In 1971, 73 percent of members of Congress were veterans, but veterans made up fewer than 15 percent of the American population. Ten years later, 62 percent of Congress had served in the military, while just 12 percent of the population were veterans.
Perhaps it is the time old saying, Eat your crust!. The earth's crust is a little different then the crust on a piece of bread. It is not soft and chewy, but it hard and composed of different minerals. The thin, outermost layer of the earth is called the crust. It makes up only one percent of the earth's mass. The continental crust is thicker than the oceanic crust. It can range from 25 km thick at the edges to 70 km thick near the center.
A fraction of the relationship of the thinnest layer to the thickest layer of earth? This depends on whether you treat the core as a single layer or split it into the outer and inner core. The Earth's core has a radius of approximately 3,470 km whereas the Earâ¦th's crust is on average only 60 km thick. This as a fraction is 60/3,470 which can be simplified to 1/58. That means that the core is approximately 58 times thicker than the crust.