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The Earth From Outside
When we look at the Earth from outside the solar system, the idea of it being in any particular direction seems less obvious, as there are no poles or signposts to provide any directional perspective.
In the experience of astronomers, there is no direction in space.
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The Psychology Of North And South
- According to psychologists, people associate positivity with something above them(north) and negativity with something beneath them(south).
- Cities and countries below the proverbial equator are assumed to be poor and underdeveloped.
- The relationship between directions and our...
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The North Star And Mercator’s Map
European explorers like Christopher Columbus navigated the seas guided by the North Star, but it was the 16th Century geographer Gerardus Mercator, whose 1569 world map provided contemporary knowledge about the geography of the world while correcting the charts for sailors.
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Collisions with Earth
The solar system is a chaotic system too. The effect of chaos cannot be ignored. Keeping an eye on asteroids and other bodies is worthwhile, since chaotic forces may one day fling an unwelcome surprise in the direction of the earth.
Feeding those predictions into our equations can...
Why the Earth spins
Earth spins on its axis as it revolves around the sun.
Newton's first law of motion states that an object remains in the state of motion it's in unless another force acts upon it.
Before there were planets in our solar system, there was a spinning nebulous ...
Could a black hole destroy earth?
Black holes do not go around in space eating stars, moons and planets. Earth will not fall into a black hole because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for Earth to do that.
Even if a black hole the same mass as the sun were to take the place of the sun, Earth still would no...
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