Quote: (04-26-2018 07:58 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
Quote: (04-26-2018 07:55 AM)Meliorare93 Wrote:
Well the planets got their names from the mythology, so did most of the constellations... (Or was it the other way'round, chicken or the egg situation)
But now I understand what you were asking... No AFAIK there are no Mercurial Gaia's nor Jupiterian Gaia's
But Terra (aka Gaia) was also included in the Roman pantheon. AFAIK most "pagans" who "worship" gaia are wiccans... They aren't pagan in my book but that's a personal opinion.
It's a perspective thing.
With their knowledge base way back when; no real surprise that the average pagan would have equated an earth teaming with life as having a greater life force.
Yet transport those very same pagan's with space suits onto Mars & I doubt they'd form the same opinion.
Earth is our Mother. Our only Mother. It is unique and space travel changes nothing.
Sci Fi makes it look so easy to live in other planets, put on space suit and you are good to go, right? Wrong!
Truth is we would not be able to survive on other planets - without turning into - aliens. That's evolution people. And we will probably die before we mutate to adapt.
There is a lithany of problems with living off Earth for prolonged time:
- Space radiation. You think you will have illuminators like on airplane and see Moon / Mars panorama? That tiny screen will give you cancer in a few months. For continuous safe living you will need a few meters of lead constantly insulating you from open space. You will enjoy no alien landscapes.
- The psychological effects of never stepping outside and never seeing sky is similar to prisoners being punished in secluded confinement. Most go crazy within half a year.
- Don't experiance normal gravity - lose bone and muscle mass. After a few years spent on Moon or Mars you will never be able to warlk on Earth again.
- Breathe artificial sterile air only - lose all immunity to pollen and bacteria - become unable to return to Earth and breathe Earth's air.
- Our reproductioin system would go all bonkers in other type of gravity. Children will grow misshapen and sicly, they will not be suited for life on Earth, their immune system will not be ready to breathe Earth's air if they spend their first years in a sterile space station.
- Our eyes are not suited to see without atmosphere. On Moon any tiny shadow is totally dark. You look at a Moon hole and can't tell if it is 1 meter or 1 km deep without instruments. You drop an instrument in a shadow of a rock and you may never find it again. You put it down for a minute as if in sunlight and after that minute the Sun has moved and the shadows have moved and you can't find it anymore.
- Our walking system is not suited for lower gravity. Astronauts had to hop in special way. Children born in this setting would not know how to walk even without the bigger problem of lost bone and muscle mass.
- Lost bone and muscle mas also means all sorts of hormonal and endocrinical and other problems. You worry about your testosterone levels here on Earth? On Moon or Mars it's totally bonkers, forget about that beach body. Forget about beach.
- What would be effects on brain is totally unknown.
- Cycadian rhytms? Healthy sleep schedule? Forget it.
It's a transhumanist dream of traveling to other planets.
If we lose Earth we also lose humanity.
Neither you or me or our own children will live in space. We may genitaclly engineer a scentient being and send it on other planets, but that won't be human anymore.
Paganism is a religion for humans. Earth is our home and our Mother indeed and we should do the best to keep it clean for our children. We will never find a place more perfect for us.