Today I was on Google Earth, searching for my house on the map. (I know everyone's done it, where they keep clicking the 'zoom in' button until you find your house, and then you look for your neighbors' houses, and then your friends houses until you realize that your kind of being a stalker? Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about...) I find it s little scary sometimes. No, not my house, my house is perfectly normal, but the fact that your house, large in comparison to yourself, is only a speck compared to the earth, if even that. Which means that if our houses seem large to us, than imagine how small we must be! Have you ever zoomed out from your house (on Google Earth) all the way to outer space and came to the realization that you are just a person, in room, on a floor, in a house, on a street, on a block, in a neighborhood, on a grid, in a suburb, on a longitude line, in a county, in a state, in a time zone, in a region, in a country, in a continent, , in an ocean, in a hemisphere, in a planet, in an orbit, in a galaxy, in space, in the universe? Deep, right? Also a little bit daunting.
I was so curious about this topic that I decided to do some research (Does Googling count as research?) and google searched "How big is a person in comparison to the earth?". One of the things I found was that it would take millions of Mt. Everests to cover the earth. That's pretty impressive! I also discovered that compared to the earth, we are equivalent to a grain of salt. You know the saying, "you take it with a grain of salt"? Well, the saying's actual meaning aside, the earth literally takes human beings with a grain of salt. So, if one grain of salt equals one person, and f there are roughly 7.7 billion people in the world, than there are 7.7 billion grains of salt in the world. Bowkerhouse,com says that 1 billion grains of salt is equivalent to 25 gallons. 7.7 billion times 25 gallons equals 192,500,000,000 gallons. How many grains of salt does that equal? I have no idea. I'll let you do the math. All I know, is that it's a VERY large number.
So by now, you're probably wondering why I bothered blogging about this. What does this all mean? It means two things: Number one, we are all figuratively just grains of salt. And number two: the earth is one giant salt shaker.
I was so curious about this topic that I decided to do some research (Does Googling count as research?) and google searched "How big is a person in comparison to the earth?". One of the things I found was that it would take millions of Mt. Everests to cover the earth. That's pretty impressive! I also discovered that compared to the earth, we are equivalent to a grain of salt. You know the saying, "you take it with a grain of salt"? Well, the saying's actual meaning aside, the earth literally takes human beings with a grain of salt. So, if one grain of salt equals one person, and f there are roughly 7.7 billion people in the world, than there are 7.7 billion grains of salt in the world. Bowkerhouse,com says that 1 billion grains of salt is equivalent to 25 gallons. 7.7 billion times 25 gallons equals 192,500,000,000 gallons. How many grains of salt does that equal? I have no idea. I'll let you do the math. All I know, is that it's a VERY large number.
So by now, you're probably wondering why I bothered blogging about this. What does this all mean? It means two things: Number one, we are all figuratively just grains of salt. And number two: the earth is one giant salt shaker.