Incoplete list of “Facts”( AKA sometimes simplified to the point of arguable falsehood) I would tell ancient people if i had a time machine in hope to get sicker mythology
- plants eat the sunlight that falls on them
- the humble pea aphid is the only animal that can eat the sunlight like the plants do
-The world is made of massive chunks of rock that float like a leaf on a sea of lava, when they push together it forms mountains,
- smaller things are pulled towards big things, the moon circles the earth and pulls the tides, the earth moves around the sun
- the fundamental components of the world proliferated from a single primordial form via the fusion of two into one, within the center of the suns, which are enormous balls of super gas in the sky,
-A fire burning is like a person turning the food in there body into usable energy is like metal rusting, it is all the same transformation that releases energy and eats the air
-Thoughts and emotions are forms of lightning within your brain
- light and sound are made of waves of energy, the height and with of the peaks and valleys of the waves determines the hue or pitch
- you are made of countless tiny microscopic life forms, an embryo is formed when each of the parents discard a tiny life form from there bodies and they fuse into one
- the ability for complex life to eat food or sunlight is thanks to even smaller creatures that live in those life forms
- you have a transcript of instructions for how to make you written in each of the little creatures that make you, every time you grow these instructions are copied along with the rest of the little creatures body, these instructions are written in an alphabet with four letters and form instructions for countless tiny machines, when you make new life you give a set with half of the instructions and your partner gives the other half
- you are a but a willow branch on the great tree, broken but still alive coursing down the river of life, having budded of from your parent like a coral polyp, but still fundamentally derivative, you and all other life on this planet trace back to a single tiny life form ,as the aspen stand came from a single seed.
- that first tiny life form lived next to a “volcano” in a deep cold dark canyon in the ocean, eating warm gasses from the center of the earth, and proliferated into many ocean forms, first mushrooms then pillbugs and then the plants crawled onto land, then the millipedes and centipedes, then the spiders/scorpions/mites, and then the insects, then us, and then the snails and earthworms, currently the mudskippers and crabs are crawling onto land,
- some of us, the whales and sea-cows and sea-skaters and some turtles and snakes, have gone back to the sea.
-your skin holds your miniature ocean, salty and wet, in your body to carry around, much like a birds egg.
- the birds and the crocodilians are kin, the tortoises and turtles are also closer kin to the crocodilians than the birds and the snakes
- the “common fish” are closer kin to the beasts of the land and vice versa than to the sharks and rays
- fungus is closer related to animal than plants, and it eats through it’s roots, plants and fungi share food, water and messages through there roots
- the dolphins and the bats use screams too high pitched for human ears to “ see” by hearing the echos that come back
- some animals are made to live at the bottom of the ocean under miles of pressure, if they are brought up to the shallow regions they are reverse-crushed and killed in the process as they collapse.
