Just to mix things up and some interesting info about volcanoes

I kind of think that one huge reason the earth changed climate is because of Volcanoes. Also causing animals to die off…

After an eruption the air is hard to breath and the climate is affected. What is known as the little ice age is thought to be caused by a volcano. Iceland is known for the past 300-400 years to cause huge climate cooling in Europe and North America.

JUST A SMALL ONE In 2009 Redoubt (in Alaska located under a glacier) by Feb 10, 2009 it Redoubt already melted about 2,000 Olympic size swimming pools it did not even go off till March 22 there was 6 major expiations and ash went 60,000 feet in those 2 days. Between March 22-28 there had been 18 major explosions 40,000feet into the atmosphere. About 23 million cubic meters of ash fell around the Cook Inlet area.

This is a Video of Mt. Vasuvius in Italy. It killed a WHOLE LOT of people! The people are frozen in time and you can even see some of their last facial expressions. It’s CRAZY!!! PS people still live in this area and there is one high way out…. 600.000 live in the red zone!!!!!
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Caldara volcanoes can be 2 – 100km across and normally are the most explosive and can have the other 2 types of volcanoes form inside of them. They are also known as Super volcanoes for example Yellow Stone (2 million years ago Yellow Stone erupted 600 cubic MILES of magma)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwylbF3-CA&feature=related

Earthworms

I feel that Earthworms are in their correct ranking at number one on the top 100 list. They paved the way for plants to grow, leading to Nitrogen and oxygen in the air we breath today.

Species Paper

One of the things I found interesting while writing the species paper and looking at Lloyd's rank of the top 100 species on Earth are the categories he chose to rank the species on in order to give them their overall score. His categories included:
*Evolutionary Impact
*Impact on Human History
*Impact on the Environment
*Global Reach
*Longevity
All these categories made sense to me except 1, why did he care so much about impact on human history? I was not surprised this was a category but I was disappointed. I understand that humans are in many ways the brightest species on Earth but we seem to be horrible at making good decisions. In fact, we have made many mistakes, and continue to make many mistakes, that not only effect our own species in a negative way but all other species on Earth. I am tired of people thinking humans are so great and that we are so much better than the rest of the world. If we were so great why could we not live without stable ecosystems? When it comes to wildlife management generally, it is the species at the top of the food chain that is the most disposable and humans are at the very top. If we died out I think everyone would agree that the Earth would be OK if not in a better place than it is today. Why is it so hard for humans to grasp that other species are just as important as ourselves if not more? How can people knowingly destroy the plant and not feel guilty? Where do we think we are all going to live if earth is somehow destroyed enough to not make an immediate recovery? How can we make humans see outside ourselves and begin to appreciate everything around us? If someone can answer this question than I would be forever grateful.

Alright. Sorry guys, my first blog got deleted by my lameo internet problems, and I didn't know how to save. My thoughts..my thoughts...

The fact that those little bacteria guys managed to pollute this whole planet into a place where we can survive blows my mind. I wonder if us humans will manage to do the same? The dino's got unlucky and a big chunk of rock ruined them, but we seem to be on the path to ruining ourselves.

How God fits into earth’s evolution? Well, I have no problem with seeing that God could be the reason for all this scientific process…I mean, why couldn’t He have made something as complicated as the Earth? Also, I would think time means little to Him, He is omnipresent and eternal…A billion years would mean nothing, so why couldn’t his thought of a day be our thought of millions of years passing by? It’s always interesting to think about.

I question that we can decide how to place a number of importance of a species. Everything everywhere is always changing, evolving, new species being discovered while others go extinct. We are all connected in odd little ways you don’t ever think is important until Bam, that species is gone, and we can notice the affects. Since this is so, how can we say oh, well, Plankton, you put out tons of oxygen, you are most important. (Ok, I know they do more than that, but for the sake of a little argument, just to get a new angle…) Trees are pretty big deals too…Not just oxygen, but they keep things from eroding, they are homes, heck, they help us build our homes. This isn’t even going that deep into an argument, I don’t know enough about my species, but it was what I thought after we did that talk in class the other day.

Anyway, these movies are really interesting, they give us lots of food for thought. I find that how we effect each other, and how discovering how the earth was made affecting us is interesting…But it is hard to really think about on one’s own. I like that we are being forced to give more thought about it, we can come up with our own theories, and who knows, maybe someone will be brilliant, and make a new discovery J

animals inhibating the planet

When reviewing the videos that we have been watching in class about the creation of our planet I feel like it takes my breath away. The idea that one small bacteria could have created all of the life on our planet is so phenomenal. I know it was explained in the video but I still can not help but think how in the world is that possible. I have never learned of these theories until now and I am suprised that we haven't been taught these theories when we were younger such as in high school. Why haven't we been taught this before?

What I want to know is how this bacteria specifically created all these different species? What were some of the first species created?


The idea that the planet was first filled with lava and then finally water is kind of a wierd concept, but it makes sense. How else would we have gotten the crust and the mantle?

I do not know how God fits into all these ideas. It perplexs me how then God exists or how these two ideas coinside. If God exists then what did he do exactly? I mean the bible states that God created all the plants and animals and made the universe. So if scientists find that one species was formed and then the rest of the plants and animals were formed from that then how do these two ideas fit together? It doesn't make sense. I guess you just have to believe in one idea or the other.

Was it god or was it the big bang theory?

When wondering how the world was created my mind tells me that God created it and not to believe in the big bang theory. I am a christian so i believe in most of the things that the bible tells us, mostly that it is God who created the world. So it's somewhat hard to get into the topic of how the earth was formed and later evolved. However, i do think that the big bang theory is a fairly decent explanation as to how the earth was created if it wasnt god who created it.

Just wondering???

I have never blogged before so I hope this works.

In class we talked about how earth was formed by rocks sticking to other rocks. The bigger the rock the more rocks would be attracted to it. My first thought was… Why does Mars stay where it is and not collide with earth? Then if the moon is made up of earth’s crust why would the moon not come back to earth? I believe Mars is bigger than earth so if a plant the size of Mars hit earth why would it break apart instead of earth? And two plants colliding creating the moon and destroying the other planet I think that would leave a HUGE dent in the earth.

I thought this was all interesting I am not a big science person so maybe I am missing something but this just did not make a lot of since to me.