Life Cycle of a Planet

          Magic, in past times, almost anything that people did not understand was considered this. And many women were killed in the process, for being witches along with a few men, but there were always men who wanted women to be only cooks, cleaners, and to be used in bed. And had no problem with using falsehoods and anything else at their disposal to stop strong-minded women from gaining respect or power in a community.                                                                                                                                                          ...

            That would indicate that we have underestimated how much carbon has been sequestrated over the 3,000,000,000 years of abundant carbon-based life on the planet, by almost 100,000,000 gigatonnes. Is this of any real importance, and if so in what way? It is in that, when the Siberian traps were active for upwards of a million years, the carbon that was being expelled into the atmosphere was more likely coming from carbon that had been sequestrated, and forced under the tectonic plates as they collided, instead of coming from carbon raising over the plate collisions.  How active is tectonic plate movement on the planet, now that much of the radiation-induced heating has been half-lived in the 4.5 billion years, relying more on mass and gravity for internal heating and tectonic plate movement, than the nuclear-induced fission process? I personally do not worry too much about whether or not there are only 100,000,000, gigatonnes of carbon or...

       Many people, seem to think that math is the most boring, difficult, mundane, and most likely to be twisted to give one side or the other, reason to believe something that is not true! I myself almost always distrust when % is included, for instance, someone will state that a bank is the fastest growing bank in the whole country at a 100% growth rate when you check this out, last year there was only one bank, and this year they opened up one more bank, which does technically mean that the bank grew by 100% in a 12 month period! While a much larger banking system went from having 5,000 banks, and in the following year added 50 more banks for only a 1% growth rate. Yes, math can be made to mislead and has been used on numerous occasions to do so. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one place that people will use % to influence us (with I believe their, and our best intentions at stake) they will state that mankind has caused a doubling of the carbon dioxide in th...

            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...

          The very thought that we must be the saviors of all life on the planet, is completely foreign to what we have been taught! Basically, we have been taught, that we are just another species on the planet, yet the most dangerous towards all other lifeforms. There is much truth in that way of thinking, and the need for us to understand and limit the damage that we do to all life on the planet, is of great importance! Already there are many organizations, that try and accomplish those very goals, yet our money-based-sociality is many times at odds with those goals. Things as simple as "save the spotted owl", or "protect baby seals", or the thousand and one other goals, all have a price tag in a money-driven economy. The balancing act that must be designed and constantly adjusted to fit changing norms and our own understanding of us and the needs of the planet, seems to be never-ending.                  ...

          We do not try and reroute the electricity to another point and bypass the break, but that is what climate scientists are telling us we need to do. To repair the lost temperature regulation ability that the planet has lost, they feel is not at issue, the only thing at issue is the extra 150 parts per million of carbon dioxide that mankind has added to the atmosphere! Arid and semi-arid formations are the underlying problem that needs to be addressed, everything else is only a symptom, not causation of what the planet and all carbon-based life are facing. If a bearing is starting to go out, on some machine you can add oil or grease to improve its ability to work, but only as an interim solution, not as a long-term solution to a problem that only replacement can repair. Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by sequestration is much the same as greasing a bearing that no longer meets the specs, instead of replacing the bearing itself does. Manki...

          Are we so sure that a higher power is in charge that we will not even consider the evidence that thousands of people have spent much of their lives collecting? Almost every religion has an end of the world scenario, or judgment day! Many times it involves one side of humanity against another, many would say that our polarized planet is in that state right now, on so many different aspects of life. The list of differing points of views on just about every issue that you can think of is staggering, Even the one point that almost everyone on the planet can agree with "the universal search for love" is as polarizing as any other topic, what type of love is acceptable, with who, at what age, and again it is religion that is used to make what is considered by those to be within those bounds of right and wrong!                                         ...