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How about a new super earth that is 42 light years away? Well, if we don’t stop destroying our own planet, we may have to jump ship to the new super earth, GJ 1214b, a watery planet that has been seen by astronomers and scientists. It is said to have a very large, hot, and deep ocean. The estimated temperature of water in that ocean is 370 degrees Fahrenheit. Not even our most robust deep-sea volcanic vent dwellers can tolerate water of such high temperatures. Our deep sea microbes can only tolerate temperatures of 284 degrees Fahrenheit according to sources. GJ 1214b’s constituents of gases are hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, magnesium, oxygen, to carbon dioxide, (David Charbonneau, Astronomer - Harvard University).
As a result of the gases mentioned above, scientists are guessing that the new super earth could very well sustain life. Albeit life form that would be very different from what we are used to seeing. Any life form that could tolerate temperatures of 370 degrees will have to be very different from the ones we are accustomed to seeing.
People in the scientific community and blogosphere are buzzing about this new super earth so much that bloggers are encouraging their readers to come up with a better name for the watery planet. Suggested names range from “Oceanus” to “Megasea,” (Wiredscience).
We are destroying our earth so rapidly that we might as well start looking elsewhere in our solar system for another habitat. GJ 1214b could be a great place to start. All that would be required is a heat resistant suit!
Speaking of destruction of Earth, big chunks of icebergs are breaking away from Antarctica ending up off the coast of Australia, as we speak, (AFP). These chunks of icebergs are as big as islands. Obviously, they will eventually break up and dissolve as soon as they get to warmer and warmer waters. This raises a great question. Where is this extra water going to end up? It will definitely not end up in the back yard pool for sure!
The sad truth is that this extra water from melted icebergs will end up in low-lying areas of the world, causing beaches and lands to disappear. This was the case with a fishing village off the coast of India. This area of the world was just another normal place for people to live and fish. However, a phenomenon started happening, year after year. When it rained the area became flooded. However, this was no normal flooding because flood waters did not go away as normal flood waters normally do; the flood waters lingered and lingered. Now the village is largely under water. Areas that are not under water are so isolated that the natives have to use boats to get around. A majority of the village has totally joined the sea.
To make matters even worst, divers from India and England recently made an amazing discovery based on statements of local fishermen and an old Indian Legend, the Seven Pagodas. The Legend Spoke of a sunken city that was once very beautiful. The divers discovered that such Myth was very true. They made the dive and discovered the lost city under water. They knew it was the lost city that the Legend mentioned because it had many man-made artifacts. In fact, it was found in the same location that the Myth described.
There was actually an Indian city called Pagodas in ancient times. The Legend stated that that city was a beautiful city, and it had six temples. The Indian Myth suggested that the city was so beautiful that the gods became jealous and sent a large flood and took it away in one day, (BBC). The fishing village off the coast of India and the Pagodas Legend turned reality can be used as an example as to what could happened to most of our cities if we are not careful.
As human beings and inhabitants of planet Earth, we have a responsibility to ourselves and our children’s children to do all we can to preserve our planet. We should stop from using fossil fuel and use alternative ways of fueling our world instead. Several studies have shown the negative effects of using fossil fuel. The use of it produces greenhouse gases that destroy our ozone, the protective layer of gases that protects us from the damaging radiation from the sun. Not only that, whenever crude oil is removed or pumped out of a hole in the ground, the hole is filled up with water to take up the space of the removed oil.
In effect, we are introducing more water into the ground that we shouldn’t have been introducing. No wonder when it rains a little in certain places it floods very easily because the ground is already filled with water in those places, a possible consequence that could become a bigger problem if we continue to drill oil. Where ever water is too plentiful it will travel to an area that has very little or no water, thus spreading water to places under the Earth that never had water before.
The destruction of the Earth’s ozone causes our planet to become hotter. This is the reason why we are experiencing such hot summers, world-wide. People are falling victim to heat related illnesses more now than ever before. We are experiencing more floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes on a regular basis. The increase heat on Earth is melting the ice caps of Antarctica, causing large island-size chunks of ice to float to places on Earth they never did before. When are we going to finally get the message?
We have the technology that can help us produce fuel from other sources other than fossil. We are just reluctant to use them. Why are we so reluctant? We can send human being to space, but we cannot come up with another way of producing fuel. This does not make much sense at all! There have been many discoveries made of alternative means of powering our engines and machinery. So, why aren’t they being used on a larger scale?
We may be reluctant to using the technology available to produce alternative means of fuel because of money. People operating in certain sectors of our society would lose money if we drastically shift to another form of fuel. Money is the root of all good and bad evils. Without it, we cannot survive and with it, we are destroying ourselves.
About the Author
Glenford S Robinson, BS, CLS, MT(ASCP), is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist and staff writer for The American Chronicle, California Chronicle, Los Angeles Chronicle, World Sentinel, and affiliates, which are online magazines for national, international, state, and local news. He has received Expert Author recognition on both EzineArticles and Goarticles. Mr. Robinson is the founder, president, chief operating officer, editor-in-chief and staff writer for Mstardom.com, a social networking website and news article site providing members and visitors with up-to-the-minute news, entertainment, and the opportunity to submit articles for free. He has done graduate studies leading to an MBA in Healthcare Management at the University of Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona. Please send correspondence to Mstardom.com/ranja inbox.
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