If the Biggest Ocean is in the Sky, We are all Living on Beachfront Property

I’m sharing the sentiment that the biggest ocean is in the sky. There’s a course on the atmosphere I studied, it was profound to me when the professor talked about how in my own words I’ll paraphrase but basically the moisture that gets absorbed from the surface of the Earth and that lives in the atmosphere. There is a dramatic, disproportionate ratio of water on the surface of the planet, including every body of water, every river, lake, ocean, pond, glacier. All of it is a drop in the bucket compared to what is suspended in the atmosphere at all times. That under certain circumstances falls to the Earth in various different forms. But even then, it’s something like thousands of years. Every molecule of water that hits the ground, the average amount of time that it remains on the surface of the planet Earth, in whatever place it may be, whether in the ocean, or in a glacier or pond or a raindrop, whatever it is a bit of steam... I can’t remember what the ratio is at this moment, but it’s ridiculous how long that molecule will be in the atmosphere, suspended relative to how long it would be on the surface of the planet. The amount of moisture that lives in our atmosphere, relative to the amount of moisture water molecules that live on the Earth for the temporary time they’re on the surface. it’s very daunting to try to consider. The reason why I’m pontificating on this at the moment is that there’s been an, uncharacteristic of this site over the last three years, an amount of rain in the last few weeks. To me that’s very promising. There’s a something called the The Fall of Civilizations. It’s a show where they break it down, they break it all the way down, all the stuff Jarod Diamond talks about in terms of the excesses that empires take where they tempt fate against nature, and nature crushes them. I listened to recently one on Egypt, where they talk about them how these cycles, it’s chaotic, but there are patterns and cycles within the chaos of whether rainier periods where the crushing, merciless desert wasteland around the Nile River would be blessed with rains, rainy, wetter, cooler periods every so often hundreds of times, even in the history of human habitation of that environment that we’re aware of. I don’t know what the scope of that metric really is, but it would turn into a grassland, what would have otherwise been deadly, uninhabitable, desert wasteland. Just an emergent property of fertility out of what appears to be the most sterile material on Earth, which is desert sand. But actually it’s filled with seeds waiting to be germinated by a blessed chapter in the earth’s life history, where that big ocean in the sky, for whatever reasons, blesses the Earth with moisture in the form of precipitation. And for some people, it’s deadly to be swamped by floods and mass death occurs. And my heart goes out to them. I think that’s a human design problem to solve with permaculture because those forces are to be partnered with and aligned with for maximum mutual benefit of all living beings. We have intelligence there’s no reason for us to be what doing what Bill Mollison said, falling into holes of our own making. I’m having this moment of sentimentality about the biggest ocean that is in the sky, because to me the logical conclusion of starting with that premise is that we all live on beach front property. If the biggest ocean is the sky, and how you design if, if I’m correct, which I believe I am, if that’s correct, then we all have an opportunity to design ecological abundance around that fact. Because I live in one of the most arid places on Earth right now and I successfully refilled all of my water tanks, and I’m about to add multiples of rainwater catchment capacity that’s gonna make it so next time it even rains a trickle, I’m gonna have more water than I know what to do with. I’m just a one man ecosystem trying

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