The real Earth seen from the Moon is surely as lovely as ever, even with thinner ice caps, smaller forests, fewer gorillas and tigers and a few billion more people.
Rather than distant exoplanets, could Venus be the real Earth 2.0?
Ford Madox Ford, in The Soul of London, lamented a century ago that, "little by little, the Londoner comes to forget that his London is built upon real earth: he forgets that under the pavements there are hills, forgotten water courses, springs, and marshlands".
I do not believe that Richard Amper of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society ["Less Building for a Real Earth Day," Opinion, April 15] has created an island "where our grandchildren cannot afford to live".
Also, a shallow sandstone formation from Eromanga Basin sediments (Hutton Formation) was interpreted to simulate the real earth.
By claiming that the "best" measurements agreed that the real Earth was three-fourths the size of Eratosthenes' Earth, Columbus reassured his backers that his small wooden ships could survive the journey he put it at 30 days to "Cipangu" (Japan).
