We are not alone in this universe

"Discovered by the Kepler Telescope, NASA says it's the first small, rocky planet discovered in the habitable zone of a G star similar to our sun."_ NBC

This planet is much bigger than earth.

I understand that there are billions of earth-like planets in the known universe according to scientists. It is possible that there is intelligent life on these planets. Big problem is that they are so far away. This particular planet is 1400 light years away from earth.

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Solar Flare Almost Sent Earth Back to the Dark Ages in 2012

"Two years ago, we were blissfully unaware that our planet almost plunged into a widespread blackout due to a solar flare"

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Earth: Does it breathe?

Time-lapse photos from the International Space Station shows ice and snow, expanding and receding, with the seasons, a lot like the way lungs expand and contract when someone breathes.

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Water on Earth from Asteroids and Comets

Last night I watched a documentary on the CBC. The documentary pointed out that life on earth could be wiped out by one big asteroid hitting our planet. However, it was the asteroids and comets that brought water to the earth.



In the past scientists thought that water already existed deep inside the earth in the form of steam and that steam escaped as the earth cooled and, ultimately, that steam took the form of water.

Watching this documentary one gets the impression that the earth was built methodically over billions of years. However, it does not answer the question as to whether the universe and life which exists today is a result of a big bang or a creator methodically creating it over trillions of years. For me, it is all a mystery.

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Earth photo from 11 billion miles

This tiny dot, amid a band of coloured rays, is our planet, as seen from staggering distance of 11,100,000,000 miles away, and pictured in 1990.

The picture was taken by Voyager-1. This should give us some idea how small we are in the universe.

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I am an astronaut

Does that surprise anybody? I have been an astronaut all my life enjoying the ride on a special spaceship which travels in space constantly. The name of that spaceship is earth. Hence all creatures on this spaceship are astronauts. This spaceship has survived for billions of years and is still going strong unlike the US shuttle which is being retired and placed in the Smithsonian institute after only 25 years of service.

The Earth revolves around the Sun and our Solar System revolves around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are constantly travelling.

We must keep in mind that the atmosphere surrounding the earth is delicate and we must not destroy it by the current rate of emissions of CO2. Stephen Harper’s brain is too limited and he does not understand the dangers of global warming. His sole purpose as PM seems to be salesman for Tar Sands oil of Alberta.

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Global Warming and Divine Intervention

We take so many things for granted. Our planet, the sun, the moon, and the stars. What if one of these givens starts slowly dimming away and what if that one is our own sun. The result could be an ice age and the end of the earth and all the living creatures on it. It is possible you know.

OK it is not that drastic. Not yet. But some scientists are saying that the old boy sun is losing some of its sparks literally and dimming down. Is it possible that the divine power had enough with human follies and are now taking the matter of global warming into his own hands, thus turning down the light and heat? See, in the universal scheme of things the sun is our light bulb and main heater. If its switches are dialled down, we may have problems at our hands.

Calm down it won't happen so fast and it will not cure the global warming ailment. Over and above heat, look at the other pollutants we have put into our earth's atmosphere. Looks like a self-destruction tendency. If we do not appreciate what nature has given us we may lose it. Sun may say it had it with you and start getting ready for a long rest and turn off its main lamps (or whosoever controls those switches) and the earth may need to take a break from us humans and may shake us off its surface. In other words, we need to take good care of what we got. We do not have control over the sun but we can be kinder and gentler to our own planet. If we will not let our car or house deteriorate then why would we put our mother earth in such a peril. Only fools would take that path.

Let us work with the nature and not against it. That is the only way humankind can survive. Mother earth has looked after our forefathers and it will look after our children, grandchildren, and many generations to come. In return it deserves that we all become its spokespersons. Let us not allow a few greedy ones to hurt mother earth.

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