was reading the geog textbook and came across an article which was absolutely hilarious. well, the earth has existed for 4600 million years but an author reduced it to 46 years. well. here goes it.
" We can depict Mother Earth as a lady of 46, if her "years" are megacenturies. The first seven of those years are wholly lost to the biographer, but the deeds of her later childhood are to be seen in old rocks in Greenland and South Africa. Like the human memory, the surface of our planet distorts the record, emphasizing more recent events and letting the rest pass into vagueness- or at least into unimpressive joints in worn down mountain chains.
Most of what we recognise on Earth, including all substantial animal life, is the product of the past 6 years of the lady's life. She flowered, literally, in her middle age. Her continents were quite bare of life until she was getting on for 42 and flowering plants did not appear until she was 45 - just 1 year ago. At that time, the great reptiles, including the dinosaurs, were her pets and the break-up of the last supercontinent was in progress.
The dinosaurs passed away 8 months ago and the upstart mammals replaced them. In the middle of last week, In africa, some man-like apes turned into ape-like men and , at the weekend, Mother Earth began shivering with the latest series of ice ages. Just over 4 hours ago have elasped since a new species calling itself Homo sapiens started chasing the other animals and in the last hour it has invented agriculture and settled down. A quarter of an hour ago, Moses led his people to safety across a crack in the Earth's shell, and about five minutes later Jesus was preaching on a hill farther along the fault line.
haha.. oh.. that was found in chapter 1 of my geog textbook and i have 5 gazillion more chapters to go. and 2 more days only. God bless me.
posted by gary @ 11:03 AM
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