WORLD PEACE IS A TERRIBLY DIFFICULT PROBLEM

Here is why.

THE MOON WAS AN ANCIENT GOAL

For a huge long time - ever since the world began billions of years ago, there was no knowledge of the nature of the World. The Moon was always a goal, because living organisms were moved back and forth, toward the Moon and away from the Moon, in the seas by the Moon's gravity.


THE MOON IS NO LONGER A FUNDAMENTAL GOAL, NOT NOW.



TWO ANCIENT EFFORTS

The several thousand years of constructions involved several different approaches. Two stand out as by far the most significant. Others exist which have economic importance but essentially resigned their own form of adaptation.


ONE: NATURE MIGHT REACH THE MOON

Birds must have tried. Sensing the rising Moon's gravity for the first time and mistaking it for a distant mountain range, young and inexperienced birds could easily have chosen on occasion to fly that way. Maybe some animals have long necks or hop a lot in nature's dim-witted attempts to conquer by reproduction.

Among human efforts leading toward success, one was an attempt to progress toward the Moon by generally adhering to nature and studying the world more carefully and systematically by using recorded information and a particular, stable procedure for minimizing statistical variance through the use of random selection from written works.

That place was China, and the tools were written works and the casting of lots to identify selections among a work called the Book of Changes. India's polytheism attempted to solve something too, possibly the multiplicity of species, but that is less clear.

China was surprisingly advanced in mathematics and the 64 hexagrams of I Ching much to do with binary logic and the modern computer-especially the 64-bit processor. International Business Machines was persuaded to sell its entire small computer line to China, possibly as a result of China's historical preeminence in that logic.

USE COMPREHENSION

All three of the Sun's 200 million year orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy, planet Earth's annual orbit around the Sun, and the world's daily 24-hour turning on its axis must be in correct order to comprehend history well. That includes the highly stable exterior galaxies, which easily comprise theology's sophisticated concept of the 'firmament'.

Ancient literary works and much of philosophy seem to take on new meaning if one has the temporal order in good ephemeral and celestial order. Ancient ideas seem much less dangerous and more like the early, exploratory thought they are.


TWO: BUILD STRUCTURES DURABLE TO LAST

Reaching the point where living organisms could begin construction for the purpose may continued until early mound builders began and their work had culminated in stone pyramids. These markers were clearly beyond nature's instincts alone, and they endured, lasting through many generations.

The other of the two began in several places around the world with earth mounds, and emerged most clearly in the Nile Delta region of what is now known as Egypt. Because of its importance, it is very well known. After the first enduring, visible pyramids were constructed, patterns of rule began to emerge that were increasingly recognized as having much in common with previous patterns that had existed, yet collapsed.


REMEMBER THE GOAL

The Moon and Sun were quickly recorded as goals through many paintings of bird-headed men standing in winged boats sailing across waters toward a disk in the sky. These images quickly recalled to those in each new dynasty, at least one of the purposes which the great pyramids and other structures were dedicated.

Later, with experience, both goals and their representations improved in clarity and quality. The Moon and Sun were recorded as goals of voyages and journeys through many paintings of bird-headed men standing in winged boats sailing across waters toward a disk in the sky.


TRANSCEND

Existence of the pyramids began to transcend all time. By three thousand years they had existed longer than any known living organism, and mankind was clearly on its own in new territory.

Designed architecture, art, implements, memorials, and many other antiques from previous dynasties essentially welcomed each new civilization into an inheritance not only of power, but of knowledge, purpose and direction.


CREATE RENEWABLE LEADERSHIP

The patterns of rule turned out to be through the leadership of most powerful families. They were not necessarily enduring themselves, particularly in the Old Kingdom. Rule by the most powerful family is now known as dynastic.

Even powerful concurrent families were known to be of only temporal endurance, but in each case the re-emergence of the resurrected lineage took place in the presence of the durable and highly visible pyramids.


ATTAINMENT OF THE MOON

Attainment of the Moon then became only a matter of time, and it was on the order of thousands of years before the grand attainment that spanned only a century, most of which was unnecessary war since the only thing the wars did was practice designing rockets. The entire project took only ten years to prepare, and the several flights, each lasting only a few days, spanned only five years.


THE FUTURE IS DIFFERENT IN KIND

The future of human destiny is no longer a struggle to reach the Moon. Now the Moon has footprints on it in several places. The image of the Earth from the Moon and other places in space was recognizable everywhere in the world instantly. The entire population of the world knows what the Earth is.


THE FUTURE IS LONG

Conceptual changes in which adaptation accommodates the new and clearer understanding of the world will naturally span thousands of years and cannot be foreseen.


THE FUTURE IS BETTER

The increasing times of peace will be much happier than the preceding strife. THE CONFLICT OF THE PAST MUST BE ABANDONED. Communications shows a capacity for rational thought and self-government in every country in the world.

THE WORLD IS CONNECTED

Transportation and communication suddenly made the world a very much smaller place, and most people most everywhere are busy making the peace, healing wounds, reconstructing or designing anew habitations, cultivating and gardening the planet, and conserving its resources and other living beings including whole species.


THE ATTAINMENT IS NOW

The Moon was attained only fifty years ago and by now the entire planet is connected with transportation and communications systems of many kinds. It will never go back to totally isolated regions or peoples again, and the communication will never be through arduous foot or animal transport.

Machine driven transportation and electric communication are recognizably of such fundamental nature and vital importance that their total loss for any time at all cannot be even faintly foreseen, although it seems clear the world will become much quieter and more moderate with time, self-knowledge, seasoning and experience.


THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN BELIEVING IT

Distinct though few, problems remain, particularly dynastic or imperial aggression. Those institutions were so successful in the past exactly because they were slow, strong, patient, did not back down, forget their goals, and were not quick to be intimidated or deceived. It requires thirty years, the orbital period of the slowest visible planet Saturn, to catch the attention of a dynasty or an empire.


DYNASTIES AND EMPIRES: TOUGH, SLOW AND THICK

Dynastic and imperial institutions are a bit thick about niceties. The Apollo project to the Moon was a nicety. Spanning only ten years in the preparation and five years in the attainment, it hardly exceeded the ten year periods of menarche and Jupiter. to the Moon.

In short, traditional forms of dynasty and empire and some other less well defined forms of human groups have not really comprehended yet that the Moon was attained, that the Moon has footsteps on it, and in clear principle the Moon can be attained again if there is any good reason to go there. There are not very many good reasons to send human beings to the Moon right now.


THE MOON WAS NOT INVITING

No compelling reason to return to the Moon exists, because the Moon has no air, no water, no ice, no campfires, no plants, no trees, no animals, no birds, no fish, no people, no temperate locations, and is too far to go without idiotically great expenditures. Cost is an object in these times when so many important factors on Earth are in distressed need for attention.

Plague, starvation, brutal random violence, organized war, sectarian conflicts over religion, grossly extravagant human population, pollution, rapacious overkill of earth's wildlife, mechanized slaughter harvests of sentient beings on the land and in the waters of the sea as if they are so much dirt, and digitized but vague tendencies to create a tyrannical world holocaust seem hopelessly dangerous in the face of the pitifully small funding that international cooperation is given.


THE MOON IS STILL NOT INVITING

Even though a return to the Moon is inevitable, it is not likely to happen in time to be figurative in forming an enduring worldwide, global peace unless China plays a strong hand in that, and it looks like that is not happening because China is playing a defensive role. Pity. There are some ancient reasons for China's delay.

China's history was a much more timid approach to the Moon, and hardly began that kind of progress. It was loathe to violate any engendered patterns of nature, a pattern that was enforced by Taoist principles which still exist even in the post-Apollo era.

That timidity is why China's first astronaut, justifiably happy and exuberant at his triumphant return alive, was feeling bruised. China's people were playing ping pong for exercise in space flight, which Americans were playing football, Canadians were playing ice hockey, and Europeans were playing soccer.


WORLD PEACE IS STILL A TERRIBLY DIFFICULT PROBLEM

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Time is, as was recently discovered, not invariant. It changes slightly with altitude, and with latitude as well. Different time zones mean that time is relative throughout the world. With the absolute offset from time zones and the good-grief RATE offset with altitude and latitude (the earth is an ellipsoid) it is a wonder we can talk at all.

The Eurasian land mass has taken the larger mass of that which determines what time it is in the progressions of history. This is not surprising. America was like a great caterpillar in preparing the world's first flights to the Moon. (Interestingly, Russians used the image of a slug, the mollusc without any shell.)

Suddenly, something a billion years old was over. Much of the rapidly developed infrastructure, technology and other factors was obsolete. Only new generations can determine which is which. It is too late for anybody as old as this writer to determine that for the future. I spent all my determination in the projects to reach the Moon-in Project Mercury, specifically.

All the enthusiasm we had for the Apollo flights made us feel determined to go out and conquer and colonize the planets, take worlds away from the space monsters, and overpopulate the Galaxy. That was not to happen. What's more, it seems likely that younger and more logical people probably feel that way too, though at a different time and rate of progression.

Asia may find it propitious to go to the Moon. While the rationality of the Roman traditions so deep in our laws (a good thing) makes that relatively unnecessary, and our militarist egos would like to think so as well because then our land would be the only part of the world that did walk on the Moon, the real fact is that as far as that half billion years of evolving instinctive curiosity is concerned, there's no point in it. There is no air, water, food, people, animals, plants or space aliens on the Moon. Yet ancient determination and contest by immense numbers of animals and other sentient beings has left us with energy to spare for just that -more flights to the Moon until true satiety and exhaustion temper the world's sheer lust for action.

But if China does not immerse itself in THAT struggle, there is a dreadful danger that all those millions of years of pent-up zero sum struggle to conquer (the essential ingredient in predator-prey survival) will appear in international relations, ambitions, conflicts and worse.

The result is not only emotional detachment from the realities of nuclear energy. It is a sense that the aggressive powers with human beings that were groomed through thousands of years of military heroism and adventurist exuberance will be tempted to play dice in the aggressive world of national dominance. These issues are deeper than mere wood and concrete foundations in the earth. They are challenged with good but slight effect by major constructions-tunnels through mountain ranges, tunnels under the sea, bridges across formally impassible or erosive valleys, and other titanic ventures that serve to divert our natures to more civilized goals worthy of the real destiny of this lovely planet Earth.

America was chosen for the flights to the Moon by God, by the Mandate of Heaven, by Allah, the Earth, the birds, instinct from long ago-it does not matter what we call it. If that had not been decided long ago the choice to go to the Moon would probably not have occurred by now and the flights might not have occurred yet at all.

It was destiny that the Old World began moving the Conquest of Light to the New World with the inventions of the lens, the prism, and the telescope 1500's. That was the beginning of the fourth quarter of two thousand years that had been foreseen in the light of Pliny's Moon when the Sun appeared in the Moon during the moment of truth of Pompeii. It was four hands of centuries that played out.

Had we not attained the Moon, there would probably have been nuclear war on a massive scale already. That is a good sign. It only wants those negotiating the disarmament to have faith the Moon was actually reached. Yet if the world does not believe quite enough in America's Apollo flights, and if the Old World does not turn itself to the eventual flights from Eurasia, that too could cause nuclear war.

It is very important to understand this. The Old World must busy itself with its own Moon projects visibly, with increasing money, news, economic activity, publicity and widespread agreements. Otherwise it risks bumbling into nuclear war. America, highly respected, can play a key role even in just in being an enthusiastic audience and source of encouragement.

It is fortunate that much preparation existed and that few of the most vexing and egregious difficulties of history remained. The terrible practice of slavery, too long upheld because of its ancient origin, remained to reject. It was the only great war in the United States before the Moon flights, and the moon was attained not by slaves.

Neither was it important what color the skin was in the shoes of the persons who first walked on the Moon's surface. The race and color of the persons who made those footprints will be forgotten long before the footprints themselves disappear.

What does remain is to look to the day when the Old World Sun rises in Moon as it comes up over the Atlantic seaboard, and look to it with good will and cooperation, for it is more inevitable than America's dominance, opulent prosperity, and chaos.

America must now turn itself to patiently abiding the Old World's progress toward the Old World's Moon. After that it will be decided what the World and Moon are. In all the Old World's land mass, eliminating whatever practices that remain in its slowly gathering preparations for its own flights to the Moon constitutes a persistent, inevitable flow of its activities.

It was not given this writer to say more about the Old World's preparations for its own flights to the Moon. Those events are unfolding there. Each will bring surprises.

China recently launched an astronaut into orbit, and though it was a triumphant and happy return, the flight was found surprisingly bruising. It is good to know what the consequences were; the problem will be solved with, say, football instead of table tennis. It was only that, and does not need flogging the ocean waves to defeat the tides, or many other things in history that would have condemned future attainments of the Moon to bloodshed and war.

It is probably better not to attempt to be or cause perfection in the real world by force. The Old World was committed to attaining the Moon too, long before the Americas were settled by Europeans. Neither do the people of Asia and Europe have the choice any more than the people of the Americas. The destiny is already upon those lands and their people are already groping toward the goal to the greatest extent they find possible.

It cannot be safely said that the United States will have no role in that, even if it is only Amici Americi. Americans we would be wise to make our opinions opinions and policies toward Europe in the East and toward Asia to the West distinctly similar. It would do great good at little cost.

One suspects we should regard the extent to which the inhabitants of the North American continent dictate to the rest of the world as something it is desirable to greatly perfect. We should minimize capitalist marketing and military aggression and permit more than England to dictate to the United States what Europe and Asia are.

We should cultivate greater expertise in being responsive to their progress, without attempting to change its course. It was not Asia's choice and Europe's choice to be undertaking the next flights to the Moon any more than it was America's choice. Nobody in the old world can avoid yielding to the necessity of that destiny. They may not see it as the first thing they wake up to yet, but the day is approaching when they do.

America, after all, cannot choose to be the only part of the world that attains the Moon. The option is already gone; it disappeared with the manufacture of off-the-shelf robots and avatars. The real attainment again, this time by the Old World, is a destiny on the Moon already devolving even now.

We might choose to perfect something like an absolutely essential dainty, like coffee that makes life just nicer until long after Europe has its size nines on the celestial orb. America as Philioses Paleos Cosmos.

Attainment of the Moon and Global Metamorphosis

It was through ignorance that war was used in the final stages of Earth's process of struggle to reach the Moon. That was possibly the only reason war was ever used at all. Had there not been that almost unknown, supernal goal, it is possible few wars would ever have been fought.

The question boils down now to whether to use war as an instrument of planetary self-government in the future, or not.

The past half-billion years of dinosaur-filled primitive evolution eventually was ended by human constructions-that first and suddenly attained the Moon only decades ago; during billions of years of future, life on Earth will never be the same.

The magnitude of changes now taking place are beyond estimation. Almost nothing is known except that, as many are fond of saying, "Enough war". Earth is tired of war. Scarred and polluted with war, still frantic from it, people all over the world wonder what impels the almost desperate ambitions to justify life as if life needs justification. Building great projects is a neurotic, unfeeling ritual, a rut of habit based on the ancient goal unremembered because of its then-mysterious nature. Whole cities, industries, nations and militaries are still constructed out of monotonous habit.

In each new generation, millions of young people are taught to have the ambitions of pre-Apollo goal-seeking, Spartan regimentation and the European merchant class. Nations are still, again, preparing for totally unecessary future war in numb ritual even as they celebrate new organizations and agreements which they fully intend and hope to honor, even as the no longer existing ancient formless compulsive goal of first attaining the Moon has already dissipated in the sudden, quick, brief success of the Apollo project like smoke on the water.

It's too bad that so many stubbornly, out of sheer pernicious envy or surprise, perhaps because they wanted to be the one's to go to the Moon, refuse to accept the fact of its success. Often they do not seem to accept the fact that, even if the "stories" about the Moon were fiction, they are awesomely close to the half-guessed truth known since primordial times, and the new 'stories' fit all of nature perfectly.

In that light the parallel is visible between two great streams in history. Chinese Taoist civilization was largely sedentary in that it remained in China, adhered from the first to the natural world, and interpreted it slowly and with great care through probability and changes. Technological progress was slow, at a natural rate and no attempt was made to hurry it.

It is a common, stupidly aggressive and monstrously irresponsible Romanesque military habit to invariably cast China's history as inferior or slow. China's role was cautious continuation of the prehistoric patience from proven evolutionary progress, nothing else; it was the conservative branch.

The common, beer-laden Western military mind, on seeing the timelines of China and the Egyptian-Mediterranean-European branch compared, to aggressively gesture with its weapons and say, "Yeah, we got there first, and we get to beat the s*** out of them". That is like a muscle-headed farm kid going out to climb a mountain, kill a bear, or defeat an enemy and on success, returning to the farm, and saying, "You didn't go out to climb and kill and defeat, so we get to beat you out of the world." The common, sheer idiot error is to forget completely that it was planet Earth that went to the Moon, that the Moon does not merely orbit the United States, America, Europe, the Mediterranean, Italy, Rome or Egypt.

Egyptian constructionist dynasties were ambitious in raising masses up through heights to the form famous, durable pyramids, and first estimated the energy of lifting a ship to the Moon. Egypt made from the start a very large mistake which would not be discovered until recently: it knew nothing of the mass-energy equivalence. But it eventually spread out through the Middle East and Mediterranean to Europe, bringing unnecessary war with it wherever it went.

Trade existed between the two realms, and inventions in each were carried to the other. From the same prehistoric origin, two different phases in different orders of progress by different means led to the same goal, the same Moon. You take the one road and I'll take the other road and we'll meet on the Moon together.

Eventually the Moon was reached, with immense losses of life and property. Wars were fought, almost certainly unnecessary wars in the light of whole-world judgement, until the very last. War had been used as a cruel instrument of research. At the very last, the world began reaching hurriedly toward ancient dreams of world-wide peace, communications, transportation and agreement, even automatic translation devices, like the Google Translate on this page, were sought and attained.

The sudden success is breathtaking. No reason now exists to pursue blindly any course toward any imaginable future goal. Yet even now, people in the rut of war are building their private, profit-seeking empires of war machines, hoping for more war, insisting that it must occur despite the facts of history and the hopes of billions of persons. Most of the population of the Earth just wants peace and time to figure out what's true and make it better. They want neighborhood gardens throughout every city, not bombs. They want a chance to tend their own lives, and gardens are at the very heart of the issue, not capricious jobs for capricious factories.

Resolving the balance between gardens and employment cannot be accomplished by one person, particularly not this starry-eyed writer. Yet one thing is clear; if governments do not permit individual persons and families, and small groups of these to form something closer to the nature of homes they can keep and gardens that provide them significant amounts of food, the problems will continue in the same monotonous, unnecessary (except for the Moon) way as they have in the past. Already success is being attained in those domestic factors; people just want freedom to cultivate the family and village scale of habitation in the loveliness of this planet and world.

Return to Normal Stability

I started this search looking for what the initials URS symbolizes. Consider, for instance, the existence of UPS and its military green trucks. Consider the United States a military and construction area for the ancient evolutionary goal of flights to the Moon.

It won, and brought the news that there are no truly deep surprises on or in the Moon. Not for human beings and their institutions, not even for crocodiles or the other ancient animals. The Moon is not heaven, neither is it hell.

On the success of those flights, global assimilation of the entire, ancient planetary project began, and is under way through, primarily, national, corporate, financial, military and other gigantic entities throughout the world. It's not clear whether anybody is acting in any higher capacity to coordinate the assimilation, although clearly the United Nations is regarded with considerable respect by most or all of them, and is now regarded as a sort of ad hoc clearing house and central reference standard body by many.

It turns out things are looking better, not worse.

The approach most visible to Americans is that of the corporations, which are well known, as well as state governments, educational institutions and military.

In other countries it is not so obvious. It seems clear enough though that all are, in one way or another, taking stock of the situation in which they and the rest of the world have come to in the light of that success.

The primary character of the results of attaining space flight to the Moon and survey of the solar system is that there are few great surprises.

As is well known in the entertainment industry, there could have been, aliens all over the place, gods and monsters, and lush gardens in the other worlds, to which human beings would hurriedly flock in hurriedly designed space ships. Instead, no real point exists in building many space ships, and orbital space around the Earth has proved to be the only space locale so far that has turned any sort of profit. It is entirely possible that it will be hundreds or thousands of years before much is made of the other planets in the solar system, if ever.

Meanwhile, acting on instinct, life itself began energizing the most advanced human institutions - religion, military, government, corporation and all - to take action in responding to the results. That's all that is happening: human organization, poised for thousands of years, is suddenly busy putting the world back into the proper order. After all, getting to the Moon involved wars, population increase beyond instinct intentions, destruction of habitat, the extinction of many species and decimation of many others, and the despoiling of considerable quantities of the Earth's surface.

Nonetheless, it is a time for optimism. Ahead lay some additional coordination realms, such as agreements to tolerate each other where the entities doing the assimilation, coordination and return to normalcy are different. One good example is the contrast between China and the West, although China is quite in agreement on the main goal of returning to certain traditional, instinctive, ancient or even prehistoric order, and as that takes place in both regions of the planet, it becomes easier for both to cooperate. They have, for instance, much new modern truth to share, and as well, their own traditions and stability to recover.

Another example is Burma. It is hard to imagine anybody civilized in the western sense tolerating the regime in Burma, but that's what Burma is doing. On the other hand, it could be time to announce to the entire Burmese population that even their prehistoric dreams of tjavascript:void(0)he Moon have been resolved by actual photographs from several nations, several visits by human beings, carrying large bags of Moon rocks. True, they were not gold, jewels, diamonds and precious carvings, but hey, what the heck? Just the fact they are rocks might catch their attention.

Who Came First? Life or God

In secular likelihood, it is worth cultivating the concept of God because it appears to be an inevitable activity of human beings anyway, Those familiar with wildlife say the animals live close to prayer all the time, and the nearest more substantial concept is vigilance. Just where one draws the line between God and vigilance is often a matter of opinion, but seems to be close to the distinction between probabilities and molecular structures made of atoms.

Probabilities such as those of chance, gambling, gamboling, hazarding and others are intrinsically risky business. Even so, probability has paid off in insurance, which pools resources on the basis of probability of risk, and pays moneys to those who suffer loss as a result of unpredictable (or unpredicted) catastrophes. Because of that, it is difficult to protect insurance from evil gamblers, but important to do so because nervous angels profit much more by having good insurance.

In nature the distinctions had to be between self and others such as enemies, prey, predators, friends, tribe, herd and family - all difficult to distinguish in nature, although any skill at divination was helpful in survival.

Early life forms on Earth were little more than sludge or slime consisting of extensive molecular and cellular masses without much organization. Such masses did create environments, mainly smelly and tainted with refuse, offal and excreta. Even so, if a place smelled more of droppings from one's own species, it was probably more likely to be a safer than more dangerous place to be. As with procreation in any organism, the beginning of God was a smelly business. God, at first tentative, primitive, and only sporadically accessible, was with life perhaps billions of years ago.

Later, by inventing houses which could be closed against pests, marauding beasts, enemies and disease, they learned to cultivate godlike qualities that gave the household protection previously unattainable in trees and caves. Life became holy, at least for those who took care to cultivate holiness.

The cultivation of the spirit became important. Those who were good at it were quickly drawn into serving the entire group, which led to modern organization.
However much organization changes as a result of attaining the ancient goal of the Moon, human civilization will not abandon its most successful institutions. At the same time, liberty and freedom have taken on more extensive dimensions - consider the driving range of a new automobile or modern passenger airplane or ship.

In the same way, human civilization will not abandon all of religion, families,
democracy, communications, transportation, government, medicine or education - probably not ever. On the other hand, all are going through extensive changes for the simple but slow long-term reason that the past several thousand years were dedicated intensively to reaching the Moon. Nobody knew exactly what would be discovered. It might have been anticipated that what would be discovered had been familiar for hundreds of millions of years already.

But it was not, and toward the end of the race, advanced speculation seemed to indicate the world would be inundated by hungry space aliens bent on consuming human beings as food; OR, human beings would begin to engage in mass migrations to the stars where they would form colonies: OR there would be monstrous wars with each nation raining sophisticated weapons of mass destruction from space on each other's sacred cities and houses; or other highly imaginative prognostications. Few were content with the tranquil concept which was so close to the truth that was observed by astronauts and astrobots to the other planets of the solar system.

Almost more surprising is the vast utility of earth orbit. Communications, space tourism, weather surveillance, soil, mineral and crop surveys, temperature maps, wildlife observation, space astronomy and many other new, valuable purposes have emerged for putting specially designed equipment into orbit.

It's not worth spending much time on the question of which came first, life or god. The question is exactly like father's question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? Far more productive is the time spent on comprehending and understanding what has been attained, what were the successes of the past five or six or ten thousand years which led to designs and practices that will be perpetuated, and what were the errors that require careful, patient correction of the kind that should have
been taken long ago.

The early pyramid builders did construct manifest displays of the attainment of lifting heavy objects high above the Earth, and the total gravitational energy, as one measures it in, say, foot-pounds, is approximately equivalent to the energy that was eventually required to lift a man to the Moon. The energy required was supplied by human beings, their numbers not remembered, but they ate food. So much food was required to lift a block a certain distance. Similarly, other amounts of food were required to lift the same size block other distances. The food was fish and grains. Fish had the advantage that catching a live fish meant fighting with the fish's energy. Fish could jump so far above the water. People could jump above the Earth. A concept of biological energy existed. Construction of the pyramids allowed a visible manifestation of that kind of energy to be manifest during the
passage of such time as would be required for human beings to jump to the Moon.

Even so, an error exists. It is now known that a certain physical relationship exists between mass and energy. According to the Einstein equation, energy and mass have a relationship mathematically describable as Energy = Mass * c *c, where c is the speed of light. Earth pyramid builders had no rational idea of the speed of light, or that it was not infinite.

It is worth pausing now, having attained the Moon, to survey history for the existence of errors such as these, and inquire whether they are causing difficult in the present day or anticipated future. The sciences, mathematics, agriculture, medicine and many other fields are rich with powerful laws for the Judgment, but it does not require war any more. Pausing, perhaps, for centuries. Sometimes the dynasties of Egypt went into hiatus for such long periods of time. Earth could afford to let frantically compulsive, high-powered profit-driven industrial market design and manufacturing to lapse to the essentials of food, shelter and other vital productions. Just what those will be would be determined when, as the superfluous production is allowed to collapse, the essential necessities begin to show the core toughness of the will to live of the people, only this time, taking care to guard against making conflict of it.

Instead, the blessings of liberty must be allowed to flourish, and those of grace and justice as well. It is time to take somewhat more risk in extending trust to other nations and peoples, than was the custom during the centuries before footsteps on the Moon became real. Taking time to wade through years of negotiation to reach a point recognizable to both sides is possible now. Centuries lie before humankind as more or less determinable futures in the millions of years of unknown destiny. By now, it is known that enough air is likely to remain on Earth for, not mere millions of years, but probably hundreds of millions of years.

We might even get some sleep without worrying about imaginary futures, and cultivate our faith in real futures.

Chaos and Order in the Ten Thousand Years

Creating global financial competence through multifarious economic defiles is the problem facing the monetary world.

Several fortunately identifiable errors in the conception of the natural world existed when the first massive constructions of geometrically designed architecture were completed and remained durable on the prehistorically established path to the Moon and Sun which recently became successful.

In other words, the ancient goals of reaching the Moon and at least understanding why we cannot stand on the Sun were completed, after six or eight thousand years of struggle which began with what is now obviously inadequate information.

The success was almost uneventful because the Moon and Sun had been exactly what they seemed to be throughout all the history of life on Earth. The reports from the several expeditions in the Apollo project were so accurate and anticipated, so deeply pre-acceptable, pre-understood and pre-comprehended, and although recently so predicted, that they almost seemed too pat, too easy, and thus in some sense potentially nothing more than predictions.

Yet they are true. The Moon is an airless, waterless small world orbiting the Earth, made of rock and covered with rock dust, too hot in the two week long day and too cold in the two week long night to survive.

The real problems lay in the immense chaos that exists in the preternatural constructions which we call civilization in the precursors of industrial market economies.

It is vital to scale the magnitude of the planet's entire situation, identify the realm of life throughout the Earth, distinguish it from the complex and emerging realm of constructionist civilization, and identify those parts of the whole which were misconstructions from those parts of the whole which are, in post-Apollo terms, likely to be stable and enduring factors in future economics.

At the outset, a best guess at the state of civilization is that it is half right, half wrong, a field day for both optimist and pessimist. As a starting point, it would fuel improvements for centuries. That means the Yin and Yang duality, fairly well practiced, is at least an acceptable part of reconstruction now that the great Understanding is attained. The world is not half bad, and has a great deal of good. Better yet, with modern concepts of statistical, informational and thermodynamic entropy, it is desirable to consider the possibility that civilization is half order, half chaos.

Nature is likely to be included for all future time among the goals of civilization, because however fragile it is, through its persistence it constitutes the origins of life on Earth, even civilized life. Nature cannot constitute the foundation of civilization; it is not strong enough, and is too delicate, too fragile. Nature is the origin of civilization. Just the same, civilization is not the origin of nature. Civilization already does create events to which nature adapts. Therefore it can be said that civilization changes nature. So far the changes which civilization introduces to nature are not predictable. They consist often of death by pollution; life which survives by surviving pollution is likely to be competitive in subtle ways not easy to anticipate.

For instance, even the question of whether nature will now proceed to evolve more sophisticated silicon life forms, beyond siliceous Diatoms, Hexannelid sponges and Equisetum weed plant into organisms that actually use silicon in dynamically active organic processes such as thought, is often posed. Yet it is not known whether nature or civilization will create the breakthrough adaptation, and in the end, whether that will matter at all.

The outcome may be a fifty million year period of intense competition between exclusively carbon based life forms and life forms using both elements in its dynamics. Considering what silicon carbide is like, the silicon-carbon organisms which emerge in the extremely distant future will be hard as nails and tough as rawhide.

The half chaos, half order situation can always, we now know, be bettered within the walls and protections of human constructions, yet it will always be an exogenous factor, within which the better interpretations of the universe must be within the walls of the cities and their houses. That means sheer chaos will always be an outer limit to economic theory, and the way money behaves when it does, will be within the protection of accounting and finance and the walls of banks and households.

The Falls of Man, or Why the Children are Curious

Somewhere between sensitive and obvious, Neanderthals fell without the benefit of warning; a particular group of their descendants became Homo Sapiens.

It's probably no surprise to some that the Fall of Man, depicted in famous art works and by theologians since - well, the Fall - is best equated with the phasing out of the Neanderthals, probably by a remarkably successful group of their offspring. Of course the transition then from the Neanderthals was not marked by specific, egregrious, onerous and insufferable violations of God's laws as the events during the most recent few thousand years which signaled the fall of Mankind. Stories like that of Cain and Abel are sufficiently equivalent to be of similar import: they may refer to groups, even very large groups, constituting species, as well as to individuals.

This has some meaningful real-world implications. Neanderthals fell, and the Church says that Man has already fallen. It's only a matter of time before the next group of dominant creatures, probably much like us in some ways, will have such different genetic codes in its chromosomal nuclei that no mating between the two would be possible. Wondering why I felt like an old coot, it's not just me after all.

Nothing symbolized the current Fall more distinctly than the Crucifixion of Christ, nor the rise, both preceding and following it, of great constructions and inevitably (because it was an evolutionary and instinctive goal) the attainment of the Moon.

Attainments and failures by the Neanderthals, while identifiable as an ability to survive almost anywhere and wielding materials in tools and weapons that were too big and clumsy, do not involve such distinct events. Even so, some of the same patterns exist. Modern humans can survive anywhere and already do, yet are extravagantly wasteful of massive quantities of the Earth's resources, and unconscionably savage in the rapacity with which the Earth's living creatures are slaughtered by industrial machinery for foodstuff as if they are so much dirt.

The parallels must be drawn more carefully and completely than is possible by this one author. It is vital from the beginning to equate any extinction of the human species with the Fall of Man described by the priests, because first, that is the eternal theater or arena which is compreheded by religion and it is already highly sophisticated at exactly that; and second, because human beings are now setting out (even though their children are now wireless) to begin a million or ten million years of Planethood, easy.

If the scenarios are well coordinated so that they can be presented as potential yet differing pre-concepts, then the concept can emerge without specific written dedications - as it should, because new people must be born in liberty. If the scenarios are neglected or ignored or badly presented, they will do nothing of value, and the next species of human beings will be clumsy in some other unredeemable way only to find itself in its own Fall, and watching its children doing something new which their parents don't understand.

The measures of the Earth, its people, and other factors are already being understood and compiled well. It only requires being tolerant of those setting out in the new directions. This is not so easy as it sounds for an old warlike civilization with a lot of blood on the hands of its species. Men still worry whether their kids will be good soldiers or better yet, generals and admirals. They worry whether their children are going into space rapidly enough.

Instead, it has to be taken into account that the great space adventures are thousands of years in the future, potentially more. The Solar System has nothing worth hurried development of, except for aggression against somebody else on Earth. On the Moon and other planets in this our Solar System there is no farmland arable or not; no breathable air, no open water, no life of any sort. Only the Moon and Mars even have solid surfaces on which to stand at temperatures that will not kill within minutes, and neither of them has any significant atmosphere.

To comprehend the scale on which no evidence has been found of any signals from transmissions in space almost requires a degree in electronic communications. The sensitivity of the receivers is astonishing, and they continually and minutely scrutinize every wavelength in existence.

This does not mean that those facts must be ignored forever, but the plain real actual honest truth is, there is no good reason to waste money going to the Moon or Mars or any other place in the Solar System, while Earth has the problems that it has. To be obsessively complete, there is no way to even TRY to reach any other star system yet.

Many, many people, apparently all fools, stack ifs like they were layers of cake and popcorn, to conclude that despite those facts, nations should be heavily or not, investing valuable money, time, coordination, human dreams, imagination, cooperation and planning in going to the Moon and Mars with the intention of colonizing those places. The most urgent schedule that can be made for flights to these two places at the present time is to solidly and believably confirm, for the benefit of all the people on Earth, that the reports by the United States, Russia and Japan are true. Gaining that credibility by the sheer integrity of each nation that goes visiting there is truly and vitally important for the whole world's peace of mind.

Beyond that, little more importance can be given to space flight beyond the Moon, a reasonable preferred limit to human space flight for now. Robots to the planets are okay; they seem to endanger no one and tend to be increasingly successful. Eventually when it is a piece of cake, human flights will take place throughout the solar system, but they could wait until technological development reaches a sophistication not yet met by human beings. For instance, exploration of the solar system wants a space ship with the resources to roam at will if necessary, and dispatch landing craft to the surfaces of other planets and moons. It would have to be equivalent preceptually to, say, fusion powered interplanetary space ships with antigravity, or something like that.

Orbital flight around the Earth already pays for itself and is certainly worth its investments in communications, weather, soil, land surface and oceanic surveys and every other kind of knowledge about the Earth. It's not at question. Strangely, it should not be necessary to fend of defensive people who obsessive so much about the need for massive human aggression into space that they attack even on just thinking about the factors involved in making policy. Some seem obsessed with the idea that space aliens must be lurking in every Moon shadow. Still others are utterly convinced the United States is lying about the Moon in its meticulous and candid reports, and falsifying information about nonexistent alien spacecraft, life in canyons or caves, and other crap. I know one person who insists there must be an inner world within the Moon where gardens exist, in which zebras, monkeys, antelopes, animals and crocodiles and alligators must surely live.

Yeah, right.

Some of the most surprising nations are among the most offensive in filling the entertainment world's fertile imaginations with an insistent regime of dogma that we must hurry to prepare defenses against - you can probably see it coming - space aliens. The worst is our own parent, England, which has given some kind of licence to the British Interplanetary Society to trump up UK sovereignty over all the Earth on the basis that only England can provide the sophisticated moral basis for government and negotiations with the new Galactic Empire. Oh, good.

Russians are not bad about developing such nonsense themselves, but they never call it down even when it misleads millions of people. Americans are possibly the most difficult though maybe I see it that way because I am one. We not only tolerate the British invention of fantastically funny, imaginative plot lines like Dr. Who and Red Dwarf, but add to it bathtub plunges like Stargate SG-1...n and weird journeys through tunnels. These and other superviolent shows provide the Pentagon with lots of material to spice up arms and weapons development, which was already way way way way WAY over the top in 1946. But just in case, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, the Martian Chronicles, and other Doom From Space theater is available so that Christians can deal with any competing religion.

The problems are so big, Man, that the only path from this species to the species that rules the Earth for millions of years will be through the worm tunnel.

Cost of the Moon

From this observer's view of the slow fine energy terms throughout the elements in evolution, it appears the trillion dollar deficit in the United States is in phase with more factors if it is viewed as the realization of the monetized vast economic outlays required to go to the Moon recently, than any of the short term factors to which it is so commonly attributed.

Those outlays spanned all of agriculture, housing, industry, transportation, war and other factors. Some of these may be described in different ways by different persons of course.

The important thing is that the energy terms, which are trade-offs under the action with chronological and geological time, are in the same range of values and scales in nature - molecular spectra in the quantum electrodynamics of evolution, and in the long slow rotation of the celestial spheres - as the thousands of years old dynastic efforts to reach the Moon, more than anything else.

To be sure, the flights to the Moon were justified by all and everything having to do with human existence. Life began washing back and forth toward and away from the Moon billions of years ago in the tides, even shaping the evolution of Man. The Moon appears to have been the essential cause of construction of the Pyramids and all the empires and events since then. That is why it is vital to make as much of the opportunity to bring the world to common, sound understanding of the nature of Peace, if that can be.

It could be that the United States and other countries are still poised on the brink of violent resistance or worse, if any sign of opposition to the attainment of the Moon appears. Along with potential terrestrial opposition, defense against superstitiously anticipated space aliens from other worlds was included (as in the tanks versus the flying saucers in "Day the Earth Stood Still", "War of the Worlds" and "Mars Attacks") and fortunately the alien threat never panned out. Those at least are ideas that should be among the resources of peacemakers who should be respected by militarists.

In other words, there never were any space monster aliens and in fact never will be, yet it was such extensive superstition that even modern militaries were galvanized against that kind of threat. Nobody on Earth needs that kind of nonsense any more.

Cultural Infrared

Whole villages of houses, trees, paths and bridges drew one's vision to the near infrared of campfires as evening changed into night during thousands of years of time.

China is often interpreted as red, and has what is called in English, a ruddy aspect. One can even see it when looking at Chinese cities on Google Maps Satellite. The implication is that China conceives itself in the INFRARED. Just what part of the spectrum that is will require gentlemanly, polite, courteous, civil scrutiny by specialists in color perception, atomic spectra, and probably several other distinct fields.

It is well known as possible, to train one's eyes to see a shade more deeply in both the ultraviolet and the infrared edges of the visible spectrum; on inquiring of others, they concur. In practice, few persons strain to see every perceptible wavelength clearly. That leaves a region of the spectrum which is still within, on the infrared edge from 700 millimicron to 800, less than twice the wavelength of the 400 mmu ultraviolet limit. While both limits are fuzzy, the violet edge is more sharply bounded. An attractive goal is development of LED's that are bright in the 700-720 millimicron near infrared part of the spectrum, just beyond the edge of the conventionally visible.

As one gradually sees the shapes of a room and its furnishings in the near infrared, the Chinese concept becomes more explicable and common-sense.

Both infrared and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum are hot political issues ancient in both government and religion. Many different animals see in the infrared or ultraviolet, and different plants are responsive to those wavelengths as well. One wonders what Unicorns see.

It would be well worth the time and money to determine just how far into the infrared people perceive-and conceive-their environments and of course, themselves, each other, and foreign groups.

A suspicion is that even if people do not actually see in the infrared, they may have evolved a concept of their world, or at least perhaps its durable forms and structures, through interpretation of heat radiation during centuries or thousands of years of time.

Different social groups may see more or less clearly at 730 or 750 millimicrons than is commonly assumed. During hostilities, it would be stupid to allow others to know one can see in the infrared. In peacekeeping, it might be well to find out.

One harmless test would be to ask volunteers to traverse a maze that is illuminated with infrared light, and account the time required, at different wavelengths of infrared for them to find the exit. This could be entertainment at a carnival.

Might save some bloodshed. It is in the ultraviolet and infrared that many fears are hatched.

Quantum Action and Economic Planning

Action is a fundamental constant in nature and appears with special, universal value in many phenomena. Although action appears in all kinds of mechanics from building pyramids to launching space flight vehicles, it also appears in light and light-like radiation of other frequency and energy.

Money is of supreme importance in economic activity and is often defined as an enumerated constant which is employed in transactions. These are acts in trade in which, usually, an amount of money is traded for some good or service.

The action in light is even more fundamental than that of transactions in economic activity. Even so, economic concepts are thoroughly practiced, and they cover the nature of action in the physics of natural law broadly. Describing nature's action with economic activity is like covering graffiti by repainting the entire wall.

Light-like activity is important at this time in history because economic activity is changing in some ways, and stable in others. Very essential activity involves definitions in finance and trade that have been stable for centuries, even thousands of years, are not expected to change in principle (though perhaps volume of trade) in the foreseeable future, and are highly predictable in a number of their fundamental values. Light also is an important model for economic activity which is changing because its predictable time domain has increased, and agents are in the process of determining which factors will respond to the new time domain and how. (For modeling irregularly fluctuating phenomena, light is not as useful a model; that will require principles different than these, which pertain to slowly varying components and long-term changes of kind.)

The recent past, whether one observes it in centuries or thousands of years, is one of singular change for planet Earth. This is the time when, as many writers have noted, Earth changed from a primitive planet dominated by the instincts of wild evolution, to a more or less civilized, rational planet which knows itself from other worlds in the solar system, and conceives itself as one living system, though with many individual economic agents. While much more can be said about it in detail, the crux is that the planet has committed itself to change for ever, a span of time that already comprehends a half billion to several billion years depending on how one defines economic life. During the time prior to the shaping of tools and the use of fire, economic activity consisted of kill or be killed, zero sum games of life and death and there was no money.

Now, it is changing to a world in which economic activity is always, at least eventually, gauged in terms of win-win transactions with money tokens, rational expectations, demands for human rights, ownership of and responsibility for property and accounts, and automatic systems for performing necessary and extremely valuable calculations. These will be in use thousand of years hence. It is this vast global change from wildness that has caused this time to be one of a vast beginning spanning perhaps millions of years and more.

Light provides a model for change on a vast timescale, because of the early 1900's discovery in astrophysical cosmology by the astronomer Edwin Hubble, of a shift in wavelength in light which originally emanated in the stars of distant galaxies. The fainter the galaxy, the more the light which is emitted by it is observed here on Earth as having become longer in wavelength and commensurately diminished in momentum.

With exact equivalence, the energy of light is known to be equal to the product of the speed and momentum of light. Thus it is understood, and quite valuable, that the longer light takes to reach Earth from distant galaxies diminishes in energy and increases in wavetime. The inverse of wavetime is frequency, which is more often used in this context, in part because the entire frequency spectrum of the United States is defined in commerce by the Federal Communications Commission. So believe what you are reading, and remember it: light does change slowly in energy as it travels, and the action goes into its wavetime. The action is not lost; it merely and slowly shifts or diffuses from the internal, topological-physical energy domain of the wave into the internal topological-physical time domain of the same wave.

What on Earth does this have to do with economic activity?

Consider the economic activity represented by a dollar bill. It undergoes numerous transactions and its economic frequency is understood as the number of transactions each year in which that dollar bill is used. The number of times each dollar bill is used in its lifetime-that is, before it becomes torn, is its total utility measured in acts of trade. The number of transactions is a measure used in designing currency notes to last a long time. Durable currency notes are valuable to a nation; it costs money to print new ones.

In the time from 1900 to 1950, economic activity events were measured in periods of time lasting up to five years (such as two world wars and a monstrous depression) the future was not very predictable. It was in fact frighteningly unpredictable.The world had almost survived two thousand years in one great dynasty called Rome, enumerated with the Gregorian calendar which has been invented by Julius Caesar (maybe one of his graduate students.) No other dynasty, all the way back to Cheops and Tutankhamen, had ever done that. All had fallen apart within a hand of centuries, until just about six hundred years prior to Caesar when the Babylonian civilization of Nebuchadnezzar discovered the difference between reptiles and mammals. That means one could be more effective in trade, if one took into account that human economic activity from barter to finance, would have a cold blooded side in the primitive, and a warm-blooded side more often found among people one could trust.

That's why, after Rome had assimilated that for six hundred years, a carbon's atomic number of centuries, the Roman empire was so fundamentally correct that its calendar would span as many millennia as would be necessary to reach the Moon. The United States has already trod the Moon and fetched samples of rock from it, Russia has fetched samples with robots, and a Chinese Long March rocket is on its way to the Moon to do the same, and it is rationally predicted that someday there will be tourist accommodations on the Moon (though I think the time delay will be longer than expected, it will be WELL within the next thousand years.)

We should assume that if the Moon had not been attained by now, or very soon, there would have been a nuclear war, to start over with some better idea than the cities as they exist. Where was I? Oh, yeah.

Consider two projects that are approximately equivalent in the magnitudes of their action. For various reasons such as relative differences in the rate of availability of labor and supplies, one is planned and completed in a period of five years, the other is planned and completed in twenty. Planners, with their PERT, GANNT and other time scheduling computers will put high energy into the shorter time span, and will prepare lower energy in the longer time period. This is a quantum mechanically balanced, fundamentally efficient tradeoff. Time and energy are efficiently and inversely proportional wherever the total action is constant, because action is a linear magnitude variable. That the smallest amounts of action observable are around the magnitude of the quantum is a consequence of a certain ratio that was discovered in light by atomic scientists such as Franck, Hertz and eventually Max Planck for who the quantum was named. The ratio of energy to wavelength is a constant, and the action adds linearly.

Where this relationship of time and energy are taken into account in industrial market activity, it may be more or less confidently assumed that the players have attained quantum mechanical, and probably atomic and nuclear sophistication. Industrial market activity is far more likely to be well planned in relation to the finite resources, natural environment, and on a large scale, delicate fragility of the planet.

Nebuchadnezzar, Caesar and Mohammed

Nebuchadnezzar's society, the Chaldeans of Babylon, distinguished two important kinds of living beings: Aurochs and Dragons. They were portrayed in the famous Ishtar Gate.

Aurochs were a kind of very large wild cattle that survived until 1627. Dragons were lizards that walked on four legs, unlike lizards which crawl, dragging their bellies on the ground. Both of these are well known in many different cultures.

One difference between Aurochs and Dragons was that Aurochs were warm-blooded creatures, which are mammals, hence homoiothermous. Aurochs are descended from mammals, which emerged in a distinct evolutionary break from dinosaurs around 65 million years ago. Dogs and cats are also warm-blooded mammals.

Lizards are cold-blooded, or more accurately, ambient-blooded creatures called poikiothermous. They include reptiles like crocodiles and alligators as well as komodo dragons, small lizards, turtles and snakes. They never diverged from dinosaurs; they are simply the vestiges of dinosaurs.

After the distinction between Dragons and Aurochs became clear, as in the Ishtar Gate, six hundred years passed and it appears likely that the distinction was one part of what gave Rome its distinct and powerful character. It was an important discovery to find that human beings are warm-blooded creatures and that warm blooded creatures are very distinct from reptiles. Evidence of that power is in some of the events in Rome that involved fire.

In 46 BC the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar, based on a 365 day year, with a leap year added to February to compensate for the fact that the year is not exactly 365 days, but within a few minutes of 365.25 days. That calendar is the primary basis for the modern civil calendar, used throughout the world. The extra few minutes would not be accounted for in the period of time discussed here.

That six hundred years between Nebuchadnezzar and Julius Caesar is important. The number six registers in evolutionary time with the atomic number of carbon, essential and fundamental to all life on Earth. The atomic number is the number of positive charges, or protons, in the carbon atom nucleus. The protons are far heavier than electrons, approximately 1732 times as heavy. Electrons are far more mobile than protons, and many events occur in which the difference of these charges appear as differences in potential between objects, entities, and beings. They also become differentiated in trade, including both barter and money.

Thus, six hundred years after mammals were distinguished from dragons, something about that difference began to appear in charges throughout the Mediterranean, Middle East and Southern Asia. It would remain unresolved for another six hundred years, when twelve hundred years would have passed after the distinction between mammals and reptiles was made.

If by the time twelve hundred years passed after human beings began cutting the dinosaurs from the mammals, Rome had not attained a means to balance both masses and charges in civil trade, there would be hell to pay. T. Rex's legacy, "only" consisting of Nile Crocodiles, various poisonous and non-poisonous frogs, lizards and snakes, and turtles, would all be down on H. Sapiens with blood in its eye. Never mind humans were the boss and had weapons and tools. The reptiles were losing and they knew it, but they would cause trouble where they could.

That is why, six hundred years after the Roman calendar began, and twelve hundred years after that distinction was made between cold blooded and warm blooded beings, a spiritual wave devolved to become the Koran. The power of the universe was interpreted by tribal leaders then. The twelve is the atomic mass of carbon, and intrinsic nature of its charge means that twelve is a time of complete accounting of both mass and charge.

The important thing is that a power struggle between reptiles and mammals continued to exist at that time. Disappearance of the dinosaurs spans many millions of years, and is not completed yet. Though crocodiles are officially protected, they are fiercely hunted by poachers. Peculiarly, in some places attempt are being made to raise gigantic crocodiles and alligators. One Florida alligator was photographed banging on the side of house with a car bumper held between its teeth, as if it wanted in, trying to get a piece of the human action. In evolution, competition is electric and crosses every difference. Massive evolutionary contest involved great gravity between dinosaurs and mammals during aeons of time. It still exists now in the reptilian competition against human beings as a nuance of their carnivorous predation.

If so, the GRACE satellites mapping Earth's gravity are a good place to start. No Klingons.

Now, it is known that same sweep and range of power extends from the remote galaxies also, to the Earth and the infinitesimal, delicate nature of its tiniest creatures, with mankind in the middle. If what the United States and other countries we are doing now is good, then twelve hundred years from now the United States, and to be sure those other countries, will be judged in the atomic weight of carbon and remembered as good nations.

It may be sufficient to consider the long term divergence between mammals and reptiles and the implications of that divergence on interest, monetary systems, the Earth, social dignity, justice and other life factors. That is a field for better economists than the author. The United Nations Millennium Goals are carefully thought out, and while nobody can see a thousand years hence clearly, those stand a chance of being at least right. In any case, elemental atomic charge (number) and weight are significant in competition in the evolution of both life and civilization.




































The period constituted the first half
of a set of phenomena which contained both even and odd parity factors.





It did not, though, resolve the massive gravitational distribution
of ancient life. That would not happen until the atomic weight
was considered in relation to that which had inceived the concepts.
Not until roughly 600 AD, twelve centuries past Nebuchadnezzar, did
it sink home that something important was cleaving reptiles from
mammals and that this something was being resolved in charges.

Reptiles, monkeys, persons and truth

ENGLISH Reptile Lizard Snake Serpent Worm

CHINESE ANCIENT 爬行動物 蜥蜴 蛇 蛇 蠕蟲

CHINESE NEW 爬行動物 蜥蜴 蛇 蛇 蠕蟲

RUSSIAN Рептилия Ящерица Змея Змея Червь

GREEK NEW Έρπων Σαύρα Φίδι Φίδι Σκουλήκι

ARABIC دودة أفعى ثعبان سحلية زاحف

Only English and Arabic here distinguish a snake from a serpent. This is not news. It reflects something about the political forms of the cultures, that some distinguish between serpents and snakes, and some do not. Just as an exercise, you figure it out.

LINGUISTICALLY, an implied burden is placed on England to provide sufficient distinctions for common sense distinctions between snakes and serpents, so that the rest of the world can translate English into their languages so that they can:

A. Avoid being punished directly or indirectly by the English, and

B. Avoid falling into internecine conflicts with each other that would, except for invidious English distinctions, not happen.

Otherwise, the return to ancient homogeneity in Europe from Rome to England can suddenly flood the world with what seem to be, from Europe, utterly new demands on the world that can not be met. In that case, one would hope that they can:

A. Avoid being punished directly or indirectly by the Europeans, and

B. Avoid falling into internecine conflicts with each other that would, except for invidious European distinctions, not happen.

Now, when one looks at England, is one dealing with a snake, or a serpent?

To be fair, it is offered that England may have a friendlier and more sensible explanation which will nonetheless solve the problem. An example of the problem is that when a person in any other part of the world accuses a person of some wrong-doing and states that the person is, say, a Russian Zmeya, is he accusing the person of being a snake, or a serpent? These will appear all over the world in innumerable small court cases, and so the nations will be filled with an infestation that falls only on the common people, making them alone appear to be the evils of the world.

Saying “So what?” will not do. To force the common people downward, especially while thermonuclear war hangs over their heads, is simply wrong, especially since thousands of years of warlike struggle for the Moon have culminated in victory, moon rocks have been returned to the Earth by more than one nation, and the Moon actually has shoe prints on it made “in peace for all mankind” compliments of the great American venture. Admittedly the Apollo project was historical; its very name traces back at least two thousand years to an important and of course mythical Roman god of the Sun. The idea of 'for all mankind' is a simple, humble and much appreciated concession that attainment of the Moon did something supernal and transcendent for the world, greater than is yet known. The implications of the Moon flights are only beginning to unfold, and it will be hundreds of years before they are clear; thousands and more before they are quiet, and millions before they are devolved.

It is important for those with sensitive egos not to regard the only important thing about the moon flights is that they justify all that America might be disposed to do. It may be important for the United States, and indeed all who understand, to present the implications of the measurements and observations returned. Ideas which are yet unclear must not be dismissed as frivolous, stupid, alien, or insane. They must simply be answered. The work is relatively easy and important.

Among recurring naive assertions is that the Moon is so important, that the facts, ideas and opinions presented so far about it cannot POSSIBLY (pronounced agonizingly) be the whole truth. There MUST be something more about the Moon than that it is airless rock with no topsoil, no arable land, no water and no normal or survivable temperatures. There MUST be gardens or forests or jungles or oceans or something INSIDE the moon that have never been discovered. There's gotta be more to the Moon.

Nonsense to the person enmeshed and awake during the development of the techniques for flying to, observing and returning from the Moon, who has also studied factual astronomy of the solar system, these ideas circulate common as shoes among the uneducated and poor. They shape responses to other conditions such as economic, civil and developmental in their countries. The United States and other enlightened countries cannot get away from those countries. All are on the same planet.

Why is this important? Because in English law, a snake is not exactly a serpent. Why not? Because there is a letter 'k' in the English word, and to the common sense, k can means that the snake represents in one social sense, the king. But in English word 'serpent' the second letter is a vowel, which is an ethereal letter that is more evolved than the 'a' in snake. The letter r which appears in the third place can mean in the same social sense, royalty. Now, if you see a small snake, is it a member of the royal family or not? Is it the leading member thereof? It is up to the person speaking what sense a character signifies, and to the context of the composition or speech.

Not snakes, ourselves. More properly, not lizards or snakes. Not any kind of reptile, human beings are mammals. More carefully, many consider human beings monkeys, where only agross distinction between human beings and reptiles is necessary, one does not want to include ALL possible mammals, and the human-like qualities of monkeys is too precious to exclude.

In formal activity of course, it is important to carefully to observe certain other parameters such as strict morphological distinctions, DNA classification and the important and newer spiritual and other fine distinctions defined by religion and philosophy.

Sometimes, however, matters of importance are in terms that at first cross conventional assumptions, natural forms, morphology and other common sense definitions so broadly that it is worth the work to go over the whole field meticulously.

Reptiles are called poikilothermous, which means "various-temperatures"; 'poikilo' is a Greek root meaning "varied". It is not clear that the Greek root alone covers enough history in the global context, however, unless translations are readily available into the symbols and words of other cultures.

This case presents such a situation: the Chinese characters for lizard, reptile and dragon are all ancient, yet this does not imply that Chinese people consider themselves dragons. It means that dragons are of definite concern to Asian culture. The little more that I can say is that events when cold blood emerges is are of serious concern in both western and Asian society.

Asian distinctions between humans, monkeys, mammals, reptiles, lizards and snakes are all very ancient and common-sensical. The linguistic characters of Chinese for these forms have not changed in thousands of years. Western distinctions between the same terms are often based on understanding that has changed during many centuries as science, natural history, biology and zoology, medicine and other fields progressed; along with these changes, the language changed almost continually from Egyptian glyphs to early phonetic alphabets to Greek and Roman through medieval Latin to French, German and English languages spoken today.

Even so, the same broad fields of distinctions have serious implications in both Asia and the West, especially in medicine, physics and nuclear energy. Powerful new tools such as genetics allow detailed distinctions to be made among these and other forms, while at the same time the molecular biology allows the differences to be traced to chemistry thermodynamics, and electrical activity in fine detail.

The world is thus in a position to reconcile its concern with space flight, the Moon, and nuclear disarmament in terms that are truly global in that they can be understood by any person in any country no matter what language it is translated in, providing only that the language is modern and the person concerned comprehends the subject.

We GOTTA do something about this poverty.

Vital to Consider Ten Thousand Years of Future

It is urgently vital, necessary and essential to devolve the errors in the thousands of years of civilizations that attained the Moon, and consider carefully what is intended in the future ten thousand years. To dismiss it as impossible is foolish. Various dreams and concepts of the future millennia must be brought into the media.

Failure to determine the most serious errors of the past centuries and attend to the long term future goals is likely to result in increasing the present darkness and catalyze wholesale war in the near term future of say fifty years.

The following is only one person's opinion.

Here is a long-run scenario framework that allows one to visualize several different interpretations of the present decades in terms of the past:

The purpose is to consider patterns that exist, the possible causes of them, and what possible futures they portend.

Assume that the Moon was always figurative in the evolution of life since the first multi-celled organisms washed back and forth in the moonlit tides over half a billion years ago. Assume the Moon was always faintly attractive and gradually became a goal of sorts.

Consider the possibility that the Moon's gravity was sensed by early birds, which of course did not waste too much time on struggling to reach it because it was always too far. Other animals may have sensed its shifting gravity, but of course not as well as bird. paragraph

Possibly, some animals grew tall trying to reach, besides food, also the Moon. Others, like frogs and kangaroos, tried to jump to it. If nothing else, entertain the notions for now as peculiar myths.

Assume the present secular understanding of history of the Earth, of the human species, the emergence of tools, fire and manufactures and the time from the earliest earth mounds and pyramids to now. That all the history of human civilization up to a few years ago was strongly driven by the goal of reaching the Moon and Sun.

That early human beings wondered why they could not climb to the Moon on hills and mountains.

That early Earth mounds were constructed to try to build something tall enough to reach the Moon. That these Earth mounds did prove something - the person climbing the mound did move in the right direction to reach the Moon, only of course not high enough by a vast distance.

That the construction of Earth mounds did attain a discovery that energy, which had to do with jumping and climbing, had also to do with the carrying of loads of earth, rocks, and later, blocks of carved and shaped sandstone, limestone or other soft stone.

That the common denominator was gravitational potential energy, and it took more of the same kind of energy to carry a stone up a hill, as it took to carry one's person.

That the energy was found to be proportional to the weight and height, even back then, as it was a linear product and related also to one's weight and the height one climbed. In addition, this energy is familiar in the circulation of blood.

That, once certain principles of geometry were realized, the construction of carved stone pyramids began in an earnest, architecturally progressive and record development process evolving to reach the Moon and Sun.

That because of the inadequate chosen principles, gravitational potential energy and few others, and the absence of modern research administration, much conflict was inevitable and many wars were fought.

That each failing civilization was subsequently diverged from, and if necessary fought against, by those human groups finding new principles.

That this process continued through many important discoveries (these are not necessarily in order and in some cases new discoveries are still refining the order):

Fired clays for pottery, porcelain and ceramics.
Smelted metals like copper, silver and bronze.
Arithmetic, geometry and mensuration.
Irrigation.
Domestication of animals
Fishing nets.
Fishhooks
Musical instruments
Agriculture
........
Pictographic languages.
Alphabetical phonetic languages.
Barter trade
Money trade.
Cottage industries.
and many other ancient and new developments.

That after the discoveries of fire, pottery, and irrigation, construction development slowed greatly in a conservative move in China, and contemplative ideas based on the resolution of opposites (a highest form if thought in natural wildlife) was worked into the Confucian or Taoist Yin and Yang.

Because this involved primarily organic evolution, Chinese culture was not as violent as construction of architectural settlements in other civilizations. On the other hand of course, by other standards, Chinese civilization remained relatively backward and was thought stagnant, an assumption frequently made of conservative development.

(This contrast is familiar on all temporal scales, even in the modern, almost continual arguments between conservatives and progressives. In this document, that model is simply extended over possibly millions of years of determined development toward the Moon.

That in contrast, civilization in the Middle East, emerging out of Africa, took to more aggressive constructions which competed with others, and, because these constructions involved great commitment which later caused severe differences, more war existed in that and the Mediterranean region.

That the discovery of money was early in some cultures, such as Jewish, which learned trade much earlier than most other peoples.

That the discovery by the Babylonian Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar of the difference between mammals (Aurochs) and reptiles (Dragons) and later found to be between cold-blooded poikiothermous and warm-blooded homoiothermous organisms was an important and decisive step toward attaining the Moon. There was nothing magical about the Chaldeans; they simply discovered the differences between dinosaurs and mammals was real and important.

That the situation in China remained at the distinction between Dragons (reptiles all the way back to dinosaurs) and Confucian dialectic of the Yin and Yang, which were essentially based on the light and dark periods of the Moon.

That the Auroch and Dragon difference, about 600 bc, was destined to cause resolutions to reach the chemical depth of carbon. That it was because of the atomic number six of carbon that just six centuries later, the Christian calendar began during a triumphant period of Rome.

That Roman and other civilizations proceeded in various ways to set out on courses they defined, toward attainment of the Moon.

That during all these times before and since Rome, and because of the absence of well resolved (in modern terms) principles appropriate to attainment of the Moon, very great mistakes, errors, miscalculations, and inadequate or just plain bad judgment resulted in wars, plagues, famines and other important catastrophes what were often thought to be even in essence, unpredictable and impossible to avoid.

That the Great War to End All Wars, and the Second World War, were essentially one big war, in the pattern of a hurricane, with a quiet eye or lull in the center of the storm, and that the great period of war was the emergence of the consequences of devolving the Milky Way Galaxy, a spiral galaxy, onto the Earth.

That the consequences included the development of atomic and nuclear energy as well as vastly more sophisticated forms of electricity.

That the consequences also finally attained flight to the Moon, and the return of samples and rocks therefrom, accompanied by highly accurate and as far as nature is concerned, perfect gauge and measure of the solar system and all its planet.

That because of these things it is truly certain that war is no longer necessary, absolutely not in order to reach the Moon again if that should prove desirable.

Because of the vast knowledge of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, galaxy and universe, it is not likely that Earth will ever be far away from what it wants to do in the optimum, apart from whatever vestigial errors exist today.

For instance, a grossly overproduced military factor may result in unnecessary and tragic wars in the future even though the overproduction could just as well be deconstructed and recycled as peacetime raw materials.

That because of the vestigial errors remaining from thousands of years of warlike struggle for the Moon, certain manufactures ARE grossly overproduced in comparison with the expected magnitudes in times of prolonged stable tranquility in the future.

That among the overproduced or wrongly distributed factors are automobiles, ships, airplanes, highways; aggressively manufacture and sold consumer goods; vast quantities of substances such as iron are made into fundamental forms and shapes of the action; the ambition to produce immense magnitudes of energy seems pathologically intensive;

That because of related vestigial errors, other manufactures are inadequately produced; necessary policies are not formulated; vitally needed forms of governmental forms are inadequately protected.

That quiet, long-term peaceful, stable forms of civilization are not properly visualized or understood, and instead, people are left to grope for such forms as holistic society.

That proper sanctions for individual choice in seeking and establishing stable quiet civilization are not provided.

That careful design of necessary and sufficient peacetime activities is not adequately attempted.

That proper and immediate reduction of large scale industrial slaughter of wildlife, which should be of the highest priority now in the understanding of the Earth, is not being adequately funded and protected. Ships are plundering the seas of wildlife yearly by millions of tons like it is so much dirt. The same is true of land mammals, being slaughtered wildly for food by irresponsibly reproducing human beings who cannot afford to keep their children fed. The plagues of frogs, locusts, rats and other creatures were the result of creating falsehood in the visions of leadership; they have resulted in plagues of human beings.

That the potential for failing to these immediate and vital planetary needs is almost certain to be a period of increasing darkness followed by wholesale unnecessary war.

It cannot be the opinions of one person, or only one nation, which decides what is to be preserved and renewed, and what is to be scrapped or deconstructed. Some things may be revived. Others yet only dreams may be abandoned.

It is a time for serious reconsideration of tens of thousands of years of future time.

To neglect these emergent factors and fail to attend to them is criminal nigh unto war

Cool Air for Chilean Miners

Cold air should be pumped down to the miners. As much as possible, even though it won't be much.

Even if it is too little to cool an entire chamber much, or more than a few miners at one time, the temperature reference will provide them valuable sense-information for metabolism, activity rate and other matters of health.

They would have to spend only a few minutes on rotation at first to give all the miners an initial break from the heat.

It will be difficult because properly, it needs an insulated air flow, must be pumped fresh and very cold, and must be pumped rather rapidly to prevent its warming up on the long journey down through the hot rock.

All those variables will have to be worked out by engineers.

It's probably worth another hole.

You Don't Want to Go to the Moon

A great deal of ego is invested in hoping to prove who can go to the Moon. Yet in fact, billions of people have no desire to go to the Moon in the foreseeable future, and no desire to spend the money to send anybody else either.

Knowledge of the nature of the Moon was a figurative goal for all Earth from long before the time of King Tut. The Moon haunted prehistoric human beings, and possibly earlier precursors of Man as well. Ever since the first use of flaked stone tools and weapons, ever since the atlatl hurled a spear point farther than any man could with his bare hand, people have dreamed of throwing it to the Moon.

That knowledge was slowly emerging in the time of ancient Greece and Rome, rapidly increased with the discovery of optics four hundred years ago, and finally attained with certainty during the Apollo manned project and by several unmanned instrumented missions as well. The information returned within the last fifty years includes actual samples of the Moon's surface rocks, and specimens were distributed to every nation on Earth.

Physical objects-corner reflecting mirrors-were left on the Moon so that they could be used with lasers to determine the exact distance to that point on the surface of the Moon. Those reflectors will be useful for centuries, perhaps thousands of years, as positive evidence of human artifacts on the Moon.

The information returned by the missions confirmed the best of the thought from ancient civilization, and as well, the visual understanding gathered by telescopes since the 16th century. The Moon is KNOWN, baby, and you don't want to waste your stuff on it.

Fiction in theater and literature about Moon Men and other living organisms was never proved out, yet it created a sinister, gloomy and haunting concern that the Moon might be found to harbor some kind of concealed life - a concern that even now drives some to propose immediately returning to the Moon to find the desired creature. Relax. There is no air. no water, no life, no farmland, no oceans, no seas, no space aliens, and no people on the Moon. It's only rock, dust and vacuum, sterilized every two week day by so lethal heat and radiation from the Sun and chilled beyond dry ice in the long night - conditions that were survived only with special protective equipment, for only a few days by the astronauts, before they had to return to safety.

Nobody wants to go to the Moon that badly yet. It's not impossible. It's just a frightfully, tyrannically costly, expensive and wasteful thing to do now. Later, like, say, 2400 A.D. It is not worth the money yet. Someday enough substantial questions will arise which are retained for when Moon missions are worth affording. Until then, we stand to gain much more by dedicating the knowledge and organization to solving the problems which plague mankind and the Earth as well - war, disease, crime, reckless reproduction, loss of habitat, defoliation, and many other problems remain which are a result of errors that were made thousands of years ago and had cumulative effect since then.

Returning to the Moon should wait until the whole cost of the journey can be afforded by the top of the market, as an amusing luxury, rather than dragged by tooth and claw out of helpless indigenous and poor human beings at the cost of frantic, clumsy exploitation of the planet's natural resources.

Untrammeled imagination needs better governance

The most significant single detail about the U.S. economy is probably that it is quiet. It is quiet in an important way: it is so quiet that it can be described in terms of things like the Boltzmann constant, the noise figure, the thermal noise and other technical terms. The quiet means that something noisy, energetic and chaotic has become silent and inactive.

Moreover, this change is one of those permanent kinds of change from which can emerge many solid, clear distinctions between

I. millions of years of ancient history

and

II. millions of years of future.

The big change was attainment of the Moon, and the related, top gravy icing-on- the-cake orbital space flight around the Earth, plus instrumented probes of the planets. Those things changed everything. From personal memory alone, I recall being with my parents and grandparents in the West Seattle Alki beach area one summer evening in 1948. As it was becoming dark, we went outside and looked at the full moon. We had a pair of binoculars. My parents asked several times if I could see "the man in the Moon" It never occurred to me to imagine a person actually standing there; I could only see the well known shapes of light and shadow that were called a face. It was okay, though.

Our grandfather told us of China, and how it was far away across the ocean. He described different people and added some anecdotes. Mostly, I could see that the world was dark and, it seemed then, flat. I could only contrast that later, more like now, with the modern sense of its being round like a ball, and of the Moon being round in the same way. The world was dark and flat and local; Issaquah was far away. Everyplace else was unknown, even if I'd been there, whether it was on the Earth or not. That was then, of course.

Since Sputnik, Apollo, Skylab, Soyuz and the International Space Station everything has changed. The world's millions of years, once all in the past and full of dinosaurs, is now entirely distinct from emerging concepts of the future. The future stretches, not endlessly so much as in detail before us, yet there is no limit to the horizons of time in the future, for those go on, and on forever. It is merely true that the future's familiar, predictable scales are becoming true, clear, and increasingly certain, while unknowns about the commensurate time are becoming smaller in magnitude. Instinct and nature are becoming more confident of the future and the future is all on Earth, for a considerable time to come.

That's not bad, but like a small town in an untroubled country, it is either already neat as a pin. You better stay out of the way of the business of putting things in order, for that is the business of the entire world now. Earth is a conscious entity with its own instincts for its health, confidence, certainty, and a large range of values that were until recently concepts only in the views of individual human beings, families or sometimes nations. Oh, the nation-but not the entire Earth? Earth is gaining a globally collective sense of its own existence, its value to itself and in the universe, and its ability to fend for itself against both external and internal threats.

These senses come from the primitive organism's ability to fend both interior and exterior threats. Those are threats such as disease pathogens (viruses, germs and parasites) and predators (lions, tigers and bears). Human society of course invented new kinds of threats, and these are fortunately, diminishing in magnitude; their appearance was mostly in the form of wars.

We have imagined some kinds of threat (space aliens) that seem to be increasingly unlikely, and not anticipatable in any sensible way. Our concern about them has resulted in a vast theater that probably in some obscure movie depicted more closely than we know, what eventually will happen, yet for a long time to come, it appears that no space aliens will be encountered, discovered or detected.

Eventually, the most recent gleaning indicates, a gradually improving concept of extraterrestrial life will emerge from increasingly detailed understanding of the atomic, molecular, and chemical activity between and in other star systems. The concept comes into better focus through a time of several centuries or more. Just how long is not clear. Even the conclusions are not clear, for the vision trailed off with ONLY an indication that the concept of extraterrestrial life is, someday, becoming increasingly clear. And ET is not here, not soon, not yet. Earth is the only life among the stars for a good long time yet.

This would be similar to the way in which Native American prophesy resulted in an assortment of stories that made it possible for them to say to some of the European settlers, "Our ancestors told us that you would come." Prophesy has always been useful that way, since human beings were first living in tents and thinking about, considering, what would come snooping around tomorrow. And what it would be looking for - a place, food, mate, competitor?

For now, apparently for several centuries, there won't be any visitors. We won't find any places within reach have life on them, although we already recognize the atomic and molecular basic constituents of life do exist in other places both in the solar system and at other star systems. Budgets and interest permitting, or urgency requiring, we are destined to explore the solar system, and it may be found possible to start life on Mars - that's still up in the air. It will have to be very tough and, and whether simple and primitive, or intricate and complex, it will have to be of very sophisticated adaptation before it is successful.

One can conclude almost nothing more: so?

"So?" is about all one can say. The future is becoming more explicable. At the present time, security precautions in the industrial market world, particularly the United States, are heavily invested in the possibility of threats coming from impossible-to-predict-even-in-principle unknown sources, because the idea of human terrorists native to planet Earth, and space aliens from unknown stars, are all mixed up together. Meanwhile, one is a fact and real possibility, and the other only haunts our imaginations. That's why whenever anything suspicious appears that is noticed by security forces in the United States, the whole top of the stadium blows off and the world is suddenly exposed to the moral vacuum of outer space without any particular concern for common sense.

Scientists were always equated with imaginary space aliens and vice versa. There are no space aliens.

Space aliens only exist in the vacuum of outer space and the reaches therein of imagination untrammeled by common sense. Imagination untrammeled needs better government.

Ideas of criminals, terrorists or more hypothetical space aliens are images always on file, which resulted from centuries of literature and cinematic speculation and an interest in being frightened or terrified.

Why would anyone want to know anything of terror? Because it is one of the most easily anticipatable events of tomorrow. We learned millions of years ago that while it was not possible to predict a predator sneaking up on the camp, it was always relatively easy to predict whether one's concept of terror was best exemplified by memore of the last time, or anticipation of the next time. Just as with earthquakes, when memory of the dreaded becomes anticipation, it's time to start moving to more solid ground.

It's a triple layer of precautions. Ancient instinct says you want to be familiar with your sense of fear. That's among the origins of "Know Thyself."

You want to be very certain of the difference between the past and the future. Even slowly.

You want to keep one eye on your ability to be afraid, sense terror, panic or fear. You want to be certain whether a discerned fear is a memory, or a sense perception right now, or neither. Not to eliminate fear from instincts; it is an idiot light of primal importance.

When it is not a memory, is a threat actually existing in the present moment? When it is neither a memory nor in the present moment, is it in a future sense? The future is dominated by one particular fact: many of its details are unknown at all times. If a fear is not a memory, of some event in the past, and it is not something occurring at the present time, then either one is missing something about the situation now, or it has future aspects, or both. What kind of perceptions have illuminated or revealed the fear? Are there any continuous paths from right now to anticipation of fear?

Consider sharks, which try to equate the terror they cause with their teeth, because if they can do that, then if you detect them at all, it's too late: their teeth are upon you.