The five thousand year Hand of Millennia project by Earth to reach its Moon finally attained success yesterday when Neil Armstrong placed his foot on the old visible satellite. The event signaled a new willingness to find more ways to work through peace than continue the tragic struggles to accomplish anything significant and new through war.
Unfortunately, Terran economies are collapsing almost to the idiocy of rural life everywhere. Almost every technology including architecture since millions of years earlier had been developed with the goal of flying to the Moon in mind. As a result, most industrial development was massively overconstructed and highly energetic, which places a premium on fast forward.
The collapse was not unexpected although because of its magnitude it will require extensive redesign of prevailing economic forms. Earth people are busy as cats on a tin roof trying to balance old, obviously valuable forms and mercifully exorcise the erroneous. One pattern, the form of government, consists of two parts-monarchy and community. Monarchs see the community as hordes and swarms of individuals. Communities often produce outspoken people who accuse monarchies of being selfish, greedy pigs.
Just what comes of this old familiar struggle for Earth remains to be seen.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Unanticipated Future Implications
Assume housing shelter and clothing, and food and water will be irreplaceably essential factors throughout the next million years
Then in the long run, what kinds of ideas will be gathered by the whole population in determining an optimum broad, tolerant gradient between essential and inessential economic activities? These are conditions that will eventually exist for a very long time, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. How extensive can inessential activity be during a hundred millennia?
Five thousand years of development has successfully attained the Moon and returned the long sought understanding of the Sun, Moon, other planets and Earth itself, Those five millennia were the hand of millions of years of human evolution, including sweeping the bones out of the cave door and migrating to avoid the waste
Recently, years a massive garbage glut are sweeping Southern Italy. Attempts have been made to ship the garbage north.
Instead, the collapse itself, of waste disposal systems, itself is likely to move north. It occurs when the industrial market technology and infrastructure, created for the final struggle to reach the Moon, itself collapses into garbage.
With that all clear, one most likely catastrophe appears to be failure of the waste disposal systems to keep up with the trashed industrial market refuse and the collapsing infrastructure
Instinct and evolution have little or no remaining interest in the Moon, Sun, or other planets, because none of them appear suitable as habitations for life. Life does not exist on any of them, and no living beings, plants or animals exist which might constitute threats to Earth.
That simple, huge, crude scenario is obscured by intrigues, strategies, plots, and doomsday and other scenarios in case of conflict. Worse, unresolved tension over the collapse and garbage problems may be aggravating international tensions.
If industrial collapse of that sort takes place, it will likely cause massive unemployment which is possibly already under way and that is likely to obscure the need to increase simple food and shelter supplies, distribution and availability and prevent the design of economic systems capable of handling these areas
Fundamental, pragmatic economic and human psychology and character studies would have to concentrate on what human beings can or should be doing if sophisticated industrial production and the research that supports it collapses.
A response among the common people about the results of space flight was a recognition of these factor
There exists no breathable air, no significant water, no beings, animals or plants, no threats except asteroids, and no place to live except on Earth
Existing and rapidly growing massive human populations do not see significant importance in advanced forms of research and production and aggressively new artificial technology since only Earth remains to populate
A subterranean implication is that human reproduction is considering going back to seasonal fertility instead of fertility all year round
The evolved, natural, unavoidable and aggressive human need to eat living organisms and the urge to reproduce of course remains and predominates,
The populations do see that construction of houses and agricultural production of food has importance. They are eager, even longing, for some kind of roles related to the traditional patterns found in rural life where jobs were not only simple but largely self- evident, in both the construction and maintenance of houses and farms, in animal husbandry and the raising of crops. But the problem is so primitive that even irrigation will have to be introduced anew to populations that have lived several generations in the urban constructions
This whole problem is similar to the issues of removing hydroelectric dams, of re-establishing carnivores such as wolves, and of curtailing the massive slaughter of oceanic animals and other aquatic wildlife
These issues are compelling yet they are not often recognized in rational terms yet, at least not in so many words. In any case, the present situation appears to be one of incipient emerging potential for massive collapse of CERTAIN COMPONENTS of the entire technological infrastructure dating all the way back to the start of pyramid constructions and irrigation. Other components are almost self- evident, and consist primarily of food and shelter. Some important new developments are likely to be found very much worth continuing and propagating, such as insurance and other forms of collective preparation.
This author cannot be more specific, as the issue is extraordinarily vague even though it is important although it is well resolved in the specific agencies responsible for essentials, agriculture and food, and shelter and housing. Clothing would be another essential, transportation and communications are highly important, though both need to be trimmed down. NOT to bare essentials because that is much too austere and alarming. They need to be trimmed of extravagance, though not of celebration and more moderate, less deceptive advertising. Corporations design new and more expensive, more costly cars and appliances like birds flap their wings
Many new designs, and the jobs in which people are employed doing them, have little or nothing to do with broadening the base of important essential factors and increasing the way in which massive populations of otherwise unemployed people can contribute to its maintenance.
Then in the long run, what kinds of ideas will be gathered by the whole population in determining an optimum broad, tolerant gradient between essential and inessential economic activities? These are conditions that will eventually exist for a very long time, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. How extensive can inessential activity be during a hundred millennia?
Five thousand years of development has successfully attained the Moon and returned the long sought understanding of the Sun, Moon, other planets and Earth itself, Those five millennia were the hand of millions of years of human evolution, including sweeping the bones out of the cave door and migrating to avoid the waste
Recently, years a massive garbage glut are sweeping Southern Italy. Attempts have been made to ship the garbage north.
Instead, the collapse itself, of waste disposal systems, itself is likely to move north. It occurs when the industrial market technology and infrastructure, created for the final struggle to reach the Moon, itself collapses into garbage.
With that all clear, one most likely catastrophe appears to be failure of the waste disposal systems to keep up with the trashed industrial market refuse and the collapsing infrastructure
Instinct and evolution have little or no remaining interest in the Moon, Sun, or other planets, because none of them appear suitable as habitations for life. Life does not exist on any of them, and no living beings, plants or animals exist which might constitute threats to Earth.
That simple, huge, crude scenario is obscured by intrigues, strategies, plots, and doomsday and other scenarios in case of conflict. Worse, unresolved tension over the collapse and garbage problems may be aggravating international tensions.
If industrial collapse of that sort takes place, it will likely cause massive unemployment which is possibly already under way and that is likely to obscure the need to increase simple food and shelter supplies, distribution and availability and prevent the design of economic systems capable of handling these areas
Fundamental, pragmatic economic and human psychology and character studies would have to concentrate on what human beings can or should be doing if sophisticated industrial production and the research that supports it collapses.
A response among the common people about the results of space flight was a recognition of these factor
There exists no breathable air, no significant water, no beings, animals or plants, no threats except asteroids, and no place to live except on Earth
Existing and rapidly growing massive human populations do not see significant importance in advanced forms of research and production and aggressively new artificial technology since only Earth remains to populate
A subterranean implication is that human reproduction is considering going back to seasonal fertility instead of fertility all year round
The evolved, natural, unavoidable and aggressive human need to eat living organisms and the urge to reproduce of course remains and predominates,
The populations do see that construction of houses and agricultural production of food has importance. They are eager, even longing, for some kind of roles related to the traditional patterns found in rural life where jobs were not only simple but largely self- evident, in both the construction and maintenance of houses and farms, in animal husbandry and the raising of crops. But the problem is so primitive that even irrigation will have to be introduced anew to populations that have lived several generations in the urban constructions
This whole problem is similar to the issues of removing hydroelectric dams, of re-establishing carnivores such as wolves, and of curtailing the massive slaughter of oceanic animals and other aquatic wildlife
These issues are compelling yet they are not often recognized in rational terms yet, at least not in so many words. In any case, the present situation appears to be one of incipient emerging potential for massive collapse of CERTAIN COMPONENTS of the entire technological infrastructure dating all the way back to the start of pyramid constructions and irrigation. Other components are almost self- evident, and consist primarily of food and shelter. Some important new developments are likely to be found very much worth continuing and propagating, such as insurance and other forms of collective preparation.
This author cannot be more specific, as the issue is extraordinarily vague even though it is important although it is well resolved in the specific agencies responsible for essentials, agriculture and food, and shelter and housing. Clothing would be another essential, transportation and communications are highly important, though both need to be trimmed down. NOT to bare essentials because that is much too austere and alarming. They need to be trimmed of extravagance, though not of celebration and more moderate, less deceptive advertising. Corporations design new and more expensive, more costly cars and appliances like birds flap their wings
Many new designs, and the jobs in which people are employed doing them, have little or nothing to do with broadening the base of important essential factors and increasing the way in which massive populations of otherwise unemployed people can contribute to its maintenance.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Man Hath Fallen
So one understands. It looks like this is equivalent to what Neanderthals would have said had they known. Neanderthals did not have, most likely, any spiritualism as competent as that which evolved during the last six thousand years.
On the other hand, of course, the modern Church is just becoming comfortable with modern paleontology and evolution theory. That is not a fault. The Church is exceedingly conservative as it should be. In no other way could it have existed for two thousand years straight.
The older I get the more comfortable I am with the idea that religion and science are much more like cooperative partners in human development, not antagonistically rejecting each other at all.
Most people probably know of one or another professor, or one or another priest, who adamantly rejects their equivalents in the opposite camp. The obligation to communicate civilly with the other seems to be easily as much a problem for some scientists, who will not bother to learn to speak in religious terms, than for many priests, who are willing to take the trouble to do that.
This is something of a relief. Clearly, Neanderthals did not disappear in their heyday, suddenly. Many thousands of years, perhaps much more, passed after the emergence of some new factor that made them obsolete, before the new hominids that displaced them predominated and Neanderthals began to dwindle in number. Confrontations of any significant numbers of either or both were probably very rare, perhaps nonexistent. After all, neither the old nor the new orders had any written records or rapid or long distance communications techniques. Moreover, it is not certain that any Neanderthal ever saw a the difference between Neanderthals and the new order; the changes within one generation were small, and very likely unobservable without modern techniques.
Now it is easy. The new order is wearing earbuds and toying with his celphone.
On the other hand, of course, the modern Church is just becoming comfortable with modern paleontology and evolution theory. That is not a fault. The Church is exceedingly conservative as it should be. In no other way could it have existed for two thousand years straight.
The older I get the more comfortable I am with the idea that religion and science are much more like cooperative partners in human development, not antagonistically rejecting each other at all.
Most people probably know of one or another professor, or one or another priest, who adamantly rejects their equivalents in the opposite camp. The obligation to communicate civilly with the other seems to be easily as much a problem for some scientists, who will not bother to learn to speak in religious terms, than for many priests, who are willing to take the trouble to do that.
This is something of a relief. Clearly, Neanderthals did not disappear in their heyday, suddenly. Many thousands of years, perhaps much more, passed after the emergence of some new factor that made them obsolete, before the new hominids that displaced them predominated and Neanderthals began to dwindle in number. Confrontations of any significant numbers of either or both were probably very rare, perhaps nonexistent. After all, neither the old nor the new orders had any written records or rapid or long distance communications techniques. Moreover, it is not certain that any Neanderthal ever saw a the difference between Neanderthals and the new order; the changes within one generation were small, and very likely unobservable without modern techniques.
Now it is easy. The new order is wearing earbuds and toying with his celphone.
Monday, January 31, 2011
The Order of Action in Light
Hubble distance redshift is moving to a new location
Light is necessary for complex systems to work properly. Yet intricate systems that are not designed in the light rarely function smoothly, reliably or at all. This is not a popular idea with some persons, and it won't be proven here. It will be described, though.
The way material, massive things such as flowing water, air, molten rock, or falling objects move varies greatly depending. In some of these flows diverge and converge, often unpredictably. In others such as falling objects, say rocks, the motion is of such low dimensionality and inevitably doomed to reach the end of its path at the end of its fall; falling cannot form a stable model for system functioning. Moreover, falling is not always the motion of any dynamic form of the action itself. Simply massive material objects are only rudimentary, usually stable forms of the action. Exceptions inevitably remain peculiar.
See this.
Complex systems such as cars, clocks, radios, television, ships and airplanes depend on a flow of action that does not diverge unexpectedly. It appears to be true that the only reliable flow of action in the universe is the motion of light. The flow of light throughout the universe appears to be similar everywhere. It is highly predictable. Light can be created at will in a stunning new variety of illumination sources. The motion of light can be described and predicted and calculated with high accuracy. It does surprising things but not at random or unexpected times except where probability appears, almost always in very predictable ways under quite definite
circumstances.
Thus light forms the fundamental, primal model of the action path. If you want a complex system to work properly, you must plan the flow of action in its processes, and ensure that the flow of action is linear. A good way to do this is to draw the pattern of flow of action in your system on a long piece of paper. The flow of action may consist of flows of air and fuel into a carburetor. The mixture then moves into an engine of some sort, where it is ignited. The action then changes form to a process of burning, then to increasing temperature, then to increasing force against a piston or turbine blades, then to the turning of a shaft, and motion to gears. Meanwhile the communications systems are describing the details of the vehicle's position, orientation, direction of motion and a host of other events. Other communications may take place between the operator and a controller or dispatcher. Wheels may be turned, or brakes may be applied. Lifting surfaces may be moved. Almost all of the events involve the transfer of energy from one place to another, or from one time to another as in the storage of energy in batteries or capacitors.
From the position of fundamental physics, the flow of energy is a good starting point. Energy is a time derivative of the action. It is only necessary to integrate the flow of energy along the paths from its source (fuel, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, height and descent or other sources) to produce a map of the flows of action. If the flows can be mapped alongside a light path, such as a floodlight or laser (lasers are particularly good for this purpose) then plans for the path of the action can be designed with careful attention to their relation to the flow of the fundamental origin of order everywhere in the universe.
If it is insisted that action paths be designed in darkness, without any reference to light, then the errors that result are incalculable. Systems that can be designed that way are limited to rudimentary responses, or other very simple events.
If it is necessary to design a complex system that works in darkness, that is quite possible by designing it in well lit circumstances. A good example of that kind of manufacture is in robotic spacecraft which are sent to other planets such as Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. Astonishing missions to the planets such as HiRise at Mars, Cassini-Huygens at Saturn, and the New Horizons probe now approaching Pluto are excellent examples of systems designed to work in some of the worst lighting, dimmest and darkest circumstances ever reached by human works. They were designed in the light to work in the dark or very close to it. HiRise and Cassini-Huygens were essentially perfect and their missions were completed with historical results. New Horizons might well do the same.
Light is not only not to be feared, it is vital and essential, the ultimate sine qua non of modern industrial market development. Make friends with the light.
Light is necessary for complex systems to work properly. Yet intricate systems that are not designed in the light rarely function smoothly, reliably or at all. This is not a popular idea with some persons, and it won't be proven here. It will be described, though.
The way material, massive things such as flowing water, air, molten rock, or falling objects move varies greatly depending. In some of these flows diverge and converge, often unpredictably. In others such as falling objects, say rocks, the motion is of such low dimensionality and inevitably doomed to reach the end of its path at the end of its fall; falling cannot form a stable model for system functioning. Moreover, falling is not always the motion of any dynamic form of the action itself. Simply massive material objects are only rudimentary, usually stable forms of the action. Exceptions inevitably remain peculiar.
See this.
Complex systems such as cars, clocks, radios, television, ships and airplanes depend on a flow of action that does not diverge unexpectedly. It appears to be true that the only reliable flow of action in the universe is the motion of light. The flow of light throughout the universe appears to be similar everywhere. It is highly predictable. Light can be created at will in a stunning new variety of illumination sources. The motion of light can be described and predicted and calculated with high accuracy. It does surprising things but not at random or unexpected times except where probability appears, almost always in very predictable ways under quite definite
circumstances.
Thus light forms the fundamental, primal model of the action path. If you want a complex system to work properly, you must plan the flow of action in its processes, and ensure that the flow of action is linear. A good way to do this is to draw the pattern of flow of action in your system on a long piece of paper. The flow of action may consist of flows of air and fuel into a carburetor. The mixture then moves into an engine of some sort, where it is ignited. The action then changes form to a process of burning, then to increasing temperature, then to increasing force against a piston or turbine blades, then to the turning of a shaft, and motion to gears. Meanwhile the communications systems are describing the details of the vehicle's position, orientation, direction of motion and a host of other events. Other communications may take place between the operator and a controller or dispatcher. Wheels may be turned, or brakes may be applied. Lifting surfaces may be moved. Almost all of the events involve the transfer of energy from one place to another, or from one time to another as in the storage of energy in batteries or capacitors.
From the position of fundamental physics, the flow of energy is a good starting point. Energy is a time derivative of the action. It is only necessary to integrate the flow of energy along the paths from its source (fuel, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, height and descent or other sources) to produce a map of the flows of action. If the flows can be mapped alongside a light path, such as a floodlight or laser (lasers are particularly good for this purpose) then plans for the path of the action can be designed with careful attention to their relation to the flow of the fundamental origin of order everywhere in the universe.
If it is insisted that action paths be designed in darkness, without any reference to light, then the errors that result are incalculable. Systems that can be designed that way are limited to rudimentary responses, or other very simple events.
If it is necessary to design a complex system that works in darkness, that is quite possible by designing it in well lit circumstances. A good example of that kind of manufacture is in robotic spacecraft which are sent to other planets such as Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. Astonishing missions to the planets such as HiRise at Mars, Cassini-Huygens at Saturn, and the New Horizons probe now approaching Pluto are excellent examples of systems designed to work in some of the worst lighting, dimmest and darkest circumstances ever reached by human works. They were designed in the light to work in the dark or very close to it. HiRise and Cassini-Huygens were essentially perfect and their missions were completed with historical results. New Horizons might well do the same.
Light is not only not to be feared, it is vital and essential, the ultimate sine qua non of modern industrial market development. Make friends with the light.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Securing the World after Aeons of Struggle
What seems to be economic malaise might only be the absence of millions of years of struggle to reach the Moon. Much of it was zero sum carnivorous predation.
That does not mean coming to terms with the newly understood solar system will automatically be a piece of cake and without any problems. Some of the struggle to reach the Moon consisted of international war, and securing arms after war is an intense for of protocol. War is thousands of years old, so it is not merely a few years from which the world is securing its arms. There were entirely separate approaches with each branch having its own theology, and every other part of culture in each was commensurately different and suspicious of the others.
It's late, though, and one cannot write of that much darkness at this hour.
That does not mean coming to terms with the newly understood solar system will automatically be a piece of cake and without any problems. Some of the struggle to reach the Moon consisted of international war, and securing arms after war is an intense for of protocol. War is thousands of years old, so it is not merely a few years from which the world is securing its arms. There were entirely separate approaches with each branch having its own theology, and every other part of culture in each was commensurately different and suspicious of the others.
It's late, though, and one cannot write of that much darkness at this hour.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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
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
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Having coffee while naming this one
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.
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.
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