Journal entry 4077:

We recently discovered an interesting planet called Earth. Earth is a small planet in a teeny tiny galaxy named "The Milky Way," which coincidentally, is also the name of Earth's best tasting candy treat. This planet appeared blue as we approached it, leading most of the biologists traveling with us to note that it seemed to be made of water. Upon further inspection, Earth is *mostly* water, yet there are great landscapes of ice, vegetation, desert, and concreted systems which earthlings call "cities."

You should see the life that exists on this planet. There is such an abundance of it, that it makes me wonder if earth is the higher power's Petri dish. It's as if the higher power were a chemist, a biologist, and a physicist, and that plants and animals grown in this earth laboratory were actually built for life on other planets in far off systems.

For example, the earth "horse" is very similar to our "spoarts," yet the earth horse lacks the single horn from its nose. The earth "dolphin" looks oddly similar to us, only the earth dolphin lives solely in water. We look forward to getting down to earth, and seeing if these water bound creatures are actually distant cousins of ours.

The colors on "Earth" are truly outstanding. The oceans from above have shades of blue that I didn't know existed. The atmosphere above the ocean is blue too, almost as if the ocean and the sky were one in the same. Some theorists on our voyage think that the sky and the water are different parts of the same system. This is cause for much debate amongst the scientists.

The people of earth call the non-water parts, "land." To the people of earth, or earthlings as the aliens in their science fiction movies call them, anything that isn't water is land, and thusly, only land is able to grow things. Yet, if you look down deeply into the darkest ocean on earth, you find land. And the land beneath this water is ever changing. You can see it in plain sight; red and orange shoots of molten earth seeps through tiny cracks in the ocean, creating a system of constant change.

You should see these large land masses from above. These large masses fit together in the most perfect of ways. It's obvious to everyone aboard the ship that these pieces are like pieces of a shattered puzzle, and that given enough time and enough seismic activity on the ocean floor, these pieces were once connected, and that life on this planet was connected in every single way imaginable. They were connected both geographically and genetically. And that each of single life form on this planet existed for the continuum of the planet.

The earth bred the bug. The bug fed off the earth and feeds the birds. The birds eat the bugs, defecate the bugs back onto the ground. The birds feed the snakes. Both the snakes and birds create eggs. These eggs are eaten by creatures called mice and rabbits, which are also eaten by birds and snakes. Humans, in their earliest forms at least, ate the rabbits and mice, and the birds if they could catch them, which was rare until chickens came along. Larger mammals such as cheetahs and wolves eat the birds, humans, and rodents. The largest of the mammals, at least the mammals on "land," eat basically whatever they want, whether they are large elephants, humans, other large creatures like themselves, birds, and whatever else it can eat through hunting and scavenging.

The cycle in the water is equally astounding, yet strikingly similar to the land based creatures. Shrimp to fish to larger fish to larger fish to an even bigger fish, or in some cases mammals.

But the beauty of this whole system is that it all comes back in a perfect 360 degree circle. The bug, created in earth and water, feeds the bird, which feeds the cat, which feeds the dog, which feeds the larger dog, which feeds the larger cat, which feeds the human (who unfortunately can't catch any of these animals without carefully constructed nets and weapons), which feeds the lion, which eventually dies and is decomposed in the earth with the help of bugs.

The irony of it all is that life on this planet is so abundant, that one dominant reptilian species, the dinosaurs as they're called, roamed the earth when these continental plates were interconnected, only to be wiped out by a rock sent from above, and replaced with the ecosystem that exists today between mammals, reptiles, fish, insects, amphibians, and birds.

And it doesn't take much imagination or objectivity to step back and view these large land masses as interconnected, and that the earth must have existed in a near perfect state of equilibrium for many, many years, Earth or otherwise.

I will write more after lunch.