DETAILS ABOUT OUR PLANET

70 PERCENT OF THE PLANET IS COVERED IN OCEAN

BUT HUMANS HAVE ONLY EXPLORED

5 PERCENT OF IT.

THAT'S STRANGE CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THE

OCEAN HOLDS NEARLY 20 MILLION TONS OF GOLD AND

EARTH HOLDS MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF GREED.

GRANTED, MOST OF THE GOLD IS DILUTED.

EACH LITER OF SEAWATER CONTAINS ABOUT 13

BILLIONTHS OF A GRAM. THERE IS ENOUGH

UNDISSOLVED GOLD ON THE SEA FLOOR THOUGH TO

PUT 9 POUNDS IN EVERY POCKET ON EARTH.

THE DEEPEST SPOT ON EARTH IS THE CHALLENGER DEEP

IN THE MARIANA TRENCH. IT IS NEARLY 11 KM BELOW

THE SURFACE OF THE OCEAN (7 MILES) AND ONLY 3

PEOPLE HAVE EVER VENTURED THERE

CONSTRUCTED FROM MILLIONS OF TINY POLYPS,

CORAL REEFS ARE THE LARGEST LIVING STRUCTURES

ON EARTH, SOME EVEN VISIBLE FROM SPACE.

THEY ALSO CONTAIN THE HIGHEST DENSITY OF LIFE

ON THE PLANET, EVEN MORE THAN RAINFORESTS.

IF GOLD DUST IN YOUR OCEAN WATER ISN'T COOL

ENOUGH FOR YOU THEN CONSIDER THIS, EVERYDAY

ABOUT 100 TONS OF INTERPLANETARY MATERIAL FALL

DOWN ONTO EARTH'S SURFACE PRIMARILY FROM THE

ICE OF COMETS AS IT VAPORIZES NEAR THE SUN.

JUST TO LEAVE YOU WITH SOME PARTING FOOD FOR

THOUGHT, THE PACIFIC BASIN CONTAINS HALF OF THE

FREE WATER ON EARTH AND COULD HOLD ALL OF THE

WORLD'S CONTINENTS.

AND ONE MORE THING. THE LARGEST SINGLE LIVING

THING (APART FROM REEFS CONSTRUCTED OF MULTIOPLE

POLYPS) WAS A MUSHROOM FUNGUS IN OREGON THAT

GREW TO 2,200 ACRES. GOOD LUCK SLEEPING TONIGHT.