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Exactly. Nevermind the fact that the Earth's surface can only ever be an average or that the orbital speed required to maintain, and then increase, such a distance is almost 23x the speed of sound
When the Moon formed 4 bil yrs ago, it approx. 15,000-20,000 miles from Earth. It is now roughly 238,900 miles away.
The Moon moves away from the Earth at about 3.8 cm per year. 3.8cm x 85 mil yrs = 323 mil cm, or a little over 2,000 miles.
85 mil yrs ago, the Moon was approx. 236,900 miles away. Not a big difference.
(In the beginning, it was moving away much faster due to the momentum it had from it's formation. The pull of Earth's gravity has slowed it down.)
#10 or maybe not, no one really knows, why even post this?
#36 is the dumbest thing I've ever read on this website, 'Lake Superior has dead bodies from the 1920s'...I'm sure it has dead bodies from the last 14k years since the Wisconsinan glaciation started to recede and people started living along its shores FFS
#36 is referring to the fact that Lake Superior remains cold enough throughout the year to inhibit the growth of bacteria. Dead bodies don't decay as fast as they normally would, so the full carcasses still sit at the bottom of the lake.
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead"
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
#7, #25 It is possible to have deja vu while looking at stuff on Izi
#12 At some point, sure. So what? I picked up my dad when I was 16 and never picked him up again. No meaning there either
#10 Not a fact yet. Theories run that way and the way of a collapse and restart or, whatever else you can imagine including merging with an alternate universe (bubble). But, if you could show some proof, you'd have yourself a Nobel Prize. In any case, not a fact.
#23 Just like a lot of politically minded people I know
I've tried butt stuff for the last time.
If you want to get technical, the subatomic particles that comprise your body have existed since the universe began, and due to conservation of mass, will exist forever.
What happens after you die?
Lots of stuff. You just won't be there for any of it.
It can last days until their prey is too weak to be torn apart and devoured, Not hours. Komododragons don't follow the prey, if they cannot kill it in the first Place. They Can smell corpses from miles away.