The globe: a single organism or ...

The globe - it would seem, what could be easier?For natural reasons, the matter that served as the building material for our planet gathered into one lump and gradually formed the correct sphere, and the irregularities later arose as a result of tectonic processes. But in the very name of the form of our planet lies a mistake. Even if you cover up all the elevations and fall asleep all lowlands, the Earth will not be a ball. Geographers and astronomers have figured out what to call a sphere that is flattened at the poles - a geoid. Translated from the Greek, it means "like the earth." That is, the Earth has a shape similar to Earth. Such is the oil of oil.

Compression at the poles has not only the globe, but alsoany astronomical body of sufficient mass, rotating around its axis. However, “geoid” is a specific, professional term. In everyday life, the media and popular literature is usually used by another name - the globe. Considering that our planet is flattened at the poles, the circumference of the globe drawn through the poles and at the equator will be different. The circle drawn through the poles will be more than forty thousand seven kilometers, and the circumference at the equator will be forty thousand seventy five kilometers. On a global scale, a difference of sixty-eight kilometers is insignificant, but for some calculations it matters. Have you ever wondered why the majority of launch sites are located in southern latitudes? That's exactly why they are.

The globe is heterogeneous.Under the relatively thin bark of the mantle is hidden - a thick thick layer extending to a depth of almost three thousand kilometers. Below is the core, consisting of two parts: the upper - liquid and the inner - solid. Temperatures in the center of the earth reach six thousand degrees Celsius. About this temperature reigns on the surface of the sun.

The surface of the Earth is extremely heterogeneous.Not only that two thirds are occupied by the oceans. So also the remaining land is not everywhere suitable for normal living. Although humanity has adapted itself to live even in the adverse conditions of the Far North and the African deserts, the nations living there could not create a single great civilization. For one simple reason: all their forces went to fight the harsh nature and maintain a minimum standard of living. Where is there to think about the expansion or the creation of material, cultural or scientific values!

The world's population is spread overthe surface of the planet is very uneven. Even in ancient times, most people lived in tropical, subtropical areas and in the southern temperate zone. It was the people living there who managed to create civilizations, to admire and study which we still continue today. Some of the achievements of the ancients have remained unclear to us, although their technical capabilities cannot be compared with ours.

According to the Gaia hypothesis, the globe representsis one superorganism, and everything that exists on its surface and in its depths is a system of metabolism, respiration and thermoregulation. The birth and death of civilizations, earthquakes, floods and typhoons are part of a single process, called the "Life of the Earth." Is this true or scientists, as more than once already happened, great namudri? Wait and see…