Sunday, January 9, 2011

LIFE AND RANDOM FACTS OF LIFE

Live Life to the Fullest is living a full life, it means being ALIVE!

Living Life to the Fullest doesn't mean your wasting your life, doing crazy
stuff and just carelessly do your own thing..

Live Life to the fullest is a LIFESTYLE of:
Positive Thinking;
Making Choices and Knowing What You Want;
Creating Balance;
Building Great Relationships;
Maintaining Fitness and Good Health;
Expanding and Growing Out of Your Comfort Zone;
Achieving Inner Peace and Personal Growth;
Successes in Whatever You Choose To Do;
Facing Your Fears; and
Learning From Failures.

You Only Have One Life, Live It To The Fullest!!

Life is Really Simple, We Just Love to Complicate it!


Life is simple that circulates only in four aspects: physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual.

Understanding these aspects can organize the clutter of your life, and
ultimately, achieve balance in your life.
The key to Live Life to the Fullest is knowing how to balance all aspect of
life.

Learn to take control of your life;
Live a more positive and optimistic life;
Make smart choices;
Become persistent in your actions;
Build and maintain good relationships with others;
Turn your dreams to reality; and
Achieve success and happiness in whatever you choose to do.

Random Facts About . . .
Life

Life is broadly defined as the condition of an organism that exhibits growth
through metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation to its environment. These
characteristics separate living organisms from inanimate objects.i
The cell is the basic unit of life, and an organism must be composed of at
least one cell to qualify as a living thing.i
The cells of every living organism contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a
nucleic acid that holds the genetic instructions for the development and
functioning of a life form. It is this substance that allows a living thing
to grow and reproduce.i
DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher who
noticed a microscopic substance in the pus on discarded bandages. The
substance was later identified as DNA.i
A virus straddles the definition of life and, according to scientific
definition, is not technically alive. It is composed simply of DNA and
ribonucleic acid (RNA) strands surrounded by a protein shell and requires a
host cell to metabolize and reproduce. When not within a host cell, a virus
lies dormant and is nothing more than a static organic particle.i


Scientists estimate the Earth has existed for about 4.5 billions years

Scientists estimate the earth is about 4.5 billions years old and first
began to support life forms approximately 3.7 billion years ago.a
While scientists universally believe that naturally occurring amino acids
were mediated by nucleic acids to create the first life forms on Earth, the
question of how nucleic acids originated from inanimate matter is still
being studied today. There is no definitive answer yet as to the origin of
life on Earth.

Throughout history, two dominant theories of the origin of life on Earth
have prevailed. Abiogenesis, a theory that is now widely discredited, holds
that life was and is spontaneously generated from decaying organic matter.

The theory of biogenesis, on the other hand, maintains that new life is
produced from existing life forms.g
The oldest living things on Earth are believed to be single-cell
prokaryotes, more commonly known as bacteria. Scientists have discovered
fossils of such prokaryotes from roughly 3.5 billion years ago.


The first plant life appeared 430 million years ago and consisted of
algae-like growth

Plant life began on the Earth's landforms about 430 millions years ago. The
first plants were likely single-celled organisms distantly related to algae.
The first reptiles began life 300 million years ago, and modern mammals
appeared roughly 75 millions years ago.

Apes originated on Earth about 35 million years ago, and the first apelike
men appeared about 10 million years ago. The modern human species of Homo
sapien has existed on the earth for only 100,000 years.

Scientists believe that Earth will exist for another 7.5 billion years
before the sun becomes a red giant star and, in all probability, destroys
the planet. Earth may cease to support life forms far before that date,
however, due to increased energy output from the sun over time.

Living organisms are divided into two basic domains: prokaryotes and
eukaryotes. Eukaryotes, to which humans belong, have a cellular structure
with a nucleus and membrane-bound genetic information, while the cells of
prokaryotes do not contain a nucleus.

Today, all identified living organisms are scientifically named and
categorized according to Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus's taxonomy. In his
1758 publication, Systema Naturae, Linnaeus divided and classified different
living organisms with a ranking scale: kingdom, phylum, class, order,
family, genus, and species.

Scientists estimate that anywhere from five million to 100 million unique
species of plants and animals currently live on Earth. However, only about
two million of these species have been identified.i

Insect species account for 950,000 of the two million identified species on
Earth.
There are nearly 300,000 different species of plants currently living on
Earth.
Mammals make up just 5,416 of the two million identified species on Earth.

The theory of evolution, which explains how living things change over time
through natural selection, was first publicized by Charles Darwin in 1859.
Many scientists now point to this natural phenomenon as the reason behind
Earth's great biodiversity.

Worldwide, there are currently just over 6.7 billion people living in the
world. The population of males is slightly higher than females (3.41 billion
compared to 3.37 billion).

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, average life expectancy for a
person in the U.S. is 78.11 years.


Average life expectancy in the U.S. increased by 30 years during the
twentieth century, primarily due to advances in public health care

During the twentieth century alone, the average life expectancy in the
United States increased by more than 30 years. Officials attribute most of
this increase to advances in public health care and information.

According to a 2008 report, the average life expectancy in the world as a
whole is 66.26 years.
The average life expectancy ranges throughout the world from a high of 84.36
years in Macau to just 31.88 years in the African nation of Swaziland.
Experts attribute the low life expectancy in many African countries to high
rates of HIV/AIDS infection.

The oldest documented person on record is Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who
lived for 122 years and 164 days. The oldest person still alive today is
114-year-old Gertrude Baines of the U.S.

The greatest verified age for any living organism is from a Great Basin
Bristlecone Pine tree in Nevada called Prometheus that was measured by a
ring count to be about 4,900 years old when it was cut down in 1964.

Scientists have yet to discover a sign of extraterrestrial life, but the
discovery of planets outside of our solar system with habitable climates is
a promising indication of life outside Earth.

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