I saw them cross the twilight of an age, The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, The great creators with wide brows of calm, The massive barrier-breakers of the world
16/10/2020
40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction
Two in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world, according to an international report.
Plants and fungi underpin life on Earth, but the scientists said they were now in a race against time to find and identify species before they were lost.
These unknown species, and many already recorded, were an untapped “treasure chest” of food, medicines and biofuels that could tackle many of humanity’s greatest challenges, they said, potentially including treatments for coronavirus and other pandemic microbes.
More than 4,000 species of plants and fungi were discovered in 2019. These included six species of Allium in Europe and China, the same group as onions and garlic, 10 relatives of spinach in California and two wild relatives of cassava, which could help future-proof the staple crop eaten by 800 million people against the climate crisis.
New medical plants included a sea holly species in Texas, whose relatives can treat inflammation, a species of antimalarial Artemisa in Tibet and three varieties of evening primrose.
Plants and fungi underpin life on Earth, but the scientists said they were now in a race against time to find and identify species before they were lost.
These unknown species, and many already recorded, were an untapped “treasure chest” of food, medicines and biofuels that could tackle many of humanity’s greatest challenges, they said, potentially including treatments for coronavirus and other pandemic microbes.
More than 4,000 species of plants and fungi were discovered in 2019. These included six species of Allium in Europe and China, the same group as onions and garlic, 10 relatives of spinach in California and two wild relatives of cassava, which could help future-proof the staple crop eaten by 800 million people against the climate crisis.
New medical plants included a sea holly species in Texas, whose relatives can treat inflammation, a species of antimalarial Artemisa in Tibet and three varieties of evening primrose.
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15/10/2020
Celestial Chess Remix
William, will I live or die?
Do I even have a choice?
Be it by night or day?
Do I even have a choice?
Be it by night or day?
Death is driving life
I guess I have no say.
What is this game of chess you play?
What is this game of chess you play?
The day is passing.
The night is coming.
I know not where I am driven.
The night is coming.
I know not where I am driven.
You must embrace this course.
I am the will of the celestial force.
This is the life you have been given.
I am the will of the celestial force.
This is the life you have been given.
No beginning, no end.
A pawn you will no longer be.
A pawn you will no longer be.
My friend.
Celestial Chess
It was not my will to live or to die. So whose will am I?
Since my will is neither here nor there,
And I know not what I'm doing here,
I am the will of some other force,
Set upon its chosen course.
Since I have no say,
In the coming of the night
Or the passing of the day,
I am just a pawn, in a game of celestial chess,
Whose beginning and end I cannot guess.
I can only embrace the life I am given,
And wonder where from death I shall be driven.
prose&cons
Since my will is neither here nor there,
And I know not what I'm doing here,
I am the will of some other force,
Set upon its chosen course.
Since I have no say,
In the coming of the night
Or the passing of the day,
I am just a pawn, in a game of celestial chess,
Whose beginning and end I cannot guess.
I can only embrace the life I am given,
And wonder where from death I shall be driven.
11/10/2020
Not affected by the current shadow
We see that a darkness is upon us. An oppressive force would lay a shadow over us. A collective fear and frustration would be imposed upon us. A shadow lies on the minds of men.
Yet we who have the eyes to see, the lighthearted ones, the visionaries; we observe this new threat but do not percieve it as such. For all is well in our world as we see the cycle, the changes, and we remain calm in our knowing.
From where we stand, the darkness cannot reach us or supersede us. We rise above this reaction and stare it down in complete calm. We know all is well, this is a necessary fire. We are glad to witness these movements for they are markers of the great awakening.
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07/10/2020
05/10/2020
Scientists dazed and confused by extraordinary amount of gold in the universe
They say if you spread out all the gold ever mined from the Earth in all of history, it would only cover a football field 18 inches deep.
Now when you wrap you mind around that image, it doesn’t seem like very much, especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can’t quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.
The yellow-hued precious element is thought to have been first deposited here on our planet by storms of interstellar dust and asteroids billions of years ago. The majority of this gold has been discovered deep in Earth's crust, and it's the earliest-recorded metal ever mined and used by humans, dating back to its use in ancient Egyptian jewelry circa the year 3,000 B.C.
Although relatively scarce and difficult to unearth here on our Big Blue Marble, gold is apparently abundant in the general universe. The intense alchemy required to make the lustrous element, with its unique recipe of 79 protons and 118 neutrons binding together in a violent act of nuclear fusion to form a single atomic nucleus, makes its widespread occurrence a puzzling affair.
Those rare actions of cosmic transformation can't account for the proliferation of gold on Earth and out in heavens. But the question of exactly where does the valuable metal originate is something that has researchers scratching their collective heads. Even a new paper published Sept. 15 in The Astrophysical Journal, which includes the common hypothesis that it comes from collisions between neutron stars, can't support the facts of gold's major presence.
Besides epic star crashes and magneto-rotational supernovas severe enough to tear a star inside out, evidence of another golden source remains an enigma.
Now when you wrap you mind around that image, it doesn’t seem like very much, especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can’t quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.
Those rare actions of cosmic transformation can't account for the proliferation of gold on Earth and out in heavens. But the question of exactly where does the valuable metal originate is something that has researchers scratching their collective heads. Even a new paper published Sept. 15 in The Astrophysical Journal, which includes the common hypothesis that it comes from collisions between neutron stars, can't support the facts of gold's major presence.
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