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Space v Soil
Space v Soil
Look up at the sky. Multimillion pound telescopes search for a drop of water billions of miles away that may indicate there is life out there.
Meanwhile we have no 'soilscope' we can put into the ground to see the multitude of life running round beneath our feet. It is dark, dirty and we are blind.
Not first to notice....Leonardo daVinci (Water Engineer) 500 years ago said:
“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”
“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”
Launched Dec 2021, James Webb telescope is much more powerful than Hubble. It is an astonishing gamble, a $10 billion megalith, now a million miles past the sun.
William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’
"It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. "
Activity 2
Activity 2
In pairs or individually
Paint/Draw a picture of what you think soil looks like.
Ideally, imagine a spade sliced down a foot and a view looking into soil, magnifies 50X
Otherwise - just draw your idea of what soil looks like
Your drawing can be more artistic than scientific, and we’ll use this as a basis for developing our understanding of what is going on, as the course goes on.
Riotous roots
Riotous roots
Green burial
Green burial
Soil Depletion by Bruce Bell & Tom Henry.
Ambio 2018 47:269-283
A load of Bosch
A load of Bosch
Left pane of famous triptych
Garden of Delights
In Prado museum original called
Garden of Earthly Joys'
Question
What is that pink contraption all about?
Amphibiotic
Amphibiotic
The strange pink apparatus is a symbol of how creatures can move from water to the land. Clearly Bosch knew it was an issue, and is a very important process, but generally ignored by most Western science, who often describe it as 'terrestrialisation', as if by magic creatures and plants could just move from water to land. But they can't. Aquatic creatures are not adapted to dry condition. To 'land' that land has to be soil - but where did that come from?
Some of the pictures produced...
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