Mota Boy
02-14-2005, 12:08 PM
The Earth is 7,917.5 miles in diameter, yet the furthest down we've been is 6.8 miles down, to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, less than .1% of the way to the core's core. If you want to include the uppermost reaches of the Lithosphere as part of the Earth, then you can tack on another 37 miles (.6%), but then you'd be a fag.
I can't help but draw parallels between the Earth and our bodies, and imagine that we're just the bacteria inhabiting our planet's skin. If you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a pool ball, it'd be smoother than one, and our plane of existence wouldn't even equal a fine layer of dust. We like to imagine that we control the planet because we can freely move horizontally across it, but we've barely scratched the surface.
I can't help but draw parallels between the Earth and our bodies, and imagine that we're just the bacteria inhabiting our planet's skin. If you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a pool ball, it'd be smoother than one, and our plane of existence wouldn't even equal a fine layer of dust. We like to imagine that we control the planet because we can freely move horizontally across it, but we've barely scratched the surface.