What Happened Today? Kay, Jenn and I went to see Chris. Very hot. Chris and I played gin most of the day. Dale Jared won the Pepsi 400 in Michigan. Jeff Gordon came in 19th. He also started 19th. Changed the format of my daily letter to Chris. Added about 1/2 page per day from the Druids by Morgan Llewelyn, Measuring the Universe and 7 Habits.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
86. Over billions of years, the particles, atoms, and elements of matter formed and were processed and reprocessed in the heart of stars, until a higher order emerged, life.
87. Our probes into space have found life’s chemical precursors widely distributed– indeed, space seems to be littered with the “spare parts of life” awaiting the right conditions for assembly.
88. On our primeval planet, these conditions were found: hence the fierce energies of radioactivity and ultraviolet radiation, the abundant presence of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water.
89. In Earth’s oceans, the first strands of DNA, and then the self-replicating double helix, must have formed and broken countless times.
90. But once the seed was set, the birth of the biosphere had begun.