The wealthy around the world will spend millions of dollars on private submarines, following Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, The Times reports.

According to the publication, in the period from 2019 to 2020, it was about the sale of 15 to 25 submarines, however, this number is expected to double in 2021. According to representatives of the three leading submarine manufacturing companies, next year the market will be estimated at 75 million pounds.

Among the first buyers of deep-sea vessels were the owner of Chelsea Football Club Roman Abramovich, the late Microsoft founder Paul Allen and the Emir of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa Al Nahyan.

Roy Heijdra of the Dutch company U-Boat Worx noted that wealthy people increasingly want their yachts to be specially equipped for exploration, not just luxury holidays. According to him, ten vessels were sold in 2020 worth up to £ 2.2 million each. Among them was the Nemo model, which is estimated at 875 thousand pounds, has a height of 2.8 meters and can dive to a depth of more than 90 meters with two people on board.

In turn, the executive director of the Florida company Triton, Bruce Jones, said that compared with the previous year sales of submarines this year rose by almost a third, despite the pandemic coronavirus. At the moment, he has about five orders that need to be completed by the beginning of 2021.

Just 300 kilometers south of the equator is the highest point in Africa, the potentially active stratovolcano Kilimanjaro, which covers an area of ​​more than 390 hectares. But as a free-standing mountain, the climatic zones of which become less and less like a terrestrial landscape as it rises, Kilimanjaro is especially notable as an incubator for isolated, mutated or rare species that are almost never found anywhere else. 

Recently, on one of the slopes, scientists discovered plants of a prehistoric forest. They grew on Earth a million years ago.

Senecio kilimanjari is a giant plant. It has practically not changed over the past million years, dinosaurs once roamed in the same forests. The territory of the giant groundwort begins at an altitude of 3000 meters. There is less rainfall and therefore the prehistoric forest is not so dense. This only further emphasizes the monumentality of the giant plants standing separately from each other, capable of growing up to 5-7 meters.

To survive in such a harsh environment – high in the mountains, temperatures regularly drop below zero during the night – the plants have developed water accumulation in the core of the stem, the movement of nyctinous leaves (which means that the leaves close when the temperature drops too much), natural ‘antifreeze “And self-isolation due to wilted and dead foliage (one of the reasons terrestrial plants look so strange).

The prehistoric forest rises to about 4,300 meters. Above the slopes of Kilimanjaro, only a barren alpine desert begins, ending in a colossal glacier at the very top of the stratovolcano.

What is happening on planet earth? In recent years, the behavior of the earth seems to want to eliminate from its body those elements that hurt it! These parasites are us humans.

Scientists claim that the uncontrolled and unhindered activity of man in the last century has radically changed the normal course of natural mechanisms, with the result that humanity is now at the most dangerous point in its history: one step before disaster! And in this catastrophe he will drag with him the whole plant and animal kingdom; and all this according to the researchers, because man distorted his relationship with his natural home.

The sacred relationship with the great goddess, Gaia

Could one imagine the Earth, our planet, as a living organism that is part of a more general whole – a more complex system – in which it exists and evolves? According to many scientists the answer is yes! The Earth is governed by the rules that prevail in the Universe and in turn imposes its own rules on the creatures that live in it.

There is a more general system of law and order within which the celestial bodies move and other smaller systems of rules that prevail on Earth. Everything is related to a degree to each other, since they are part of a more general whole. Any uncontrolled variation in this correlation causes a series of chain reactions.

The above “shape” may seem oversimplified, but it tries to explain its international trend of the new Ecology. That is, the approach that in recent years has been attempted mostly by members of ecological organizations, emphasizing that ecological consciousness is a matter of self-knowledge and ethics. But what will happen if man does not restore his relationship with Nature – or even what is left of it? But of course, that even in an ancient tragedy, when man seeks to transcend God himself. The insult we commit every day towards Nature itself will mark the beginning of our end. The beginning of the change of our planet and the species that live on it. In a few decades nothing will be as we know it. Or has this already happened?

Earth and Sanctuary

Mankind’s myths about the beginning of the Universe are not a simple explanation of natural phenomena. If all the myths are compared, a wonderful model will emerge: the collective memory of humanity. Myths are her dreams. And these dreams are another form of reality, perhaps the one that is most difficult to explain. However, through these myths we can understand the sacred relationship of humans with Nature. A relationship that has been lost in recent centuries, but not completely…

In the beginning of the world, Heaven and Earth had not separated. Then came the female deity Izanami and the male Izanagi. They stood on the floating bridge of Heaven and began to stir the Ocean with a harpoon adorned with gems, until they cooled and the first island, Okonoro, was created. On this island they built a house with a central stone pillar which is the backbone of the world. Izanami walked in one direction around the pole and Izanagi in the other. When they met face to face, they got married…

The history of Izanagi and Izanami is part of Shinto, Japan’s oldest religion. At the beginning of the year chaos reigned and this chaos was in the shape of a chicken egg. Inside the egg were Yin and Yang, the two opposite substances that make up the Universe. Yin and Yang are darkness and light, female and male, cold and hot, wet and dry. One day, the conflicting elements broke the egg. The deepest elements sank, forming the Earth, and the lightest floated to form the Uranus. Between Earth and Heaven was Pan-ku, the first being. Every day for 18,000 years, Earth and Uranus moved away and Pan-ku grew so large that it filled the gap between them.

According to ancient Chinese philosophy, all things combine the two opposites, yin and yang. Yin is negative, cold dark, heavy and feminine, while Yank is positive, bright, warm and masculine. The symbol of Yin and Yang is the diagram of an egg, divided into yolk and white, into darkness and light, into Yin and Yang.

The dream time, in which the parallel world that surrounds us moves, is the time of the Shamans. It’s the time of the Aboriginal Australians, the Indigenous people of Oceania. In their own explanation of the world, the Earth was originally a plain. Everything was dark. There was no life or death. The Sun, the Moon and the stars also slept, until they finally woke up from their own eternity and emerged on the surface. When the eternal ancestors arose, wandered the Earth, sometimes in the form of an animal, sometimes in the form of a human, sometimes in the form of an animal and man and plant; in parallel with the myths of creation, all the peoples of the world of the great Flood.

The memory of the “great flood” passed into the myths of the world and was recorded in the collective unconscious. To the Greeks with the myth of Deucalion and Pyra, in India with the fish that caught the boat of Manos, in the Persian tradition with the “bar”, an underground cave in which Gima entered to be saved, in the Koran with his prayer Allah to the Earth. The Eskimos, the Lithuanians, the Welsh, the Aztecs and the Maya also refer to the great catastrophe. A catastrophe that all peoples attributed to God, to Nature and whose causes were the severance of the sacred relationship between man and God. Something similar to the situation that prevails today; but the most important of all is that, comparing the traditions of the peoples, one realizes that, in addition to collective memory, there is a common mind and a common course for humanity as a whole. In this sense, what happens on Earth has a positive or negative effect on us and the system to which we belong.

The memory of the “great flood” passed into the myths of the world and was recorded in the collective unconscious. To the Greeks with the myth of Deucalion and Pyra, in India with the fish that caught the boat of Manos, in the Persian tradition with the “bar”, an underground cave in which Gima entered to be saved, in the Koran with his prayer Allah to the Earth. The Eskimos, the Lithuanians, the Welsh, the Aztecs and the Maya also refer to the great catastrophe. A catastrophe that all peoples attributed to God, to Nature and whose causes were the severance of the sacred relationship between man and God. Something similar to the situation that prevails today; but the most important of all is that, comparing the traditions of the peoples, one realizes that, in addition to collective memory, there is a common mind and a common course for humanity as a whole. In this sense, what happens on Earth has a positive or negative effect on us and the system to which we belong.

Universal forces

As media around the world deal with the greenhouse effect and the ozone hole, many scientists – their numbers have grown over the last decade – look even further and try to explain what is happening on Earth, describing phenomena recorded in the universe. After all, our planet is only a small part of our solar system, which in turn belongs to one of the millions of galaxies that are in constant motion. The balances that are created but also the relationships between all these celestial bodies are subtle.

According to a recent study by British scientists, the increase in temperature on Earth is related to the Sun. Professor Eugene Parker of the University of Chicago Laboratory of Astrophysics and Space Research believes the same. According to this theory, in the last 100 years the energy emitted by the Sun has doubled, with the result that the solar radiation reaching the Earth is much higher. Warmer oceans absorb less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, resulting in higher concentrations of carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.

As you read these lines another solar storm has broken out. No, this is not a future catastrophic scenario. Magnetic storms, otherwise known as solar fire waves, are constantly emitted by the Sun. The energy and temperature released by the Sun is held and regulated by the protective shield that surrounds us, ie the earth’s magnetic field and the ozone layer. Only in some places our shield seems to have cracked…

The universe lives, breathes and evolves. This form that causes constant rearrangements. So as the universe continues to expand and cool – scientists have some evidence for this claim – it is possible that the laws that impose this form of order will change radically and cause a new burst of energy that will blow everything up.

Once every 400,000 – 500,000 years the Earth’s magnetic field shrinks and remains in a state of almost zero for about a century. When it then reappears, the planet’s poles are inverted. The planet’s magnetic field has already decreased by 5%. Many of the extreme natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, are attributed to this reduction. The causes of Gaia’s disease are many, but none are certain, just as their end is not certain.