Concepts of time
I wrote a comment about climate change and while sleeping I woke with another thought. Seems I wrote the comment because someone said climate change periods are based on 1000 year cycles. My response was based on a scientific writing I'd read somewhere which indicated all of the inventions in the history of the Earth happened in the last 200 years. The beginning part of that is the Industrial Revolution which began in the mid-1800s. From then the largest and most dynamic expansion of thought and ideas blossomed into what we now have and that is, my conclusion, the cause of global warming. I have not seen Inconvenient Truth because I don't need to be convinced. I knew it long before AG made his impassioned statement. I wasn't sure how servere it was, but I knew there had to be a time to make the payments on what we'd done. "We" being the operative word here -- we are all responsible for it. We buy the goods and toss the trash and don't recycle properly. It's not just a fault of our neighbors, but all of us. Even the Greenies, the tree huggers, all of them are helping cause the GW problem.
SO, how about that 1000 year person?
Seems to me he has no concept of how long a 1000 years is. Can any of us? It's a long damn time! Really long time. 1000 years ago it was 1008 (from the time of this writing) and that was a period of very little activity, however Mohammed was busy fellow then and had gained power and standing in the Muslim world.
The idea of 1000 years befuddles many and they don't see how long it really is. Most people, I'm sure, consider 100 years as quite a long time as they likely know someone, or heard of someone, who lived to be 100 years old and that person was REALLY old.
1000 years is a long time ago. 2000 years is pretty old too. But, in terms of the Earth, those years aren't even close to the time humans have lived on Earth, or the time from which the Earth began.
Think long.
LONG long ago.
For instance, think of this: Take 20 long strides. Make them about 30" strides. 30 times 20 = 600. That's inches, of course. Take those 20 strides and think in terms of years. 600 inches = the time Earth has been around. Don't extapolate too much out of that, just think in terms of relative time for now.
Started as an almost accident during a huge cataclysmic nuclear reaction in the solar system, just OUR solar system, by the way, and for a few of those inchs it was a birthing process.
A super nova collapsed and the result was the formation of a cluster of stars, one of which was the Sun, as we call it. The fusion of many chemicals and gasses have made the planet into the ball which it nearly resembles today.
I won't go into the technical or scientific terms related to the collision with another mass which, about 4.5 billion years ago created the Moon.
The Earth could not have been in this rotation around the Sun and formed as it is today without the Moon.
Why? It's one of those cause and effect things. The Moon seems to keep the Earth in the shape it is and the rotation it has.
Okay, now about oxygen to sustain life? During the time the Earth was forming and the Moon was bouncing out of the Earth (not a collision with a former star's remnant enough to destroy the Earth, but enough to throw off debris to form the Moon) the nuclear reactions within the Earth caused vapors and storms of huge proportions, ie., lightening and violence was all around. The electricity of these storms with the prevalence of helium and hydrogen made possible the combination to create what we call Water, or H2O.
Thus, it appears the simplest of answers for the simplest of minds is to ignore the science and go with the half assed opinions of those who seem to be stuck in the 1008 time period, so just think of this. If that life cycle is 600 inches and you want to determine when life of man started, from Lucy, for instance, take a pencil and draw a line at the furthest end and that's about where man has been on Earth.
So, forget that 1000 year cycle and think currently, this global warming is serious and we need to take our part in it as seriously.
SO, how about that 1000 year person?
Seems to me he has no concept of how long a 1000 years is. Can any of us? It's a long damn time! Really long time. 1000 years ago it was 1008 (from the time of this writing) and that was a period of very little activity, however Mohammed was busy fellow then and had gained power and standing in the Muslim world.
The idea of 1000 years befuddles many and they don't see how long it really is. Most people, I'm sure, consider 100 years as quite a long time as they likely know someone, or heard of someone, who lived to be 100 years old and that person was REALLY old.
1000 years is a long time ago. 2000 years is pretty old too. But, in terms of the Earth, those years aren't even close to the time humans have lived on Earth, or the time from which the Earth began.
Think long.
LONG long ago.
For instance, think of this: Take 20 long strides. Make them about 30" strides. 30 times 20 = 600. That's inches, of course. Take those 20 strides and think in terms of years. 600 inches = the time Earth has been around. Don't extapolate too much out of that, just think in terms of relative time for now.
Started as an almost accident during a huge cataclysmic nuclear reaction in the solar system, just OUR solar system, by the way, and for a few of those inchs it was a birthing process.
A super nova collapsed and the result was the formation of a cluster of stars, one of which was the Sun, as we call it. The fusion of many chemicals and gasses have made the planet into the ball which it nearly resembles today.
I won't go into the technical or scientific terms related to the collision with another mass which, about 4.5 billion years ago created the Moon.
The Earth could not have been in this rotation around the Sun and formed as it is today without the Moon.
Why? It's one of those cause and effect things. The Moon seems to keep the Earth in the shape it is and the rotation it has.
Okay, now about oxygen to sustain life? During the time the Earth was forming and the Moon was bouncing out of the Earth (not a collision with a former star's remnant enough to destroy the Earth, but enough to throw off debris to form the Moon) the nuclear reactions within the Earth caused vapors and storms of huge proportions, ie., lightening and violence was all around. The electricity of these storms with the prevalence of helium and hydrogen made possible the combination to create what we call Water, or H2O.
Thus, it appears the simplest of answers for the simplest of minds is to ignore the science and go with the half assed opinions of those who seem to be stuck in the 1008 time period, so just think of this. If that life cycle is 600 inches and you want to determine when life of man started, from Lucy, for instance, take a pencil and draw a line at the furthest end and that's about where man has been on Earth.
So, forget that 1000 year cycle and think currently, this global warming is serious and we need to take our part in it as seriously.
posted by Kingsugar at 5:29 AM
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