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Cover The Earth
I am quite small in size and yet can cover the Earth,
I go mainly unnoticed yet I still have much worth.
No matter how hard you search you'll never see all of me,
I have a nearby cousin but he's much more lazy.
There is a way to see me, it's like closing a door,
but when you see me, it's all me, and you'll see nothing more.
I share a trait with a Baseball but only the one,
I can also contain the force of a gun.
What am I?
I go mainly unnoticed yet I still have much worth.
No matter how hard you search you'll never see all of me,
I have a nearby cousin but he's much more lazy.
There is a way to see me, it's like closing a door,
but when you see me, it's all me, and you'll see nothing more.
I share a trait with a Baseball but only the one,
I can also contain the force of a gun.
What am I?
Answer
Your Eyelids(specifically your top set)
If an astronaut closed his eyes, they would cover the earth.
You never notice your eyelids, because when your eyes are open they disappear into your sockets.
Consequently, you can never see all your eyelids at once.
The nearby cousin is the bottom set, which is weaker in strength, as the top set do all the blinking.
You can see all your eyelids by "shutting" them (you can see all the inside albeit being very dark), but obviously cannot see anything else.
The shared trait is that you can bat both.
And also when you sneeze (equivalent force of a bullet being shot), your eyes shut to stop your eyeballs shooting out.
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You can see all of your eyelids by closing one eye and looking in a mirror.
Not both of them
How about a photograph?
Mayday! Mayday! I've been shot down. eject! EJECT!
Is that thing about your eyeballs shooting out when you sneeze if you didn't have your eyelids?
Sorry about that incoherent sentence, what I mean is, if you didn't have your eyelids, would your eyeballs really shoot out of your head when you sneezed?
...I don't know about the eyeball shooting out part, but it is true that it is impossible to sneeze without blinking.
Actually the "eyeballs shooting out" myth concerning sneezing was debunked on an episode of Mythbusters. There are too many muscles in our eyes (including the optic nerve) to prevent your eyes shooting out from even a powerful sneeze.
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