Not a lot new going on around here. Well, I guess we do have quite a bit of new carbon dioxide being made. Now, as well as while I slept, my lungs continued to suck in oxygen and blow out new carbon dioxide into the environment. In every twenty four hour period of regular living, a person sucks and blows on an average, more than 28,800 times. Most without any effort or thought. Amazing isn't it. I'm thinking about it now and I'm just as thankful as I can be for all the friends and relatives out there who are still sucking and blowing. A few of them are like me and have the ability to blow way more than they suck. Even typing can be a form of blowing, or so I've been told.
We're all still taking it in and blowing it out, doing our part in helping the trees grow. To show us their thankfulness they return the favor by kicking back to us new oxygen. It seems everything runs in a cycle of some sort.
The average adult at rest inhales and exhales something like about one-fourth of a cubic foot of air per minute. That totals around 2,800 cubic feet in a day.
The air that is inhaled is about 20-percent oxygen, unless you're in or near a nasty city, and the air that is exhaled is about 15-percent oxygen, so about 5-percent of the volume of air is consumed in each breath and converted to carbon dioxide. Therefore, a human being uses about 150 cubic feet of pure oxygen per day.
It’s a simple and indisputable Fact that Oxygen is necessary to sustain a Healthy life! Clinical studies show that a human being can live for days without water, and weeks without food but without Oxygen biological death begins to occur within three minutes. Oxygen is the miraculous element that permits life to exist and flourish on earth!
You do know that trees grow twice as fast in or very near a nasty city? I guess there is a lot more people sucking and blowing there. Lots of automobiles and the like contribute too, I suspect.
I don't know where I got all this stuff so don't know who or what to credit. I doubt that has caused anyone too worry much?
No snow yesterday despite the forecast and warnings. The forecasters 80% chance of snow used the other 20% of his forecast that he didn't mention. Does that mean, tho he didn't mention it, that his forecast was correct.
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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.~Linda Hogan
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