Everest Week: The highest point on earth was once the sea floor

Everest Week: The highest point on earth was once the sea floor

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Were ulys Everest week at fact of the day and
today's fact about Mount Everest is the top of Mount Everest,
the summit, the tippity top, the part that people want
to reach so badly they line up in a sort
of an atmospheric condition that is literally trying to kill you. Yeah,
the death sign. The minute you into it, your body's like, no,

(00:37):
I'm not gonna last long up here, even with oxygen.
How long do they wait in that line to get
to the top, And do you have a set amount
of like you've got two minutes to take a photo
and to be like I've got a flag and then
get out of them again the top and then yeah,
but that's the thing. Apparently now people have died, people
have died, and waiting in that queue, yeah, and also
squeezing back past.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Them, you're on a leech. Yeah, people, you know how
bad it is.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Even when you're in a queue and you're like, I've
got to get out of this, and you excuse me,
and you've got all your big puffy clothing, oxygen tanks,
so you don't die in ice x. But the type
of Mount Everest is gray limestone. That's the type of stone.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
It is about. No use thinking of lime chip. I
am thinking of lime chip, yep limestone.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
But soft, the same as the caves limestone caves. Yeah,
which if you're not about it, it means that once by
a time that was on the bottom of the ocean floor.
Why it's also got embedded marine invertebrate fossils in it.
So you could be waiting in that line, just chipping
away at the ice line, looks and there's a scollop shell. Yeah, yeah,
there's an old trillo bite can, yeah, poking through.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
So I googled how long.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Ago and that the sea floor was that pushed up
and one event or.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean it's a massive events.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, okay, it was the sea floor four hundred and
seven million years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
It was on the sea.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Floor seventy four million years ago, four hundred and seventy
so nearly half a billion years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
It was on the sea floor. Get up that high plates.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
The plates pushed it and they kept pushing and it
just would keep going up and up and up and
up and up and up, and.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
When you squeeze a pimple and it gets worse.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I love when you get a stringy pimple. It's great
to say, but it is really that's pimple. Yeah, it's
more of a black kid thing. Ah.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, I had a professional to do mine.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Britt Casey does them and every now and then she'd
be like, oh, it was a snake, and I'm.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Like, yes, no black heads. This is also very.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Goods are usually are the best ones because they look
it's nothing, and they don't they spaghetti. They go thick
and they go like a little worms perking its head
out from under your skin.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Shannon is suggesting that we do this for final rankings.
Types of pimples to squeeze.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
I know, but the under ones got the demon's a
squeeze and nothing comes out.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
About mirror squirter though, that's up there just for satisfy.
It's gros jury.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yuk. Yeah you're yuck, you're yuk. Yeah, what who is
all of us?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not me? Somebody said, watch fourteen peaks on Netflix if
you loving I have watched that.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Summit's fourteen the world's the highest peaks in Asia, which
are all in somewhere in the Himalayas on one climbing season. Wow,
it's it's mind blowing. And now I follow that dude
on Instagram. He's nuts, He's phenomenal. No one like him.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
So yeah, that's that's that's today's fact that they are
about maneuvers the tip top of Mount ever So, the
highest point above sea level, on this beautiful blue and
green marble of ours, hurdling through space was once without
insignificant lives on our insignificant short over and over in
the click of the fingers lifespan where we think we

(03:58):
might make a world of difference, But we're nothing but dust.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
But a little bit of difference. I mean, right now
we're making a difference to people's days by helping them
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I mean, I don't, I don't really know.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Now this piece of dust, Now that this piece of
dust is topped off a couple of KPIs we're more significant.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
We're more significant. Capitalism is to be believed. So today's
fact to the day.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is the the highest point on Earth was once the seafloor.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
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