Here’s the Wikipedia entry:
With 14 children born in the early 18th century, he likely has thousands of descendants alive now. I wonder if they are aware of him?
No hands or feet. Small but critical difference.
I have this app called “EMD PTE”, which can be a hand quick reference to the periodic table, with additional detail. On the call-up page for each element, one of the lines of info is “Percentage mass of the Earth’s core”. Obviously, the lion’s share of elements are trace ( below 1% – H is 0.88% ), there are notable amounts of magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium, aluminum makes up 7.6%, iron 4.7%, all of which add up to about 24%. The two elements that dominate are silicon plus about twice that mass in oxygen.
In other words, the core of the Earth looks like a huge grain of the kind of red sand one would see in northern Arizona/southern Utah. However, I suspect the literal wording is misleading, refering not to the little ball three thousand miles under our feet but rather the overall mass of the rocky Earth itself.
For the Earth as a whole, iron is first on the list, at nearly a third, and it’s an even higher percentage of the core. It sounds like your app is actually giving the proportions of just the crust.
It may be that the erroneous word is “mass”. As they claim that there are more cells in your microbiome than human cells in your body, but the human cells (and their biproducts, such as bones) still outmass the microbes, there may be more oxygen atoms (which have less than a third the mass of iron atoms) than the others. “Mass” may actually supposed to mean something more like abundance.
They must mean outside of the core. Every cite I find says that the nickel-iron inner and outer cores are about 31% of the total mass, with the other elements above those. Oxides - not oxygen by itself - do comprise more mass than iron, but those are not at the core.
The Earth’s core accounts for 15% of Earth’s volume but more than 30% of the mass, the mantle for 84% of the volume and close to 70% of the mass, while the crust accounts for less than 1% of the mass.[13] About 90% of the mass of the Earth is composed of the iron–nickel alloy (95% iron) in the core (30%), and the silicon dioxides (c. 33%) and magnesium oxide (c. 27%) in the mantle and crust. Minor contributions are from iron(II) oxide (5%), aluminium oxide (3%) and calcium oxide (2%),[14] besides numerous trace elements (in elementary terms: iron and oxygen c. 32% each, magnesium and silicon c. 15% each, calcium, aluminium and nickel c. 1.5% each). Carbon accounts for 0.03%, water for 0.02%, and the atmosphere for about one part per million.[15]
T. Rex made its motion picture debut all the way back in 1918 in The Ghost of Slumber Mountain.
I’ve wondered if the name “T. Rex” gained a lot more currency after the rock band T. Rex. Most newspaper accounts prior to their popularity usually spelled out the name on those rare occasions when they would make the news.
T. Rex even spelled it out (Tyrannosaurus Rex) for the first two years of their existence.
“Tyrannosaurus rex” is, of course, a scientific species name, and it’s standard to abbreviate species names by reducing the genus to its first letter. “Boa constrictor” doesn’t usually get this treatment, but then, “Boa” is already pretty short.
I’m going through some of the old Patreon bonus episodes of Andrew Hickey’s “500 songs” podcast. In the episode I’m listening to now about Sheb Wooley’s “Flying Purple People Eater”, I learned that Wooley was the voice of the Wilhelm Scream!
I asked ChatGPT the following questions and got long answers back, with sources. I summarize results below:
Q. What percent of persons questioned under caution in Britain avail themselves of their right to have a solicitor present?
A. In one study, 36 percent, but 40-60 percent in others.
Q. What percent of persons informed by U.S. law enforcement of their right to have an attorney present during questioning avail themselves of that right?
A. Averaging studies, it looks to be close to 20 percent, and never much more.
So, being routinely told, by the police, that you have a right to an attorney seems ineffective, at least from the POV of a defense attorney looking for work.
There was plenty of ‘currency’ before the rock band. I’d say the rock band rode the currency of the dinosaur.
FWIW, for me T. Rex was a rock band first time I heard the name, and I only later learned that it was also the name of a dinosaur. But I was only four years old when I listened to my first T. Rex song (my earliest musical memory).
You are aware of the difference between grazing land and arable land, aren’t you? The fact posted was about arable land, so rangeland is irrelevant to that.
Tyrannosaurus Rex did. But I’m not sure how much the shortened T. Rex had before the band used that version. @Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker notes that it was rare prior to that.
According to the Google Ngram viewer, “T Rex” gained currency around 1980; the band took the name in 1970.
It was originally a duo called “Tyrannosaurus Rex” but Mark Bolan split with his bandmate, Steve Peregrin Took, and billed the resulting band as “T. Rex.” Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia uses “Tyrannosaurus Rex.” As “T. Rex,” they made a major change of musical direction (from folk to glam rock) and became an international success.
The OED gives one cite for “T. Rex” in 1915, but nothing until 1993, an indication that it was rarely used before then. I wouldn’t be surprised if the band was a major influence, especially in the UK.
I was four when I got my first dinosaur book. It was a long time before the band.
Okay. If you’re all referring to the abbreviated form of the name, then I have no idea. And I don’t know if it would be the influence of the band or the influence of paleontology, which kept finding and talking about related tyrannosaurs that were not Rex.
I did a newspaper database search on “T. Rex” from 1900-1950. You would not believe how many people had “T. Rex” as part of their names.
I only found one hit for the dinosaur. The Sioux City Journal, Wed, July 14, 1948 ·Page 14.
The article was headlined “Banzai Invasion of River Insects Slackens Here,” with a subhead of “Viscous Besiegers Mock Fingerprinters; Have T-Rex Complex.”
Usually I’d dismiss this as standard headline shortening, but the article itself refers to “T-Rex”
after an earlier use of the full name. The use of the hyphen instead of standard form probably means something.
Nevertheless, the near-total lack of hits is interesting.
Is this a correct quote or your typo?