The Human Race

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What is a plate? Often on this page you’ll hear me talking about plate motion, plate tectonics, or plate collisions as processes that form mountains and reshape the Earth’s surface. But, what exactly is a plate, to a geologist?

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A group is injecting wild rhino horns with a pink dye that is harmless to rhinos but causes nausea and diarrhea in humans. The goal is to poison illegal rhino horn consumers to decrease poaching.

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In Norway, plastic bottles have return deposits of up to 30 cents each, which has resulted in 97 percent of all plastic bottles being recycled. Public trash cans even have cup holders for recyclable bottles so people who collect them for the deposit don’t have to search through the trash.

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In Australia, there are mesh nets at the end of stormwater drainage pipes to catch trash before it can get into the natural environment.

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It’s almost like the producers are the problem and the consumers don’t have much control over what they’re given 🧐

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Cuttlefish engorges massive fish https://ift.tt/2SZp917

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Birds 'shrinking' as the climate warms

In the 'largest study of its kind' researchers studied 70,000 bird specimens over a 40-year period.

As the climate warms, birds are shrinking and their wingspans are growing, according to a new study.

Researchers analysed 70,716 specimens from 52 North American migratory bird species collected over 40 years.

The birds had died after colliding with buildings in Chicago, Illinois.

The authors say the study is the largest of its kind and that the findings are important to understanding how animals will adapt to climate change.

“We found almost all of the species were getting smaller,” said lead author Brian Weeks, an assistant professor at the school for environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan.

“The species were pretty diverse, but responding in a similar way,” he said. “The consistency was shocking.”

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Long Live Nikola Tesla!

On January 7, 1943 at the age of 86, Nikola Tesla passed away in his New York City hotel room. Tesla died poor and alone, but he was one of the most important figures in history.

Nikola Tesla was a pure humanitarian, an inventive genius, and a poet/artist in science. He had more original and practical inventions to his credit than any other human in history. The Tesla Induction Motor, the Tesla Rotary Converter, the Tesla Phase System of Power Transmission, the Tesla Steam and Gas Turbine, the Tesla Coil, and the Oscillation Transformer are some of his more well-known inventions. Additionally, his Induction Motor is in the very center of nearly everything we take for granted in our everyday lives; over ninety percent of the world’s electrical industry using or generating alternating current is due to Tesla and his high tension current transmission system.

His real dream for the future was to convert all his inventions into one unit known as his World Wireless System. It was meant to transmit power to any part on the globe, regardless of distance, providing the world with cheap, and unlimited energy.

Even though it has been 77 years since his death, the legacy of Nikola Tesla continues to live on. The important part of Tesla, the one he dedicated his life to, lives on in his achievements which are almost beyond calculation, and are a major integral part of the entire world as we know it. Today, we honor this great genius. We celebrate his extraordinary life, his triumph which is our triumph, a victory to everyone on earth. We celebrate his many contributions to our livelihood, and his visions of the future that we have yet to realize.

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

–Nikola Tesla

“A Visit to Nikola Tesla,” by Dragislav L. Petković. Politika, April 1927.

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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

In the 21st century we are faced with opportunities and challenges. There are many challenges that face us to see whether we can mature as a species and more importantly survive our infancy stage.

A situation that would adversely affect at least 85% of the world population and biosphere is considered a significant threat our survival as a species

Our current problems and challenges come from many places. There is danger from above and space. There is danger from the earth itself. There are concerns how we treat and affect our home the biosphere. And of course, the great concerns and challenges coming from humanity itself.

It will require our best efforts, our love, compassion, harmony and our thinking skills to overcome these challenges we face.

Some of the problems that face humanity are as follows

v  Getting along with each other

v  Over population

v  Computer dependency and its problems

v  Genetic manipulation

v  Controlling our wastes

v  Polluting and poisoning our selves

v  Social justice and reaching our potential as a species

v  Salinity and agricultural problems. Making sure that we have enough to eat

v  Water shortage on some parts of the world

v  Social problems and sabotage

v  Depleting non-renewable sources

v  Global warming and the greenhouse effect

v  Destroying the biosphere

v  Species threatening diseases and Pandemics

v  World economy and uneven distribution of wealth among people and Third World countries.

 Humanity will need to  establish what caused them and in turn offer some solutions to overcome them. So what humanity has done about them to date?

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Humans live in an average Galaxy that they call Milky Way. Earth is the third planet from a medium size star in the outer rim of the Milky Way. Earth is the place where humans evolved as a living creature. Human being living molecular structures share their environment with other molecular structures. They perceive their environment through their senses. However, their sense does not give them a full description and understanding of the universe.

 Humans live in an average part of the Milky Way, orbiting an average size and middle-aged star called the Sun.  Everything about our location in the universe is average and nothing special. The earth environment appears also normal but to us humans is very special.

The condition on earth is ideal for us to exist. From our present knowledge, earth is the only planet that has the conditions that we would survive. Even though we have detected planets in other solar systems, they most likely do not have the same environment that we have. Life could exist there, but it would not be human life, as we know it.

Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, where humans only existed in the last 300,000 of years. We seem to be the product of many attempts to create life on earth. The great dinosaurs roamed the earth for millions of years before they got extinct. On earth nothing seems to last for ever, species evolve then they eventually perish.

By Photo by DAVID ILIFF, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43330268

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Humans need a sense of purpose and more importantly something to believe in. They need a guiding hand and a need to believe that there is a higher purpose and a reason for living.  Over the journey of human evolution, the human consciousness invented religion and myths.

 In ancient times there was the Greek and Roman Mythology. The ancients had many gods to guide them. In our modern times we have modern philosophies of religion. The current influences in religion can be found in the forms of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and tribal religions.

The main theme of the modern religion is that there is a focal point or god that provides for a particular point of view and a way of life. There are particular rules that one has to apply to follow one’s faith. Religion is a very powerful form of controlling masses and has a way bringing to a common purpose.

With human brain understanding more and the invention of the concept of science, cosmology the study of how the universe was created and works became a competitor to religion.

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There is so much potential for the human race but also a lot of pitfalls that can cause our extermination in a blink of an eye. Welcome to human race!