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...

Sounds an awful lot like what a supreme being is supposed to be able to do? When Charles Darwin decided that our planet was constantly trying to evolve each species into higher and higher, states of being and placing Humans at the top of the pecking order, I believe that he meant that evolution was always striving so that each generation would be better than the one before! And the sexual decisions of the female of each species were always trying to pick the best male to be impregnated by, so that the resulting offspring would have the best chance of both survival and continuation of their gene pool! Yet mankind themselves did not always follow this course of action! So why am I talking about evolution and a" supreme being" giving direction to mankind's course of action, so that all carbon-based life on the planet will not fail due to carbon sequestration?      Let me first say that the definition of evolution that I "assume" was what Charles Darwin was talking ...

       The threat  did not come from outside, but like almost in every conflict the threat came from inside. There was no advancing asteroid, or supervolcanic event, that had in previous times proved most capable of destroying the majority of life on the planet. Nature was waging war on itself, yet the planet had quite a few tricks it could use in forestalling the inevitable, it could begin to limit life by decreasing areas where it could easily exist, it could create new types of life that required less material to survive, but all of these actions could only postpone the inevitable, it needed another plan, one that could reverse and delay and potentially stop the inevitable, but in creating this option, it was with the understanding that it would lose all control on what "this new species" would strive for! No longer would procreation and survival of its young, be enough to fulfill their destinies. Only by empowering this new attempt with less strength and no ...

     Around the time I turned 50 years old, I had a very good idea of what really caused the glaciation on the planet that started around 2.5 million years ago, but I had not made the full correlation to what the planet was truly facing! The fact that there are only two actions that cause the start and stopping of an ice age on the planet is the amount of sunlight being converted to heat, and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere! That are the only two factors, (while many people still feel that Milutin Milankovic and his new understanding of how the planet receives more or less sunlight depended on a series of Earth's constantly changing positions in relation to the sun over very long time frames did provide a reason why the planet entered into the ice ages, they did not cause the ice ages! Had this been so, why, did they only start 2.5 million years ago, shouldn't they have been altering the amount of sunlight striking the planet since time began? What Milutin ...

     Would become so much harder for someone to understand the complex nature of our planet's carbon cycle! (yes I referred to the Earth as our planet) for every living thing on Earth, from birth to death, for now, this is our only home! While everything needs to understand how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the limiting factor that controls life, warmth, and the continuation of all carbon-based life, this knowledge is buried in so many places on the planet! The interpretation that has been put forth has always come from uncompleted information! Plus the fact that life has existed for billions of years why would any sane person think that it could stop in the near future?       Mankind as a whole, loves order, (while in truth it is the female of the species) drive down almost any street in a nice town on a sunny day in summer, trimmed lawns, nicely painted homes, newer cars, with sidewalks, and roadways. When someone doesn't mow their yard for jus...

      For without Rocket Science there simply would not be enough knowledge for me to have put all of the pieces together! For only by sending a probe to Mars and Venus which I assure you took a lot of Rocket Scientists working for the last 75 plus years to accomplish those feats. Would the last pieces of the puzzle come together for me! That was not only one counties doing, men and women from almost every nation on Earth worked countless hours, days, and lifetimes, to achieve those goals. Most will never receive the credit that we all owe them! Everyone that advances mankind's knowledge on how things work, how life interacts, how the planet's and solar system formed adds to the mystery that if we do not learn to understand will be the planet's doom.     What mankind is facing, the knowledge that we needed to learn, undoubtedly has occurred on many planets throughout the universe, hopefully successfully, but many times perhaps not! So many things have to happen ...