The following video explores the still unfolding story of Earth's past and the light it sheds on the science of climate change today. While that story can tell us about the mechanisms that can shape our climate. it's still the unique conditions of our time that will determine sea levels, ice coverage, and temperatures.
Ever since the Big Bang originated the universe, all that exists and is entered in an everlasting Cosmic Evolution; not just life, but also our planet and the universe as a whole, in ohter words, all of nature. This evolution is characterized by just one constantly repeating event: nothing else but a continuous increase of existing complexity.
(5.000 Million years ago: the year 001 on the 100 year time-scale) Our solar system began as a cloud of dust, left over from supernovas of older stars, that in their final explosion produced the heavier elements which formed the inner, rocky planets, including our home planet Earth.
Snowball Earth describes a theory that for millions of years the Earth was entirely smothered in ice, stretching from the poles to the tropics. This freezing happened over 650 million years ago in the Pre-Cambrian, though it's now thought that there may have been more than one of these global glaciations. They varied in duration and extent but during a full-on snowball event, life could only cling on in ice-free refuges, or where sunlight managed to penetrate through the ice to allow photosynthesis.
To put it simple a fractal is a form that is self-repeating on every scale (not necessarily 100% exact), in the same way that branches of a big tree actually look like smaller trees. You find it back in the forms of plants, in the structure of our lungs or in the structure of rivers and mountains.
Fractals - Hunting the hidden dimension
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you.
Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
"Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars.
We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work and we, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, have begun to wonder about our origins star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth. We are one species.
The Human Progress Network is an independent and, for now, individual project under continuous development, with limited resources. So, its own progress will be slow for now, but maybe that is just about right, as opposed to fast food, fast money or fast lives and in the line of the Slow Food philosophy. As soon as the circumstances allow it the website(s) will be put in a foundation with the following vision and mission. Most information is initially created in english ("generic") for the highest coverage, lack of time for translation, but also because, quite unfortunately, most of the used videos simply exist only in english (help or suggestions for translation/subtitling or existing versions in other languages are welcome :) Other initial webs of the HuPro Network:
Independency Project for a better world, we first need to become independent (again) from the fierce and ruthless dominance over modern 'civilization' by banks, corporations, big industry and the "growth" concept.
Inspiration Tree for global sharing and development of inspirations/ideas as an ongoing, open, transparent, collective brainstorm session either for solutions or improvement on individual, local or global issues or as input for further progress.
More web-inspirations do exist but only in a conceptual stage yet.