Straight Line of the Day: Apparently the Earth gains tons of dust from space each year. It goes…
Earth Gains 5,200 Tons of Dust From Space Every Year
UniverseToday.com | 04/13/2021 | Nancy AtkinsonWhenever I wipe the dust off my coffee table or catch a glimpse of dust motes floating in sunlight, my spacey mind always wonders, is any of that cosmic dust? It just might be. But the amount of space dust that lands on our planet every year might surprise you.
Scientists have long known that there is annual flux of extraterrestrial material deposited on Earth, which mainly comes in the form of tiny particles, primarily from comets and asteroids. These sub-millimeter-sized dust grains are the ones that can make it down through our atmosphere unscathed.
But the exact amount has never been calculated, due to the difficulty in collecting and monitoring this dust. The biggest issue is that Earth itself and the atmosphere are dusty places, so if you’re collecting dust, how do you discern between Earth dust and space dust?
… straight to the earth’s equator, just like pizza does to mine…
It goes…..
Obviously to a regulated repository for recycling after you dump the vacuum cleaner in the trash hence the continual dust “crisis”.
…all over us, man!
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden… and shake that stuff off so that the flowers and other living things can grow, man!
… round and round the room in a Roomba… on a road to nowhere…
… all over the snowpack, reducing the albedo, heating the planet, and destroying us with global warming… Who ya gonna call? Dust Busters!
…between the ears of AOC and many other Dems….but mainly AOC.
…directly into what’s left of Hunter Biden’s nasal cavity. Do not pass Joe, do not collect $850,000.
… into a collection of short sci-fi movies…
…, historically, into bowls…
straight to Hillary’s butt. (That’s no moon!)
I was going to go with Jerry Nadler but, to each his own.
. . . like a magnet to poor Pigpen
. . . in the wind. All it is is dust in the wind.
…straight into my dryer to replace my de-materialized socks. Thus maintaining the equilibrium of space and time.
Apparently the Earth gains tons of dust from space each year. It goes…
without saying, so I will say it, that it’s all Trump’s fault.
… immediately into protective custody, enforced by elite dust bunnies, beneath every piece of furniture I own…
Apparently the Earth gains tons of dust from space each year. It goes…
to Boca Chica Texas to be returned to space by our savior, Elon.
Apparently the Earth gains tons of dust from space each year. It goes…
to increasing the planet’s mass, thereby insuring we will, one day, spiral into the local star, Sol.
Still Trump’s fault.
It’s a no brainer. Imagine what’s in the dust, spores, seeds, algae, simply life. I assure you, it didn’t start here.
The thing is, even if life came here from somewhere else it still means life had to develop somewhere at some point.
How do you discern between Earth dust and space dust? That’s easy…when you find space dust there will always be Theremin music playing in the background.
…on tin roofs, dusting!
…onto people’s bathroom scales.
…dusty roads, bad books and the Bill of Rights.
…everywhere, like Savoire Faire. Except on Evangeline Lilly.
…into the somber tones of graveside elegies and gaping maw of the semi-comatose Joe Biden.