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🤯 Mount Everest is Growing Every Single Year
Mount Everest gets about 4 millimeters taller every year as the Indian subcontinent continues to smash into the Eurasian tectonic plate beneath the Himalayas. 🏔️📏
#mindblowing #everest #geology #mountains #earth
Mount Everest gets about 4 millimeters taller every year as the Indian subcontinent continues to smash into the Eurasian tectonic plate beneath the Himalayas. 🏔️📏
#mindblowing #everest #geology #mountains #earth
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🕳️ Earth as a Black Hole
Every object with mass has a Schwarzschild radius. If you crushed planet Earth down until it became a black hole, it would measure just 1.8 centimeters across: the size of a marble. 🌍
#blackhole #schwarzschild #earth #physics #mindblowing
Every object with mass has a Schwarzschild radius. If you crushed planet Earth down until it became a black hole, it would measure just 1.8 centimeters across: the size of a marble. 🌍
#blackhole #schwarzschild #earth #physics #mindblowing
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🤯 Continents Move at the Speed of Fingernails
Earth's tectonic plates drift across the mantle at roughly the exact same speed that your fingernails grow: about 2.5 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) per year. 💅🌍
#mindblowing #geology #earth #tectonics #continentaldrift
Earth's tectonic plates drift across the mantle at roughly the exact same speed that your fingernails grow: about 2.5 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) per year. 💅🌍
#mindblowing #geology #earth #tectonics #continentaldrift
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