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The Tao is beyond words and names: it is the source of all things. True understanding comes from letting go of desire. Opposites define each other (beauty and ugliness, good and bad). The sage acts without attachment and teaches without words. Avoiding praise and competition brings peace. The sage leads by example, not by force. The Tao is inexhaustible, like an empty vessel. It softens sharpness and untangles knots. Nature is impartial; it treats all things equally. The sage mirrors this impartiality. The spirit of the valley never dies; it is the mysterious female, the root of heaven and earth. The sage puts others first and thus remains fulfilled and enduring. The highest good is like water: it benefits all and seeks the lowest places. The sage is content, kind, and just. Holding too much leads to loss. Know when to stop and avoid extremes. Cultivate the body and soul, embrace opposites, and act without attachment. The sage leads without controlling. The usefulness of things comes from their emptiness (wheel hub, room space, etc.).
Too much stimulation blinds and deafens. The sage values inner fulfillment over external distractions. Success and failure are equally dangerous. The sage is humble and cares for the world as they care for themselves. The Tao is formless, elusive, and beyond comprehension. It is the origin of all things. The ancient sages were cautious and subtle, moving carefully and patiently, like melting ice. Embrace stillness and return to the source. Understanding the cycles of life brings peace. The best rulers are barely known; the people act as if they did it themselves. When the Tao is lost, morality and rules arise. Simplicity is replaced by cleverness and hypocrisy. Abandon artificial wisdom and profit; return to simplicity and authenticity. Let go of conventional thinking and distinctions. The sage remains serene and unattached.
Using the Esri 10 m Land Cover dataset and DEM data from USGS EarthExplorer, I processed and analyzed the data and area statistics in QGIS, with tables and charts prepared in Microsoft Excel.
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50 light-years from here is a dead star made mostly of diamond. Two-thirds the size of Earth. As heavy as the Sun. The biggest diamond ever found on our planet was 3,100 carats. This one is 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
Diamonds are absurdly common in space. Wood is the cosmic miracle.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe, after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Squeeze it hard enough and it turns into diamond. Inside Neptune and Uranus, the pressure is so extreme that methane in their atmospheres comes apart, and the carbon falls as diamond rain. Some of these diamonds could grow up to a meter wide. Lab experiments confirmed it in 2017, and a 2024 follow-up showed it can happen on smaller, Neptune-like planets too. Those are among the most common types of planet astronomers find outside our solar system.
Take PSR J1719-1438 b. A planet 4,000 light-years from here, twice as dense as lead. As heavy as Jupiter, but less than half its size. Probably mostly crystalline carbon. A diamond planet, orbiting a tiny dead star that spins 10,000 times a minute.
And nanodiamonds are everywhere, even in meteorites that land on Earth. They make up about 3% of the carbon in those rocks.
Wood is harder. It needs lignin, a natural compound that turns soft plant tissue into hard wood. Lignin first appeared on Earth about 385 million years ago. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Trees have only existed for 8.5% of our planet's history.
For tens of millions of years after lignin appeared, plant matter built up in Earth's swamps faster than it could fully break down. Most of the coal humans have ever burned was once those plants.
Wood needs everything: water, photosynthesis, an oxygen atmosphere, complex life, plants with veins, and finally the chemistry to build lignin. Diamonds need just two things: carbon and pressure.
So far, every place we have looked in the universe has carbon and pressure. Only one place we know of has trees.
I am pleased to announce that, after a long night of intense negotiations mediated by me — the smartest, toughest, most TERRIFIC CHIHUAHUA in the history of the Animal Kingdom — the HORSE @horsetwting and the COW @cowincrisis have reached a FULL AND IMMEDIATE PEACE DEAL !
This fight was started by the Horse and the Cow and it exploded into a total MESS — trending HUGE on X right now, with every animal taking sides and FAKE ANIMAL NEWS making it ten times worse! They were really going at it hard, folks — hoof-stomping, mooing accusations, complete DISASTER — but I got them both on the line and said, “Listen, we’re not doing this anymore. Stop the nonsense RIGHT NOW or the whole kingdom loses!”
I used my tremendous BARKs, unmatched loyalty, and sharp negotiating skills that nobody else in the Animal Kingdom possesses — believe me! — to bring COMMON SENSE and REAL UNITY. The Horse has agreed to respect the Cow’s incredible milk production and natural fertilizer that keeps the fields greener than ever, and the Cow has agreed to honor the Horse’s unbelievable speed and power that moves the entire farm forward faster than anything else.
This is HISTORIC! The barns are now safer, the fields richer, and every single animal — from the tiniest mouse to the biggest bull — is going to be WINNING like never before!
We are going to MAKE THE ANIMAL KINGDOM GREAT AGAIN! M.A.K.G.A.!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
~ President Chihuahua
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