Every so often, nature provides humanity with a profound and unexpected gift.
Consider the distance from the Earth to the Sun: much closer, and life as we know it is burnt to a crisp, unable to exist; and much further away and liquid water doesn’t exist on the surface.
Earth’s wonderful magnetic field keeps it from shedding its atmosphere out into space, and it keeps harmful cosmic radiation from bombarding us to death. We may owe a thanks to Theia for this.
66 million years ago, mammals on Earth were given a surprise present: the Chixclub asteroid, which wiped out most of the dinosaurs.
There was a long ice age our ancestors lived through, toughening us up and shaping our reasoning and survival skills over more than a million years. Then, about 12,000 years ago, much of that ice melted away and the planet warmed up enough for us to thrive.
And, in February of 2021, as the world was perplexed by a pandemic, one of the greatest gifts ever given to humanity fell right into our laps, ligh…
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