Life Cycle of a Planet

      That question does seem to follow if we think of evolution as not being driven by any outside force other than what makes life more likely to continue? But what if it is slightly more than that, what if, as gases in the atmosphere change, pressure is put on for specific adaptations to become necessary for life to continue. Far in the past, some scientists feel that air-borne bacteria became so prevalent that they ended up blocking enough of the sunlight to force the planet into a glaciation phase. Yet, at the same time, they used carbon from the floor of the great oceans, allowing the bacteria to become so numerous bringing this partially trapped carbon back into the atmosphere which should have warmed up the planet not cooled it down. Was this one of the planet's experiments on extending carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by speeding up part of the carbon cycle to do that, yet with negative results?       I have wondered if the Beaver and how...

These are not just two "Earths" there were many, but separated by a million different things that had to happen for mankind to be able to both, be here, and survive on this Earth that we are just coming to understand a small part of! Extinction events have been quite common on this planet, Many times wiping out 80% of what was on the planet. Sometimes affecting the whole planet, sometimes just what's on the land. The Great Oxygenation Event, took perhaps 300,000,000 years to truly change over 90% of the life on the planet. Can we consider that an extinction event or an adaptation event? Right now I am talking to several people via the internet, that are so positive that the planet has reached a point that we can not come back from. Yet tell me I do not understand anything. That we and the planet are either doomed or facing massive living changes in the near future, and nothing that I explain to them could possibly be right, yet they respond so quickly to me emailing them ...

     That is a bold, yet accurate statement! However, I seem to be the only one to understand this. Scientists call this action that has happened in the past "SNOWBALL EARTH" Each time that this has happened the plate techtonics of the planet caused huge amounts of sequestrated carbon to be brought back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but this took millions of years to slowly warm the planet up! The internal heat of the planet has slowly decreased over time due to the breakdown of radioactive elements in the core of the planet. This in turn reduces the activity of the planet's plate techtonics, and the resulting volcanic activity is also reduced! This is where the Earth is at right now, even with the Sun putting out around 35% more energy than when carbon-based life first started, there simply was not enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at 200 parts per million to prevent ice ages from starting up again 2.5 million years ago. At the end of each ice age, there w...

     One of the reason's for this I believe, is the ability to bring forth ideas that have not already been set in stone, by those who went before! There is a thought process that goes something like this, when someone has been taught a certain way of looking at things, that begins to limit the directions that can be followed in finding solutions or even what the initial belief is. We all have heard, "we need to think outside the box" the box is a representation of known knowledge and solutions, so to think outside the box means we need the look at what we think we know and say what if that is what we need to do is not right, to begin with, or the direction we desire to go. When computers first came out we would say that the computer was always right, forgetting that the computer could only make use of what was programmed into it. We started calling that "Garbage in Garbage out", yet another alternative was that we could not or did not, understand what the compu...

    When Milutin Milankovitch  put forth the three different ways that the Earth both went around the Sun, but also how the Planet's angle in relationship to the Sun's rays would change over very long periods of time, made many scientists of the time, believe he had found the reason why the planet had been going thought cyclical in nature "ice ages", for the last 2.5 million years! Yes, the answer was found ho-ray, yet Milankovitch himself was never sure that this was the complete answer. New studies done in the 1970s, concluded that Milankovitch cycles, as they came to be known, did not in themselves cause ice ages to start and stop, but only seem to "paced" the coming and going of ice ages! Whoever used the term "paced" to explain the contribution of Milankovitch cycles to the starting and ending of each "ice age" was brilliant. It took nothing away from just how good of a mathematician, Milankovitch was, but ...