Graywolf wrote: > One of the things that we forget is just how big a place the > world is. > We think in terms of our town, our city. I have crisscrossed > the US by car, train, bus, and a lot of it on foot. Even with > that experience it is so big I have a hard time imagining it. > The US is a only a small portion of the land in the world. > The oceans are 3 times as big as all the land combined. Think of that.
Many years ago, one of my teachers told us that mankind has very little grasp on the concept of time and space. We think we have achieved much in the time man has been on Earth, but in the timescale of the planet, we've only just arrived. As you point out, distances here are often hard to imagine but on a universal scale, distances are almost beyond comprehension. It is of course quite possible that changes within the climate now are part of the evolution of a planet as it ages - and whether we like it or try to change it, may have little or no effect in the grand scheme of things and major disasters of the like that wiped the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth, are only blips in the history of this planet. I suppose weather we face a similar threat or blow ourselves up, we must evolve as the planet does; in any respect the Sun will die and our planet will at some time in the future be a lifeless charred bit of rock in the emptiness of space. > Oh yes, and quit watching disaster movies. Aren't we in one? And with that thought, I wish you a happy new year. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
