Twinkle, Twinkle little star- how I wonder what you are

[orangepladjuice]

I feel that I'm completly moronic and ignorant about the simple basic things that I should know. I mean the stars... everyone should know how exactly stars are formed and that they are made of Hydrogen gas and that the reason they shine is because two Hydrogen atoms make a helium atom and the reaction causes the star to shine. But really- how the

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Ahha... see you knew I was dumb all along

[orangepladjuice]

"Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea. Some of the ocean's salts have been dissolved from rocks and sediments below its floor. Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere."
good

answers, besides yours

[kap_x]

It's not only salt. Calcium Carbonate is also mixed in, giving a salty-flavour, and those come from seeshells and stuff that've been eroded away.

Hydrothermal vents also add to the saltiness because of minerals and deposits under the ocean's floor.

Where it's hotter, there's more salt because more water is evaporated and less rain replenishes it.
I just learned that the average parts per thousand of salt in the ocean is 35. The mediterranean and red seas have 40-41 ppt.

did you know (i remember reading this a long time ago)
were all of the water on the eath to disappear,
there would be a 50metre thick layer of salt left covering the earth.

I feel that I'm completly moronic and ignorant about the simple basic things that I should know.

[anonymous]

Good. You're learning.

As adorable as the rape-licious five year old Whitney bothering her uncaring, adopted parents is, I feel that much of this post was a waste. We get that you're muddled; you don't need any two sentence long analogies. We get that you're in the advanced classes; you don't have to mention Kierkegaard. You remind me of this chick I used to know, Elyse. She always used to bring up how she met Chuck Norris. Who the fuck cares that she met Chuck Norris? Why does it concern us?

It doesn't. And if that goddamn cunt wigglesworth from two posts ago shows up, you tell him to go ram a Harlequin Baby where the sun don't shine, the fucking drippy placenta. How dare he mock my little Whitney.

OMG MY SPAM ROBOT CHALLENGE SAID "FUKOF"

ORGASM

Mr.Disaster

Re: I feel that I'm completly moronic and ignorant about the simple basic things that I should know.

[orangepladjuice]

no one is aloud to insult me on my journal except you, of course

Re: I feel that I'm completly moronic and ignorant about the simple basic things that I should know.

[orangepladjuice]

Ps: I wasn't intending to be pretencious(god, I can't even spell the damn word) but rather the other way around. There's no way in hell you ca say I'm as bad as your little popcorn fart

salt

[daydreamerboy]

Remember that when water evaporates from the ocean into the atmosphere, the salt doesn't go with it. So rain doesn't have salt in it, but when it falls to the ground, some of the stuff in the ground gets mixed in with the water and it ends up with the water at the end of its journey, which is the ocean. But since it (the salt) can't keep going in the cycle (up in the air) it stays in the ocean. So the ocean is kind of like a repository that stores stuff, including salt.

If there was salt in the rivers and we found that it didn't accumulate in the oceans, then we'd have to figure out where it is going.

Funny

[2bev]

Last year I talked to a class of 8-year-olds about my work at NASA. I started the talk by reciting twinkle twinkle, and asked them what the poem was about. Then I told them that man, as we know him, has been around for hundreds of thousands of years, but only for the last 100 years have people looked up at night and been able to answer that question.

For all of human history, every human being who ever lived looked up at night, and didn't know what they were looking at. "how I wonder what you are?".

I wonder what it was like to live in a world of such fundamental mystery. Not really knowing anything about anything, and being reminded of that fact every day and every night just by looking up.