Speaking of Schulz, I found out from Two Designers Walk Into a Bar that he and Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) are both graduates of Art Instructions Schools, who ran all those “Draw Me” ads in comic books and magazines during the mid-20th century. It’s a legitimate organization that existed for over a century until it folded in 2018, because their old school methods couldn’t compete with online training. Some of the Peanuts characters were based on Schultz’ coworkers at Art Instruction Inc.
I kinda get where Schulz was going with the title “Li’l Folks”. His characters were only children (or peanuts) in appearance and environment. They all had very grown-up personalities, behaviors, and attitudes. His characterization of children was as novel in the 1950s as South Park’s was decades later.
To show how different things were in the old days, The Sound of Music soundtrack album spent 235 weeks … in the UK top 10. All through the 60s.
Obviously true. What I was trying to say is that the quality of the products cast a positive light on the names.
Starting in the late 1960s, I probably read every Beatles bio there was, until there got to be too many of them, so I knew that the name was inspired by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, but it was still an odd name. Everyone told them at the time that if they were going to use such a strange name, they should at least use the Somebody And The Somethings formula as Buddy Holly had done, as in Long John Silver and the Silver Beatles. John nixed that idea, but they did call themselves the Silver Beatles for a few months.
Since the record charts were based upon sales at that time, you would think that every British household had 5 copies of the album.
They kept wearing them out.
Water, water everywhere:
- Water makes up 72% of the Earth’s surface.
- Salt water makes up 96.5% of all that water.
- Ice makes up for 69% of that remaining 3.5% which is fresh water.
- Taking the total mass of the Earth, water makes up 0.02%.
23% of the Earth’s fresh surface water is in Lake Baikal, and another 21% is in the US Great Lakes.
But does that 0.02% also count for the water inside the earth? I understand that there is a lot of water very not on the surface.
0.02% by mass looks about consistent with that image you posted (which includes interior water): The water-ball is about a tenth the width of the rock-ball, so 1/1000 the volume, and water is less dense than the Earth as a whole.
Speaking of which, at least according Wikipedia, the Earth is the densest object in the solar system: List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia
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There has been a recent development in solving the Feynman sprinkler-in-reverse problem. The sprinkler actually did rotate in the reverse direction, but the way the sprinkler was set up introduced a new factor.
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When viewing a Youtube video with captions turned on, pressing the “-” or the “=” key will change the size of the captions. This isn’t documented on the Youtube help screen or on the separate page of Youtube keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks eschereal. I found that graphic a few years ago and sent it to a friend that manages water resourses for the county she lives in.
The population is the densest too. 
This is an assumption. There’s no convincing proof.
There is empirical proof: just talk to them and hear for yourself. And there are lots of them too.
I think you’re guilty of only counting Earthlings.
But since you mentioned density, we could still be outnumbered by Saturnians but win the competition.
Though it wouldn’t take many Plutonians, or citizens of an asteroid (as a kid, I had a friend whose parents were ‘Cerean’, so I assumed they came from Ceres).
Well I was talking about our solar system. So by ALL indications, we are the densest, and the most intellegent. Tallest too…
As far as we know. I suggest consulting with the dolphins.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
From the Times today, it appears that Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon. It was sent to him from a Southern state for dinner. No thanks. It had the run of the White House and he walked it on a leash.