Life Cycle of a Planet

    Plus, as a scientist, it is very important to be within acceptable beliefs that others have a vested interest in upholding. With the launch of the James Webb space telescope, there will be many discoveries that will by necessity, change many of the known beliefs of how our universe was both formed, and how it has advanced! Will these new understandings become standard knowledge of the common man as science begins understanding that we need to change and adapt our beliefs to more closely fit our new observations? Or will some of this information be withheld for our own "protection", or to protect the scientific communities?     No matter how well an error is explained to the media, the downside of telling others that you were wrong no matter the reason will almost always be greater than if no communication is put forth at all. The life span of any mistake becomes longer the more it is talked about, while there is always another sensational story in the pipeline. ...

     Why you ask, does the planet having life on it make the atmosphere thin? Every farmer will tell you that when you remove a crop from their land, they have to replace some of the nutrients that produced the crop, removed. Normally this means adding back either nitrogen, potassium, and or phosphates, but every so often they will need to add back some micro-nutrients that will show up this need, after taking soil samples. Our planet's atmosphere is no different, for as life removes gasses from the atmosphere in growing (this is almost always carbon dioxide) some of that carbon dioxide remains out of the atmosphere because of sequestration! As are some of the soil nutrients are also removed this same way, sequestration is a never-ending process that buries billions of tons of life every year and then by compression, heat, and simply chance, that takes this material and changes it into, mainly limestone, but also oil, gas, coal, peat, and including many other types of sed...