NASA’s TESS Discovers Planetary System’s Second Earth-Size World
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tess-discovers-planetary-systems-second-earth-size-world

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface. The world is 95% Earth’s size and likely rocky.

Astronomers previously discovered three planets in this system, called TOI 700 b, c, and d. Planet d also orbits in the habitable zone. But scientists needed an additional year of TESS observations to discover TOI 700 e.

“This is one of only a few systems with multiple, small, habitable-zone planets that we know of,” said Emily Gilbert, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California who led the work. “That makes the TOI 700 system an exciting prospect for additional follow-up. Planet e is about 10% smaller than planet d, so the system also shows how additional TESS observations help us find smaller and smaller worlds.”

TESS Finds System's Second Earth-Size Planet
https://youtu.be/tqUtKNKD8UM

skilled intervention in fluid-solid phase transitions between solid rock and flowing particulate matter. Viewing cities as constitutively geological ... TADEAS

All living things depend on the conversion of substrates to energy in order to stay alive, grow and reproduce. In an analogous sense, technical systems do so as well. They metabolize certain forms of matter and energy in order to function and, through that, increasingly populate the earthly spheres, bringing with them their own extractive logic and tendency for exhaustion. Taken as a whole, this type of activity traces the industrial-scale technical metabolism that defines the technosphere’s actual extent: wherever inputs of food and fuel and the corresponding outflows of wastes and emissions manifest themselves, there is the technosphere at work.

How can one make this system-wide catalytic reaction of technologies, ecologies and humans tangible? Which socio-political consequences do shifts in metabolic cycles have, especially if they concern environmental changes and questions of access? How can the techno-metabolic system curb its almost insatiable appetite for resources and energy? This dossier explores how technological metabolisms are built and maintain themselves as evolutionary systems that draw together technological, biological and geochemical components whether in the form of cities, human ecologies, or energy economies.

Metabolic Systems
https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/dossier/984f1710-1b04-11e9-8771-b309205ce5bb

VLADIMIR VERNADSKY AND THE CO-EVOLUTION OF THE BIOSPHERE, THE NOOSPHERE, AND THE TECHNOSPHERE

Was Vernadsky a precursor to the post-Second World War Holocene-Anthropocene transition? Probably not. It is true that he had already prefigured ethical issues deriving from the ecological imbalances of man’s engagement with nature in a time when ecological concerns were banished under the Stalinist regime; but Vernadsky was thus censored, deformed, or ignored until very recently. However, if on the one hand he believed that changes and accelerations in the human technical system of labor and production can cause geological phenomena of huge significance, on the other his noosphere notion seems to coincide with the fulfillment of a new morality, a new rationality, and eventually the emergence of a new humanism. This does not resemble the catastrophic tone of Crutzen’s Geology of Mankind or, more in general, the idea of the Anthropocene that constantly reminds us about the damaging effects that humankind has had on the environment since at least the thermo-industrial revolution of the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, Vernadsky’s latest writings on the noosphere seem instead more optimistic with regard to humanity’s future use of scientific and technological knowledge.

https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/vladimir-vernadsky-and-the-co-evolution-of-the-biosphere-the-noosphere-and-the-technosphere

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Ussher deduced that the first day of creation was October 23, 4004 BC

TUHO: versus Usher chronology

The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Old Testament by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. The chronology is sometimes associated with young Earth creationism, which holds that the universe was created only a few millennia ago by God as described in the first two chapters of the biblical book of Genesis. Ussher's work fell into disrepute in the 19th century.

Ussher chronology - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology

vynalez geologickeho casu

Sci-Hub | The age of the Earth and the invention of geological time. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143(1), 137–143 | 10.1144/gsl.sp.1998.143.01.12
https://sci-hub.se/10.1144/gsl.sp.1998.143.01.12

TUHO: In 1795, Hutton developed and used his uniformitarian principle, that the geological processes at work now are key to understanding past geological activity. No more starting history of the world with the Biblical Genesis (though he did not say so). Hutton was perhaps first to think in terms of an earth system (1795:II, 540): “The system of this earth appears to comprehend many different operations; and it exhibits various powers co-operating for the production of those effects which we perceive.” He began his argument with a fact he stated was widely known: Land was formerly under water. The system which he built upon this fact was that the earth undergoes constant change. The final 27-page chapter of Volume 2 summarized the arguments in his treatise. He finally asked what forces could effect these changes, and on that, he had no answer.

Humanity has become a dominant force in shaping the face of Earth1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. An emerging question is how the overall material output of human activities compares to the overall natural biomass. Here we quantify the human-made mass, referred to as ‘anthropogenic mass’, and compare it to the overall living biomass on Earth, which currently equals approximately 1.1 teratonnes10,11. We find that Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020 (± 6), the anthropogenic mass, which has recently doubled roughly every 20 years, will surpass all global living biomass. On average, for each person on the globe, anthropogenic mass equal to more than his or her bodyweight is produced every week. This quantification of the human enterprise gives a mass-based quantitative and symbolic characterization of the human-induced epoch of the Anthropocene.

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5