{"id":4396,"date":"2010-05-08T05:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T05:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2010-05-08T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T05:18:21","slug":"gazing-on-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/gazing-on-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazing on planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/globe_west_2048.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/globe_west_2048.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/globe_west_2048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/globe_west_2048-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"821\" \/><\/a>If we are not really that sure what is going on with our planet right now &#8211; that is not surprising! Just looking at the earth from a distance, even in a <a href=\"http:\/\/visibleearth.nasa.gov\/view_rec.php?id=2429\">satelite photograph <\/a>is an awesome experience. Add to that the sense that in an unknown galaxy &#8211; even <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/12\/movies\/12moon.html\">on the moon <\/a>&#8211; there are unknown possibilities&#8230; and you have fertile ground for a new generation of sci-fi movies about saving the planet from global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the middle of the GFC is not the right time to be thinking about space exploration and solutions to a crowded resource poor planet. But perhaps it is the right time to be doing some of the thinking about other planets if not the going.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalreporter.com\/News-510\/human-cannot-survive-on-mars-and-moon-.html\">atmosphere of Mars <\/a>it is said to be 95.32% carbon dioxide. Yet, sometime in its past it is believed that Mars did support life &#8211; fishes, reptiles, birds, small water snakes, microbes etc (even if they were 1\/3 the size of ours here on Earth.)<\/p>\n<p>Clearly life on\u00a0Mars did not die out because of anthropogenic global warming&#8230;.so what went wrong?<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are not really that sure what is going on with our planet right now &#8211; that is not surprising! Just looking at the earth from a distance, even in a satelite photograph is an awesome experience. Add to that the sense that in an unknown galaxy &#8211; even on the moon &#8211; there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}