Life Story

Congratulations you are alive!This is the adventure story of Life the ultimate survivor. It is an account of the never-ending battle life wages against competing organisms the great accidents of existence in the solar system and the meteorological and geothermic events of a young planet. This is how life fought its way through unimaginable challenges and how it will do so again.So far life has endured five mass extinctions and a global warming event. You carry a survival kit that has protected you from fire flood famine and poisoning. You are made of stardust that is 13.8 billion years old. You are a home a partner and a life support system to billions of organisms surrounded by your fellow survivors.This is a story of big numbers: billions of stars neurons genes cells eggs spores and connections. Life has taken an unfathomable amount of time to reach this point overcoming catastrophe after catastrophe with a mix of luck and remarkable engineering. Every living thing around you and within you is both a refugee from countless disasters and a testament to resilience and adaptation.The gift of evolution has bestowed humanity with great intelligence and with great intelligence comes great responsibility.