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llMithrandirll t1_j9lg1l5 wrote

Fun fact: the reason cats eyes (and many other animals) light up like this is due to their night vision adaptations. When light enters their eyes it is picked up by the receptors once as it passes through then it hits the back of their eye where it is reflected back through the receptors allowing the animal to pick up more light and therefore see more clearly in low light situations. The side effect of this is that even with this adaptation not all the light is absorbed to a portion of it comes back out their pupil.

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llMithrandirll t1_iy9fjpb wrote

Whatever you do don't buy one that was built by Walmart. Honestly I recommend watching a few tutorials on youtube and building your own PC (Linus Tech Tips has some great build guides). It's a better value and you'll get exactly what you need instead of paying for things you'll never use or wishing you had one particular feature. Also building PCs is just a fun thing to do imo.

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llMithrandirll t1_iy4ians wrote

We also have smaller craters too. They just come from much larger original asteroids (meters in diameter) that broke up and had most of their material burn away in the atmosphere. The big craters come from extremely rare asteroids that were originally kilometers in diameter. There has only been about 60 of those meteor strikes and the earth has been around for 4.5 BILLION years so the odds of one hitting earth again before humans go extinct is pretty low.

4 500 000 000/60=75 000 000.

That's an average of one large meteor strike every 75 million years and the average mammal species only lasts about 1 million years. Humans have already been around for about 200 000 years.

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llMithrandirll t1_iy4fdhw wrote

The earth has an atmosphere. When the earth passes through a cluster of asteroids (this is what causes meteor showers) the vast majority of them burn up in the atmosphere due to air resistance before they can reach the ground to make a crater. The moon technically also has an atmosphere but it is so thin that we don't really consider it an atmosphere. It can't be breathed and it won't slow down, heat up, and burn away objects that pass through it like earth's atmosphere. This means that when the earth and moon pass through an asteroid field the earth is protected while the moon just gets slammed over and over again.

On top of that, the earth has geological activity such as erosion which can erase the signs of old meteor impacts. The moon doesn't have this so every time a meteor strikes, the crater remains there until another meteor hits and obscures or covers it up with another crater.

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