UPDATE MAY 2006 / OCTOBER 2007 – ’THE YEAR THAT WAS IN IT’

NEW MARTIAN ERAS / GLOBAL WARMING / NEW EARTHS / NEW SYSTEM / Support Sites / Responses and Some Reflections
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Hi Everyone,
As you can see it's over a year since I've updated - due to several unforeseen factors: The re-classification of the 'items' of the Solar-System, the discovery of the closest thing yet to a new Earth, a variety of natural disasters, and, the most delaying factor of all, the loss of my laptop with no backup copies of anything on it, including all my research. But despite all that, here's what's new.

NEW SECTIONS: Mars Mission / Global Warming
UPDATED SECTIONS: The Super Earths / The Invisible Earths / About This Site
SUPPORT SITES: E7 / Earth7media

Mars Mission: http://www.theseventhearth.com/MM.htm
This section correlates the new geology of Mars, as revised by the information sent back from the recent batch of rovers and landers, to the premise of the site and integrates it with the earlier sections.

Global Warming: http://www.theseventhearth.com/global_warming.htm
This section relates this revised Martian history to the present Earth climate change and projected global warming scenarios.

The Super Earths: http://www.theseventhearth.com/40a-gliese.htm
This section explores the recent extra-solar observations and planet formation theories, and includes Gliese 581, the most Earth-like extra-solar planet so far found.

The Invisible Earths: http://www.theseventhearth.com/201_sedna.htm
This section now includes many of the new found objects, beyond Pluto, and the re-classification of the Solar System from last year.

About This Site: http://www.theseventhearth.com/about.html
This section is revised to define the site and outline my approach to it more clearly. It had a curious time on MySpace discussion forums, with some inevitably and predictably visceral responses, but in many ways it stood it's ground. The need to define it more specifically, and in what way to do so, became apparent from the forums. In response to those responses I have also
built two more sites;

'E7': http://www.e7.ie
'E7media': http://www.earth7media.com
These are support sites which begin to break the work up into more manageable bites. E7 is the bibliography and appendix website which will contain all my reserach and references and links to contemporary work in these fields. Earth7media is a site for the more reflective and fantasy based aspects of the concept.

I've quoted some of the discussion forum conversations below, but before them I've quoted some ideas that Douglas Adams expressed in the fourth Hitch-Hiker's book, which I think perfectly capture a fundamental dichotomy in what I am doing with my website.

Douglas Adams: 'So long, and thanks for all the fish' 1984

Wonko The Sane: 'I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what
you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. … The other reason I call myself Wonko The Sane is so that people will think I am a fool. That allows me to say what I see when I see it. You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

MySpace: Discussion Forum - Geology Rocks

Josiah: July 17, 2006 6:39 AM

I don't want to say that thinking outside the box is a bad thing, but you have to pay homage to … the likes of Alfred Wegener, S J Gould, Ewing, Einstein, Pasteur, etc. … It is really frustrating when pseudoscience comes along and declares a theory without ever putting it through rigorous scientific experimentation. ( see my definition in 'About This Site' in relation to pseudoscience )

RAY: Jul 20, 2006 9:07 Am/11:43 PM
( Ray Willcox is a Professional 'hardrock' Geologist, Structural Geologist and Exploration Geochemist from Spokane, Washington. U.S. ( Graduate of the University Of Texas at El Paso )

When I reflect on this ( above ), every one of those respected scientists thought 'outside the box.' And some of them were derided (i.e. dissed) and constantly ridiculed for doing so. … The first published advocate of continental drift paid a higher price, dying ( alone on an ice field, I believe
) before his theories were accepted. ... Keep rocking the boat. Right or wrong, it doesn't hurt to think creatively ...

If you are even partially correct, and if you live long enough, you will be honored by intense ridicule, violent opposition, and, finally, "Duh! That's patently obvious to the most casual observer," mumbled by munchkins, minions, and mindless cretins, all groping for idiosyncrasy.

Non illegitimi carborundrum!

WIKIPEDIA EDITORS DISCUSSION:

MICHAELBUSCH: April 8, 2007 6:02 PM

Given how many times this article has been deleted and reposted, should it be protected against recreation?

QUARL: April 12, 2007 7:26 AM

Hi Michaelbusch, thanks for your concern; actually when I said it had been deleted 6 times before it was an unsuccessful attempt at humour, referring to the thesis of the subject of the article that everything that happens on Earth has happened six times already.
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At least they get what I'm talking about.

I hope you'll find something interesting or thought provoking in the new sections of The Seventh Earth. Thanks for reading.

Alan Lambert

October 5 2007