Today is Earth Day, for apologizing to Mother Earth for the other 364...

So let's take a look at one of the places where civilization began, millennia ago......

 This is Egypt at night from a space shuttle, showing the concentration of people along the Nile valley and the Delta, just like back in 3,000 b.c. and these lights make a picture resembling a flower. In ancient Egypt, there were two official flowers: the Lotus and the Papyrus, one for Upper Egypt, the other Lower Egypt,
and this flower-like pattern of lights might easily represent either of those. If any
of those ancient Pharaohs could have flown in one of our shuttles to see their land they might have truly believed they really were gods.

Now, for a look at a few of Earth's inhabitants:-

 The Blue-Footed Booby of the Galapagos Islands. And you thought you already knew all about boobies, didn't you? See? There's always something to learn!

 Like whatever happened to Jimmy Durante anyway? No, seriously, this is the Proboscis Monkey of Borneo, but there is a similarity as some of you will notice.

 Unlike those many animated cartoons of The Taz, this one's the real Tasmanian
Devil of Tasmania, Australia. Cute little Devil, he isn't. This looks a bit like our Wolverine, which can chew through the aluminum siding on a mobile home and
wreck its kitchen looking for food. That's happened up in our Yukon Territory.

Ending this on a happier note, this is The Rocky Horror Flower Show.... Nah! Not really. It's the Hot Lips Plant of Costa Rica's rainforests, possibly named after
Hot Lips Houlihan, beloved of MASH fans everywhere. But I still think it would have made a hell of a graphic for the Rocky Horror Picture Show even if it couldn't compete with Susan Sarandon in her unmentionables. And that concludes our little bird's eye view of the Third Rock from the Sun, so enjoy your Earth Day, everyone.