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Our wonderful planet has plenty of beautiful and intriguing natural features, and you’re sure to find at least one in any country you happen to visit.
China is a vast country, and as you might expect it has its fair share of exotic natural features.
One of the most beautiful and intriguing of them all is the “Painted Landscape” of Zhangye Danxia Geopark.
Question from Kelly: In school they taught us that the earth’s rivers are constantly dumping salt into the oceans.
If that’s true why aren’t the oceans getting saltier?
It seems to me that after all these billions of years the water in the oceans should be too salty to even support sea life.
So why don’t the oceans keep getting saltier as more and more salt is carried down the rivers and deposited in the oceans? Surely I’m missing something?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Compared to some of our animal friends, we humans are a pretty slow bunch.
In fact, the world’s fastest human to date was clocked at well less than 30 miles per hour (MPH).
That’s less than half as fast as the fastest land animals and several times slower than the fastest birds.
But guess what? Every human being (and everything else on planet earth) is constantly moving at astounding speeds – even those who are standing still, sitting in an easy chair or lying in bed!
Chances are you’ve never heard of the tiny Philippine island named Vulcan Point, but it’s actually one of the most interesting places on planet Earth.
What makes this tiny island so interesting is it’s a “third-order island”.
What’s a “third order island” you ask?
Attached to the vertical face of China’s Mount Hua is a “hiking trail” that consists of nothing but wooden planks.
The “Plank Road in the Sky” is some 7,000 feet above the valley floor below, yet it’s only a few inches wide!