THIS N THAT

Tomorrow is Flag Day in the U.S.  It celebrates the adoption of our flag in 1777.  Get Old Glory out and fly it proudly.  Thirteen stripes - one for each original colony.   Fifty stars - one for each state. 


For several years, the famous baseball player, Babe Ruth, put a notch in his bat each time he hit a home run - just like the gunslingers in the Old West did when they shot someone.  Bats lasted longer back then.


We have discovered a far-away planet called 55 Cancri e that may have much of it's surface covered with diamond.  We know it is made up of carbon-based material under high pressure and extremely high temperatures.  It sits so close to it's "sun" that the near side would be over 3,000 degrees F at all times.  Those diamonds might be too hot to handle.


Everyone knows the oceans are made up of salt water - but, how much?  If all the oceans of the Earth dried up, the salt left over would be enough to build a wall 180 miles high, one mile thick, extending all the way around our planet at the Equator.  The salt of the Earth!