This is my initial report regarding my time living out and trying to survive in strange surroundings.

I had the good fortune to be placed on a beautiful blue watery planet in a remoter corner of the cosmos, and this speck was called Earth. It is nearly three quarters water!  All life here depends on a close star called ” The Sun ” which gives out heat, and regulates things for humans and other animals to flourish.       

The name ” Earth ” was given to it by the predominant animal that inhabits it at this time. There are well over 6 billion as I write, and still increasing, and they call themselves ” humans. ” There are different types, including some black skinned ones. The other animals are also varied and beautiful in their many forms, and they inhabit the land masses. In the sea are mammals and fish in abundance, although some of the humans, with their cunning and their tools they have invented are busy killing off the ones they want to. None of the animal species can effectively resist the aggressive humans, and many are suffering a decline. Some face extinction. The aggression of the humans is general, and is recognized and lamented by the thinking ones, but they seem powerless to curb it. In fact the humans regularly kill each other, sometimes one at a time, but recently they have made weapons to kill much bigger quantities, which pleases them. The strange thing about this, is that when there are lots of deaths, the humans all say it is a tragedy, and seem to really be sad about it all!  They have lots of emotions, but not much else by our standards. Seems they are in general, a barbaric people, with a thin veneer of civil behaviour which they have cultivated. It is easily pierced.

Compassion and consideration of others is a rare commodity in most of the younger humans. They are quite clever, and in the last century alone, which admittedly is only a flash in time, humans have come up with crude flying machines to get themselves around the small planet, and also have managed to get outside of the atmosphere in tiny capsules. Some say they landed on their own moon, which orbits the blue planet we inhabit. Wasn’t much there, as we know, but the humans seemed pleased with the rocks and dust they found. What a strange cosmos we have!