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"From the darkness, sleeping light." Formerly luminus dormiens. Lux pacis, light of peace.
Quote: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Bill Watterson, cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
20031209
Is the earth not alive? Today the cloud rained, and the wind blew. The leaves of the tree were moved by this spectacle. I watched, only for 30 seconds because I do not have the patience for it. Yet, in those 30 seconds, I was moved as well.
Is the earth not alive? Unlike Venus or Mars, the Earth is alive because the living organisms are reacting with it. The earth is alive because it is always undergoing such complex interchange and interaction of chemicals by a process we call life. We are alive, but the earth is also just as living as we are because we interact with it.
the earth to be sure is composed of minerals and rocks the plants the protists composed of kingdoms of eukaryotes the animals the fungi and all the vast complexity of animals are all participating taking from the earth what they need returning to the earth what they do not to make the earth a living organism see how the cloud is formed by water evaporation the gas of carbon dioxide and other things allow such heat to stay and warm the earth but the living organisms are somehow able to maintain a relatively stable environment by our minute perception of time
What we are doing to the environment is causing a global warming, but we cannot be sure what the other living organism also inhabiting this earth will do as a result. There might be some bacteria, algae, archea, etc. that will counteract these warmth to bring about a global cooling, when all the world will be overrun by glacier, which will reflect off all the heat from the sun, further preventing any thawing until some more million years, after we are long gone.
That is why we must study, why we must research, why we must learn, why we must attempt to lessen our impact on the environment until we discover precisely the complex interaction that will help us know what we should or should not do to preserve humanity for the longest time possible.
Is the earth not alive? Unlike Venus or Mars, the Earth is alive because the living organisms are reacting with it. The earth is alive because it is always undergoing such complex interchange and interaction of chemicals by a process we call life. We are alive, but the earth is also just as living as we are because we interact with it.
the earth to be sure is composed of minerals and rocks the plants the protists composed of kingdoms of eukaryotes the animals the fungi and all the vast complexity of animals are all participating taking from the earth what they need returning to the earth what they do not to make the earth a living organism see how the cloud is formed by water evaporation the gas of carbon dioxide and other things allow such heat to stay and warm the earth but the living organisms are somehow able to maintain a relatively stable environment by our minute perception of time
What we are doing to the environment is causing a global warming, but we cannot be sure what the other living organism also inhabiting this earth will do as a result. There might be some bacteria, algae, archea, etc. that will counteract these warmth to bring about a global cooling, when all the world will be overrun by glacier, which will reflect off all the heat from the sun, further preventing any thawing until some more million years, after we are long gone.
That is why we must study, why we must research, why we must learn, why we must attempt to lessen our impact on the environment until we discover precisely the complex interaction that will help us know what we should or should not do to preserve humanity for the longest time possible.
