- Trembling Earth
- John Denver
John Denver (December 31, 1943 - October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an American folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician who was one of the biggest selling artists of the 1970s. In his lifetime, he recorded and released some 300 songs, about half of which he had written, and served as the Poet Laureate of Colorado. Denver's songs were suffused with a deep and abiding kinship with the natural world. - John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio) is an American astronaut, Marine Corps fighter pilot, ordained Presbyterian elder, corporate executive, and politician. He was the third American to fly in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7. He is the oldest living person to have flown in space when, at the age of 77 in 1998, flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95. - Sun Ra
Sun Ra (Born Herman Poole Blount; legal name Le Sony'r Ra; born May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, died May 30, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama) was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances. He abandoned his birth name and took on the name and persona of Sun Ra (Ra being the ancient Egyptian god of the Sun). - Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space. - Steve Fossett
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world records. Fossett, who made his fortune in the American financial services industry, is best known for his five world record non-stop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo airplane pilot. Fossett has set 116 records in five different sports, 76 of which still stand. - Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean region in many fields. He is noted for devising a system of latitude and longitude, and for being the first known to have calculated the circumference of the Earth. He also made what he thought was a map of the Earth. - Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the solar system. His epochal book, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in all the history of science. Among the great polymaths of the Scientific Revolution, … - Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July, 1949 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the founding bassist for heavy metal band Black Sabbath. His nickname supposedly arises from his habit as a teenager of referring to everyone as "Geezer". He is currently involved in Heaven and Hell. Geezer formed his first band, "Rare Breed", with schoolmate John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of 1967. Separated for a time, Ozzy and Geezer reunited in the blues foursome, … - Alastair Fothergill
Alastair Fothergill is the series producer of "The Blue Planet", "Planet Earth" and the director of "Earth", the associated feature film. He studied zoology at the University of Durham and made his first film, "On the Okavango", while still a student. Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on "The Really Wild Show", "Wildlife on One" and David Attenborough's "The Trials of Life". - Questar
Questar is the leader of the Valorians in the Dino-riders cartoon. He flees the evil forces of the Rulons and wants to rebuild a peaceful civilization on prehistoric earth. In the cartoon he rides a Deinonychus or he commands his troops from the Diplodocus's command pod. - Nandita Das
Nandita Das (born November 7, 1969 in Delhi, India) is an Indian actress. Das gained popularity in the 1990s by starring in Deepa Mehta films like "Fire" (1996) and "Earth" (1998). - Donella Meadows
Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of "Limits to Growth", and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene in a system. She was educated in science, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968. She then became a research fellow at MIT, … - William Gilbert
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, … - Stephen O'Malley
Stephen O'Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA) is a musician, predominantly a guitarist, from Seattle, Washington who has started and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental bands. Currently, he is in the bands Ginnungagap, KTL, Lotus Eaters, and Sunn O))). He is also a graphic designer, having produced album covers and posters for bands such as Earth, Emperor, Zyklon, Boris and Probot, … - Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman who, on February 7, 2005, broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe. - Aristarchus Of Samos
Aristarchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He was the first person to present an argument for a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus"). He was influenced by his teacher, the pythagoréan Philolaus of Kroton, but in contrast to Philolaus he had both identified the central fire with the Sun, … - Thomas Street
Thomas Street (also spelled Streete was an English astronomer. In 1661, he wrote "Astronomia Carolina, a new theorie of Coelestial Motions". The "Appendix to Astronomia Carolina" appeared in 1674. 1674 also saw the appearance of Street's "Description and Use of the Planetary Systeme together with Easie Tables". A follower of Johannes Kepler, Street argued, like Kepler, that Earth's rate of daily rotation is not uniform. - Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7 1974. He used a 450 pound cable to do so and also a custom made 26 foot long, 55 pound balancing pole. Tight-rope walker, unicyclist, magician and pantomime artist, Philippe Petit was also one of the earliest modern day street jugglers in Paris in 1968. - Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (born 1933) is an American professor, social thinker, writer, and critic. Theodore Roszak is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, California State University, Hayward, … - Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Berkeley, California, he earned his B.A. in geology in 1962 from Carleton College in Minnesota and Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University in 1967. His grandfather is the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather Luis F. Alvarez, who worked as a doctor in Hawaii, … - Carl Safina
Carl Safina is president and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, and author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean, including Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross. BIOGRAPHY Carl Safina grew up loving the ocean and its creatures. His childhood by the sea led him into scientific studies of seabirds and fish, and to his doctorate in Ecology from Rutgers University. - Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson (b. 1968) is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the drone metal group Earth. He was the best friend of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. According to Nick Broomfield, he is the subject of the Nirvana song "In Bloom". He was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas, New Mexico, and New Jersey, … - Su Song
Su Song (style Zirong was a renowned Chinese statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD). Su Song was the engineer of a water-driven astronomical clock tower in medieval Kaifeng, which employed the use of an early escapement mechanism; the verge escapement was not known in Europe until 1275 AD. - Michael Salla
Dr. Michael Emin Salla, Ph.D. (September 25, 1958) is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the mediums of the internet, UFO and New Age conferences, and radio appearances. Salla's most recent academic position was in Washington at American University, Center for Global Peace. - William Reed
William Reed was the author of "The Phantom of the Poles", published in 1906, in which he proposed his theory that the Earth is in fact hollow, with holes at its poles. - James Plotkin
James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and O.L.D. but has an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands in the drone/noise/sludge category, such as KK Null, Sunn O))), ISIS, Pelican and Earth. - Rahul Khanna
Rahul Khanna (born 20 June, 1972) is an Indian actor. He is the son of the actor Vinod Khanna and brother of Akshaye Khanna, both popular in Indian cinema. He made his film debut in Canadian director Deepa Mehta's 1998 film 1947:Earth, for which he won a Filmfare Award as Best Newcomer, and has since also appeared in Jag Mundhra's "Bawander" (2000) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2003). - Joe Preston
Joe Preston (b. 1969) is a rock bass guitarist and a former band member of Earth, The Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))), and has a solo project called Thrones. Joe Preston learned bass from Alexander Giles. - Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker ("Wally") (1931-) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Broecker's areas of research included Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution. - Sonny Emory
Sonny Emory (born December 27 1962) is a freelance touring and studio drummer. He has worked with many famous acts, including Earth Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Bruce Hornsby, and the B-52s. - Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 -) is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is perhaps best known for her collaborative work with filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel "Cracking India" which is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film "Earth" as well as the 2006 novel "Water: A Novel" which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film, "Water." - Elisabet Sahtouris
Elisabet Sahtouris is a Greek-American evolutionary biologist, futurist, business consultant, event organizer and UN consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a popular lecturer, television and radio personality, author of "EarthDance", "Biology Revisioned" co-authored with Willis Harman and "A Walk Through Time: From Stardust To Us". She has been invited to China by the Chinese National Science Association, organized Earth Celebration 2000 in Athens, … - Ken Croswell
Ken Croswell is an astronomer and author living in Berkeley, California. His first degree mixed science and wider interests, majoring in physics and minoring in English literature. He also got a PhD in astronomy for studying the Milky Way's halo. He is primarily known as a writer on astronomy and space topics. He has written regularly the "New Scientist", "New York Times" and various magazines in the popular science press. - Carolyn Merchant
Carolyn Merchant (born circa 1936 in Rochester, New York, USA) is an American ecofeminist philosopher most famous for her theory on the 'Death of Nature', whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomise, objectify and dissect nature, foretelling its eventual conception as inert. Her works were important in the development of environmental history and the history of science. - Geminus
Geminus of Rhodes was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. The dates of his birth and death are still under debate, but are generally accepted as approximately 110 - 40 BCE. He was a stoic philosopher and scholar, thought to have studied at the school in Rhodes and then later under Posidonius. During his career he wrote introductory works in mathematics and astronomy, and is typically credited with the construction of the Antikythera mechanism. - Arthur Holmes
Arthur Holmes (January 14 1890 - September 20 1965) was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead. He performed the first uranium-lead radiometric dating specifically designed to measure the age of a rock during his undergraduate studies. His result was 370 Ma for a Devonian rock from Norway. He graduated in 1910, and the result was published 1911, after he already travelled to Mozambique for six months to prospect for minerals. - Marilyn Sadler
Marilyn Sadler is a writer. She was born November 17. One of her best known works was made into a television movie, under the title "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century". That book is about a space girl who is sent to earth and the cultural clashes she finds in her new planet. Other books written by Marilyn Sadler include "It's Not Easy Being A Bunny", "P.J. Funnybunny Camps Out" and "HoneyBunny Funnybunny". - Russell Haswell
Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist. He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity. An ongoing collaboration (2003 +) with Florian Hecker working with Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' is one project, … - Phil Christensen
Dr. Phil Christensen, Ph.D., is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for four instruments at Mars (2 in orbit and two more roving around on the surface of the planet).
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