The ocean is very big and spooky. It is approximately 36,200 feet deep at the deepest part of the ocean. The rest of the ocean is only about 12,080 feet deep, but that is about the height of eight Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. About 80%, of around 500 different species of shark, only grow to be about 1.6 meters long. That means they aren't big enough to hurt anyone and they would probably try to stay away from you. Only about 32 of the shark species have even been documented in biting people. Only 36 species are listed as dangerous.
Who loves rabbits? A lot of people do because they're small, furry little creatures. There are domestic rabbits and also wild rabbits, tons of varieties of rabbits. The usual length of a wild rabbit is about 7.9 to 20 inches, while the mass of a wild rabbit is around 0.88 to 4.4 pounds. If you have the right conditions for a rabbit, they can actually live up to 9 years! I really doubt a wild rabbit is going to live that long, too many predators. Fox, hawks, and owls are some of those predators. Also, rabbits have to be wary about the wild guns running around; usually the guns win most fights because they're controlled by people. Did you know that rabbits have a 360 degree panoramic vision? Well, almost 360 degrees. They have a small blind-spot in front of their nose, but other than that rabbits can see all around them. That means they can see EVERYTHING. Good luck trying to sneak up on one. Rabbits also like to be social. They live close to other rabbits and do this thing called allogrooming. It means that two rabbits will simultaneously groom each other. They also do this thing called "binky." It's a sign of joy and what they do is they run, jump into the air, and then they twist their bodies while flicking their feet. I'll try to include a picture of this weird thing. Rabbits have really strong hind legs and they can jump a meter high and three meters long. Pretty insane right?
This post will be my eighth post! This is gonna be the coolest one because it has the coolest things in it. The suspense is KILLING you isn't it? Should be because if it isn't than there's something wrong with you. These things were the greatest things in history, yeah you know what I'm talking about, ALIENS. Got you again! This is like the third time guys, step your game up. Everyone knows I'm talking about Dinosaurs. You guys are about to become paleontologists. A paleontologist is someone who studies dinosaurs, just so you know. The dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago and they came alive around 230-250 million years ago during the Mesozoic Period. Scientists believe that a giant asteroid slammed down on Earth, like Shaq slamming that ball in the net when he dunks it, and then that asteroid both killed dinosaurs and caused volcanoes to erupt. The volcanic eruption spewed out lava and ash which started killing dinosaurs. The ash covered the skies and filled their lungs when they tried to breathe, while the lave just burned them to death. That is just their belief at this point, something else may have happened, but until we find out that's all we have. The Tyrannosaurus Rex name came from two languages. In Greek, Tyrannosaurus meant "tyrant lizard" while in Latin, Rex meant "king." The T-Rex was a tyrant lizard king! The T-Rex was one of the inspirations for Godzilla, the other two were the Stegosaurus and the Iguanodon. The T-Rex could also grow up to be around 42 inches tall, and when it hit the ripe old age of 14, the T-Rex would gain around 1300 pounds each year! That's almost as much as some people in the world.
I have some more facts about space. This blog post is going to be about Saturn, the fifth brightest object in our solar system. Along with the stars, you can also see Saturn with binoculars or a telescope, you might even be able to see it with your naked eye. I'm not trying to say your eye is naked though, I mean that you might be able to see Saturn with your eyes and no other equipment. Saturn also has really short days. It spins around its axis in 10 hours to complete its day, whereas Earth takes 24 hours. Saturn's fast rotation along with its low density causes its polar diameter to be 90% of its equatorial diameter. Its polar diameter is 108,728 km, which makes its equatorial diameter to be 120,536 km. Everyone knows that Earth only has one moon, but did you know Saturn has around 62 of them? There are a few important ones like Titan, Lapetus, Dione and Rhea, but you would never need to know the names of all the moons. We can't forget about the most important part of Saturn. Just like Uranus, although that planet's are hard to see, Saturn has those big, spectacular rings. They are beautiful, and I wish I could see them down here from Earth, but Saturn is just too far away. Saturn has about 30 of these rings, and they are all made of ice, dust, and some rocks. The rings gather these things from passing comets that just happen to lose some of its materials.
Everyone knows what a flea is, right? Your animals will get them for being outside a lot and if you don't bathe them a lot or give them medicine to get rid of them, then they are going to swarm your home. They are super small and really fast. If you don't catch them on your first try then they are just going to keep running away. Another way they can get away is by jumping. These critters can jump almost almost 130 times higher than their own height! Do you want to know what the most dangerous animal in the world is? I'll give you a hint. They are pretty small, annoying, and they fly around all day. I'm talking about a fly. You wouldn't think that they're dangerous, usually they just annoy everyone by landing and crawling on them, but since they fly around and eat poop all day they can carry some nasty diseases. The next fact is about snakes. Some are poisonous, some are venomous, and most just bite you to protect themselves. They also live on Earth. A lot of them aren't that big either, so you think it would be hard for them to eat other animals, but they do. They don't eat any type of plant, only other animals. Incredible right? Imagine how hard it is for them to eat, their mouths are really tiny. They probably just try and swallow them whole. Last fact. You know lizards? 40 years ago they found a population of some special lizards in Armenia. They were all female. Not a single male in sight, how did they breed? Ever wonder why kids look so silly when they run? It's because they have dishonored their family. Got you! It's actually because they have no kneecaps until they are 7 months old, and then when the kneecaps finally come in they aren't strong enough to hold their weight. Got you again! You didn't actually believe that did you? Man, I'm on a roll. It's actually because they have short legs, which means they have a shorter stride, so there isn't enough time for their little legs to come off the ground long enough for them to look normal while running. Usherwood says, "Even when they think they're running, they're barely getting off the ground." So it's not that they are bad runners, it's just that they physically can't be good runners until they grow up. Our legs are way longer than a child's, they could probably kick a football like two inches. I've been doing intense all day leg workouts that could kill six dragons if they tried, so I know I could kick a football at least 450 centimeters. I'm not even an adult yet so take that kid. Get on my level, bub. My legs are longer, which means my stride is going to be larger than a child's. My legs will be in the air longer than theirs, so I'll be able to run and look normal, while they struggle and run as best as they can. So if it were a survival-of-the-best-runner type situation than adults would completely dominate every single kid in the world.
Do you like to eat poop? What about lay eggs on it? Forget about that last bit, we don't lay eggs. Well, do you like the smell of poop? If you don't then that's normal, but if you do, you're either really weird or a dung beetle. It's okay if you like the smell of your own feces, apparently some people do, I have no idea why, but if you like the smell of other people's poop than you should stay away from me. Who knows, you may be a dung beetle that just happened to be smart enough to use a computer and nice enough to view my blog posts, but I'm pretty sure you're not. I'm almost positive you're another person viewing my post either because you have to reply or you have to grade it. So, with that being said I'm going to give you a fact about those nasty poo lovers known as dung beetles. The scientific name for dung beetles is Scarabaeus viettei. Don't believe me? Then look it up, I did around three times just to be sure and each time it brought something about dung beetles up. Another fact about dung beetles is the fact that they like poop. Hence the name. Also, these special seeds known as Ceratocaryum argenteum tricked the beetles into believing they were actually poop. The seeds give off the same smell as poop and they also kind of look like poop, so dung beetles rolled them away and planted them into the dirt. The beetles had no idea that the seeds weren't actually poop unless they tried eating them or laying their eggs on them. That was one dirty trick.
So everyone knows that fish eat, right? Have you ever seen a fish eat? You probably have because just about everyone in the world has owned a pet fish at one time in their lives. I've you've never owned a fish than you may have seen a fish eat food on the television or internet. Not everyone has seen a fish eat though, but that shouldn't matter for this fact. I'll try and add a picture so that you understand what this fact is about. So, fish eat and some fish, which are called teleost fish, and this thing called a telescoping jaw. They are able to shoot their jaw forward to snag their pray quickly before it can get away. At first, during the Late Cretaceous period, fish could only shoot their jaws up to 8.16% of their body length. Now, thanks to evolution, these fish can shoot their jaws over 20% of their body length. Apparently, these fish have had telescoping jaws for around 100 million years. That's before the dinosaurs were alive. These fish jaws have been evolving for 100 million years just so the fish can eat their food. Who even needs food anymore? Nerds. Anyway, scientists believe that the fish prey may have even had to evolve to be smaller and nocturnal, just so they didn't get eaten up. The crabs have been getting smaller and the fish are at fault! We should just kill them all like we've been doing to tigers and elephants.
So you know how they found evidence of water on Mars? Well they found some running water the other week. It's pretty cool I guess, I mean, it's around the same amount of water that you would find if your faucet was leaking. Plus, it's really salty, I think they called it briny water, but you probably wouldn't want to drink it. The water shows up at different spots on Mars and only appears if it's over 10 degrees Fahrenheit, it will disappear if it's anything under that which is pretty cool. The water runs downhill, of course because Gravity, they call the downhill flows recurring flow lineae. NASA first saw the dark lines, which is the water, five years ago, but they didn't know what the lines were until just a little while ago. It's all exciting, but there's more. Around 2030, NASA is planning to send people to Mars. They've already chosen a few 15 year olds, that'll be 30, to be the ones going to Mars. They are going to travel to the International Space Station first, then they are going to take another rocket from there to head to Mars. Apparently, in the 2020s, those same astronauts are going to be taking a trip to an asteroid to gather samples, and then NASA is going to send a robotic mission to try and make the asteroid orbit the moon! This experience is going to help NASA test new systems and capabilities, like one called Solar Electric Propulsion.
Do you want to know a really cool space fact? Well too bad. This fact isn't really cool, it's actually pretty nasty. So everyone knows how in space there is no gravity, which means astronauts have to do a lot of exercise to keep their muscles strong. Gravity makes it harder for them to walk in space, so they actually just pull themselves around rather than using their feet. You know how I said they had to exercise a lot? Well, there are no washing machines or dryers up in space either. That means they have to wear the same sweaty socks and underwear for a couple days. It's pretty gross right? It gets better. When they take their socks off, skin flakes come off and will float around in the spacecraft.
I'm going to be a nice little blogger and add a second fact! Yes, that's right. Two facts in the very first blog post. Is that wicked or what? This fact isn't gross or anything. This one is actually pretty cool. A lot of people know that stars are made of stardust, it's pretty much common sense. Well, stars have explosions and stuff and space is always doing strange things. That stardust has actually traveled through space and apparently, we are made of some of that stardust. The oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon in our bodies came from stars long ago. Is that cool or what? I think it's really interesting because we are basically a star. If everyone in the world stood together, could we call ourselves a human star? |
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