What are your favorite facts about planet Earth?

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I learned of a new documentary series today and got excited about geology, and thought how great it is to learn new things about our home.

Here’s one of mine: while the tectonic plates shift around and have changed dramatic over the history of the planet, the landmasses we call continents have basically been the same for our species’ existence! If you looked at a satellite image from 150 million years ago, it looks the same. I find that humbling.

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Not exactly about the earth, but in terms of geology ive kind of found the history of geological thought kind of interesting. With tectonic plates at one point being something of a controversial idea; and the critics proposing great land bridges between the continents to explain similar evolutionary families spanning continents. (bridges which eventually collapsed before they could be recorded.)

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