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The fifth book of Planetology, called
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Now the spin-axis of Earth shall tilt twenty-three degrees with respect to the solar-system plane. Thus for a quarter of the year, the northern half of Earth shall tilt toward the Sun, causing Sun’s rays to fall perpendicular onto the regions in the northern hemisphere. And warmer shall this be. And summer shall this be, for ye living in the northern hemisphere. Now summer shall be followed by a quarter-year interval of time in which neither the northern nor the southern hemispheres tilt toward the Sun. And the rays of Sun shall fall perpendicular in the equatorial region of the Earth. And autumn shall this be. Next autumn shall be followed by a quarter-year in which the southern hemisphere shall tilt toward the Sun, causing Sun’s rays to fall perpendicular onto the regions in the southern hemisphere. And the northern hemisphere shall thus be cool. And winter shall this be. Then winter shall be followed by a quarter-year in which neither the northern nor the southern hemispheres tilt toward the Sun. And the rays of Sun shall again fall perpendicular in the equatorial region of the Earth. This shall be spring. And summer, autumn, winter, spring shall be the Earth’s four seasons. |
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Chapter IV: Structure And I will show signs in Earth beneath: Now the outer part of Earth shall be Earth’s crust, a layer of dirt and rock several dozen kilometers in width. Below the crust shall be the mantle, three-thousand kilometers thick and containing two-thirds of the mass of Earth. And Earth’s temperature shall initially rise rapidly with depth, so that at a few hundred kilometers below the surface, it shall be one-thousand-and-five-hundred Kelvins hot. Now below the mantle shall be the core, the inner sphere of Earth. And at the core-mantle interface, the pressure shall be great one-and-one-half-million atmospheres. Now the core shall have two parts: an inner and an outer core. The latter, a liquid shell two-thousand kilometers in width with almost one-third of Earth’s mass, shall consist of molten iron-nickel alloys. Electric currents in this liquid shall manufacture Earth’s magnetic field. The inner core with a radius of one-and-a-half-thousand kilometers shall be subjected to enormous pressures, which shall render it a solid sphere of iron. And at Earth’s center shall the pressure reach three-million-seven-hundred-thousand atmospheres. There, the temperature shall be six-thousand Kelvins as hot as the Sun’s surface. Chapter V: Earth’s Atmosphere Now seventy-eight and twenty-one shall be the percentages of nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere. Trace amounts of other molecules such as carbon dioxide gas and water-vapor shall play vital roles. Water-droplets and tiny ices shall often form white structures --these shall be called clouds. Now the pressure of the atmosphere at the surface of the Earth shall be one atmosphere by definition: One-hundred-thousand Pascals, or fifteen pounds per square inch, shall be one atmosphere.
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Now the atmosphere at eighty kilometers above the Earth shall contain mostly positively charged molecules and negatively charged electrons. The ionosphere shall be this region of the atmosphere.275 Chapter VI: Topography Now the Earth shall not be perfectly spherical. Some regions shall rise up above surrounding regions, while others shall sink down. And depressed regions shall collect with water. And a large water region shall be called an ocean. Earth shall have four major oceans the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the partially frozen Arctic Ocean. And of Earth’s surface, seventy-one percent shall be covered by more than a billion cubic kilometers of water. Now an elevated region shall, in general, be dry. And a small isolated land-mass surrounded by a sea shall be an island, while a large dry land shall be a continent. Earth shall have seven major continents Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica and Africa. And in some spots, land shall have risen or been pushed to several thousand meters high. Such a high land-mass shall be a mountain. And a volcano shall be a funnel-shaped mountain created by molten rock, which has thrust up through the earth. And occasionally volcanos shall erupt, spewing smoke and spilling lava. Now other parts of continents shall be flat. A level land shall be a plain. All continents shall contain water-bearing narrow crevices. And these shall be Earth’s rivers. They shall carry water off and drain the continents. Rivers flowing from high to low elevations shall eventually find seas and oceans. A riverless rainless region shall be a desert. Thus Nature through natural processes shall have given the surface of the Earth a great variety of forms and structures.
____________________ 275 By bouncing short waves off the ionosphere, it is possible to send radio signals around the Earth. |
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And viewed from outer space, Earth shall be beautiful. Blue shall be the oceans. White shall be the polar caps. Brown, green and gray shall be the continents. White shall be the clouds they shall paint the Earth a saintly white.276 Chapter VII: Tectonics Now the upper layer of the Earth shall be forever changing. The crust shall be broken into several large tectonic plates that tile the Earth. And the plates, fifty to one-hundred kilometers in thickness, shall constitute Earth’s lithosphere. Now there shall be eleven major plates: the Eurasian plate, the Indian-Australian plate, the African plate, the Arabian plate, the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate, the Pacific plate, the Caribbean plate, the Cocos plate and the Antarctic plate. The Nazca plate shall be in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, and north of it shall be the Cocos plate. In addition to the major plates, there shall be several smaller plates.
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276 This picture of Earth as viewed from outer space shall compete with the finest works of abstract art for beauty and impression. |
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Chapter VIII: Air Currents The wind goeth toward the south And let it be known to thee and all around thee that hot air expands. And in expanding, lighter it becomes. And let it be known that lighter air rises for the same reason that a hot-air balloon does rise it is buoyant. And let it be known that cold air contracts and becomes heavier. And being heavier, it sinks, for it is not as buoyant like a bar of lead in water. |
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And the same shall happen in the southern hemisphere: Cold air shall sink at the southern pole, move north to sixty degrees longitude, where it shall warm and rise and then move south to replace at the southern pole descending cooler air. So air shall circulate in a great oval in the antarctic south. |
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And where easterly and westerly zones do meet, winds shall swirl in cyclones. Chapter IX: Weather And when ye see the south wind blow, And air descending through the atmosphere shall constitute a high-pressure region because the air shall push down more. And upward moving air shall constitute a low-pressure region because the air shall push down less. Now upward moving air shall generally carry moisture into the cooler higher atmosphere. And such moisture shall condense in clouds. So low-pressure regions shall have clouds and rain and storms. |
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Now surface winds shall move the weather systems east or west, depending on the longitude. And for example, between thirty and sixty degrees longitude, weather systems shall move from west to east, as they follow the prevailing westerlies. Chapter X: The Mother of Life Now the land, oceans and atmosphere shall provide a special environment for living organisms. And of all Sun’s children, Earth shall be unique in harboring a wealth of living organisms. Earth shall be the mother of solar-system life. Now a living organism shall be a self-organizing complex structure made from countless carbon-hydrogen-oxygen organic molecules.278 And although there shall be an enormous variety of life forms, there shall be but two basic macroscopic types: plants and animals. Plants shall utilize the energy of sunlight, and in the process yield oxygen for the Earth’s atmosphere. And animals shall exhibit many different characteristics and abilities, among which shall be the capacity to move. And remarkably, animals shall appear to be in control of their mobility. Pray ye a prayer for Earth.
____________________ 278 See the New Testament Book of Biology. |
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