What I Love About This Planet

Our Planet Earth

Our Planet is a wonderful planet.  Some may say that we are destroying it but I do not see that because there is too much beauty in and on and above it.  I think that Mother Nature and the planet Earth knows what they are doing, weather we be on it or not.  It was here long before we were and will be long after we are gone, if that ever happens.

There is show that was on a while ago called Life After People.

What I saw with this was the earth taking back her domain.  Weeds and insects grew back in areas that were devastated and left to just be forgotten.  In the series there was a report of what happens and would happen to all those Nuclear Power Plants and how nature took it all back.  I mean nature like in animals, plants, insects and other life.  

I often wonder what will happen to this small patch of land that I live on once we leave it.  I have seen the weeds take over in just a couple of months.  I see many animals come by on this land and this is their home and they will take it back.  I wonder what all my plants and flowers that I have added to this parcel will do to change this areas small ecosystem.  Don't you wonder what you are doing for the future of this piece of land that you live on and what it may look like once you leave it?

I love this planet because it doesn't care what we do to it.  It always comes back and continues on in every part of the world.

The mountains are so beautiful and full of life and water.  They are different colors and different formations and they house many plants, insects and animals fro one mountain to the next and from one continent or island to the next.  They are so full of life is is beyond just being beautiful.

There are oceans.  Many oceans and seas and rivers and streams.  They are all part of this lovely Earth.  They hold life and give life and sustain life and they move and flow and go wherever they want.  They live and they play and they die and come back again to do it all over again.

This Earth, this planet is our playground.  It is here for everyone to play whatever game they want to play.  It is here to teach us what we want to know and to figure things out.  Within it is all our thoughts and dreams and all the things that we need to learn and see and experience. We come back again and again to learn more and experience more.  Everything is provided, the land, the mountains, the oceans and rivers and streams and the places that we live.

I just love this planet called Earth.  

We can never destroy it for it will always defy us and grow anew.

The Earth is Alive!

Now think of the planet Earth as a single cell in a body called the Universe.

To see all the things that a human cell has you can go here: 

Human Cell Diagram, Parts, Pictures, Structure and Functions

Everything on earth is one working organism.  It all works together.  

It has to have what we perceive as bad and it also has to have what we perceive as good on it to work harmoniously.  

In turn this single cell works harmoniously with the thing that we call The Milky Way, which may only be a chromosomal in a vast body just waiting or working slowly to become a huge body part in the macrocosm of a single life.

For more beautiful pictures of space from the Hubble Spacecraft click on GALLERY 

I hope that I didn't send you to too many places.  I do hope that you visited them anyway because they are important to everyone on this planet.  Who knows what another planet may have that we do not yet know about because we only see the surface of things.

Salmons in Canons! What Are We Doing?

I just read an article here that disturbs me http://news.sky.com/story/1317804/salmon-cannon-fires-fish-over-dams-at-22mph

It sounds good that they are helping the Salmon get into the lakes that they spawn in.  They are using a type of soft sided cannon to fire these fish into the lakes and dammed areas that they spawn in to help them with the yearly track to reproduce.

I have some concerns with this.  It is just putting a band aid on a man-made problem with another man-made solution.  Every single time that we fool with the workings of Mother Nature we produce problems for ourselves later down the road. 

The problems that I see are:

1.      How are the salmon going to get back down stream and into the oceans until the next migration to spawn again?

2.      I see this as a problem with the fish and wildlife that are already in the upper part of the dam with the addition of these that could not make it.

a.      It will definitely cause some species to decrease in the waters as these salmon will take over the big pond.

b.      It will definitely cause an abundance of other species, such as bear to be on the increase in population as salmon is their favorite food source.

3.      When there ae more problems with more bears, will humans kill them in the long run, make them close to extinction too?

We grow salmon in fish farms and there are others that grow certain species of fish in enclosed habitats in the lakes and oceans in other parts of the word.

When we fool with Mother Nature she always finds a solution to those problems that we have made.

No Matter What Humans Put In The Way

Doomsayers And End Of Life On Earth Believers

Yes there are many of you out there.  Those who think that Global Warming is a fact and that the Earth cannot survive.  We have only recorded human interaction with the earth for a couple of thousands of years.  The Earth has been around for many million years and has survived and had what we call global warming, disasters, tar pits and climate changes and lots of species dying off.  Mother Nature replenishes these and she takes care of us all.

Where were we then?

* I do hope that you visit each and every link in this article because I went and did the search for them and added them here for your benefit.

There are many organizations all over the planet that helps the earth and cleans up and re-plants things.  They are doing a good job.  If we would leave the earth alone she would clean it up herself.  She would choose different species to live and which ones she wants to cull.  She can see in the future as to what she wants to happen.  We cannot do that. 

Some of the organizations for you to look at are:

·        Green Peace International http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/

·        Plant A Billion Trees  http://www.plantabillion.org

·        Save the Redwoods  http://www.savetheredwoods.org/

 I am sure that you can find some way to help save our planet too.

Save the animals is up to Mother Nature for the most part.  Yes we may kill and cull in the name of science, but really our interventions have really blown the balance of animal population way out.  For instance we brought in coyotes to help slow down the rabbits and other vermin populations and now there are too may coyotes and the vermin they were to lessen has almost but died off in areas that the coyotes were introduced.  The Snakehead fish is but one example.  Oh yes it is bad but if we kill off all of them then what?  The fish and wildlife of that body of water has gotten used to them and other species have evolved.   There is the word!  EVOLVE!  Mother Nature will have some species EVOLVE to help other species and all kinds of things no matter what us humans put in the way.  That is right no matter what humans put in the way!

The oil spills and the trash in the sea and the radiation.  Oh My Mother Nature does use and recycles many things in her defense on the radiation poisonings all over the planet.  Have we forgotten about Chernobyl  http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Chernobyl-Accident/ or Three Mile Island  http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Three-Mile-Island-accident/ ?  They both happened many years ago and we all got upset and thought that we would not survive and earth would not be here after those but yet here we are.  Mother Earth took care of those with some help by humans.  That is right we humans do care and we are making a big difference.

Now you may think that I live in a fairy tale world or that I do not take all this destruction of our world seriously.  I do but I do not go overboard and share scare tactics to get me and others upset.  If you are one of those people then I suggest you actually join one of the many organizations listed about and do something about it.  Spreading fear does nothing but spread fear.  Do not be blaming all this on God either. We all need to be aware of what we are doing and what is happening on this planet and above it in the biospheres 

NatGeo March 2014 Issue Bats, Mustangs and the Tuna Population

What I learned From Reading My March 2014 NatGeo Magazine

I get these about once every two months and I always wait for the next one anxiously.  This March 2014 issue has all kinds of good stuff in it from the horses of the Indians of North America to the Tuna that we eat.  Included in this issue they have new studies and pictures and things of that nature about the Black Holes.  I love looking at all the pictures that fill the pages of the magazine. 

I learned that Mustang really means Stray, as in stray cats, in Spanish in medieval times.  They got that name because when the Mexicans rounded them up so many got away from them and they became strays by the early 1500’s.  The first person to bring horses to North America was a Herna’n Corte’s when he was looking for glory and gold in the late 1400’s.

Bats and flowers use each other and are synergetic in nature.  In this issue they have a picture showing how the nectar gets deposited on the head and back of the bats as they drinking the sweet nectar of the flower.  Some of those tropical plants reflect sounds so that the bats sonar guides it right to the specific flower for pollenation.  I like bats.

The Bluefin and Yellow fin tuna is used mostly as in the tuna that we use in cans and as a large source of sushi.  The skipjack is the smallest of tuna and is labeled as light meat in canned tuna.  The largest tuna is the Atlantic Bluefin.  This fish has a buttery flavor to it and is widely sought after for raw dishes.  No wonder other animals love this fish as well as humans. With all the talk about over fishing, this is one fish that left for a year would over produce to 5 times their present population.  I thought that was cool news.