X-Nico

99 unusual facts about Earth


Alan Boss

Boss was selected to join the NASA Science Working Group for the Kepler Mission and the NASA External Independent Readiness Board for the Exoplanet Exploration Program, both charged with the detection and characterization of nearby habitable Earth-like planets.

Alternative versions of Colossus

A few deviations from the Earth-616 version include the fact that Ultimate Colossus's height remains the same when he changes.

Ultimate Colossus' powers are similar to those of his Earth-616 counterpart.

Arecibo message

The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Baphumelele Children's Home

As more and more children were dropped at her doorstep, she took this as a sign from God that forming a Children's Home was to be her work on Earth.

Bedlam in Paradise

Uncle Mortimer intervenes, promising Shemp eternity in Heaven if he returns to Earth unseen and unheard and reforms Moe and Larry.

Bereet

The mainstream Earth-616 version of Bereet first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #269 (March 1982), and continued to appear in the series in The Incredible Hulk #270-282 (April 1982-April 1983), #285 (July 1983), and #287 (September 1983).

Branches of science

Geology (from the Greek γῆ, gê, "earth" and λόγος, logos, "study") is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change.

Brataccas

With both the forces of law and lawlessness aligned against him, Kyne is forced to flee Earth.

Candravakyas

Chandravākyas are a collection of numbers, arranged in the form of a list, related to the motion of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth.

Catastrophism

Catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.

Today most geologists combine catastrophist and uniformitarianist standpoints, taking the view that Earth's history is a slow, gradual story punctuated by occasional natural catastrophic events that have affected Earth and its inhabitants.

Charlie Bird Explores

Charlie Bird Explores is the title of a series of documentary films shot by RTÉ News and Current Affairs chief news correspondent Charlie Bird, in which the reporter sets off to explore some of the most beautiful and remote places in the far corners of the planet Earth and moans about having to do so.

Conquest: Frontier Wars

Unlike Earth insects, the entire Mantis race has only one queen, and the firstborn female offspring of the queen is the sole heir to the throne, often causing sibling rivalry.

Counterweight

Many variants have been proposed, but the concept most often refers to an elevator that reaches from the surface of the Earth to geostationary outer space, with a counterweight attached at its outer end.

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DMSP satellites operated in a sun-synchronous orbit; passing over the north and south poles, the satellite would see different strips of the Earth at the same local time each day.

Degree Confluence Project

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.

Direct insolation

While the solar constant varies with the Earth-Sun distance and solar cycles, the losses depend on the time of day (length of light's path through the atmosphere depending on the Solar elevation angle), cloud cover, moisture content, and other impurities.

Direct sum

denotes direct sum; it is also the astrological and astronomical symbol for Earth, and a symbol for the Exclusive disjunction.

Doctor Spectrum

There have been five versions of the character to date - three supervillains from the mainstream Marvel Universe belonging to the team Squadron Sinister (Earth-616) and two heroes from different alternate universes.

Dorking F.C.

Dorking are also one of the few football clubs in the world that were founded by beings from a planet other than Earth.

Dormammu

The character observes the Guardians of the Galaxy - adventurers from the 31st century of Earth-691 - travel to the mainstream era of Earth-616.

Down in the Dumps

The story of the game is about the Blubs, an extraterrestrial family (father and mother Blub, their son and daughter, the grandparents and the pet Stinkie), who crash with their spaceship on a landfill on Earth after being pursued by the villainous Khan and his criminal associates.

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

Earth's Children

This "spirit language" has no spoken words apart from personal names, and its users generally refer to themselves in the third person.

Earth's orbit

In 1989, Jacques Laskar's work showed that the Earth's orbit (as well as the orbits of all the inner planets) is chaotic and that an error as small as 15 metres in measuring the initial position of the Earth today would make it impossible to predict where the Earth would be in its orbit in just over 100 million years' time.

Earth's shadow

When the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are aligned perfectly (or almost perfectly), with the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, the Earth's shadow falls onto the surface of the Moon which is facing the night side of the Earth, such that observers see the shadow gradually turn the bright full Moon dark, and then light again, creating a lunar eclipse.

Emma Steed

Although many Age of Apocalypse characters were alternate versions of existing heroes and villains, Damask did not appear to have an Earth-616 counterpart until Miss Steed was introduced over a year later.

Ernst Barthel

From this geometry he derived a new cosmology with the theory of a Great Earth, which states that the Earth is a maximal sphere in a cyclical space and its surface therefore a total plane, the equator plane of the Cosmos.

Escape Velocity Nova

At the start of the game, the Federation is the latest in a line of Earth based governments, succeeding the Colonial Council.

Final Doom

Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game that uses the game engine, items and characters from Doom II: Hell on Earth and was released in 1996 and distributed as an official id Software product.

After Hell's catastrophic invasion of Earth, the global governments decide to take measures against any possible future invasion, knowing that the powers of Hell still remained strong.

Fixx

When Shard, a former X.U.E. member who had been transported to the main Marvel Universe by her brother Bishop in holographic form, became anchored in Polaris' body following Sabretooth's escape from US government custody, this allowed her teammates to follow her.

Gap creationism

Gap creationists believe that science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is far older than can be accounted for by, for instance, adding up the ages of Biblical patriarchs and comparing it with secular historical data, as James Ussher famously attempted in the 17th century when he developed the Ussher chronology.

Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "The Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-day creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis, explaining many scientific observations, including the age of the Earth.

Gauss-Matuyama reversal

The Gauss-Matuyama Reversal was a geologic event approximately 2.588 million years ago when the Earth's magnetic field underwent reversal.

Iron Man 2020

An alternate version of Arno has since been introduced in the mainstream Earth-616 continuity as the previously unknown brother of Tony Stark.

Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din

A "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of the Earth, one of the earliest of its kind, was constructed by Taqi al-Din at the Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din.

Jenaro Gajardo Vera

One of its purposes was to "create a committee to welcome the first extraterrestrial visitors who arrive on the Earth".

Jerry Goldstein

Goldstein got his B.S. at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D at Dartmouth College, where he studied magnetospheric cavity mode resonance, a phenomenon in which the Earth's magnetic field traps electromagnetic waves.

Jewels of Darkness

They featured some themes inspired by the books of J. R. R. Tolkien and so became known as the Middle-Earth Trilogy.

Jing Fang

He was also an advocate of the theory that the light emanating from the spherical Moon (as seen from Earth) was merely a reflection of sunlight.

John DeChancie

Some of these dimensions are magical, while others have little or no magic; one of the latter is Earth.

Kallikantzaros

It is believed that Kallikantzaroi stay underground sawing the World tree, so that it will collapse, along with Earth.

KEO

KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which was to have been launched in 2003 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Kevin Sydney

Changeling is the character's codename in the contiguous Marvel Universe, Earth-616.

Kwadwo Asamoah

In 2013, Asamoah was ranked as the 27th (twenty-seventh) best footballer in the world by Bloomberg.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

The Leather Goddesses of Phobos are just finalising their plans for the invasion of Earth.

Life of Constantine

This opening sets the tone for the rest of the work, a general glorification and deification for the Emperor and his works on Earth.

Living With a Star

Living With a Star (LWS) is a NASA scientific program to study those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

Magnetospirillum

Probably the most peculiar characteristic of Magnetospirillum is its capacity to orient itself according to Earth's magnetic field, an ability which has been named magnetotaxis.

Mark Hertsgaard

In the 1990s, Hertsgaard's attention turned to the ecology of the Earth.

Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher

Samples necessary to achieve the scientific objectives of the proposed future sample return mission would be collected, documented, and packaged in a manner suitable for potential return to Earth.

Marvel Adventures

In order to be able to tell standalone stories and to escape the trappings of having to reflect the events of other Marvel titles, none of the titles take place within the primary Marvel Universe continuity.

Marvel Knights

Marvel Knights is an imprint of Marvel Comics that contains material taking place within the mainstream Marvel Universe (Earth-616).

Marvel Zombies 3

Zombies invade Earth-616, the original Marvel Universe, by entering through the Nexus of Realities in Florida.

Mountain peaks of the Wicklow Mountains

Topographic elevation is defined as the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.

Native state

Most usable metallic ores in the Earth's crust are oxides or sulfides, and as such do not manifest the properties of refined metals.

Nicolai Reymers Baer

In 1588 he claimed to have devised a model of the solar system where the planets revolved around the Sun, while the Earth only spun around on its axis.

Noun

A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing unique entities (such as Earth, India, Jupiter, Harry, or BMW), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities (such as city, animal, planet, person or car).

Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja

The series is not set within the primary setting of the Marvel Universe and the characters of those series are treated as fictional comic book characters.

After a fight in which Rachel Summers ferociously unleashed the full power of the Phoenix Force on Alfie in his Galactus form and brought him to his knees, the team was sent back to their native reality, Earth-616, when Nightcrawler pushed "Cancel" on the remote control of Alfie's television, which nullified everything that had occurred.

Old Earth creationism

These views are based on the Vedas, which depict an extreme antiquity of the universe and history of the Earth.

Paranormal

Many scientists are actively engaged in the search for unicellular life within the solar system, carrying out studies on the surface of Mars and examining meteors that have fallen to Earth.

Pizzazz

With this album Patrice drew on such influences as Earth, Wind & Fire, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, and the Emotions.

Pluto Fast Flyby

It was proposed the instruments would be a visible camera, an infrared spectrometer, an ultraviolet spectrometer, and a radio transmitter to send its findings back to Earth.

Poverty Point

Many have interpreted it as being in the shape of a bird and also as an "Earth island", representing the cosmological center of the site.

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization is set on Earth and is designed to mirror a historical Earth as closely as possible.

Sat-Yr-9

When he fled from her, traveling to Earth-616 where he knew he had an identical looking counterpart, Earth-616's Captain Britain, she sent armored troops to retrieve him.

Serious Sam

In ancient times, Earth was involved in a massive conflict between Mental, an evil extraterrestrial being who wants to rule the universe, and the Sirians, a technologically-advanced sentient alien race that left many of its artifacts to be discovered by humanity.

Silver lode

Silverlode, river described by English author J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy world, Middle-earth, starting in 1937, with initial book in series, The Hobbit; Silverlode runs through Lothlórien, rising in eastern Misty Mountains near East Gate of Moria, it merges with Nimrodel and empties into Anduin

Skånland

The first element is the genitive case of an old name Skánøy (but the meaning of this is uncertain) and the last element is land which means "land" or "farm".

Skrull

The Skrullian Skymaster (real name Skymax) is a member of the Squadron Supreme and possesses abilities matching the Super Skrull from Earth-616.

Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006

The partial phase of the eclipse was also visible from the International Space Station, while the astronauts on board took spectacular pictures of the shadow on the Earth's surface.

Spaceship Earth

The phrase was also popularized by Buckminster Fuller, who published a book in 1968 under the title of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources available on Earth and encouraging everyone on it to act as a harmonious crew working toward the greater good.

Spider-Man: Friend or Foe

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is rescued by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who informs him that the meteor which brought the Venom symbiote to Earth had broken up in the Earth's atmosphere and five more pieces had landed in numerous locations across the globe.

Spider-Man: House of M

It is revealed that Peter has been having recurring nightmares of horrifying events that Spider-Man faced in the true Marvel Universe, including the deaths of Ben, George, and Gwen.

However, it is shown in the House of M series that the Peter Parker of the mainstream Marvel Universe remembers the life he had in this pocket universe.

State of the Planet

Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

STS-99

Its objective was to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth.

Sugar Man

Although many Age of Apocalypse characters were alternate versions of existing heroes and villains, Sugar Man does not appear to have an Earth-616 counterpart.

The Draco Tavern

The tavern was created after a race of sentient aliens called Chirpsithra landed on Earth.

The Last Halloween

Four aliens - Gleep (Paul Williams), Romtu (Don Messick), Scoota (Frank Welker), and Bing (Frank Welker) have been sent to Earth from the planet Mars in order to find a rare material known as "coobi" (which is later revealed to be candy).

The Medusa Stone

Ten years ago, the spy satellite Medusa burned upon re-entry-but not before its sensors revealed a secret buried deep in the Earth hidden for thousands of years from the eyes of humanity.

The Past Through Tomorrow

A revolution overthrows the theocracy and establishes a free society which, nonetheless, does not save the pseudo-immortal Lazarus Long and his Howard Families from fleeing Earth for their lives.

The Road to Middle-earth

The book discusses the sources of Tolkien's inspiration in creating the world of Middle-earth and the writing of works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

In Great Britain it was first published by Allen & Unwin in 1982, with a second edition published in 1993 by Harper Collins and a revised and expanded third edition published in 2003.

The Thanos Imperative

The story is the culmination of events starting with the "Annihilation" and more specifically the storyline "War of Kings", which climaxed with the opening of a hole between alternate universes, and "Realm of Kings", which involved different characters in conflict with the Many-angled ones and counterparts of the Earth-616 superheroes.

Tin Mine Falls

If we additionally assume that the image plane is perpendicular to the ground plane (an imaginary plane Tangential to the surface of the Earth), and that the waterfall flows on a plane that is parallel to the image plane, we can estimate the height by measuring the vertical separation of waterfall head and base in

TVLM513-46546

Assuming a stellar luminosity of 0.042 percent that of Sun, the habitable zone where an Earth-like planet may retain liquid water at comfortable temperatures would be located within 0.02 Astronomical Units (roughly 10 times the distance of the Moon from Earth).

Ungoliant

Her conflict with Morgoth over the Silmaril was the subject of Blind Guardian's song "Into the Storm", from their 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth.

Vakri grahas

As the Earth passes by a planet that particular planet appears to move backwards i.e. westward, amid the stars, this phenomenon is called retrograde motion, which motion invariably occurs at a time when that planet is visible for a relatively longer period.

Virtual globe

Google Earth, satellite & aerial photos dataset (including commercial DigitalGlobe images) with international road dataset, the first popular virtual globe along with NASA World Wind.

The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA World Wind (released in mid-2004) and Google Earth (mid-2005).

William Crabtree

The two correspondents both recorded the event in their own homes and it is not known whether they ever met in person, but Crabtree's calculations were crucial in allowing Horrocks to estimate the size of Venus and the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

Xóchitl Escobedo

She reached a career-high singles ranking on November 20, 1989, when she became ranked the number 284 of the world.

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness

He takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.

Zenith Angle

In astronomy, the angle made between the normal of the Earth and a line between the observer and the observed (see also zenith)


Agastya

These provide a seemingly down to earth account of a historical event,namely the mass migration to the South of the Velir who are identified as part of living tradition at the time of the cankam polity described in the earliest Tamil works.

Chakan: The Forever Man

The player, as Chakan, starts off in a central hub stage, from which he can select one of four elemental-based "planes" of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, each with three levels.

Charles Reed Peers

Some of the works authorised by Peers would be very extensive: tons of fallen masonry, earth and "accretions" were removed at Byland Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey.

Command module

The Apollo Command Module, the crew cabin of the Apollo Command/Service Module, used in the Apollo program to send men to the Moon and low Earth orbit, designed specifically to return through the atmosphere to a water landing

Cosmic Zoom

The continuous zoom-out takes the viewer on a journey from Earth, past the Moon, the planets of the Solar System, the Milky Way and out into the far reaches of the known universe.

Daníel Bjarnason

He has twice won awards at the Icelandic Music Awards—Best Composer/Best Composition, 2010 for Processions and Composer of the Year, 2013 for his works "The Isle Is Full of Noises" and "Over Light Earth." Also in 2013, he and Ben Frost won the Edda Award for best soundtrack for their score to the Baltasar Kormákur-directed film, The Deep.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

The Magnetic Resonance Research Centre has been situated at the West Cambridge site since it was built in 1997 and houses four Bruker NMR spectrometers in addition to lower field equipment such as Earth's field NMR equipment.

Ecospirituality

'Earth-based' spirituality is another term related to ecospirituality; it is associated with pagan religious traditions and the work of prominent ecofeminist, Starhawk.

Elk State Park

Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.

First Orbit

First Orbit is a feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first manned space flight around the Earth.

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

Haegemonia takes place in the distant future where humanity has colonized the solar system and tensions are high between the World Government of Earth and colonial Mars.

Hollow Moon

That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis takes place on Earth, but a hollow Moon is an important part of the novel's background, and is known by its inhabitants as "Sulva."

Insu

Institut national des sciences de l'univers (National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy) of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Iron-Crutch Li

They were admitted to eternal life as a reward for their acts on earth and bearing gifts to Shoulao, who is the god of long life.

Ismael Ortega

Like the main Marvel Universe, Chamayra was shot but this time Mr. M was not able to help her, since she was already dead.

James Bradley

This discovery of what became known as the aberration of light was, for all realistic purposes, conclusive evidence for the movement of the Earth, and hence for the correctness of Aristarchus' and Kepler's theories; it was announced to the Royal Society in January 1729 (Phil. Trans. xxxv. 637).

James Treadwell

In the story, magic was once an actual daily reality on Earth, but was destroyed in the Renaissance.

Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster

Halley's Comet has been approaching Mars for quite some time, and the nations of Earth send a mission to investigate the Comet, as some form of life has been detected inside the gas of the comet.

Kaliyan

Chithira Buthira also noted that Mayon had taken a 4-span body in the previous yugas, as Narasimha, Rama, and Krishna, and so Kali, in this yuga, was born with the body of same size, and he pushed himself out of the earth.

Kyōran Kazoku Nikki

: She is a young female alien with long braided blue hair which has a large eyeball at the end from the planet Ocean (which looks very similar to Jupiter) that had come to Earth to figure out the to meaning of the word 'love'.

Learning for a Cause

Down to Earth was endorsed by a number of celebrities including Martin Sheen, David Suzuki, Farley Mowat and Marc Garneau.

Magic User's Club

An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day.

Mahkizmo

Thundra had gone to the 20th century of Earth-616 to prevent the existence of Machus by altering the past, and Machus was sent to stop her.

Mongul

When The Reach and Captain Atom learn that Mongul and his Warworld are heading to Earth, they both attempt to negotiate with Mongul, who ignores them.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Oh! You Pretty Things

Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".

Peter L. Corsell

Corsell has been featured in several books including Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, Perfect Power by Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager and Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp and The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder.

Rikki Barnes

There are currently two versions of Rikki Barnes existing in the main Marvel Universe.

Roger Elkin

He has reviewed for Stand, Outposts and Envoi and his critical articles on Ted Hughes's poetry have appeared in collections of essays edited by Keith Sagar (1995) and Joanny Moulin (1999); and also on the "Earth-Moon, Ted Hughes" and the "Ted Hughes Society" websites.

Rosemary Gladstar

She organizes the International Herb Symposium and the United Plant Savers conference, and speaks widely at other herbal conferences including the Southwest Conference, Medicines from the Earth, the Green Nations Gathering and Breitenbush.

Savikalpa

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has compared the experience of seeing the earth from space, also known as the overview effect, to savikalpa samadhi.

Shining Stars

Shining Stars: The Official Story Of Earth, Wind & Fire, a 2001 biographical film about the American band Earth, Wind & Fire.

Shrimp-Turtle Case

The Earth Island Institute filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of State Warren Christopher in federal court.

Sqoon

Aliens who rule the planet Neptune realize that they have run out of their primary source of nutrition, "man-ham livestock," and decide to invade Earth to feed off the humans.

Starlock

Released by astronaut Nick Thaler, Starlock takes over Thaler's body and returns to Earth.

Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission

It is one of 15 missions that the 2007 National Research Council’s decadal survey of Earth science recommends NASA implement in the coming decade.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

Teleri

In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle-earth), they were known as Solosimpi ("Pipers of the Shores"), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar.

Telluric current

In William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land, the "Earth-Current", a powerful telluric current, is the source of power for the Last Redoubt, the arcology home of man after the Sun has died.

Thematic image

Thematic images are usually image products of classification processing of multispectral images of the earth surface.

Thirds

" "White Man/Black Man" is another winner." John Mendelsohn in Rolling Stone was equivocal stating "By no exertion of the imagination are James Gang the greatest rock and roll band ever to walk the face of the earth or anything... but they are capable of some nice little treats every now and again."

Tibetan incense

Tibetan medical theory states that everything in the universe is made up of the 5 proto-elements: sa (Earth), chu (Water), me (Fire), rLung (Wind or Air), and Nam-mkha (Space).

Tony DeSare

DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

Twin Earth thought experiment

Paul Boghossian raised an objection to the class of Twin-Earth-style arguments for externalism in the form of an argument that aims to show that externalism is incompatible with privileged self-knowledge.

WHEM

The Western Hemisphere, a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian.

X-ray astronomy satellites

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar Satellite was a NASA science spacecraft launched at 06:23:59.997 EST on February 24, 1996 aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket from launch pad 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, to observe the Earth's polar magnetosphere.