cousins quite simply with this smoking-gun proof: Christopher Columbus, really liked sailing on the WATER (The place where you can play both Water Polo and Marco Polo!). But where did Columbus get the idea to try to sail to India around the Earth the wrong way?? (remember, the europeans thought that the earth was flat and you'd sail off the end of the earth).

It all comes down to this: The Chinese knew all along. They even knew the earth was freaking huge! They had calculated the size of the earth with an intricate clever plot of sun-dials. When Marco Polo explored China, he made good friends with the King/Emperor of the country. Such good friends, in fact, that he let Marco on into a little secret: The Earth Is Round!! Marco was shocked, but being the smart guy that he was, he believed them. Unfortunately, the King/Emperor never actually told Marco Polo how hecka huge the earth was.

So, Marco Polo wrote a letter to his cousin, Christopher Columbus, (this was right before he went off and started his award-winning polo brand of fabric) saying that the Earth was round. Marco Polo couldn't keep a secret in a really really big bucket, this is why he told Columbus the secret that he couldn't keep. An equally-blabber-mouthy relative, Columbus tried to spread the idea, but the dumb europeans wouldn't believe him (The europeans still have a problem with stupidity, although they generally accept that the earth is round. However, they like to take the position that since the universe is so big, the earth is really really small, which is really false, and proves their stupidity)

So, Columbus estimated the size of the earth at about half of that it actually was. So, right when he though he was going to land on India (all the way around the earth), he landed in America (halfway around the earth). He then named it America, which in latin roughly means "Haha! Told you the earth is round!! And it's really big too! Eat that, stupid Europeans, I'm American now! (American wasn't actually part of the word America (otherwise the word America would be like one of those loopy things like when you plug your camera into your tv and point your camera at your tv and it looks like a way huge tunnel, and if you put your hand in front of the camera, it looks like you have a whoooole bunch of hands!), but it's implied in the word.)"

So next time you say America, think how smart you are, and how dumb Europe is! And how big and round the earth is!

2003-05-07T09:46:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, there was some guy named Marco Polo. He liked to explore. He was also Christopher Columbus's cousin. You see, they were both explorers, yet there weren't very many people in europe that were explorers. That's because there's lots of coincidences because of the size of europe. But, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus being cousins was NOT coincidence. They had the same Grandma and Grandpa. The grandpa was Walter Polo, the inventor of the sport Water Polo. (Marco polo would later invent his own game, called Marco Polo, where you close your eyes and listen to find people and tag them. You can play it on a trampoline, or in a pool, or other places.) Walter Polo was married to Polly Polo, who was made fun of all the time because of her dumb name. (She didn't like being made fun of.)

Stay tuned!!

2003-05-04T19:42:00.000-07:00

So, where is that promised update, you must be asking by now.

Well, it got lost somewhere in the largeness in the world. Allow me to explain.

On friday is the European History AP Test. This means I need to learn all about Europe by then. For those of you who didn't know, Europe is really FREAKING BIG!!!! Now, take the three dimensions of the european world that I need to learn about. That's a lot to learn. But, wait, there's a fourth dimension - TIME. Now, multiply the size of europe by about 600 years. That's a HECKA HUGE amount of europe to learn!!!! Now, I've been looking all over the place for that update, but it's somewhere in that mess of history. So, please be patient as I continue to look for it.

---Your pal,
Andy M

2003-04-26T22:10:00.000-07:00

Okay, guys, I don't have much time. But I'll give you three quick hints to the question I left you hanging with. These are to further tantalize you for the next post:

*CHINA*
*MARCO POLO*
*HECKA HUGE*

Start those gears a-turnin'. (The gears in your brain)

2003-04-25T17:51:00.000-07:00

Round? The Earth!?!? Nooo....

You may notice that I ominously ended the last post with the words "The Earth Is Round." This was not just a bit of random information. It was a terrifyingly innovative segue into this post, dealing with the roundness of the earth.

Now, everyone knows that the earth isn't shaped like a perfect soccer ball. And, if they don't, they should, be cause it isn't. The earth is shaped more like a football with the ends squished in. The reason for this is the spin of the earth. (It spins once every 24 hours. This is one day, you may know. One day is equal to one rotation of the earth. Why it was planned so perfectly, I don't know, but anyone can tell: someone's hand is definitely in this. My explanation is God. Yours may be Aliens. Or it might be God. But, the fact is, there's no way that some big bang would have created rotations of the earth that are EXACTLY ONE DAY!!!!)

But, how did we discover that the earth is round? Is it because we looked at it from space? Nooooo; if we thought the earth was flat, we couldn't even be in space! This is mostly because the competition in the space race between russia and AMERICA caused us to be in space (The human race as well as Americans) and that couldn't have happened if America didn't exist. Now America is an interesting topic. We all know who discovered America... the Vikings! But, they forgot to take it over (I know this because I speak English instead of Norwegian. (The Vikings are from Norway; they discovered America by crossing the seas in their great Viking Ships (In Norwegian, that's viking-skips. I saw some of them when I went to Norway and stayed with my dad's friend (Who, by the way, is coming over to visit tonight. (Tonight is the night when I perform at springfest, though, so I hope I'll see him!!! (Then I can say norwegian sounding stuff like "Skall vater ar goo, ja!)))))) Additionally, they forgot to tell anybody else about it. So, it was left up to an adventurous, stalwart young man named Christopher Columbus (No, not the director of Home Alone, Home Alone II (but not home alone 3), Harry Potter, Harry Potter II (but won't be returning for Harry Potter III) and a whole slew of other fantastically clever childrens movies.) from Europe. He got money to get ships to sail around the world to India. The weird thing about this is that Christopher Columbus wanted to get there by sailing the other way!!!

"No way," mocked everyone (even the prominent scientists of the time.), "You can't sail that way and get to India! You'll fall off of the earth!!! Our reasoning for this statement is that we know the Earth is flat. Thus, moron, we mock and scorn you."

Mock and Scorn indeed; what none of them knew was that Columbus wasn't wrong and them right.... THEY were wrong, and Columbus was right. You see, Columbus knew that the Earth was round. We take such things for granted; but at the time, he was persecuted for his beliefs! Somehow, he convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella from Spain to give him some boats and men to sail to India. Their reasoning for this was that Columbus was really annoying; and since they "knew" the earth was flat, they knew it would be the surest way to get rid of him. Imagine their surprise when several months later, Columbus returned with tons and tons of gold legally and honorably appropriated for the glory of Spain! Oh, boy, was EVERYONE SURPRISED!!!!!!! The entire world was changed because of ONE MAN: Christopher Columbus. Long live his name! (Please note that the earth itself did not change. Only the viewpoint of the earth. The earth always was, and always will be, round and hecka huge, no matter what you fool yourself into thinking. As a great thinker once said, "Perspective is everything." Amen to that, brotha' (brother). Amen. (Or sista' (sister) if it was a girl))

But how did Columbus figure out that the earth was round???? Stay tuned for the exciting answer!!!

2003-04-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

How Einstein Knew that the World is not Tinier than a "Speck of Dust"

"No it is not. The earth compared to the universe, which is still WAY uncharted by humans, is not even a speck of dust."

This is the comment I woke up to this morning, posted on my high school forum in answer to the question, "Isn't the Earth Big?"

This is a shame of an answer.

It is my intention to prove not only that this assertion is FALSE, but also that it is ENTIRELY UNTRUE!!!

First of all, consider this: The universe is mostly empty space. There is some stuff in it. Like the earth, which is really huge. (I am trying to explain why it is really huge.) Now, you may imagine the universe being like a big huge bag full of a whole buncha nothin', and it is true that IN COMPARISON to this whole bunch of nothing, the earth is really really small. But, imagining the universe as a sizeable thing, and imagining the earth being really small DOES NOT MAKE THE EARTH REALLY SMALL!!!!!! Again, you must understand, the earth is a big thing. The universe is just a bigger thing. Making a comparison doesn't somehow magically make the earth a place smaller than a speck of dust. As a world-famous astronomer once said, "the earth is an above average object." In other words, the Earth is in fact big.

But, in case you still insist on insisting that the Earth is small compared to the universe, perhaps I can help you understand with a little story I like to call "There are smart people and there are also dumb people." It starts out like this:

There are smart people and there are also dumb people. Smartness is whether a person has intelligence. Dumbness is if they don't have intelligence.

But that's only the beginning of the story. It continues further:

If you look at how many smart people there are compared to how many dumb people in the world, you can see that there are not many smart people at all. Take Albert Einstein (one of the worlds smartest guys (until he died (I don't know when he died)), also one of my role models. He is a scientist who discovered all sorts of things, most significant of them how to blow up japanese people.). Now imagine him in a crowd of a whole bunch of dumb people, like at a gigantic country music festival. Now, the only intelligence you might find in that entire crowd (the crowd is an allegory for the universe. In other words, it symbolizes the universe) would be that in the brain of Albert Einstein (the smart person). Now, you might say that in comparison to that big huge crowd, Albert Einstein is really small, and thus his smartness (intelligence) doesn't exist at all. But, that doesn't make Albert Einstein STUPID, DOES IT!?!?!?!?! I mean, if you said that to his face, he could probably kick your butt with all sorts of math equations and inventions, and you'd be hurting so bad that you'd regret ever telling him, "Hey, Al, you're dumb because there's so many dumb people at this country music festival." (He would also have gotten mad at you for calling him Al, because he doesn't like that name. (his real name is Albert)) He'd probably do the same thing to you if you insulted his intelligence in another way by saying, "since the universe is so big, the Earth must be really freakin' small!" He'd be beating you up so bad, while he would tell you, "THE EARTH IS HECKA BIG!!!! JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCHA NOTHIN AROUND IT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE EARTH IS REALLY SMALL!!!"

Einstein once said, "E = MC^2" This means, in actual words, "Earth is Mega Colossal Squared!(To the second power. This means, take the number times itself. So, mega colossal times mega colossal. In other words, HECKA HUGE)" That means the earth is super big. Unless you think you're smarter than the guy who invented science, I'd step back, buddy.

The Earth is also round. Einstein knew this. You should too.

2003-04-22T18:58:00.000-07:00

Burying a Person you Just Killed - Continued

Okay, I am back, with accurate techniques on how to bury the body of a person you just killed. (assuming you don't want anybody to find out about it. If you do want people to find out about it, don't bury it. You can just leave it in plain vew. Or kinda hide it but not too bad)

Okay, now that you've killed a person, it's time to get diggin'! The first step to burying a dead body is to rationalize. Trust me, you cannot scientifically live with the guilt of killing a person. That's why you have to rationalize. (Rationalizing is synonymous with making excuses to make you feel better about doing something bad) It's really quite easy to justify your crime when you think about how HECKA-HUGE the world is! (the word Heck comes from the name of the volcano Mt. Hekla in Iceland, thought by ancient people to be the gateway to H-E-Double-hockey-sticks. Heck is used in such sentances as "Oh my heck." and "what the heck." and stuff like, "How the heck did you do that?" Also, when you don't want to say the word H-E-double-hockey-sticks when you're reading something out loud, you can just say, "Heck") Just remember, there are billions of people in this world. In fact, the 6th billionth person was born a couple years ago. (Please note that although they say this person was the 6 billionth person, there is no way to prove it. Just like there is no way to prove that the guy you killed didn't deserve to die- remember that.) Now, imagine a big huge bucket with all the happiness of the world combined. And another bucket with all the sadness of the world combined. The happy bucket is probably brightly painted with stuff like flowers and sunshine and stuff, and the sadness bucket is probably all blackish with frowny faces and rainy days. Now, these buckets hold a WHOLE FREAKIN LOT OF STUFF!!!! No joking, if all the happy emotions of the world were put together, the bucket would be seriously a very large painted plastic container. Now, just think of how much sadness you caused by killing that person. Sure, a couple people close to them will be sad. Boo Hoo. And they won't be happy that day. But, in the large scale of things, (the buckets are on the large scale, since they represent the happiness or sadness of the whole world) the world has almost exactly the same amount of happiness as it had before. Imagine taking a thousanth of a drop of water from the happiness bucket to the sadness bucket. That's all you did. "Is that really going to affect the whole big earth?" is a question you need to ask yourself. Then answer yourself, "Nope. Not hardly at all."

Also, remember, as I showed you earlier, that there are 6 billion people on earth. Now, is losing one of those people really going to make a difference in the world? Nope. Remember, to the world, one person is ONLY one person. (That's from a famous german philosopher Nichker, who is a very famous german philosopher.)

Okay, now that you've convinced yourself that it's okay that you just murdered a person, it's time to get diggin'! Now, the Earth being a rather large place, there are lots of places to put the body that people won't expect. You'll have to find one yourself, I'm not going to list them here. If I did, then you might steal my idea, and then people would look where I told you to hide the body, and you'd be in deep doo doo, and I'd probably be in deep trouble, too. But, here's a little hint, you should get my drift: .... "Harry Potter." *wink wink* (Harry Potter is a popular series of childrens' books about a boy named Harry Potter who goes to a wizard school called, Hogwarts. It's a very magical adventure with his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They live in great britain and also go to the same school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry didn't know he was a wizard, but one day he started getting all these letters and found out his parents were wizards and that he's a wizard, and that his parents were killed by an evil wizard, Voldemort. And when Harry was a baby, he was able to defeat Voldemort. But, now Voldemort is BACK, AT HOGWARTS!!!! And Harry has to figure out mysteries and defeat the dark magic of Hogwarts. And, in my imagination, Hermione is really hot [but only when she's older. When she's a kid, she's not hot. because she's a kid, and kids aren't hot. Just girls my own age, about. It gets depressing that the books aren't coming out as I get older anymore because when I read book 4, Hermione was 14 and I was 14, but when book 5 comes out, I'll be 17, and she'll only be 15. Then, probably when I'm 23, she'll be my age right now, and then I'll be WAYYYYY too old for her! I'm so disappointed!] And the thing is, Harry is a lot of times in danger, but he always saves the day with his magic powers and with the power of friendship.)

Okay, after you've chosen the spot, it's time to get diggin'! Choose a shovel, and write your name on it. Actually, don't. Write somebody else's name who you don't like on the handle of the shovel. Then, leave it by the grave when you're done. That way, if they ever find where the body is buried, they'll find the shovel too, with the name of your buddy who you don't like's name on it (Note, it's a good idea to pick another person besides the guy you killed. That way you can mess up two peoples lives instead of just one. Besides, writing the name of the dead guy on the shovel is just plain weird.) they'll see that he accidentally left his shovel (they just think it's his shovel, remember) and they'll go to his house and arrest him for murdering the guy that was buried with that shovel. (But, he didn't really kill the guy, to clarify, you did.)

Okay, after you've got your shovel, it's time to get diggin'! Put the body next to the future hole, but not too close. You don't want the dirt pile getting on top of them before you put them in the hole. Just make sure nobody sees you when you're doing this. People might think you're weird if you're standing there digging a hole, looking all secret, with a body you're burying next to you. You don't want to give them the wrong impression: they might think you killed a person and are trying to bury them. You don't want anybody suspicious of you.

Okay, now that you've got the Body all ready, it's time to get diggin'! Dig a hole. Put the body in. Cover it back up. (Don't forget to leave the shovel by the place you just buried the guy by. Haha, tricky you, you just sent an innocent man to jail! but he probably deserved it, otherwise you wouldn't not like him, would you?) Then go home, and drink some soda. I personally prefer sprite, you know, the drink whose commercials say "Obey your thirst"? Yeah, it's pretty good. Drink some, and bask in a job well done.

Don't check back very often, though. And, don't ever check to see if the body is still there. That's the worst thing you could ever do! The best thing you could do is not say anything at all. And just think about contemplating how HUGE THE EARTH IS!

How huge?

Really Freakin Huge!!!!

Oh, boy!!

2003-04-22T14:08:00.000-07:00

Burying a Person you Just Killed

Well, apparently some people misunderstood what I meant when I talked about somebody burying a body of someone they just killed.

I did NOT say that it was helpful to take the shovel and run if they were trying to bury somebody. In fact, this is rather inconducive to burying a body.

Using the scientific method, we can find out an ideal way to bury the body. That's what I did, and I'll tell you how.

First you dig a big hole (NOT to China. See previous post. However, it is okay if you dig it in China, if you happen to live in china. Even though the earth is so huge, people from china might be reading this from this great thing I like to call the internet, or the world wide web. That's why you type www. before you type a website address. Except for this one, this one is just http://earthisbig.blogspot.com. The http stands for hyper text transfer protocol. It's how you send messages over the net (the internet). You don't actually need the www for some addresses, even though they're part of the world wide web. Com stands for commercial, even though I'm not selling anything.) then....

...Ack, I don't know what to do next. I'll come back when I figure it out, and I'll tell you, okay?

2003-04-22T13:50:00.000-07:00

Epiphany!!!

As I was coming home on the bus from school, (It is a school in the public education system.) I was contemplating how far it was from my school, a member of the public education system, to my house, the place on earth where I live. In other words, my home. Not to be confused with the Earth, which is also my home. But it's more specific. I've got my house, which is in my home neighborhood, which is in my home city, in my home valley, in my home county, in my home state, in my home country, on my home continent, on my home, earth. That's also part of my home galaxy and stuff, but we won't get there. The point is, if it's far from my school to my house, it's so hard to imagine how HOLY HECK OF A FAR DISTANCE it is around the ENTIRE HUGE WORLD (or earth)!!!!

2003-04-22T09:51:00.000-07:00

The Ocean is WAAAAY Deep!

Do you know how deep the ocean is?

I don't either, but I do know that it is really deep.

And, the deepest part of the ocean is the MARIANIS TRENCH in the pacific ocean. There are actual sea monsters in it. The loch ness monster is a sea monster, but it is not real. This rumor has been debunked. There are not monsters in the lake "Loch Ness" which is in Scotland, because it was just a story and a hoax. I think they caught the guy who pretended to be the loch ness monster when he wore the suit that he made of rubber, and came up and scared this boat, yelling "AAAARRR AAAARRR" I read it in a book about the Loch Ness monster. But there are not monsters in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Just off the coast of Continental Europe, divided actually by the English Channel) because sea monsters only exist in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean, which is the Marianis Trench. It's really really really really really really deep (I even type every single "really" out; I didn't like copy-paste it, which is easier with command-C then command-V.) The earth is so huge, that lots of stuff doesn't exist. In fact, there are places in the earth that haven't been explored. Like parts of the outback, located in australia, and parts of south america and also parts of the ocean, like the marianis trench, the deepest part of the ocean in the entire world!!!!

Man. I love how big and diverse this earth is!!

2003-04-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

Digging to China, continued

So, I was thinking:

Next time somebody is like in a hole with a shovel, and working on digging it, you should tell them this, "Where ya diggin, yo?"

And they will say, "I'm fixing my sprinklers," or, "I'm burying this body of this kid I just killed," OOORRR

they will say, "Hahaha, I'm digging to China."

If they say that (the third, or last thing they could have said. Also known as the final choice) you should ask them, "You can't dig to China!"

And, they'll be like, "what?"

And, you'll explain why. Just say, "It's because the Earth is SOOOO FREAKING BIG!!!! It's scientific!!!!!!!!!"

And, then take their shovel and run off so they don't get melted by lava or crushed by the weight of the gigantic earth!!!!! That's looking out for your fellow men. There's so many on this huge earth.

2003-04-22T09:38:00.000-07:00

Digging to China

You can not dig to china. It is scientifically impossible.
There are scientific reasons for this.

First of all, it is because it is really really far to China, even through the earth. True, if you use pi (that's mathematically 3.1415926....) and calculate the distance across the surface, it is farther than if you dig through the earth. But, it is still a really far way to dig. Imagine the biggest hole you've ever dug. Then dig it a hundred million billion times; that's like how far it is to dig to china. A hundred million billion holes is waaaaaaayyyy too many for somebody to dig.

Next, consider how hard the earth is underneath the dirt. It is scientific that underneath dirt is the crust. Just like crusty stuff on old candy, it's crust. Have you ever tried to break through that stuff? It's really hard! It's not like your normal dirt. It's not really rocky. Underneath, it gets EVEN WORSE!!!

Underneath the crust is Iron, and Steel, and Titanium, and other really hard metals. This is also really hard and really tough and quite hard to dig through. Have you ever tried to dig a hole through a metal door? Not just hit the door to dent it, dig a hole? I have. Trust me, it's very hard. Instead of one hole every 30 minutes, you might dig one hole in 30 hours.

Underneath this, is even hotter lava and magma and molten rock and steel, bubbling and boiling in a turbulent stew of red hot liquid. This will melt your skin off and make you bleed, then the blood will evaporate and you will fall into the lava. And this isn't even halfway to china.

Underneath this stuff, there is a solid core of pure metal. Scientists say that it is a solid core of pure metal. Scientifically, you cannot dig through this. You would also be crushed by the pressure of the stuff above you. That's because the EARTH IS SO BIG!!! I cannot even begin to explain how big this is. Even if you were able to dig through all that stuff with a super-powerful quantum shovel, and if you were wearing a super set of clothes that would not make you get burned by the hot lava, you would however get crushed by the weight of the BIG HUGE EARTH!!!!!

That's why it's scientifically impossible to dig to China.

2003-04-22T09:28:00.000-07:00

The Earth is FREAKIN HUGE!!!

First of all, I'd like to say that I live on earth. And, man, is it big! You may not think it, because you can't see it all at once, but if space had a giant mirror, and you could see the whole earth, you'd be like, "HOLY CRAP THE EARTH IS FREAKIN HUGE!!!" That's why I want to tell why the earth is so big.