The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

Well we’ve made it. It’s been a good run, but I have officially reached my 10th post here on this blog. I have quite enjoyed watching and commenting on these episodes of “The Cosmos” and in some ways I will miss it. That’s not to say that I won’t continue to watch the rest of the season, I mean I did purchase it on Amazon so I might as well watch it all and should any subject happen to interest me enough to write about it I will do so here, as I now have a space meant for that exact purpose! That being said, it is rather poetic to end these posts on an episode that focuses so heavily on extinctions and vast changes. Now, the situation we are going through with this pandemic is certainly no extinction level cataclysm, but there is a lot of change happening here on earth nowadays. These changes, as with all things will eventually come to a new stasis for a while and we can be content to say we have survived, but this experience has been one hell of a trip. I have found of course that my studies are no one’s obligation but my own, and I have surprisingly grown to enjoy this brand of self-led learning. I will be looking forward to returning to school in the fall assuming nothing changes over summer (who knows) and I wish that I had been able to take on the class in the lecture form that it was initially structured as, but I do think I have grown as a student in these trying times. One of my friends and I have been commenting on all of the rain recently and about how green the grass is on campus, a vibrant reminder of one of the sentiments of Mr. Tyson. What is bad for one form of life may be just what another needed. We will all return to society having faced change firsthand, but I believe that this global tragedy will inspire further growth in the years to come. I didn’t spend much time talking about the episode this time around, but that’s ok with me. As always, I’m looking forward to seeing what the WORLD has in store for us next. What new things are we yet to learn in our little slice of the cosmos…