THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND LIFE

The Documentary talked about The History of the Earth and Life which in the first part of the
documentary he explained that the history of Earth covers approximately 4 billion years
(4,567,000,000 years), from Earth’s formation out of the solar nebula to the present. Earth
formed as part of the birth of the solar system: what eventually became the solar system initially
existed as a large, rotating cloud of dust and gas. I learned about the Law of conservation of
energy which states that energy is neither loss nor gained, only conserved. The documentary
expanded on that concept because the earth has changed over its life time, but it still has the
same amount of energy. For example, the earth used to be a ball of magma--thermal energy; over
time the magma cooled, and the crust formed as a result. The energy from the previous phase
was converted into the system, thus cooling down the earth much like an endothermic reaction It
was composed of hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang, as well as heavier elements
produced by stars long gone. And in the second part of the documentary he stated that the
inception of plate tectonics on Earth and its subsequent evolution are discussed on the basis of
theoretical considerations and observational constraints. The likelihood of plate tectonics in the
past depends on what mechanism is responsible for the relatively constant surface heat flux that
is indicated by the likely thermal history of Earth. The continuous operation of plate tectonics
throughout Earth's history is possible if, for example, the strength of convective stress in the
mantle is affected by the gradual subduction of surface water. Various geological indicators for
the emergence of plate tectonics are evaluated from a geodynamical perspective, and they
invariably involve certain implicit assumptions about mantle dynamics, which are either
demonstrably wrong or yet to be explored. And in the third part of the documentary he broadcast
that Uranium ore emitted large amount of radiation creating a diverse of materials and eventually
producing the early building blocks of life the loss of primordial continent and the generation of
a strong geomagnetic field. And In the fourth part of the documentary he clarified that the second
stage of proto-life evolved to make use of sunlight available on the Earth’s Surface. And in the
fifth part of the documentary he added the first photosynthetic organism would have been
anaerobic microbes, which produce no oxygen. The sixth part of the documentary is the third
stage of the evolution of life which he said that the earth underwent a global glaciation event,
known as the snowball earth which The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that during one or
more of Earth's icehouse climates, Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen,
sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago) during the Cryogenian period. Proponents of
the hypothesis argue that it best explains sedimentary deposits generally regarded as of glacial
origin at tropical palaeolatitudes and other enigmatic features in the geological record. This
caused another global mass extinction. The seventh part is about the formation of a
supercontinent called nuna was one of Earth's ancient supercontinents. It was first proposed by
Rogers & Santosh 2002 and is thought to have existed approximately 2,500 to 1,500 million
years ago in the Paleoproterozoic Era. And the eighth part of the documentary where he
explained about the dawn of Cambrian Explosion where The Cambrian explosion was a period
of massive diversification and adaptation among early multicellular life, beginning around 542
million years ago and continuing for about a dozen million years, an eye blink in evolutionary
time. The ninth part of the documentary is The Paleozoic Era were Paleozoic Era, also spelled
Palaeozoic, major interval of geologic time that began 541 million years ago with the Cambrian
explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years
ago with the end-Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history. And the tenth
part of the documentary were the Mesozoic Era were During the Mesozoic era, also known as
the " Middle Life " era, life quickly diversified and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous
beasts wandered around the Earth. This period, which stretched from about 252 million years ago
to about 66 million years ago, was also known as the reptile era or the dinosaur era. And the
eleventh part the documentary talked about the evolution of human that they said that we are
from primates, Primates are an order of generalist mammals with adaptations for an arboreal
lifestyle that first evolved from small mammalian ancestors about 55-65 million years ago. The
primate order is diverse, with hundreds of living species. And they discussed that Humans have a
unique set of genetic regions called human accelerated regions or HARs, and these regions
differentiate humans from other animals. That Humans developed enlarge brains that enabled
them to gain language capabilities. They also gained the abilities to think to be conscious, to
remember, and to imagine. And they discussed about civilization where conflicts and fighting
over territory occurred between civilizations. The last part is about the future of the earth, the
earth will be extinct after 8 billion years later. My realization about watching that documentary is
we need to protect and love our earth our earth is our home it gives us life and no we should
never destroy our home because earth is like human it has a beginning and it has end. Earth is as
important as life. The elements of which human existence and survival rely on is fully deposited
on the planet earth when compared with other planet. Earth, with its distance proximity with the
sun makes it okay for humans to occupy. Knowing fully well that the sun radiation it receives
with the energy it carries both for animals and plant growth which is not destructive, when
compared to the two planets before it, is better, and the cold retaining capacity it has with the
different layers (Troposphere, stratosphere, hydrosphere, a steno sphere, etc.) That helps in
balancing temperature, with the different phenomenon that goes on and on, the plate tectonics,
the deformations of subsurface rocks all in the planet earth makes it balanced for the earth to
survive. All these compared to the planets after the planet earth makes earth an important planet.
And I’ve learned that The Earth is the only planet we have to inhabit for the far foreseeable
future. It also is the only planet we can confirm to harbor diverse life so far so if we didn’t take
care of it’s us humans who will suffer at the end. It’s not the climate who destroyed our planet
it’s us humans who destroyed it.

“The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say
we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”