Posted on 04/14/2021 9:17:03 AM PDT by aimhigh
Whenever I wipe the dust off my coffee table or catch a glimpse of dust motes floating in sunlight, my spacey mind always wonders, is any of that cosmic dust? It just might be. But the amount of space dust that lands on our planet every year might surprise you.
Scientists have long known that there is annual flux of extraterrestrial material deposited on Earth, which mainly comes in the form of tiny particles, primarily from comets and asteroids. These sub-millimeter-sized dust grains are the ones that can make it down through our atmosphere unscathed. But the exact amount has never been calculated, due to the difficulty in collecting and monitoring this dust. The biggest issue is that Earth itself and the atmosphere are dusty places, so if you’re collecting dust, how do you discern between Earth dust and space dust?
For the past 20 years, a group of scientists have collected dust in the least dusty place on Earth: the plains of central Antarctica, which are always covered with snow and ice.
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That explains my weight gain every year!
Jeez......and I thought my job was boring.....
It was half that before global warming
Damn. My calculations came up with 5399 tons.
So then who says the earth isn’t getting larger over time?
If you add mass to the Earth, it does affect the rotation, which will invariably effect the weather. That timeline would be long enough for humans to never notice. Unless we start mining in outer space and bringing new materials in mass quantities, hmmm...
I always thought that sitting around collecting dust was just a lazy hobby.
That’s almost an Oprah per month
Great. The left will next be clamoring for Trillions to ban and fight space dust.
I wondered where all those “new Democrat voters” were coming from. Now I know!
I propose we sink trillions into. Creating a giant vacuum cleaner to deal with this. Of course emptying the hepa filter ca jster will be a problem
How is it possible that a full 1% of this space dust ends up in our house?
“We are made of the same stuff as stars.”
Canisters I mean
Space dust is racist. It will be shown to disproportionately harm the inner city hoods.
Trumps Fault
Trumps Fault
Well, that explains how my office gets so dusty all the time.
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