{"id":51198,"date":"2023-11-09T13:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51198"},"modified":"2023-11-10T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:27:17","slug":"the-earth-is-humanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-earth-is-humanized\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth Is Humanized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been handed down from ancient Babylon. The calculation is correct: at 4.5 km\/h [2.8 mph], we could walk 108 km [67 miles] per day (and night), which comes to 39,420 kilometers [24,495 miles] in 365 days. That\u2019s just a few kilometers short of the modern measurement of the Earth\u2019s circumference. These numbers are like a shadow cast by the idea that the Earth\u2019s measurements correspond with human beings. We find this in other places, too. Marine biologist Susanna K\u00fcmmell points out that the surface currents of the world\u2019s oceans, as well as naturally flowing rivers and streams, move at a speed of 1\u20132.5 m\/s [2.2\u20135.6 mph]. That is the same speed that we human beings walk or run. Water, the blood of the Earth, flows as fast as we human beings move. So, it is not surprising that in most religions and spiritual practices, walking has a ritual significance. Modern cosmology also supports this idea in its claim that the Earth is so perfectly set up for the development of human life that it cannot possibly be a mere coincidence.<span id='easy-footnote-1-51198' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-earth-is-humanized\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-51198' title='Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, &lt;em&gt;Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe&lt;\/em&gt; (Springer, 2000).'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Joshua Kelberman<br><strong>Photo <\/strong>Andre Morales Kalamar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been handed down from ancient Babylon. The calculation is correct: at 4.5 km\/h [2.8 mph], we could walk 108 km [67 miles] per day (and night), which comes to 39,420 kilometers [24,495 miles] in 365 days. That\u2019s just a few kilometers short of the modern measurement of the Earth\u2019s circumference. These numbers are like a shadow cast by the idea that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":50559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8838],"tags":[11385,8819],"class_list":["post-51198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-time-issues","tag-2023-41-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}