Last year researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia released the most rigorous estimate yet of how many
species live on our planet: 8.7 million, not counting bacteria.
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God, heaven, whatever... man's attempt to
live forever because we refuse to settle for the idea we are an animal
species on this one
planet, and when we die, it all ends.
D. Green, one «reason» why God allows human suffering is because nothing in this
life is mortal, everything is fragile,
life, human beings are the most sophisticated
species on this
planet, yet we easily perish via illness, disease, ect.
additionally, most things
on this
planet will kill you and 99 % of the
species that ever
lived are extinct.
The fact that we have DNA in common with every single
species of
life on this
planet is not a coincidence, it is because we came from a common source at some point or another.
I have lots of self - esteem, but I don't place myself so far above all other
life on this
planet by thinking my
species is «special» and master over all else.
The new story of all
life on this
planet has undermined the permanence of any
species, including humans.
Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every
species on the
planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.
So, God gave his children, the Humans, one
species of millions, the ability to rise above all reason to destroy the
planet they
live on while simultaneously destroying themselves with all of the diseases they generate through their greed, gluttony and careless (or carefree) disregard for the environment.
Enough monkeys got weeded out to make me a member one of the smartest, most lethal, most cunning and survivable
species on the
planet we rule, I'm not about to reduce my intelligence by assuming some magical space daddy will make my
life better if i say its name enough.
And the best sci - fi show
on television today is Battlestar Galactica, a «reimagining» of a short -
lived late - 1970s series about the last remnants of humanity fleeing a genocide perpetrated by their own creations — a race of humanoid robots called Cylons — and searching for our
species» last refuge, a mythical
planet called Earth.
Through Cormier, Prasher learned about a
species of jellyfish
living in the cold waters of the North Pacific, Aequorea victoria, which emitted a green glow and was one of the most intensely bioluminescent creatures
on the
planet.
At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «
on a hotter
planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer
species of
living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to
live as a community among communities.»
And all at once to look
on an adventure that is not the adventure of your own
life but the adventure of a
species, and the adventure of a
planet.
We are just a
species of ape
living on a smallish
planet orbiting an unremarkable star in one galaxy among billions in a universe that had been around for 13.8 billion years without us.
To assess the situation of the Iberian lynx and other felid
species that
live in the wild
on our
planet, a team of Brazilian and Spanish scientists has reviewed the scientific literature that exists
on the main threat for these mammals: the loss and fragmentation of their habitats.
Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of
life on other
planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human
species, and limits of science.
The end Permian extinction saw around 90 % of
species go extinct, and it left tropical regions
on the
planet lethally hot, too hot for complex
life to survive.
Did you know that there are single - celled organisms that produce up to 90 % of the Earth's oxygen, help purify the ocean, are the food source for some of the longest -
living species on the
planet and can reproduce multiple times per day?
This ground - breaking documentary explores the impact that food choices have
on people's health, the health of our
planet and
on the
lives of other
living species.
Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the
planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other
species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the
planet we
live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.
The opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a scene in a cantina where many strata of society and
species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow
on a desert
planet that we first saw
on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)
lived there.
In telling three parallel stories, Jonze and Kaufman encompass each of Kaufman's (and subsequently our) «eureka» moments, plus the entire scope of
life on the
planet, of Darwin's revelations about
species (including a not - very - subtle glimpse of the food chain), and of the necessity for two voices to reconstruct a dial tone — each apparent discursion resolving itself in the primacy of passion in its multifoliate expressions: sex, ambition, obsession, and at the root of it all, creation.
And when you think of how so many
species go extinct every year, this movie becomes even more valuable, as it is an important reminder that we humans aren't
living alone
on this
planet.
Human nature is inscribed
on the biophysical laws of
life and death; which forces us to consider our relationship with the
planet Earth and our destiny as a
species.
Versión castellano Human nature is inscribed
on the biophysical laws of
life and death; which forces us to consider our relationship with the
planet Earth and our destiny as a
species.
... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other
species on earth are the only
life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other
species on this
planet is enslaved to the economy.
Likening the earth to an ark carrying millions of
species through space, Mason calls
on readers to become modern - day Noahs, doing what they can to preserve the diversity of
life on the
planet.
Due to its separation from the mainland and the late settlement of European colonists approximately 200 years ago, Tasmania is home to a unique ecosystem featuring ancient forests and
species of wildlife that
live nowhere else
on the
planet.
Every
living thing
on the
planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory experiments, using a variety of
species, from mice to primates, animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even when given free access to another food supply.
I was, and still am, filled with wonder that a member of another
species taught me about unconditional love and the interconnectedness of all
living things
on this
planet.
These include respect for all
life, an understanding of and appreciation for difference and diversity, empathy, responsibility, and an awareness of our role as the
species that has the greatest impact
on the
planet» explains Ball.
I don't believe that you have to teach your dog to fetch every
species on the
planet, but if we introduce some variation early
on in pup's
life will help them recognize that they need to retrieve whatever falls from the sky!
It is here where Charles Darwin formulated much of his theory of evolution, a stunning breakthrough in unraveling the mysteries of
life on planet Earth, the origins of
living species, and natural selection.
It is considered the richest body of water
on the
planet, biologically speaking, because it has more than 3,000
species of marine
life.
There are many reasons why divers love nudibranch; they are found the world over, they are rewarding to find, they are one of the most varied
species of marine
life on the
planet, they are...
The game takes place
on a Deiland, a beautifully designed
living planet featuring a variety of
species of plant
life, a night and day cycle and even the occasional meteor shower!
(Per Murray, within the first night of the game's release, players had already discovered over 10 million
species of
living things — more than we know about
on our own
planet.)
Some
species can take a while to take hold and mature, but hopefully soon enough there will be new homes for monarch caterpillars to start their majestic caterpillar
lives and go
on to become some of the most remarkable insects
on the
planet.
I once used the title «Puberty
on the Scale of a
Planet» to convey how the human
species seems to be going through the same awkward transition we all experience as individuals in moving from often - reckless teen ebullience to the more measured
life strategies of adulthood.
over... way over 90 percent of all the
species that have ever
lived — EVER LIVED — on this planet are
lived — EVER
LIVED — on this planet are
LIVED —
on this
planet are gone.
I could easily see how the current focus of the synthetic biologists will affect our
lives as humans very directly, but how will it evolve and affect the rest of the
species on our
planet?
I've learned
on this blog that such education is a strong indicator of the individual's dedication to
living in harmony with other humans and
species on our
planet.
Our environmental choices are aesthetic choices, we can
live without all of the endangered
species and habitats
on the
planet but I (and many others) recognize the intrinsic and inalienable value of those
species and habitats and will fight for their preservation.
A staggering 10,000
species of moths may
live in Madidi National Park — considered the most biodiverse protected area
on the
planet.
But saving
species because we understand what it means for
life on this
planet (human and non-human) is definitely a worthy cause.
Not necessarily human
life, of course, but perhaps we can rest assured that we don't have the power to destroy most
life on the
planet, or even our own
species — only the stability of our own civilizations.
We are a young
species with a short memory and only slowly - dawning awareness of three vital pieces of the challenge of meshing our aspirations with
life on Earth: the
planet's dynamics, our capacity to jog the system and — perhaps most importantly — the distorting mix of rational, emotional and instinctual processes in our brains that shape our perceptions and actions.
I encourage you to slow down, too, and to celebrate this remarkable moment in our history as a
species, as we slowly come to grips with the predicament of trying to mesh infinite aspirations with
life on a finite
planet.