{"id":1366,"date":"2012-06-03T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T09:05:48","slug":"2012-06-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-06-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Earth: the Most Colorful Thing We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Aram Harijan<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">June 3, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<p>In the known Universe, the Earth is the most complex object. It is also the most colorful thing that we have seen \u2013 Blue, White, Green and Red. Each of these colors have an intimate connection to the history of Earth. In this presentation, Earth\u2019s formation is given in the sequence in which the four primary colors of the planet came to exist. The Red came with iron. The White from frozen water. The Blue from liquid water. The Green from life \u2013 photosynthesis. By exploring the primary colors of our planet, the principle characteristic and process of life-bearing planets are appreciated. The surprising conclusion? Mars is Red and White for the same causes that made Earth Red and White. <strong>Aram Harijan<\/strong> will present striking viewgraphs while he discusses this topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52136511\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/52136511\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-06-03): Planet Earth &#8211; the Most Colorful Thing We Know (Aram Harijan)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aram Harijan June 3, 2012 In the known Universe, the Earth is the most complex object. It is also the most colorful thing that we have seen \u2013 Blue, White, Green and Red. Each of these colors have an intimate connection to the history of Earth. In this presentation, Earth\u2019s formation is given in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-06-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planet Earth: the Most Colorful Thing We Know&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}