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.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Reptiles, monkeys, persons and truth
ENGLISH Reptile Lizard Snake Serpent Worm
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:
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.
CHINESE ANCIENT 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.
Friday, September 17, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, September 3, 2010
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.
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.
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