The basics of our planet Earth

25,000 miles in circumference. We all do not really conceive the overall size of the earth and really take it for granted as to what happens on a daily basis, as it has for billions of years, another number which is hard to conceive.  Our earth rotates around it axis at a speed of 1041 miles per hour.  It is this rotation which developes the weather systems and the spin of the currents.  Some currents spin to the left creating a low pressure system and some rotate to the right creating a high pressure system which everyone sees refered to on the nightly weather.  Now while the earth is spinning, it is also in a path rotation around the sun along with all the other planets in our solar system.  Our earth is traveling 66,000 miles per on this track and takes 356 days to travel in an elipitical orbit around the sun.  This is why you see the sun change positions as the seasons change. Now our galaxie, yet another system is traveling through space at 600,000 miles per hour all which we are totally un aware of during our daily living.  Therefore, our solar system travels through space 14,400,000 miles per day or 5 billion, 256 million miles a year.  My bewilderment is how do we fit into the overall universe and what are we rotation around?

Travel Time to reach the National debt of 12 trillion

With all the current taxes, the government is looking for ways to tax the American people even more. Our elected officials, entrusted to run the government, have created a 12 trillion dollar deficit since the beginning of the year and it was just passed to increase this by another trillion.. This is a huge number which most people cannot comprehend.  Let use the 12 trillion as the bench mark although it is now up to 14.4 trillion.

Just a thought to consider on how big this number is. Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. A traveler, moving at the speed of light could circum-navigate the equator approximately 7.5 times in one second. Suppose we had a space ship that could travel at the speed of light and we set out to visit our 2^nd nearest star. http://www.northern-stars.com/solar_system_distance_scal.htm In the first 1.28 seconds we would pass the moon. In just over an hour we would pass Saturn. After just over four hours we would pass Neptune and in just over 5 hours we would pass Pluto and be out of our solar system. In one day alone we would travel 16 billion,070 million ,400,000 thousand miles. Near the middle of 62^nd day of travel, the spaceship will just reach the trillion mile mark. Now in one year the spaceship will have traveled 5.87 trillion miles which is called a light year. Our closest star to earth, excluding the sun, is calculated to be 4.2 light years away, or about 24 trillion miles. So to reach the half way mark of 12 trillion miles, about the same number as the current deficit number I am using for this example, we would have to keep traveling for 747 days.( 2 years and 17 days) By then the deficit will have grown by how much?. Pardon the pun, but those are astronomical numbers.

Numbers help understanding distance...

Sometimes refered to as the "blue marble" our home planet "Earth" is spinning in space, and has been for billions of years. Thanks to gravity, we are unaware of our journey through space.  In order to really appreciate the incredible size of the Universe, it is important to get a perspective on the actual size of numbers, which help us better vizualize the scope and vastness of the Universe and earths journey.

1,000,000  One million
1,000,000,000  One Billion or 1000 million
1,000,000,000,000  One Trillion of 1000 Billion
1,000,000,000,000,000  One Quadrillion or 1000 Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Septillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  One Octillion

This should be far enough to get into number sizes to get a good understanding of the distances as we look further at facts about our universe on this Blog.  Be sure and read the other posts.

Seeds...

Hmmmm...where did seeds come from.  Through carbon dating and the scientific tools we have, it is estimated that the age of the earth is around 4.6 billion years old.  For all the research done, dinosaur's apparently roamed the earth for millions of years before the appearance of mankind. This time period of millions of years is just a very small segment of the 4.6 billion years.  A question I raise is, during the time of dinosaurs, they had food to eat.  Many ate each other as do other animals do today, yet many ate plants, again as they do today.  So Plants have been around for quite some time.  Along with plants I would imagine insects have also been around long before man.  With our vast study of plants, hundreds of thousands of species have been identified.  All the plants have one thing in common.  They all need water to survive.  Another thing in common is that most of them come from a seed.  Each seed contains a code.  The code from one seed type to another is different. This code is built in and is the information, when properly hydrated and nourished by the soil, to begin a process which develops into a plant and in time creates more seeds of its same type, to continue the process.  Just to name a few seeds to think about, an apple seed, a peach seed, a mustard seed, a chili seed, a radish seed, a lemon seed, a lime seed.  All unique is color, shape and taste. Where did this code come from?  Is it possible for the code to just happen?  Then back to the dinosaur's.  Hundreds of species have been identified.  Some came from eggs and some were born. Each one contained a code which signified their development.  This code determined their size, shape, color, sex, temperaments and health.  In the mid 1800 AD, man kind, long after the period of dinosaurs, learned that this code, was what became know as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).  DNA is a far more complex code than any computer code as we know it today.  It has been around since the beginning a life.

Where do we fit in...provoking thoughts

A computer program is nothing more than a series of letters and symbols, placed together in a specific order, called code which all together formulates the computer program.  I would suggest that the person who writes the code could be called the creator of that program.  With the written code, the computer is able to do a specific tasks, such as in photography, adjust color, contrast, hue, shaprness, size, zoom in/zoom out, deleted parts of an image, remove unwanted parts, draw shapes, add labels and so on, just to name a few.  Other parts of the program allows the image to be printed or to be transferred to another person.  We now have thousands of programs which are intened to make out life easier and more convienent. There is even a thing now called a virus, which is written code, which is designed to infect the regular computer code, to disrupt the correct operation or functioning of a computer program.  All this has occurred basically within the past 25 years and gets more complex with each passing day.  Computers require more memory to be able to run the code as they become more and more complex and do more complicated tasks.  Interestingly enough, this code is nothing new.  I am pretty certain code has existed for billions of years.  Genetic code which is found in every living organism.  This built in code is a program, designed to create the growth of a specific object and when it is alive is a program to survive and do certain functions.  This code is contained in DNA, a complex biological, living code.