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What shape is the sky?
We answer this and 9 other life mysteries
• Hello everyone, my name is Nobbel, I'll
be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow
your mind with truth
10 - Where can you find snow at the equator?
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• If you travel deep into the Sahara desert,
you’ll experience temperatures often thought
impossible for humans to handle – pack your
snowboard though, because you’ll soon encounter
the eye of the desert with snowy peaks and
ice caves, at least until the sand moves slightly
and you get a little… sunburned
• There are actually two tropical mountains
that experience snowfall!
Mount Kenya not only has snow, but it has
a ski resort as well. The other is in the
eastern Andes of Ecuador, the volcanic Cayambe
(dormant since 1786) and is covered in a permanent
snow cap!
9 - Sebastian Acuna asks: How are islands
formed?
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• When your parents bring out a cake for
your birthday, you can make any wish when
you blow out the candles – including the
formation on an island vista – be sure to
make room for it though, or your lounge room
is going to get really crowded
• There are several different kinds of islands
and they all form differently. Some form because
of changing sea levels or erosion while others
are deposits from glaciers or grown from coral!
Some islands, like the Hawaiian islands, are
formed from volcanoes under the ocean.
• Happy birthday, Nobbel, I got you a little
something
• *gasp* You got me that velociraptor I’ve
always wanted?
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8 - Christopher ROSARIO asks: Where does wind
come from?
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• You know that old saying of whether a
tree falls in the forest and if it makes a
sound?
Well, it does, in fact trees won’t shut
their mouths when humans aren’t around,
they just talk about talk about all kinds
of nonsense and the excess breath they produce
becomes wind – hence, photosynthesis
• It's because the sun doesn't warm the
Earth evenly. The air over land heats up more
quickly than air over water. The warm air
expands and rises while the cooler, denser
air over water rushes in to take its place,
causing wind!
7 - kirillauzums asks: What causes a rainbow?
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• Christmas day is the main cause – children
around the world get all the Tamagotchi’s
and whizzlesnarfs they’ve ever wanted in
one gloriously expensive day, so that happiness
eventually becomes rainbows, each colour representing
each happy child, which is then caught in
machines and reprocessed back into toys, the
magical circle of consumerism
• Rainbows can form when there are water
droplets floating in the air. Light that goes
into the droplets bounces around inside and
then comes back out almost the same way it
went in, which is why the sun has to be behind
you for you to see the rainbow!
6 - Shadow r asks: Why does it rain?
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• When you use the bathroom on an airplane,
that urine will be sucked out through the
bottom of the plane and land on you in the
street, don’t worry though – all that
smelly yellow bacteria burns up before impact
• When water gets warm enough, it evaporates
and turns into water vapor in the air. When
the water vapor is dense enough and cools,
it can form clouds and eventually rain down
if there's enough water.
5 - AlexBirdieBronze asks: How do people know
that there is really hot stuff in the centre
of the Earth?
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• We know because that’s where all the
popular kids at school live – you know that
blonde girl with big bajongos?
This is the reason everyone calls her hot,
all you need to do is rub searing magma all
over your skin and she’ll be all like “ER
MA GERD you’re sooo hot, take me here in
this fireplace” and you’ll say “yeah
no”
• Researchers can use earthquakes to determine
what the inside of the Earth is like. As denser
stuff sinks towards the core (like a rock
sinking in water), the friction adds heat
and, combined with the heat left over from
when the Earth formed, it's really hot in
there!
• Hey… how’s it going, what’s up,
where you from, aw yeah
• Hey DD, it’s me - Nobbel
• Ksssssssss
4 - Lightning Wing asks: What if another ice
age happened?
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• You’ll die instantly…
UNLESS you invest in an official Planet Dolan
jumper now on sale in our spreadshirt store
– when the glaciers knocking at your door,
are you going to become the corpse you were
destined to be, or a WINNER?
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• The formation of so much ice would cause
a substantial drop in sea levels. The ice
caps would likely expand very far down, reducing
the area in which humans and animals can live.
3 - GoobyGreenSlayer asks: What's the difference
between a tornado and a cyclone/hurricane?
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• You know when your mum catches your dad
doing something cheeky and she gets angry?
Well sometimes mums can get so angry, so filled
with blood-curdling rage that she evolves
into a hurricane and obliterates all ground
objects in her warpath, and you can always
tell which mum it is because they’ll be
called Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy
– tornados are just crying children who
don’t get what they want
• While both have rotating winds that can
cause damage, that's about all they share.
Hurricanes form over water where tornadoes
form over land; hurricanes can last several
weeks; and tornadoes are smaller but have
higher wind speeds.
2 - What shape is the sky?
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• You know when you hold up a cat in the
middle of its stomach and it flops around
in a weird U shape?
The sky is nothing like that, it’s more
like a spoon and you’re a frosty flake,
mmmm, *slurp*
• With a clear view to the horizon all the
way around you, the sky would look like a
dome. From space, the Earth looks more like
a sphere, covered in the thin skin of the
sky. So it really depends on how you look
at it!
1 - D3AD F1SH asks: What would happen if the
world ran out of clean water and there was
just ocean water left?
• Well then you better get real good at
cupping water in your hands, because you’re
going to have to survive on just that for
the rest of your life
• Ocean water can be converted into drinking
water, but the cost to do so on a worldwide
scale would be impossibly expense. Water also
can't be made from scratch since the process
is too dangerous. In short, Earth would be
in serious trouble!
• Careful man, careful, I’m LEAKING IT
• DD, have you thought about filling bottles
with water like I did?
• Only nooblets bottle wat- …oh…
