Category: Geology
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Oceans. Oxygen. Paradoxes.
With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. (1) Oceans without oxygen. Planets without life. Cosmos without consciousness. But look again. Oxygen without oxygen. Life without life. Unconscious consciousness. Can't you feel it? Nothing can include itself! Unless it does…
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Touch Earth. Sense that flower…
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. (1) Touch the rhinoceros. Touch me. Touch Earth. They all feel it. And so do you. A sense of…
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Oxygen. Poison. Death. Flowers…
Much of life on planet Earth today relies on oxygen to exist, but before oxygen was present on our blue planet, lifeforms likely used arsenic instead. (1) Oxygen. Life-saving to-day. A poison in the early days. Arsenic. Death-bearer to-day. Life-giving element in the early days. Look around. We are all so sad to die. And…
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Destroyed palace…
Researchers have uncovered new evidence that an earthquake may have caused the destruction and abandonment of a flourishing Canaanite palatial site about 3,700 years ago. (1) Ephemeral palaces. Ephemeral humans. Ephemeral Earth. Ephemeral universe. Search through that looking glass of life. Through the mirror of death. And see. What is left unchanged? But the rumbles…
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Earth’s rust…
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study published in Science Advances led by Shuai Li. "Our hypothesis is that lunar hematite is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth's upper atmosphere…
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