QQC #2

Quote: "...If you added lots of folded-out pages to your textbooks or used a really long sheet of poster paper, you wouldn't even come close. on a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distance. On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star would be almost ten thousand miles away. even if you shrank it down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger then a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feel away."
Comment: I never knew this, I always believe the scales that you see in textbooks, the planets are all the same distance away and now I realise that is not the case. they are all REALLY far away and would take years and years just to reach the closest one. I have always been interested in the solar system, but it always confuses me to try to learn about it, it seems so complicated and confusing.
Question: I want to know if there is another planet in our solar system that we could possibly live and thrive on, or if not then is there in the entire universe?

QQC #1

Quote: "and when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things."

Question: I want to know more about the oceans and their salinity, does it fluctuate? or does it change at all with the rain water or lakes emptying into it?

Comment: I really like this quote, it is describing death in a way I never thought to hear it as. I think it opens our eyes to a new look on dying.