S is for Statistics, yes those mind numbing numbers that some can rattle off as if they are there own birthday stats, while most of us cringe instead.
Lets, get these over with, and yes many of these numbers are best guesses by people who have spent lifetimes collecting information, that others twist and turn to make their point of view work. (Hopefully, I am not one who does that but simply let the numbers speak for themselves, okay maybe a little interpretation!) This beautiful planet is around 4,500,000,000 years old and no almost nothing alive today could have lived on it until perhaps a couple of hundred million years ago, and it would have been tough even then with all the tools for life we have today at our disposal. I believe that living on the planet Mars now would be easier to do than the Earth, 200 million years ago! But I start to ramble again, life on Earth took a very long time to become established sometime at around 1,000,000,000 years after our planet has taken shape life had become established but the makeup of that primeval atmosp...
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