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    The Earth existed for at least 4.5 billion years before modern humans came into being. The different cultures of the world have different ideas or stories of how humans came to be. The Hopi and Zuni tribes have creation stories that were passed from generation to generation. These stories claim that the world, despite being made before man, is meant to be ruled by and sustain mankind. Daniel Quinn’s novel, Ishmael, imagines its own creation myths to showcase how these stories work and the messages

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    these civilizations has created unique descriptions and accounts of such events. However, when comparing them to each other, are they really different? Look at the ancient Greco - Roman creation myths as told by Hesiod in his Theogony and Works and Days and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, when compared to the creation myths as seen in the Old Testament’s book of Genesis they may not be as different as one would think. Taking a more in-depth look at both Genesis and Hesiod’s and Ovid’s work more closely, the

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    Life is only known to exist on planet earth, but scientist have discovered earth like planets or “exoplanets” that are Planetary habitable. Planetary habitability is defined as a planet’s potential to develop and sustain life. The Idea of planetary habitability has been a concept long speculated. Many astronomers both past and present have studied the existence of other habitable celestial bodies in and beyond our solar system. But the search for another Earth like planet has been a mild success.

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    only natural satellite for Earth and was put together 4.6 billion years ago after 30–50 million years the formation of the solar. The first attending mission to the Moon was in 1959 by the Soviet Lunar Program with the first manned landing being Apollo 11 in 1969. In this program, 12 people walked on the moon during (1969-1972). The diameter of the Moon is 3,475 km, the distance is 384,400 km, and the surface temperature is -233 to 123°C. A day at the moon is 27.3 Earth days. If you were to go to the

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    reawakened. By their own particular qualities and convictions the number 2 was very sacred, thus when they started building their kingdom of light they manufactured everything in sets of contrary energies: the zones of domain being the sky and the earth and the strengths that permit sight being Light and Darkness as samples. Unga was a god of happiness, light, and took pride in what he can accomplish. Mortis was the exact opposite; however, he did take delight in destroying what Unga creates. The

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    stellar occultations, 2009). The Characteristics Pluto is quite small when compared to Earth in pretty much every aspect. In fact, with a mass of 1.3032 x 10^22 kg and a density of 2.050g/cm^3, Pluto is only 0.002 times the size of Earth in terms of mass and 0.372 times the size of Earth in terms of density (NASA, nd.). The equatorial circumference of 4,493.7 miles is roughly 0.1807 times of Earth and the mean radius is 715.2 miles which is approximately 0.1807 times of

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    partial solar eclipse (right), the Moon blocks only part of the Sun 's disk (October 23, 2014). As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks

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    citizens on Mars are doomed. Colonizing Mars is not beneficial to Earth. The mission would cost billions of dollars to accomplish. With the risks of losing so much, there are still many disadvantages to the mission such as the astronauts not being able to come back safely, and to fix the problems on Mars will be an atrocious mission to accomplish! Also Mars will never be a plant that we can trust if something bad happens to Earth. Mars will never be able to be a ‘backup’ planet. To build a ship

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    average person believes that seasons are a result of the sun 's rotation around the Earth, but there is much more involved than what people assume. The Earth 's seasons are affected by many different factors such as the influence of different hemispheres, rotation of the sun, and greenhouse gases. They will also continue to change over time. The climate has a huge effect on the seasons and the population. The Earth 's seasons end up having a ripple effect on people, plants, animals, and agriculture

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    himself. Seven days and seven nights it took him and finally he finished. A small blue and green orb he called earth. Many years later, earth had been fully inhabited. Leonardo grew old over the years and weaker with that. An evil god named Parviana caught wind of Leonardo's recent illness and decided to take advantage of the situation. He traveled for three days until he finally reached Leonardo. Parviana mocked Leonardo, telling him that he was useless and unfit to rule over Earth. He made Leonardo

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