Welcome to Planet Earth. A very quick educational flight to Planet Earth

Welcome ladies and gentlemen. This is you Captain speaking. To your left you have a planet called Earth.

No one really knows how old this planet is but the latest estimate is about 4.55 billion years.
This is just about one-third of the 13-billion-year age estimated for the universe

The size of this planet is 510.072 million square kilometer of which 29.2% is land.

There is 6,5 billion humans occupying this planet with a growth rate of 1.14%. Life expectancy at birth is 64.77 years.

Large areas are subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of wildlife, soil degradation, soil depletion and erosion, and that is why we will not be landing.

Earth is also experiencing the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality.
Not your ideal holiday destination.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that large areas are subject to severe weather (tropical cyclones) and natural disasters (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions)

The human race divided themselves into different groups. Christians 33.03%, Muslims 20.12%, Hindus 13.34%, Buddhists 5.89%,Jews 0.23%, other religions 12.61% and non-religious 12.03%
They also divided the planet Earth into 272 dependent areas.

The funny thing is that 65% of these areas are controlled by Christians, 23% by Muslims, 6% by Buddhists, 4% by other religions and 2% by Hindus.

They speak in different languages. Mandarin Chinese 13.69%, Spanish 5.05%, English 4.84%, Hindi 2.82%, Portuguese 2.77%, Bengali 2.68%, Russian 2.27%, Japanese 1.99%, Standard German 1.49%, Wu Chinese 1.21% (2004 est.)

Thank you, that concludes today's trip to planet Earth.
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