The Wreck of Time kind of opened my eyes as to how many humans have lived and died before me. It just astounded me that so many have died in just a few minutes. On the other hand though, the author said that there is 110 million more birth than there are deaths. This stat really shows how our species is getting larger in size. So really when a huge tragedy does happen it only slows down our growth for a bit.
Another note I realized was how old the Earth really is. I found that the it is about 40 billion years old. If you think about it, our time here on the earth is really small compared to how old the Earth really is. It kind of seems as though life is pointless. If some humans spend their entire life working, by filing paperwork or sitting on a computer all day long then it seems like these people are wasting their short life on nothing.
There were a lot of statistics on how many people died on curtain days, and how many people were killed by this and that. And what happened to ancient cities that once long ago were filled with people that all did their little duties in life. And how many people were killed by simple diseases that today seem silly to have died from. It just shows how the human race has evolved into what we are today. If it wasn’t for these tragedies then we wouldn’t have ever learned how to defeat them. The author was wondering if we are the last generation of our kind and that with one push of a button we could all be dead. But to me I think that we are just the beginning of our kind. We will sometime in the future use up all the natural resources here on Earth. But by the time that happens, we will probably be able to travel to these other galaxies that can only be seen by telescope. We will continue to evolve and get smarter. If you think about it in the past one hundred years we have developed a way to travel better, we now all have cell phones, we can get access to the World Wide Web from almost anywhere, where we used to not even know that a computer could tell us what the weather will be like in a week. These are just some of the things we have made that are going to lead to more creative things that will help us survive.
http://wilderdom.com/vignettes/WorldFacts.html
How old earth is----http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2004-12-28.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081107051213AAwc3WO
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_are_born_every_minute_in_the_world
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It looks like you found some interesting ideas from Dillard's many facts. I see that you have also added some of your own statistics.
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what you had said, "so really when a huge tragedy happens it only slows down our groth a bit." i really do agree with that because our natural disasters and other occurances do only just slow us down, dropping our poulation that we're only going to replace in a short span of time once again and then top the number that we had lost in humain populouse gain. i really like your focus of advance in human ability and capability. It's nice to no you dont see much of the doom and gloom
ReplyDeleteI did not realize how old the earth really is. Good point about our time period on earth being so small
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