The Earth
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| Planet Earth, Terre, Erde, Chikyu, Tierra, Terra, Gaia, Mother Earth | ||||||
 Planet Earth - seen from Mars orbit. Image: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Imagine; you are a member of the highest developed civilization you know - your own. You are space borne in one of this state-of-the-art starships traveling through this newly discovered galaxy. As most of the time nothing really interesting happens. You are surrounded by a myriad of sparkling, diamond-like luminous spots, the lights of far away stars that are embedded in the deepest, infinite black you can imagine. You've entered this solar system about a quarter of a megasecond ago, your relative position is approximately 8 parsecs (26 000 ly) from the center of this spiral galaxy, about halfway towards its edge (see image below). As you'll learn later, the galaxy is known here as Milky Way. You turn on your favorite music and start to dance, looking at the stars, the alternating bass of the music lets vibrate your cells and makes you feel floating. Glaring Light! In an instant your spaceship shades the windows. On your journey you've passed a star, a large sphere of really hot plasma. The data display shows that it is a 'yellow dwarf' of spectral type G2 – nothing special, one of more than 252 billion stars in this galaxy. The stars age is about 4.5 billion years, it is a relative young star in the midst of its hydrogen burning. This happens in the usual way suns do it - they convert hydrogen into helium in their core by means of nuclear fusion — elementary for suns. Your travel leads you deeper into the star's planetary system. You've reprogrammed your spacecraft to approach one of the promising planets in the system - it's the third planet counted outward from its star. Minutes later you see a crystal blue sphere, a shining, sparkling oasis in the desert of frozen matter. It's a planet, covered with liquid water, one of the most precious elements in the known universe - and basic prerequisite for live as you know it. In this moment you realize, this is all in all the most beautiful place within the next several thousand light years. Closing your mouth you look at the ships main data terminal. The data display shows, the celestial globe is a relatively middle sized rocky planet in just the right distance of its sun, that water can exist in its liquid form, the best condition for live. You will learn that the planet's inhabitants (who are able to verbalize in English) call the planet EARTH. |
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Location of Earth: Local Universe |
Virgo Supercluster* 
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r3 = 1 086 781 292 542 cubic km or 260 732 699 457 miles3.
Moon |
| Found on an antique space craft called Pioneer 10. It shows an attempt of the human species of Earth to communicate with other civilizations in the universe. The famed Pioneer plaque features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate, 152 by 229 millimeters (6 by 9 inches), attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust. The plaque was mounted on the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. |
Carbon-based life forms exists since 3.5 - 3.9 billion years,
including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and protists there may be over 30 million different species, the total number of animal species currently known is 1.5 million.
The life-form with the most influence on modifications on Earth is a sub-species of a hominid family of primates, originally living near coastlines and river banks (after they came down from the trees). It's a relative old order of mammals, with an approximate age of 4.3 million years. This on hind limbs walking members of Homo sapiens sapiens, also known as the human race or mankind, originated most likely from the hot heart of the African continent. Meanwhile this species has spread all over the planet -- some call this success.
It is presumed that the anatomically modern humans (AMH) have evolved from an archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic (better known as Stone Age), about 200.000 years ago.
Therefore we have a closer look at this species:
Human Communication
LanguageThe fundamental communication system of the human race is based on acoustic as well as kinesic signals, the spoken language and body language).
The nonverbal communication of human body signals is, in general, until now underestimated and has not been categorized very well.
On the other hand, the human acoustic signal systems can be divided in more than 6,900 different languages (by traditions coherent acoustic signal systems).
They are used by the various members of cultural human groups for their communication to express feelings, thoughts and the exchange of knowledge and experience.
About one-third of this languages have writing systems (symbolical pictorial signs of a language; storable and/or for carry away), the others are only spoken (sound generated). Since the beginning of Homo sapiens, new languages have been constantly emerging while others vanished forever.
Since at least 30,000 years this species has developed additional forms of communication, like paintings, sculptures and carving as well as some kind of melodious acoustic signals based on rhythm and harmony--they call it music.
Little is known about telepathic communication on Earth.
Population:Today there are more than 7 billion human beings, descendants of the Homo sapiens sapiens.
See also:
The Global Village, a Summary of the WorldEarth as a village of 100 people.
Largest Urban Agglomerations:
see the list of
Most Populated Cities in the World. Most Famous Landmarks Most famous landmarks and monuments on Earth.
Earth Government:
There is no global government for Earth.
The organization of sovereign nations, the
United Nations
- abbreviated by the acronym UN, with its humanitarian, peacekeeping
and development tasks, its powerful Security Council and the not so
powerful factions and fractions of the rest of all the countries might
once play this role.Meanwhile the power is divided among the
USA, China, European Countries, Russia, India, and the rest of the Independent States,
and multinational companies, global rating agencies, international
bank consortiums, greedy speculators, insurance companies, and political
as well as religious interest groups, and if one believes in some
conspiracy theories, an enlightenment-era secret society called the
Illuminati controls them all. Constitution of Earth:
There is no Constitution of Earth.
As a good basis for a future draft would be the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
There is a draft of the
World Constitution
and Parliament Association:
"A Constitution for the Federation of Earth" as amended at the World Constituent Assembly in Troia, Portugal 1991. Flag of the world:
There is no official flag of the Earth.
Symbol:
Earth sign, the symbol for the Earth.
World Time:
Today on Earth time measurement is based on the rotation of Earth on its axis with respect to the stars (Universal Time - UT).
The basis of Universal Time is the mean sidereal time as measured on the Greenwich (England) initial or prime meridian (longitude zero) counted from 0 hours at midnight.
UT which is the basis for the worldwide system of civil time, refers to a high precision time scale called "Coordinated Universal Time" (abbreviated UTC), which is accurate to approximately a nanosecond (billionth of a second) per day.
Local time of Earth's 24 time zones is given as an integral number of hours offset from UTC.
e.g.: Central European Time (CET) = UTC +1h
Atlantic Standard Time = UTC -4h
Continents:(larger continuous masses of land)
Number of Continents: 5-7, namely:
Africa, Asia, Australia North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Oceania,
(North America and South America are often considered a single continent, America. Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia. Oceania comprises sometimes the landmass of Australia and all the scattered islands in the South Pacific)
Map
of Continents of the World Worlds within the World?
The First, the Second, and the Third World.A Three World Model?
Planet Earth Maps
| Map of Earth: |  |
| Searchable Map and Satellite View of Earth (click on the map to enlarge) |
Political Map of the WorldWorld map showing independent states borders, dependencies or areas of special sovereignty, islands and island groups as well as capital cities.
Physical Map of the WorldShaded relief map of the world, showing landmasses, continents, oceans, regions, mountain ranges, islands and island groups as well as extreme points.
Planet
EarthOutline map of the World.
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MapsFind more maps of planet Earth.
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