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The Known Universe 33 33 The Known Universe The Known Universe joining the North and South poles about which as a 'closed ecosystem.' This is reflected in the The Known Universe Continued from Page 32 it rotates) is inclined to the plane of its orbit (the fact that our living world is completely self- Continued from Page 32 ecliptic-the intersecting plane of earth's solar contained, capable of totally regenerating / orbit with the celestial sphere) at about 23 maintaining / supporting all of its own primary - OUR INTREPID SPACE degrees, 27 minutes. ecological support systems. However, as we - OUR INTREPID SPACE ODYSSEY CONTINUES IN Existing as an oblate spheroid, planet strive to learn more about our highly sensitive ODYSSEY CONTINUES IN ART FOUR - P PART FOUR - Earth, as seen from deep space, appears to be and vulnerable planet, we must also understand slightly flattened at the poles and bulging that its continuing ability to cleanse and noticeably along her equatorial plane. The polar regenerate itself has some very real obvious and We've just completed a fascinating diameter is 7,900 miles and its equatorial fixed limitations-our 21st century society with excursion into the boundless wonders of the diameter is 7,926.7 miles. The area of its its global politics notwithstanding! cosmos containing an inestimable number of exposed land surface is approximately 57.5 Recent data obtained from radioactive millions, perhaps billions of galaxies, million square miles-while the total area of the rock indicates that planet Earth is at least constellations, suns, planets, moons, asteroids, planet's oceans is believed to be approximately 2,260,000,000 years old and may be as much as comets, meteors and other known/unknown 139.4 million square miles or roughly 70% of twice that age. This wonderful globe has marvels and mysteries of cosmic creation. Earth's total surface. endured for some 5.5 billion years, but its future Zooming back to our space home, Earth, is now clouded by mankind's reckless ways; his hurtling through the heavens with a physical And her highest land peak is Mt. Everest overpopulation, continuous wars, global speed in motion (traveling at 18.5 miles per/sec situated within Tibet's Himalayas mountain pollution of water / air / land, wasted resources within its yearly orbit around the sun), we find range with the incredible elevation of 29,141 and the wanton destruction of her natural the Earth's relative mass 1/329,390ths that of feet, while her greatest ocean depth is the Swire wildlife habitats and numerous forms of the the Sun's, or 5.887 x 1021 tons, with an average Deep, some 35,640 feet down located deep local / exotic wildlife inhabiting them. 'real density' measurement of approximately 5.6 within the Marianas Trench in the Mariana times that of ordinary sea water. Assuming that Islands, a group of 15 tropical islands in the Continued on Page 34 Earth, and only Earth, contains life as we know Western Pacific, east of the Philippines. it-means that our planet is ultra-special in our The Earth is completely enveloped by a solar system. Is this not reason enough for us to gaseous atmosphere at least 600 miles high, and understand/protect/carefully preserve the gifts all that is needed to continually operate its Listen to and Watch that "she" represents? unique set of life-support systems is the sun's Earth's average distance from the sun perpetual thermo-nuclear heat and light The ‘X’ Zone during its annual trek is 92,900,000 miles. It machine-without which our verdant planet rotates on its axis from west to east-once in each would quickly be reduced to a beautiful blue LIVE sidereal day (a period of 23 hours and 56 ball of frozen ice and snow perhaps a mile deep. minutes) as it revolves completely around the Our Earth is the 'Home Planet' of mankind and www.xzonetv.com sun once a year along its slightly elliptical path. "self-exists" as a living spiritual entity described The axis of the Earth (that imaginary line