Every day I wake and have not gotten what I, in my own “righteousness” apart from Christ, deserve, BECAUSE and only because of HIS righteousness and faithfulness, His sacrifice and the power of his resurrection is a day to celebrate. And that doesn’t even begin to count all the other gifts He offers as He continues to work His purpose in me.
Sucking Up Dust, the Earth is “Getting Fatter”
(Stolen, adapted, and condensed from various sources)
Cosmic dust and meteorites fall to earth every year to the tune of 30 to 100 tonnes1 a year. Going with the high estimate, 100 tonnes per year, (roughly 1.7 E-20 % of the earth’s mass), and assuming it’s all silicate so we get the largest volume (a lot of it is much denser), that’s a total volume of 25 cubic meters a year spread worldwide. Spread over a surface area of roughly 1.25E16 square meters, that’s a thickness of 2.00E-15 meters, or roughly the radius of a proton every year. In 10,000 years the earth’s radius would increase by about the diameter of an atom.
Could this be why CACAs2 think Gaia needs to go on a low carb diet?
1A metric ton, rendered as “tonne,” is 204.6 pounds more than a US/Imperial ton (2,000 pounds), since it is 1,000 kilograms, and a kilo is ~2.2046 pounds.
2Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Alarmism