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by: REBrammer
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The Human Mind 1. Intellect = Intelligence 2. Knowledge = Knowing 3. Wisdom = Wise enlightenment 4. Instinct = Impluse 5. Intuition =Insight 6. Cognitition = Highest level of the Brain 1. Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and
language, and learn.
Is the ability to reason or understand; power of thought; mental acumen. An intellectual is a person who has great mental abilities and intelligence. Such
persons usually have control over their instinctive nature, but may not be awakened to their higher intuitive nature.
Intellect by itself has two parts: rationality and intuition / insight.
The faculty of reasoning, knowing and thinking, as distinct from feeling; the understanding or mental powers of a particular person etc
Is the ability to maintain the mind and reach a state of prestige as a personal being relying on the clever use of reason and communication; unschooled
personal response. Compare Instinct.
Is the ability to learn and reason, the capacity for knowledge and understanding, the ability to think abstractly or profoundly. Intellectual intelligence
has forty-four faculties under, which you never discard. The five most essential mental faculties (Logic, Reason, Discrimination, Discretion and
Discernment) lead to spiritualized intelligence and understanding. Each grade of intellect will interpret according to its kind. 2. Knowledge Understanding gained by actual experience.
It is the result of learning. Knowledge is the internalization of information, data, and experience. Tacit Knowledge is the personal knowledge resident
within the mind, behavior and perceptions of individual members of the organization. Explicit Knowledge is the formal, recorded, or systematic knowledge
in the form of scientific formulae, procedures, rules, organizational archives, principles, etc., and can easily be accessed, transmitted, or stored in
computer files or hard copy.
It is the awareness and understanding of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning (a posteriori), or through introspection
(a priori). Knowledge is an appreciation of the possession of interconnected details which, in isolation, are of lesser value.
It is the act or condition of knowing something with a familiarity gained through experience or association. It means "to perceive directly", "to have
direct cognition", to "apprehend intellectually", "to acquire facts". 3. Wisdom is accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight ability to
apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight the quality of being prudent and sensible.
It is the result of learning and using knowledge for a strategic advantage. After gaining knowledge, wisdom is used to meet new situations. Wisdom resides
in the minds of the users.
Having experience, knowledge and understanding together with the power of applying all three with prudence, practicality, discretion and common sense; the
heart and center of proper moral and intellectual judgment. 4. Instinct is something below the conscious level. It is a impulse or a natural or inherent aptitude,inheritable and unalterable tendency of an
organism to make a specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason. 5. Intuition is knowledge or conviction gained by quick or ready insight.This faculty is attained from direct knowledge without evident rational thought
and inference. 6. Cognition is the conscious process of knowing or being aware of thoughts or perceptions, including understanding and reasoning. This High level
function is carried out by the human brain, including comprehension and use of speech, visual perception and construction, calculation ability, attention
(information processing), memory, and executive functions such as planning, problem-solving, and self-monitoring.
It is the mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. In view of the above description,
this term operates as a frame for a huge variety of activities and mental processes.
It is occasionally distinguished from perception, to denote "higher"-level abstractions. The term also carries the implication that these processes can be
described scientifically; example the use of the term "cognition" references the discipline of cognitive science and all of its elaborations.
Thoth [thought] was the scribe of the Gods, and to the Greeks, he was Hermes (Magic). When the Sun God "Ra" spoke and Thoth had written the
the words down,they became the Truth (Matter) and the people yelled..."Amen to Ra". From the Greek = Hydro (water) Hydrogen is estimated to make up more than 90% of all
the atoms or three quarters of the mass of the universe. This element is found in the stars, and plays an important part in powering the universe through
both the proton-proton reaction and carbon-nitrogen cycle -- stellar hydrogen fusion
processes that release massive amounts of energy by combining Hydrogen to form Helium. It takes 4 hydrogen nuclei to form helium. The amount of energy needed to bind them
is equal to the amount of energy lost in the
binding process which would explain why helium is 99.3% as heavy as the four hydrogen nuclei that formed them. Weight = 1.00797 x 4 = 4.03188. 4.00264 divided by 4.03188 = 99.27% The energy loss is what heats "Baby" Stars as they form from compressing hydrogen clouds. Electro magnetic forces ensure that this "Energy" heats the core of a Star to produce enough outward pressure to exactly balance
gravitation. This energy is "Centrifugal" force and has the meaning of fleeing from the center. It is equal in magnitude but opposite to the
centripetal force. The evolution of the Universe is governed by "Gravity". Gravity is also "Centripetal" force and has the meaning of moving towards
the center. Galaxy's have spiral arms that contain gravitational fields that attract, compress and condense these gases. As compression
continues the colossal temperature of 10 million degrees is reached. At this temperature a nuclear reaction begins and thus the birth of a Star. Once you make "Iron", no more energy can be derived from fusion...a few small
reactions may take place to delay the end...but eventually all possible fuels run out. The main reason why we have Red blood, is because it is Iron based. If we lived on a copper based Planet our blood would surly be Green.
As this is happening the lighter elements are allowed to flee the star altogether...
in a "Stupendous" explosion. This violent explosion now sends shock waves throughout the Galaxy having the desired effect on other objects based upon their
composition and magnitude. Two of the best known Red Giants are, Betelgeuse at a distance of 425 light years and Antares, at 600 light years
distance from Earth. Lighter gases which include heavy (proton) nuclei, radioactive nuclei, unstable nuclei, various rays, and cosmic rays are thrown
into space with enough force to rock and roll almost all matter it comes in contact with. Some of these protons can have a life span of over 1 million years. Galaxies operate much in the same fashion as the human body. Compare a Star to a proton (large and positive), a white planet to an electron (small and
negitive) and the neutron to a black planet (larger than the combined proton and electron, yet neutral). Where black planets differ from white planets is a matter of the total mass of the star before the explosion. Where as Stars of normal or average mass
throw their lighter gases and heavy proton into space; over-weight "Super" massive stars like Sirius "A" burst inward as a result of the external pressure
being greater than the internal pressure. Resulting black holes do not emit any light or radio waves but are radio active, and emit a new sort of radiation along the lines of gravitational waves.
Much like neutrons' lack of charge and long lifetime, they minimized the effect of all forces except gravity which is the reason that all masses accelerate
equally in a gravitational field. This set-up could also confirm the electrical neutrality of neutrons and how they force things to stick together. Without balance objects in space would
spiral out of control like a Cancer of Astronomical proportions. The Sun in our solar system will last for 4 to 5 billion years. Then this Star will
run out of hydrogen to fuse and it will itself
grow into a red giant star. All the planets including the Earth will be shoved away and ordered by attraction to the next nearest Star or Star group. By
that time some form of intelligence
will have spread from Earth far out into the Galaxy, or even to other galaxies. Other Solar Systems have gone thru the Red Giant stage and exploded near our System.
The only way the companion star can be both hot and dim is to be small, about the size
of Earth. The two orbit each other with a 50-year period at an average distance of 20 Astronomical Units (the AU the average distance between the Earth and
the Sun), the orbital eccentricity carrying it from 31 AU to 8 AU and back again. From the orbit, we find that the little one has about the mass of the Sun.
Called a hot white planet, it is the end product of an ordinary star like our Sun = Ra, having run out of nuclear fuel. About 13,000 years ago "Sirius B"
itself, was at the end of it's own Red Giant stage and was actually much more massive and brilliant than "Sirius A" is today. There are also thought to be a "Sirius C" and a "Sirius D" in the Canis Major solar system. These two additions are nothing more than normal planets like
the ones we have in our Solar System. There is a tribe in West Africa called the Dogons that believe that some form of human life came from one of these
planets after being forced to leave by the onset of the up coming nova of "Sirius B". A more radical group feels that modern man arrived here on Earth from this Canis Solar System. Another interesting item is Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy which just happens to be the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. In fact the Milky Way is building up its own disk (by 1%) by absorbing portions of this smaller galaxy. Is this another method of adding planets and moons to a solar system? One can only wonder what the effects would be, if we were to aquire a new planet next to Earth! It is now possible. Most Planets are balls of Iron, carbon and oxygen whose fates are merely to cool forever. These balls of Iron are what we call
"Planets". The core of "Earth" is probably composed
mostly of iron (or nickel/iron) though it is possible that some lighter elements may be present, too. Temperatures at the center of the core may be as high as 7500 K, hotter than the surface of the
Sun. The lower mantle is probably mostly silicon, magnesium and oxygen with some iron, calcium and aluminum. The upper mantle is mostly olivene and pyroxene (iron/magnesium silicates), calcium and
aluminum. We know most of this only from seismic techniques; samples from the upper mantle arrive at the surface as lava from volcanoes but the majority of the Earth is inaccessible. The crust is
primarily quartz (silicon dioxide) and other silicates like feldspar. Taken as a whole, the Earth's chemical composition (by mass) is: The Earth
is thought to be the densest major body in our solar system. Earth as
well as Mars and the other planets goes thru "obliquity cycles" -- the tilt of its spin axis -- is known to increase and decrease between about 15 degrees
and 35 degrees due to the effects of
Supernovas. In my
model, as Earths' axial tilt increases, the warmth of each polar region's summer naturally increases -- and this causes much of its water ice to "sublimate"
(evaporate directly from ice into vapor),
greatly increasing Earths' atmospheric humidity. The balance of this ice melt increases the levels of both fresh and salt water sources in previously low
water
areas. Much of this increasing atmospheric water vapor then freezes back onto Earths' surface as snow or frost in a newly
wintered zone -- and while most of this winter ice cover naturally evaporate back into the air each summer, there are some patches of Earths' middle and
high latitudes that remain cold enough on a year-round basis that the new surface ice steadily
accumulates there (the so-called "cold traps"). But then --
as the next stage of the obliquity cycle occurs and Earths' axial tilt starts to shrink again -- these high-latitude areas cool down again, and the extra
carbon dioxide is once again absorbed back
into Earths' soil and subsurface, lowering its air pressure again to its current tiny level (or even lower, during those period when Earths' obliquity is
less than its current 23.4 degrees). So any liquid water near the surface refreezes -- and then, as the air pressure drops lower, the ice "sublimates"
back into vapor and then refreezes only at or near the polar caps. This effect can be seen on Mars and also explains its surface. Mars in it's current
state, is devoid of all surface liquid water but is ready to reawaken when the obliquity next increases or decreases. In the year 1054 A.D., Chinese astronomers were startled by the appearance of a new star, so bright that it was
visible in broad daylight for several weeks. Today, the Crab Nebula is visible at the site of that bright star. Located about 6,500 light-years from Earth,
the Crab Nebula is the remnant of a star that began its life with about 10 times the mass of our Sun. Its life ended on July 4, 1054 when it
exploded as a supernova.
Interestingly the Native American "Cahokia" Indian culture in Illinois (eight miles east of St. Louis) had their own 'big bang' with a sudden cultural and literal population explosion
that same year. This is when they became mound builders and worshipped the Solar God. The "Little
Ice Age”, lasting from about 1350 A.D. to about 1850 A.D., was characterized by advances of mountain glaciers in most parts of the world and
occasional spells of unusually cold winters in North
America, Europe, and Asia. We commonly see European paintings from the 18th century that depict ice-covered rivers and lakes that have not been frozen
for a life-time! In northern Canada, permanent
snow fields developed, as seen in the age distribution of lichens growing on rocks. Note the 400 mile long, 50 miles wide "Great Valley of California". At one time it had 6000 feet of Ice and
Snow to weight it down because it was our last North-Pole. But thanks to Axial-tilt, it is now the most populated state in America.
Once the last valley glacier melted about 10,000 years ago, a large lake, Lake Yosemite, covered the valley floor. The lake was 9 miles long and a maximum of a few hundred feet deep. Ultimately, a combination of sediment deposition and erosion at the western end of the lake by the Merced River led to the disappearance of Lake Yosemite. The other
part of the dome was ground up by the glacier and carried away. Some of it is probably down in the San Joaquin Valley of California, helping to fertilize all those crops. That head of lettuce or that
grape you ate today may have been fertilized by the soils ground up from the other half of Half Dome. Along its 350-mile journey from the Sierra to the Delta through the southern Central Valley, the San Joaquin River drops 13,000 feet,crosses seven counties. The main stem of the Sacramento River is more than 400 miles in length, stretching from its headwater in the mountains above Lake Shasta to the huge Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The North Fork of the American River cuts through one of the deepest, most spectacular canyons in the Sierra Nevada, while the South Fork is one of the West’s most popular whitewater destinations. If our current world glaciers were to melt, the Great Valley would fill up to become a oceanic bay within the coastline and Sutter Buttes... (Spirit Mountain) would be an inland island.
California's sites of Geologic interest are: Nevada's Ice Age Lake covered much of Nevada and northeast California after the last Ice Age. Lake Lahontan was a vast,
mountain-rimmed, fresh-water lake that reached its peak about 12,700 years ago, as the melting ice, marking the end of the most recent ice age, added to
its volume. Six separate rivers including the East and West Walker Rivers flowed toward the central basin. Then, the waters covered some 8,665 square miles,
reached its high stand at an elevation of 4390 ft above sea level centered on what is now known as the Carson Sink and near by Walker Lake and Pyramid Lake.
Around this time, "Early Man" made their re-appearance in the area. As the weather continued to warm and the lake receded, some of the humans gravitated
around its shores. "Coincidentally", the woolly mammoths and other large mammals that had populated the area from the previous ice age and intervening warm
periods ("interglacials") suddenly became extinct. The humans, animals and the lake itself left much evidence of their presence in the now-remote Nevada
desert, beckoning to be explored. Earth's
oldest living inhabitant "Methuselah" at 4,767 years, has lived more than a millennium longer than any other tree. White-Inyo mountain range of California is located in east central California just
north of Death Valley, and on the western edge of the Great Basin, the White Mountains rise to a respectable altitude of 14,246 feet.
Bristlecones don't grow very tall, 60 ft. at the most, but usually much less. Girth of the largest one, the Patriarch is 36' 8", and this tree is relatively young at 1,500 years. The average age is
about 1,000 years with only a few over 4,000 years. The oldest trees grow on outcrops of dolomite an alkaline calcareous substrate of low nutrient but of higher moisture content than the
surrounding sandstone. As Earth's "End of the World" starkly illustrates, the continent at the bottom of the world is covered by an immense ice sheet. Over 95% of the continent is covered by layers of ice, immense bulks sometimes almost three miles thick. An estimated 70% of the planet's fresh water is locked up in those frozen crystals. When California was the "North Pole" the continent Antarctica enjoyed a warm tropical climate that supported a wide array of wonderful animals. Many researchers do not really understand the mechanics of the "Obliquity Cycles" as they relate to SuperNovas. The Mayans had a "Great Cycle of the Long Count" of 13 Baktuns or 5,125.36 years with the last cycle happening on August 13, 3114 BC. If you believe in this "Stuff" then the next event will occur on December 21, 2012. Good Luck! Just go with the flow. Check your topographical maps. Follow the elevation line that corresponds to the latest predicted rise in ocean elevation. Also build yourself a giant, well insulated floating box. I am said to have made it my concern "to espouse unusual and unproved theories". Perhaps there is truth to this, but is such a view, that truth is a matter of rhetoric, that the facts are rarely simply the facts as presented, but that those presentations of facts are always interlarded with interpretation, to be condemned? Once in a moment of despair I wrote in my diary... "Metaphorically speaking there was nothing left to me but backbone and fists." "We shall fight on,"... I said on the last-day of the year 1880. To travel
across space is relatively easy as long as you have a good means of transport but due to the distance between two places the length of the trip can go into years. To travel
to our nearest star would take 4.3 years and that is if you are traveling at the speed of light. This speed which in space is 299,792,458 metres per second or 186,202 miles per second. Called the
speed of light it is a kind of cosmic speed limit against which all other velocities may be measured. More generally, light is part of what is called the electro magnetic spectrum, which includes
infrared radiation, radio waves, gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, and so on. All of
these are a form of light; they just have energies that differ from the visible light that our eyes can see. Thus, these forms of electromagnetic radiation all travel at the speed of light
too. While time
and space appear somehow "on equal rights" it is impossible to construct a valid time observable in quantum mechanics. One theory
suggest that as you approach the speed of the electromagnetic spectrum, object compress or shorten to the length of a point where time stops, thus distorting the time required to travel in
space. The passage
between two points seems shorter than the original. A four year journey may turn into one hour or only the time required to accelerate and decelerate the correct
speed. We have no problem believing that someday or sometime in the future we will have the ability to travel to other "Solar
Systems" and "Planets". Why then should we have a problem believing we have not already done this before in the past. Who is to say we are not the
little "Green Men"? With the small except we are not little and we are not green and we also have woman!
The "Visible Universe" has over 100 billion galaxies containing over 2000 billion billion stars. This would mean you could have close to 500 million life zones. We tend to think in terms of water-based life.
The life forms that we are familiar with are dependent on water. Water is made of small, plentiful atoms and water, often in the form of ice, is abundant in the universe.
GENESIS 6:1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters
of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days
shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those
were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. The "fallen ones" (fallen angels) unable to return to heaven (space) not of the human race, cast down to hell (earth). Take, for example, the legend of the Titans. In Greek mythology, the Titans were a family of giant gods who were the offspring of Uranus (Sky) and
Gaea
(Land). The most famous of the Titans was Cronus (Sun), who castrated (severed from) and later killed his father.Once Cronus had castrated Uranus, he and
his wife Rhea took the throne. Under their power a time of harmony and prosperity began, which became known as the "Golden Age"; a time when it was said that people lived
without greed or violence, and without toil or the need for laws. But not all was well for Cronus, as it was fated that he would be overthrown by one of his
own children. To prevent this from happening he began to swallow his newborn, taking them at birth then swallowing them whole, retaining them inside his
own body where they could do him no harm. Cronus led the Titans in their hopeless war against Zeus and the Olympian gods. After their defeat, the Titans were imprisoned in a section of the
underworld called Tartarus. Did something really happen in space to inspire the first scribes to tell such stories? If so, then Sirius B, "The Pup" would make a good "Fallen Star".
Egyptain chronology depends on the Sothic Cycle (Thoth Cycle) as it relates to the heliacal rising of the "Dog Star" Sirius A. It is said that this cycle
is equal to 1461 years and is the length of time it takes Sirius to return to it's point of orgin. What ever happen...it was big enough to be remembered! It will happen again. The worst natural disaster in recorded history is no joke! Not if, but when the Earth shifts again over 15 quadrillion gallons of water will be added to the worlds water supply. All things considered, this
would raise the Ocean level by about 250 feet.Every major river in American would flow backwards with thousands of low elevation cities literally vanishing
from sight. More than 300 million people will perish. Below is a real picture from deep space (red circles added by me). Representing about one-tenth of space,there are about 600,000 galaxies in this cluster.
A Star is Born
The following analogy is of the author's opinion; many of the ideas, sentences or words are taken
from others, but the final theme and
conclusions are of his own creation.
The Atom who makes Stars, don't follow em!
The "Truth of Matter" is there is
enough inter stellar gas to produce 10,000 million new stars and a large enough supply to last 100 billion years?
In the Beginning...Star Wars
In physics, the proton is a subatomic particle with a positive fundamental electric charge of 1.6 × 10-19 coulomb, a mass of 938 MeV (1.6726231
× 10-27 kg, or about 1800 times that of an
electron) and a half-life of about 1033 years.
The electron is a subatomic particle. It has a negative electric charge of -1.6 × 10-19 coulombs, and a mass of about 9.10 × 10-31 kg
(0.51 MeV/c2).
In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 940 MeV ( slightly more than a proton & electron). Magnetic
fields which have no effect on neutrons.
Hydrogen Atomic Number: 1
Atomic Symbol: H
Atomic Weight: 1.0079
Electron Configuration: 1s1
Hydrogen is the most abundant of all elements in the universe.
Helium Atomic Number: 2
Atomic Symbol: He
Atomic Weight: 4.00260
Electron Configuration: 1s2
Next...In time a Star will run out of Hydrogen and when this happens it becomes a "Red Giant" as it's remaining Helium burns to
form Carbon and Oxygen.
Carbon Atomic Number: 6
Atomic Symbol: C
Atomic Weight: 12.011
Electron Configuration: [He]2s22p2
Oxygen Atomic Number: 8
Atomic Symbol: O
Atomic Weight: 15.9994
Electron Configuration: [He]2s22p4
Next...Carbon fuses into Neon and Magnesium.
Neon Atomic Number: 10
Atomic Symbol: Ne
Atomic Weight: 20.179
Electron Configuration: [He]2s22p6
Magnesium Atomic Number: 12
Atomic Symbol: Mg
Atomic Weight: 24.305
Electron Configuration: [Ne]3s2
Next...Oxygen burns to Silicon and Sulfur.
Silicon Atomic Number: 14
Atomic Symbol: Si
Atomic Weight: 28.086
Electron Configuration: [Ne]3s23p2
Sulfur Atomic Number: 16
Atomic Symbol: S
Atomic Weight: 32.06
Electron Configuration: [Ne]3s23p4
Next...Neon, Magnesium, Sulfur and the rest fuse to form = Iron.
Iron Atomic Number: 26
Atomic Symbol: Fe
Atomic Weight: 55.847
Electron Configuration: [Ar]4s23d6
Next...without this energy loss, the Star can no longer support it's own Mass, thus
Gravity sends orders to the surface telling
the heavier elements to move toward the center.
Because it has run out of fuel, the star begins
to cool, and contract. The outer layers of the star fall inwards under gravity,
and as they fall they heat up. A shell surrounding the central core becomes hot enough to fuse protons into alphas. So the star gains a new source of energy.
The core of the star is now hotter than
it was during its normal life and this heat causes the outer parts of the star to swell. The star becomes a giant. The radiation from the fusing shell has
grown weak by the time it reaches the
surface of the star. Weak radiation is red, so the star becomes a Red Giant.
Super Nova
Black holes and gravitational waves
Black holes are not really holes at all but are rather black planets and like white planets; are the end -end product of the "death" of a Star.
They are believed to exist at the heart of spiral galaxies throughout the Universe to play a critical role in the recycling of matter.
Next...what will happen...already has happened.
The Dog Star... Canis Major Constellation
"Sirius A", the Dog Star,only 8.6 light years away,
is the brightest star in the night sky at mag -1.44 (23 times more than the Sun) and it dominates the constellation of Canis Major. Canis Major, the
"Big Dog" is one of Orion's hunting dogs.
"Sirius A" is a binary star; with what experts call a white dwarf as a companion, named "Sirius B" or the Pup. It
is an eight-magnitude (8.44), visually some 10,000 times fainter, the Pup star that is separated from "Sirius A" by only a couple of
arc seconds making it difficult to observe in a telescope because of the primary's great brilliance.
Even better yet, is the fact that the cannibalised Canis Major galaxy not only contributes the outer reaches of the Milky Way but may also have passed close to our own Sun in the past and may possibly pass by again.
This rock from Mars landed on Earth 13,000 years ago.
34.6% Iron
29.5% Oxygen
15.2% Silicon
12.7% Magnesium
2.4% Nickel
1.9% Sulfur
0.05% Titanium
Our
World
Obliquity of Earth
Tilt of axis = 23.4 degrees
Obliquity of Mars
Tilt of axis = 25 degrees
American
Ice Age
California...the North Pole!
The "Ice Age" of the Pleistocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period in California lasted
for about 15,000 years, from approximately 28,000 years ago until roughly 13,000 years ago.
Half Dome towers 4737 feet above the Yosemite valley floor. This massive granite formation was torn in half by "Glacier" movement.Half Dome was
once a full dome, until ice filled a flaw in it, expanded in the crack and sheared off a piece that one big glacier then dragged along in its westward
path.
The Diversity of California’s Rivers makes them a fascinating resource to study. Seven Major Hydrologic Basins translate 80 minor rivers dominated by the 3 largest of greater importance with all eventually flowing into San Francisco Bay.
Death Valley is unique because it contains the lowest, hottest, driest location at 282 feet below sea level in North America. Soon after our last glaciation period over 10,000 years ago this valley included a lake about 600 feet deep. 
Lake Lahontan 
Mt. Whitney opposite of Death Valley is the highest point in the continental US at 14,491 feet above sea level.
The Ancient Bristle cone Pine
The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), are also found in the Sierra Nevada in central California. General Sherman is 274.9 feet height and 102.6 feet
circumference at ground. These trees age up to 3200 years. Giant Sequoia groves generally ranges from 4,590 to 7.050 feet elevation. Grown from a seed no bigger than one from a tomato,and related to the coast redwood (Sequoia semperviren) which grow to a height of 367 feet.
End of the World
Ours is a planet of extremes, Antarctica has no equals. Indeed, it is a triple-crown winner, simultaneously holding the records for planet Earth's coldest, driest, and windiest place.
Climatic Catastrophes
Polar ice caps melting and your local plumber is on vacation?... Dam it!
[by]IGNATIUS DONNELLY AND THE END OF THE WORLD
Deep Space Travel
When all Hell breaks loose
The
Problem Of Time in Quantum Mechanics
NOTE: There is also the option as in the case of dwarf galaxy...Canis Major, in which it came to us, saving the need to travel anywhere!
GENESIS 6 - WHO WERE "THE SONS OF GOD"?
Fuel for the Imagination
Star Wars
Flood displaces millions of People
Goodby Florida...
