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What are our place in the history of Cosmos?

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If we ask what we humans are, we of course have to compare us with something. If we compare us to other animals we can see differences and similarities. If we compare ourselves to rich and beautiful people at the net, we may see our faults. But if we compare us to the cosmos? What are our connection to it? We may think that we are small or nearly nothing. Or we may think that God made us to look like him. Or we may think that the universe  was made to make us, an anthropocentric view. We are made of stardust from an exploding supernova, but put together we are more than the sum of that dust. It seems that the universe was made do create life in some parts of it. In the beginning of the big bang it was really chaos. But after billions of years there more order, at least on our place. Complex lifeforms have evolved here and complex places like big cities There might be that the Universe was made to create intelligent creatures that could help the universe to understand

Gotland waiting for rain - perspectives on climate change

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There were quite many insects at my land when I visited it in the end of July. Bumblebees, beetles and butterflies. But the swallows where few and flew high up in the air, not over the field as they used to do. There  were not many other kind of birds either. Probably had the hot and dry weather made it hard for them. And not any nearby lakes to drink from. The flowers that were there was thistles and other flowers that could stand the drought. But that was enough, for instance, for many butterflies. But mosciotos, that swallows like, were very few.... Gotland, the island at the east of the mainland in Sweden, is a place that probably will have just a little rain in the future, because of the climate change. But the whole of Sweden has this summer had temperatures like in the countries by the Mediterranean sea. Huge forest fires have started and we have had help from water bombing planes from other European countries. Climate change knows no boarders, There are