HOW'D THAT HAPPEN?
I find it odd that the names of all continents on Earth begin and end with the same letters. Who let such a semblence of order get by?
You have a choice of either an "e" or and "a".
I wonder what the gambler's chance charts show about such a thing happening. - seven continents - and all with names beginning and ending with identical letters. A rare occurrance, indeed, I would guess.
I doubt that we have been as careful in naming the various divisions of terrain on the surface the Moon or of Mars.
That's on of the few things I can think of which has not changed since I was a kid, unless it be the fact that we did not, years ago, consider Antarctica to be a continent . Each and every one of them have, in truth, gone through extended eras of cataclysmic changes we are just beginning to understand. It is thought they were all one big chuck at one time and that they have split and slud as far as they can get from one another with deep oceans in between, It was that parting which has broughy aboput the gross divisions of humanity into segments ofte
atodd woithone another. We became Africans, Asians, Aussies, Europeans, Americans - with Antarcticians yet to be heard from.
Australia and New Zealand with island nearby comes closer to be in a political unit than any of them. If one think unity is a mark of unity is also a sign of maturity, however, we may have another then we have another long wait coming. One would think there might be more signs of political and social unity within continents than we can cite.
The existence of the Euro ,perhaps, can be seen as an indicator of a tendency to think of continental-nation arrangementi inthe future./ A United States of Europe would be a good step in the view of man people, toward peace in that section, but it is difficult to say when such situations may arise, among the seven continents. It has never been resolved exactly who "owns" Antarctica , for instance, and that could - with detailed scientific evaluation of its natural resources, become a prime problem at any time.
A.L.M. Feb ruary 2, 2004 [c492wds]
