The globe: a single organism or ...

The globe - it would seem that it can be simpler?For natural reasons, matter, which served as a building material for our planet, gathered in one lump and gradually formed the right sphere, and unevenness arose later due to tectonic processes. But in the name of the form of our planet lies a mistake. Even if you rip all the hills and fall asleep all the lowlands, the Earth will not be a ball. Geographers and astronomers have come up with a way to name the ball, which is flattened at the poles, a geoid. In Greek, this means "like the earth". That is, the Earth has a form similar to Earth. This is oil here.

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

Земной шар неоднороден.Under a relatively thin bark is hidden mantle - a viscous thick layer, extending to a depth of almost three thousand kilometers. Below is located the core, which consists of two parts: the upper one - the liquid one and the inner one - the solid one. Temperatures in the center of the Earth reach a value of six thousand degrees Celsius. Approximately this temperature reigns on the surface of the Sun.

The surface of the Earth is extremely heterogeneous.Not only that two-thirds occupy the oceans. So still the remaining land is far from everywhere suitable for normal living. Although mankind has adapted to live even in the unfavorable conditions of the Far North and African deserts, the peoples living there could not create a single great civilization. For one simple reason: all the forces they have gone to struggle with harsh nature and maintaining a minimum standard of living. Where can one really think of expansion or creation of material, cultural or scientific values!

The population of the world isthe surface of the planet is very uneven. Even in ancient times, most people lived in tropical, subtropical areas and in the southern part of the temperate zone. It is the people living there that have managed to create civilizations, which we admire and study which we do not cease to this day. Some of the achievements of the ancients have not been understood by us, although their technical capabilities do not compare with ours.

According to the "Gaia hypothesis", the globe representsone superorganism, and everything that exists on its surface and in its interior, 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 so, or are scientists, as has happened many times before, great namudrili? Wait and see…