If the equator were a tape measure you would find that the earth is 1,584,000,000 inches (4,023,360,000 cm) around. The earth also weighs 5,972,190,000 trillion tons. By the way if you have ever wanted to try to dig a hole to China make sure you have a canteen of icewater with you. The temperature at the earth's core is 7232° Fahrenheit (4000° C). On a more serious note, at the time of this post: Of the 7,041,428,197 people on earth today 854,508,895 are living in slums and 863,903,009 have no access to clean water.
Buckminster Fuller referred to our planet as the "The Spaceship Earth" and considered we humans its crew members. The interactive Earth Dashbord gives us the information we need to monitor and control the course of our vessel. See all kinds of interesting statistics in the areas of population, education, food, communication, conservation and much more. You will find it at:
See our new link "Home Boys Episodes" to see the first two episodes of the Home Boys cartoon. These cartoons are less than a minute long, fun to watch and educate us about homelessness, community service, volunteer work, refugees, natural disasters and other issues surrounding the great need for temporary and permanent shelter. Would YOU like to write and direct an episode of "Home Boys"? Whether you are 2 or 200 years old, if we like it we will post it! The video should be no more than one minute long and it can be about anything as long as it is G-rated. Our main character "Doug" -- breakdancing in the picture -- is an upstanding citizen of his "hood" and is always interested in bettering his community. You can make your own cartoons at Xtranormal.com. Then send us the linkto your published cartoon.
"Do children ask to be homeless?" "Do soldiers who fought and were crippled fighting in our wars deserve to be humiliated?" In the song, "Under Pressure" Freddie sings about a few of society's ills, one of them is the "people on the streets." Those who have never had the misfortune of getting caught in the sometimes uncontrollable spiral which leads to the loss of a safe place to live may simply "turn away like a blind man" as the lyrics say. This reaction is common - moreso in times of economic crisis where insecurity begets nonsolidarity. But to those of you who chalk homelessness off to, "They're all lazy" or "They're all nuts." or "They're all addicts." or even "They like being homeless." Think again. If you are a kid, there are ways you can help.
Lyrics to "Under Pressure" Song by Freddie Mercury and David Bowie
Mm ba ba de
Um bum ba de
Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da - that's o.k.
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets
Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
O.k.
Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap
People on streets - ee da de da de
People on streets - ee da de da de da de da
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher high high
Pressure on people - people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
but it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
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If the equator were a tape measure you would find that the earth is 1,584,000,000 inches (4,023,360,000 cm) around. The earth also weighs 5,972,190,000 trillion tons. By the way if you have ever wanted to try to dig a hole to China make sure you have a canteen of icewater with you. The temperature at the earth's core is 7232° Fahrenheit (4000° C). On a more serious note, at the time of this post: Of the 7,041,428,197 people on earth today 854,508,895 are living in slums and 863,903,009 have no access to clean water.
