Is planet Earth ageing gracefully?

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A comet had hit the earth creating a near 15 Richter scale earthquake. The Tyrannosaurus dinosaurs with their 6 ton weight on thin legs were the first casualties. The jolts damaged their joints. They buckled. Unable to move or feed themselves the kingly animals remained on earth and died of starvation. Their bones put together a million years later became show-items in museums. The dust cloud enshrouding the earth for 3 years from the impact depleted vegetation. There was no sunshine anymore. The dynasty of dinosaurs along with unknown species perished form earth.

The dust, making such a climatic catastrophe must have had the weight and volume to fill the Grand Canyon. Therefore a chasm as big as Grand Canyon must have remained on earth. But a dent as big as a shallow lake is there, bound to disappear with geological time. Our planet earth is a dwarf compared to what it was. The rate of shrinkage may have been a few inches per century. But things all appear to be different now.

When a great living scientist, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking advises the world inhabitants to find another planet for dwelling, that bears ominous hints. With planet Pluto gone out of existence, a little over a year ago and not a billion years ago, one is bound to think of the fate of the remaining 8 in the solar system. None have a different birth date. Pluto being the smallest, in the cold of the space cooled faster than the rest, split into fragments. The remaining eight are cooling also as they too, are ejections of matter from the sun 4.6 billion years ago. Earth with 6000 kilometers of insulation, sieved with a million drills, imbedded pipes, and empty lakes in which once was full with crude oil. Empty gas fields. Add to those, fields that are going to be tapped in the future. These are all surface things but add the element of time to it. What goes on in the earth when some of the oil pockets or lakes get full again as time goes by, and crude oil is drawn from it again. What is happening in the guts of the earth, while its seven remaining brothers in the solar system are rotating around the sun un-touched.

The most likely planet to go after Pluto, is Earth, but not so early.

There are movements of liquid and material inside the insulation. A damaged insulation means more heat to the surface. How many Tsunamis have we had that did not bring damage to the shores and made no news. Concealed sea water found its way into depth of the earth. China with a gaseous soup over it’s skies is going geothermal. As if steam shooting out from earth into the skies is going to be put in to good use. Rarely this has been the case. Steam seeps out of earth just like oil does. Men go after it with heavy equipment, drilling.

To find clean fuel for cars and industries is evolution. Pollution is a serial killer of man and species. Clean non-polluting energy to be discovered solves many problems on earth except the untouchable: global warming. Clean energy creates as much heat as polluting energy, perhaps more if low efficiency is involved in the work the new found energies are supposed to perform.

You sit in a commercial airliner, snug and comfortable in your seat. The airliner about to rise, an attendant with a yellow item in their hand informs you that if the cabin pressure drops an oxygen mask “ like this ” comes down, and advises the mask to be put on your face for breathing. Air is thin at 33 thousand feet altitude but the engines work fine, no problem with oxygen because velocity of the airliner causes air to ram into the inlet of the engine and pressurize it. But outside it is about 50 °c bellow zero the pilot announces, when the airliner finishes its climb and levels. Why at such a low altitude ( 10 kilometer ) from earth it is so cold with sun shine outside. Sun rays transform into heat when it hits matter. Air molecule when scarce, scarce heat is produced by the sun, insignificant in the thin air. At night the temperature outside the airliner is the same. Why this immense low temperature cold doesn’t reach earth by conduction, or otherwise. What keeps it at bay, is the heat rise from the entire surface of the globe, the source being the hot-core it’s heat ever reaching surface. Sun-heat does not penetrate the earth, not much, that is why the desert is cold at night and so hot during day.

Core-heat coming to the surface keeps the earth vibrant. The sun makes trees come to life after winters but their bodyguard is earth that keeps their roots at above-zero-temperature at all seasons. The golden core that no poem has ever been written about is a diminishing lover of life on earth. The chosen planet may not live to see it’s 5th billion year anniversary but it’s inhabitants have time to accomplish the mission; confirmed by professor Hawking (History of Time) and in a different tone and humor by George Bernard Shaw: “God invented the human mind in order to understand itself.”

In due time the perfected invention would be immune to contamination by, bigotry, fear, prejudice, hatred and hypocrisy. Similar psych diseases on earth will be as none-existent as smallpox.