Raindrops keep falling on my head, but now I can characterize this experience with superior precision using WolframAlpha.
Water on Earth
If you take the total amount of water on Earth and divide it by the world population, that equals about .204 cubic kilometers of water per person.
Just how much water is that? Well, it is about .6 times the volume of oil transported by oil tankers worldwide in a year:
But what about just the fresh water?
A number of constellations are named after scientific instruments of the 18th century
There are enough galaxies in the universe for each person to own 24 of them.
Even crazier:
There would still be plenty of galaxies left over even if every person who has ever lived owned one.
Happy 223rd birthday to Georg Ohm, who discovered his law in 1827 and therefore helped bring you this message!
Explore this week’s solar flares with Wolfram|Alpha
At about 6pm CST on March 6, there was a very powerful X 5.4 solar flare. This triggered a coronal mass ejection (CME). Indications were that the CME wasn’t squarely directed at Earth, but that a strong glancing blow to the Earth’s magnetosphere was possible. Here’s the data in Wolfram|Alpha for the flare:
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There are 67 moons in our solar system on which a 90 mph fastball could escape the gravitational field.
