The goal of reaching the Moon began in the primordial seas of our planet, where the ocean's organisms were drawn to and fro each day by the Moon and Sun. Tides carried swimming creatures on their first attempts to reach the Moon - a sense that became obvious whenever a swimming animal, anticipating the venture would be short, was interrupted by the ebb, or by a hungry predator.
Anticipation of the Moon's draw was embedded in every living animal that was hatched or born since then. That's over 400 million years of prehistoric Moon struggle. It's in our cells, blood, and instincts to know the Moon deeply, and go toward there, that place, whatever it was or is, where it always is in the skies of Earth. Ye Gods, the prehistoric Moon had gravity.
One physical fact, that somehow never became articulated in words or symbols until Mankind understood the phenomenon, was that the center of gravity of the Earth-Moon system lies within the biosphere of Earth. It is to be capitalized on, as, flush with success, we now-dominant human mammals of Earth retire the instincts of the cold -blooded reptilian instincts that in ancient times founded the predecessors of carnage and plunder which underlie war.
So far, those who actually flew to the Moon were few. They plaque placed there states "We Came in Peace for All Mankind", and gave the Moon's secrets to all human beings. Many persons are examining Moon rocks now. Costly alien mineral samples, the treasured specimens were distributed to many nations of the world as gifts from faraway lands. It will be appropriate to think on these things with great care, judicious probity, patient conscience, transcendent vigilance and courage-the Moon rocks, so much the same as the familiar rocks of Earth-for many generations.
In many professions, worrying about warm-blooded and cold-blooded creatures is considered frivolous. Nonetheless it is a deeply important distinction. It is certain to have serious consequences for good or ill in time because it involves instincts that differ in by hundreds of millions of years. The distinctions readily made in the flush of the first space flights will be new thousands of years hence. They re-emerge each generations. The implications of space flight are deeply and substantially transcendent - spanning thousands of years, with great depth. Those artifacts from Earth on the Moon are utterly different than the Moon ever was. They actually exist there. For a billion years, the Moon had no high order artifacts or anything else on it made by living beings. Now, it does. Never in the future will the Moon ever be that, again. It is hoped the changes taking place now in humankind are deeper than the idea of putting a mere obelisk on it. To be sure, that would be something. But the changes in Earth's life are more important and far more urgent.
With an internet connection, television and radio it is easy to be overconfident. Outside of civilization it is not easy to be sure what the question actually is. In the middle of a forest or an ocean, what is any question?
No more should Albert Alligator and Krokodil be in the inner sanctums of the human governments, or its courts, business establishments and educational institutions. There is no time at the present to make decisions about Earth's destiny or even its immediate future, from the viewpoint of cold-blooded fishes and reptiles, the snakes, alligators, crocodiles and gila monsters. They do not belong in the human court.
Even so, to say it brings hisses to the ears. Protests against poikilotherm organism are likely to run into the political equivalent of jealousy at first, until human beings - warm-blooded all - begin to understand everywhere that human opinions are valued just because they do keep their bodies at stable, warm temperatures. Being warm at all times, living human beings cultivate and value transcendent conscience as a characteristic mode of their collective species.
Cold-blooded creatures cannot do that; they cannot evaluate their collective conscience. It is wrong to value their judgement, for in human terms they have none. Reptiles do not provide any kind of cute or shrewd opportunistic faculty that can do anything one wants for free. Their errors are too monstrous. It is time to strengthen the sanctions against cold-blooded behavior in business, law, industry, education, war and entertainment. The consequences of failure to do so could well be increased danger of the misuse of nuclear energy for other than peaceful purposes.
Human beings, monkeys, dogs, cats, birds, mice, foxes, squirrels and other mammals are called homoiothermous. We need them when making judgement calls in winter. Should the horses, sheep, and cows be brought into barns in a cold spell? Shouldn't the dogs be indoors in this cold weather. Human beings are sometimes given considerable latitude in financing weatherproof farmhouses in places with cold winters.
Snakes, lizards, crocodiles, alligators and such creatures are called pokilothermous.
A poikilotherm is an organism whose internal temperature varies with the temperature around them. A poikilothermous organism is an ambient-blooded creature. It cools in night time temperatures or in cold seasons or weather. Some of them survive freezing in subzero temperatures; among these, several survive in ice water so cold that in normal water or unprotected blood they would die from ice crystals within themselves. Those creatures cannot be trusted with human destiny.
Blessedly good fortune, it is, that no human being alive is actually a cold-blooded reptile. However, human beings during conditions of great stress summon every instinct possible. Especially if they are caught in flooding waters, or if they are in danger from fire, they must use every instinct, and under those conditions people are justified in being cold-blooded. They may have to swim like fishes to avoid drowning, flee every perception of warmth to escape flames, or avoid freezing in winter storms or ice water. The decisions about just how people can best appropriate the resources which the cold-blooded animals represent, so valuable in unpredictable extremes, must be made by professionals in medicine, the sciences, education and government. In that sense it is important to give our leaders encouragement to undertake to make those decisions carefully. This invokes active legislation, informed consent, justice and other powers of formal government in making these decisions well. The results must be consistent among human beings regardless of where they find themselves, or who they are with. It is time to come to a sense of equal rights in thermodynamics - a field of natural phenomena that were previously thought to be intrinsically independent of right.
Living thermodynamics must never be independent or ignorant of right, not in matters of judgement. Not with nuclear weapons around.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
IT'S A GLOBAL LONG RUN
Certain current emerging details of aggression NOW, in the Middle East, are in ways exactly the same as the events in Sarajevo which triggered the thirty year period that spans both World Wars I and II.
Today's events (during a period of a year to three or four) and specifically including the events emerging from the killing of three children and the response by Israel in Gaza) rank with the assassination of the Duke of Austria in 1913.
They threaten to suddenly engulf the world as the domino-like array of contradictions between pairs of nations collapse from the Middle East westward around the globe to the Longitudes of China and Australia, thence westward all the way.
Meanwhile England, and the United Kingdom, are set up from the British Isles to Australia, to enter into a conflict to any extent opposition to its global pre-eminence and predominance may appear, including the rapid unification of Islam under ISIS.
These setups appear under the planets. The less informed attempt to use astrology to divine or predict the future, and frequently fall prey to charlatans. In contrast, the powerful and informed--whether states, nations or persons - use astrology and its mathematical and scientific origins in astronomy-to dictate certain - and only certain-aspects of the future. Those certainties must be heeded, taken into account. One of their implications is that the Middle Eastern conflicts in religion are certain to find a peaceful resolution - but whether that is now, or only after centuries of future conflict - is not yet determined.
Astrology is not best used to predict the the future, as if it is a source of prophesy or divination. Astrology is used as a source of highly predictable signal events in order to ensure certain factors which are absolutely under control, and to impose, in coordinated moves, that as far as possible all comply.
Since ancient times the longest observable period of planetary motion was the thirty years of Saturn's orbit around the heavens and its contents - the Sun and Earth. Planets farther away were surmised in ancient Rome, by Marcus Aurelius and others, and it was expected they would be fainter than bright Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - possibly so faint they could not be seen with human eyes.
Since ancient times, astronomers around the world have recorded events in many languages. Many patterns are recorded in multiple languages. Some of those most useful to this author occurred in the English jurisdiction, which resulted from colonization by the ancient Romans.
Attempts to sense the gravity of such invisible planets persisted for a thousand years before any period of time seemed to be suggested by their weight. After 1100 A.D>, a distinct jurisdiction of courts was established and named the Courts of Star Chamber. They were under Royal sanctions, and located in secluded but civilized country areas well governed by different Castles, Palaces and Houses.
The Courts gradually accumulated consensus on the gravity of the recurring events that were suggested by the possibility of planets invisibly far beyond Saturn. In time, an eventual conclusion was reached - it was close enough to wage a war on that some planet existed which spanned much more than Saturn's thirty year period.
On the wager, the War of the Roses began; it was to conclude thirty years later and the winner was to be one or the other of the two contestants. The House of Lancaster and the House of York were to slug it out through an entire period of Saturn's orbit. If the period concluded with no fatalities it would be evidence that nothing of any importance remained beyond Saturn.
Unfortunately several fatalities did occur, in a markedly distinct event involving untimely deaths and starvation - grave evidence that somebody had died of causes not in evidence, trying to win under the unknown planet or planets.
As evidence those were faithless times, another thirty year period of war ensued. Or, rather, was inserted into the populations on the European mainland. The Churches of Europe were the recipients of the blessing, and promptly began a war to determine which Church was dominant in Europe. It is tempting to assume England would arrange the war to ensure the winners would include England.
The English knew it would be better if the outcome were relatively neutral in affecting England's destiny, so the Thirty Years' War remained in Continental Europe while England discreetly refrained from meddling in Europe's religion.
In this context, four thirty year periods of war occurred:
The War of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Thirty Years War, 1618-1648.
American Revolutionary War, 1776-1805
World Wars I and II- single event from 1914 to 1945
The question of what is worth fighting for in periods of time longer than Saturn's would always be obscured by that concern with eternity which religion provides in abundance. Saturn was probably not mentioned much if at all, to the Europeans or their ministries. The question could simply have been posed as a "which of you will be dominant in, say, 1800?
Questions that must be asked (say now in 2015) of the contenders in the Middle East include
How will you rank yourselves in 2025 (one Jupiter orbit)?
How will you do that in the year 2045? (one Saturn orbit)
How, then, in 2100? (one Uranus orbit)
How in, in 2180 (one Neptune orbit)
Because, remember, astronomy easily predicts these events, plus others as well, including many more such anniversaries to come such as, say, ten orbits of Neptune from now in the year 3665? Descendants of every region on Earth will exist then, and the legacies of every enduring faith and nation, will look upon what we do now, today, in the generation following the attainment of the anciently-sought Moon, forever in the future of this the only planet we have.
Perhaps the technique of keeping a contest within borders until the matters are resolved as to the depth of their gravity, would be useful among several of the Middle Eastern contenders.
Michael Lewis
Seattle
THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING NOW WITH THESE OUTER PLANETS OF URANUS AND NEPTUNE
It was the 1600's when telescopes were invented and
Today's events (during a period of a year to three or four) and specifically including the events emerging from the killing of three children and the response by Israel in Gaza) rank with the assassination of the Duke of Austria in 1913.
They threaten to suddenly engulf the world as the domino-like array of contradictions between pairs of nations collapse from the Middle East westward around the globe to the Longitudes of China and Australia, thence westward all the way.
Meanwhile England, and the United Kingdom, are set up from the British Isles to Australia, to enter into a conflict to any extent opposition to its global pre-eminence and predominance may appear, including the rapid unification of Islam under ISIS.
These setups appear under the planets. The less informed attempt to use astrology to divine or predict the future, and frequently fall prey to charlatans. In contrast, the powerful and informed--whether states, nations or persons - use astrology and its mathematical and scientific origins in astronomy-to dictate certain - and only certain-aspects of the future. Those certainties must be heeded, taken into account. One of their implications is that the Middle Eastern conflicts in religion are certain to find a peaceful resolution - but whether that is now, or only after centuries of future conflict - is not yet determined.
Astrology is not best used to predict the the future, as if it is a source of prophesy or divination. Astrology is used as a source of highly predictable signal events in order to ensure certain factors which are absolutely under control, and to impose, in coordinated moves, that as far as possible all comply.
Since ancient times the longest observable period of planetary motion was the thirty years of Saturn's orbit around the heavens and its contents - the Sun and Earth. Planets farther away were surmised in ancient Rome, by Marcus Aurelius and others, and it was expected they would be fainter than bright Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - possibly so faint they could not be seen with human eyes.
Since ancient times, astronomers around the world have recorded events in many languages. Many patterns are recorded in multiple languages. Some of those most useful to this author occurred in the English jurisdiction, which resulted from colonization by the ancient Romans.
Attempts to sense the gravity of such invisible planets persisted for a thousand years before any period of time seemed to be suggested by their weight. After 1100 A.D>, a distinct jurisdiction of courts was established and named the Courts of Star Chamber. They were under Royal sanctions, and located in secluded but civilized country areas well governed by different Castles, Palaces and Houses.
The Courts gradually accumulated consensus on the gravity of the recurring events that were suggested by the possibility of planets invisibly far beyond Saturn. In time, an eventual conclusion was reached - it was close enough to wage a war on that some planet existed which spanned much more than Saturn's thirty year period.
On the wager, the War of the Roses began; it was to conclude thirty years later and the winner was to be one or the other of the two contestants. The House of Lancaster and the House of York were to slug it out through an entire period of Saturn's orbit. If the period concluded with no fatalities it would be evidence that nothing of any importance remained beyond Saturn.
Unfortunately several fatalities did occur, in a markedly distinct event involving untimely deaths and starvation - grave evidence that somebody had died of causes not in evidence, trying to win under the unknown planet or planets.
As evidence those were faithless times, another thirty year period of war ensued. Or, rather, was inserted into the populations on the European mainland. The Churches of Europe were the recipients of the blessing, and promptly began a war to determine which Church was dominant in Europe. It is tempting to assume England would arrange the war to ensure the winners would include England.
The English knew it would be better if the outcome were relatively neutral in affecting England's destiny, so the Thirty Years' War remained in Continental Europe while England discreetly refrained from meddling in Europe's religion.
In this context, four thirty year periods of war occurred:
The War of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Thirty Years War, 1618-1648.
American Revolutionary War, 1776-1805
World Wars I and II- single event from 1914 to 1945
The question of what is worth fighting for in periods of time longer than Saturn's would always be obscured by that concern with eternity which religion provides in abundance. Saturn was probably not mentioned much if at all, to the Europeans or their ministries. The question could simply have been posed as a "which of you will be dominant in, say, 1800?
Questions that must be asked (say now in 2015) of the contenders in the Middle East include
How will you rank yourselves in 2025 (one Jupiter orbit)?
How will you do that in the year 2045? (one Saturn orbit)
How, then, in 2100? (one Uranus orbit)
How in, in 2180 (one Neptune orbit)
Because, remember, astronomy easily predicts these events, plus others as well, including many more such anniversaries to come such as, say, ten orbits of Neptune from now in the year 3665? Descendants of every region on Earth will exist then, and the legacies of every enduring faith and nation, will look upon what we do now, today, in the generation following the attainment of the anciently-sought Moon, forever in the future of this the only planet we have.
Perhaps the technique of keeping a contest within borders until the matters are resolved as to the depth of their gravity, would be useful among several of the Middle Eastern contenders.
Michael Lewis
Seattle
THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING NOW WITH THESE OUTER PLANETS OF URANUS AND NEPTUNE
It was the 1600's when telescopes were invented and
Monday, January 20, 2014
Economic Slowdown on an Evolving Planet
There are as usual several components of economic trends. One of these is the historical trend, which reflects very much the relative development of technology. However, most of the motivation for technological development began long ago - not mere hundreds or thousands, but millions of years ago.
In fact, the evolution toward the Moon probably began with the earliest forms of instinct that responded to the ocean's tides, both Lunar and Solar. Of course as long as life was in the seas alone, it almost certainly never had any dreams or instincts of traveling to the Moon and Sun. That would come only after land animals, and then birds and mammals arose. They fueled what eventually became mankind, the human species, and the human species went through various stages of development until well known discoveries of fire, stone tools, spears, bows and arrows, ornamentation and other artificial form which provide the first evidence of a distinctly human intelligence. Eventually, the construction of mud, then clay and sandstone architectural constructions made urban civilization possible. In its protection, invention and discovery were rapid, and the old attractions of the Moon and Sun were of course among the instincts of the world. There began contests, organized work, forced labor, conflict and war, all fueled by various differences of opinion having much or little to do with flying to the Moon.
To make this long story short, mankind invented technologies much larger for fighting over how to get to the Moon (and Sun, Planets, etc) than the actual implements which were eventually used for the successful flights that took place so recently, and which are ongoing even now with instrumented probes, robotic surveying craft, and manned orbital flights. Undoubtedly, more will continue in the future-probably at an increasingly moderated rate.
What has changed so much, is the same thing that is causing the economic slowdown-the very success already attained in flight to the Moon, to Mars and the other planets, answered many questions so ancient their origins were lost in time billions of years ago. All the long-term urgency to reach the Moon and fly to the Sun and planets and stars has evaporated. Project Apollo no longer exists. Neither does the scheming that gave rise to suspiciously sinister planned conflicts under the planets. Very few space projects are now named after mythical beings, creatures, gods or events. Instead, space vehicles and instruments are named after their particular, specific purpose and design goals, such as the Galex Galaxy Explorer, the Hubble Space Telescope, Nimbus, the Asteroid Redirect Initiative, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, CloudSat, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and many others. These are often also named after particular, very real, living or recently living researchers in space and astronomy.
Economy, once led by the pandemonium of secular, atheistic, predatory, often carnivorous competition for survival faintly tainted by vague dreams and instinctive curiosity to reach the Moon, has largely ceased its wars and is now being guided by the hard facts of willing and voluntary production (with profit motive perfectly legal) yet inspired and goaded by no religious, spiritual, imaginary or instinctive impetus.
That's why the economic slowdown is big, deep, and, to modernists accustomed to inflated luxurious glamor products, drag and ugly and alarming. Even where formerly communist societies, at one time guessing the truth that space flight would come to pass yet would be of little direct economic value, and having taken up space flight for the time being, are being notoriously slow and casual about space flight development as a driving factor for sheer economic productivity.
That's why natural food stores, organic gardening, and other patterns of productivity that take Earth's vital, long-term importance into account, are being quietly successful. That's why some large corporations which have drastically trimmed their sails have become successful in new and more organic, whole ways. It is time to stop worrying and time to cultivate the quality of long-term habitation on the only planet we are likely to live on for millions of years. There are no economical solutions to the problem of finding other habitable planets. The only sane economic activity is adapting economically to living on the only one habitable planet attainable, possibly forever.
Fortunately many new facts are in favor of the domestic future of Planet Earth. The proper rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy was determined with careful measurements spanning thirty years by NASA, and for that or possibly other reasons, the Sun is now a quieter star, more stable for Earth's future. Many new artificial satellites are circling the Earth with orbits designed to last millions of years and more. Weather forecasts now extend out decades in the future. Most design now intentionally plans on very long working lifetimes for most products. These and other deliberate, long-term factors create a narrowing and lengthening of the period of time in which one or another sort of prophesy is more or less successful. In other words, earth sees its future in longer terms now-a new quality of prediction that usually leaves old-timers like this writer baffled at where so much future came from-especially if we've only got one planet to live on.
Just now, what more could one want?
.
In fact, the evolution toward the Moon probably began with the earliest forms of instinct that responded to the ocean's tides, both Lunar and Solar. Of course as long as life was in the seas alone, it almost certainly never had any dreams or instincts of traveling to the Moon and Sun. That would come only after land animals, and then birds and mammals arose. They fueled what eventually became mankind, the human species, and the human species went through various stages of development until well known discoveries of fire, stone tools, spears, bows and arrows, ornamentation and other artificial form which provide the first evidence of a distinctly human intelligence. Eventually, the construction of mud, then clay and sandstone architectural constructions made urban civilization possible. In its protection, invention and discovery were rapid, and the old attractions of the Moon and Sun were of course among the instincts of the world. There began contests, organized work, forced labor, conflict and war, all fueled by various differences of opinion having much or little to do with flying to the Moon.
To make this long story short, mankind invented technologies much larger for fighting over how to get to the Moon (and Sun, Planets, etc) than the actual implements which were eventually used for the successful flights that took place so recently, and which are ongoing even now with instrumented probes, robotic surveying craft, and manned orbital flights. Undoubtedly, more will continue in the future-probably at an increasingly moderated rate.
What has changed so much, is the same thing that is causing the economic slowdown-the very success already attained in flight to the Moon, to Mars and the other planets, answered many questions so ancient their origins were lost in time billions of years ago. All the long-term urgency to reach the Moon and fly to the Sun and planets and stars has evaporated. Project Apollo no longer exists. Neither does the scheming that gave rise to suspiciously sinister planned conflicts under the planets. Very few space projects are now named after mythical beings, creatures, gods or events. Instead, space vehicles and instruments are named after their particular, specific purpose and design goals, such as the Galex Galaxy Explorer, the Hubble Space Telescope, Nimbus, the Asteroid Redirect Initiative, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, CloudSat, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and many others. These are often also named after particular, very real, living or recently living researchers in space and astronomy.
Economy, once led by the pandemonium of secular, atheistic, predatory, often carnivorous competition for survival faintly tainted by vague dreams and instinctive curiosity to reach the Moon, has largely ceased its wars and is now being guided by the hard facts of willing and voluntary production (with profit motive perfectly legal) yet inspired and goaded by no religious, spiritual, imaginary or instinctive impetus.
That's why the economic slowdown is big, deep, and, to modernists accustomed to inflated luxurious glamor products, drag and ugly and alarming. Even where formerly communist societies, at one time guessing the truth that space flight would come to pass yet would be of little direct economic value, and having taken up space flight for the time being, are being notoriously slow and casual about space flight development as a driving factor for sheer economic productivity.
That's why natural food stores, organic gardening, and other patterns of productivity that take Earth's vital, long-term importance into account, are being quietly successful. That's why some large corporations which have drastically trimmed their sails have become successful in new and more organic, whole ways. It is time to stop worrying and time to cultivate the quality of long-term habitation on the only planet we are likely to live on for millions of years. There are no economical solutions to the problem of finding other habitable planets. The only sane economic activity is adapting economically to living on the only one habitable planet attainable, possibly forever.
Fortunately many new facts are in favor of the domestic future of Planet Earth. The proper rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy was determined with careful measurements spanning thirty years by NASA, and for that or possibly other reasons, the Sun is now a quieter star, more stable for Earth's future. Many new artificial satellites are circling the Earth with orbits designed to last millions of years and more. Weather forecasts now extend out decades in the future. Most design now intentionally plans on very long working lifetimes for most products. These and other deliberate, long-term factors create a narrowing and lengthening of the period of time in which one or another sort of prophesy is more or less successful. In other words, earth sees its future in longer terms now-a new quality of prediction that usually leaves old-timers like this writer baffled at where so much future came from-especially if we've only got one planet to live on.
Just now, what more could one want?
.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Action, Time, Energy, History and Spaceflight
How much people value the indigenous ways of life on our familiar planet!.
Flight to the Moon, collecting rocks from that thing in the sky - actual, absolute rocks - ended thousands of years of documented history of that ancient instinctive goal struggle. Egypt's construction of the Great Pyramids was among the very first events of the long great undertaking to reach something in the sky.
Egypt's emergence was preceded by half a billion years of dancing with the Moon. Early marine life was drawn back and forth in the tides, and its instinct to reach for the Moon began when they anticipated tides and found the Moon came with it. Phasing in their molecular spectra began to be in phase with both Moon and Tides. We now know both the Sun and Moon cause the tides. Without tides (as if Earth had no water) the Moon could very well exist anyway. Without the Moon, there would be no tides even in abundant seas. The tides would be only the solar component, much smaller those caused by the nearby Moon.
Economic change taking place now is occurring as we resolve the relative importance of economic factors given the new knowledge of the Earth attained through technology and especially through flight in space.
In contrast with ignorant and frequently contentious assumptions in ancient, less informed life, we have greater peace now because people find it increasingly sensible that we never actually needed war to go to the Moon. The vast wars on Earth--which raged for thousands of years and killed hundreds of millions of people worldwide--those wars were savage relics of billions of years of carnivorous zero sum competition. In savage competition of gladiatorial combat in the Roman Coliseum it was found that the moment of truth, so abundant during the insensate tragedies of battle, revealed truth also about the physical nature of the world around them..
Other economic factors are changing too, though it won't be necessary to detail them here. They include an increasingly worldwide distribution of production that was concentrated in only a few countries before spaceflight began to demonstrate success, Textiles, banking and steel were massively intensive in a small number of countries though as spaceflight emerged they spread throughout the world . Modern housing construction has spread worldwide also, along with newspapers, railroads, electricity, radio media, computers and organized production and manufacture of food supplies. International bodies such as the UN, ITO, GATT and others have spread high standards for production and utility worldwide.
The action involves the elimination of many old or even ancient factors that are not necessary and never were, and their replacement by the increase of other, newer and better designed factors. Some may have been ancient though they had been abandoned for a time, and are being restored or reinvented. Totally new factors are being invented of course.
Finally, the event of attaining space flight has the quality of action, and action was surprisingly found to exist in a smallest amount, called the quantum. This is very similar to the way matter was found to be constituted of aggregates of smallest known quantities of matter, called atoms, and the way in which charge was found to appear, in nature, as protons and electrons. Gathering this information took thousands of years and spans the same time domain as the attainment of space flight. Now every kind of event, from the cunning placement of robot nuclear powered rovers on Mars, to picking strawberries or waving a magnetic card past a reader, is understood as an assemblage or construction of atoms and quanta of action through industrial design and manufacture, even though life itself is full of action.
Those attainment, of worldwide communications, of the Moon and Mars and other events, signal the end of a great evolutionary scale dynasty. We are now in the opening phases of change that will span several generations at the outset, and hundreds of years to come to forms that are likely to exist for thousands and possibly millions of years in the future.
In other words, we know that millions of years of future exist for Earth. It is already billions of years old and life similar to what we ourselves are has existed hundreds of millions of years. We hope that what is to emerge will be more stable than in the most recent thousand, and believe that is possible. Some things have been invented that are sure to be winners forever, such as communications, transportation, agriculture, and heating and cooling systems in modern houses.
Economic changes that are taking place in these decades and during several generations of future time have a quality unlike no other time in the past. They are being made with vastly more information about the Nature of the World and the objects in the sky, and they are very likely to be excellent decisions which will increasingly have simply permanent good consequences. Economic changes now have a quality of finality now, which is likely to be utterly different from the economic changes of the recent past, which we called cycles, and boom-and-bust, prosperity and depression and so on. Before, the world was much more sensitive to the planets, which moved in cycles lasting from a month to thirty years. From now on, few people are ever going to change their ways of life greatly because of, say, the motions of the planets. As peace increases, Earth is making deeper, more comfortable, more correct decisions that will increasingly stand the test of time in the future because they are better decisions in the long run.
Fortunately, some of these decisions already exist, and those that have several decades or more of practical utility are already showing signs of stability. Consider bricks, glass, iron, transportation, water collection, storage and distribution; agriculture and granaries and food distribution, and electrical energy and fuel production. These have spread like lightning throughout the world and similar industries exist in almost every country. The stability these will have during the coming centuries is why the future now is accepted with almost no controversy. The future portends stability and improvement now far more often than the danger of disaster so characteristic of the past. Economically significant change toward both improvement and stability is likely to be enduring in ways in which durability has not existed for a long time-it is more likely now to be permanent than in the past.
The real existence of action quanta is as fundamental as the existence of atoms. We cannot avoid the existence of action quanta in life. The action quanta in individual molecules is the same kind of quantum as exists in the motions of a chariot, car, ship, airplane, computer or other machine. The quantum of action in starlight or ocean waves or Marian springtime is the same as the quantum of action on Earth in our complex machinery although the action in nature was a part of natural processed, and that in our artifice was designed into the machines deliberately by planning and thought. Action quanta are not merely something depicted in a movie; they are a fundamental natural part of the activity of things of all kinds.
There is one area which was formerly thought of as likely to be terribly disappointing if it did not work out, It is the matter of space flight to the stars. Robotic flights to the other planets of Earth's solar system are likely to be numerous during the coming decades. Already their cost is daunting, but they will continue at least until sufficient evidence exists that life on or in them either exists or does not exist. Interest in human exploration of these other planets does exist, though it is diminishing as people everywhere become increasingly dedicated to what is manifestly the most beautiful world anywhere in the accessible universe-Earth. Sensible visions of travel to the stars are fading rapidly. Some calculations indicate a likelihood that travel to other star systems is impossible even in principle for living organisms. The problem is energy - for both fuel and for sustaining meaningful, reasonable life of any stable kind.
Other calculations find different outcomes possible, yet none are seriously optimistic any more about flitting from star to star like the fantasied depicted on Star Trek. Fantasies about invaders from alien worlds are similarly evaporating rapidly. Life may exist on planets at other star systems, yet that life too, faces the same costs if it thinks of space flight. In that scenario life may exist at other star system on planets orbiting the star, and advanced civilizations may attain space flight to their planets, though not to other stars. Travel within a solar system is measured in years. Travel between stars is measured in thousands of years at a minimum, millions of years in most instances. Flight to the planets of Earth's Solar System already involves years. It is likely to be hundreds of years before humans have even orbited all the planets of the solar system. Flight to the stars may never happen at all.
Even communication with other star systems is not likely to yield results soon. No signals of artificial kind have ever been received, and what the public is given to understand, unless they inquire, is how sensitive and determined efforts have already been to detect such signals if they exist. The antenna and receivers are enormously sensitive and meticulously scan the entire spectrum in fine detail continuously. Nothing. Not so much as an advertisement has ever been received from any other star system. Almost all human ideas regarding life at other star systems is based on elaboration or extrapolation from human events.
How much people value the indigenous way of life of the familiar homeland of our planet!. People love the Earth and are content to care very little about whether there are other people beyond the horizons of the seas. They understand it is possible, but so what? When they get here, they will get here by and by. Earth is likely to unfold into that kind of attitude toward life from the stars within a century and when it does, it won't look back, or worry about the stars much. After all, the stars will eventually be regarded as "fixed" quite reasonably even though the knowledge that exceedingly careful observations can reveal their proper motion all the same.
Flight to the Moon, collecting rocks from that thing in the sky - actual, absolute rocks - ended thousands of years of documented history of that ancient instinctive goal struggle. Egypt's construction of the Great Pyramids was among the very first events of the long great undertaking to reach something in the sky.
Egypt's emergence was preceded by half a billion years of dancing with the Moon. Early marine life was drawn back and forth in the tides, and its instinct to reach for the Moon began when they anticipated tides and found the Moon came with it. Phasing in their molecular spectra began to be in phase with both Moon and Tides. We now know both the Sun and Moon cause the tides. Without tides (as if Earth had no water) the Moon could very well exist anyway. Without the Moon, there would be no tides even in abundant seas. The tides would be only the solar component, much smaller those caused by the nearby Moon.
Economic change taking place now is occurring as we resolve the relative importance of economic factors given the new knowledge of the Earth attained through technology and especially through flight in space.
In contrast with ignorant and frequently contentious assumptions in ancient, less informed life, we have greater peace now because people find it increasingly sensible that we never actually needed war to go to the Moon. The vast wars on Earth--which raged for thousands of years and killed hundreds of millions of people worldwide--those wars were savage relics of billions of years of carnivorous zero sum competition. In savage competition of gladiatorial combat in the Roman Coliseum it was found that the moment of truth, so abundant during the insensate tragedies of battle, revealed truth also about the physical nature of the world around them..
Other economic factors are changing too, though it won't be necessary to detail them here. They include an increasingly worldwide distribution of production that was concentrated in only a few countries before spaceflight began to demonstrate success, Textiles, banking and steel were massively intensive in a small number of countries though as spaceflight emerged they spread throughout the world . Modern housing construction has spread worldwide also, along with newspapers, railroads, electricity, radio media, computers and organized production and manufacture of food supplies. International bodies such as the UN, ITO, GATT and others have spread high standards for production and utility worldwide.
The action involves the elimination of many old or even ancient factors that are not necessary and never were, and their replacement by the increase of other, newer and better designed factors. Some may have been ancient though they had been abandoned for a time, and are being restored or reinvented. Totally new factors are being invented of course.
Finally, the event of attaining space flight has the quality of action, and action was surprisingly found to exist in a smallest amount, called the quantum. This is very similar to the way matter was found to be constituted of aggregates of smallest known quantities of matter, called atoms, and the way in which charge was found to appear, in nature, as protons and electrons. Gathering this information took thousands of years and spans the same time domain as the attainment of space flight. Now every kind of event, from the cunning placement of robot nuclear powered rovers on Mars, to picking strawberries or waving a magnetic card past a reader, is understood as an assemblage or construction of atoms and quanta of action through industrial design and manufacture, even though life itself is full of action.
Those attainment, of worldwide communications, of the Moon and Mars and other events, signal the end of a great evolutionary scale dynasty. We are now in the opening phases of change that will span several generations at the outset, and hundreds of years to come to forms that are likely to exist for thousands and possibly millions of years in the future.
In other words, we know that millions of years of future exist for Earth. It is already billions of years old and life similar to what we ourselves are has existed hundreds of millions of years. We hope that what is to emerge will be more stable than in the most recent thousand, and believe that is possible. Some things have been invented that are sure to be winners forever, such as communications, transportation, agriculture, and heating and cooling systems in modern houses.
Economic changes that are taking place in these decades and during several generations of future time have a quality unlike no other time in the past. They are being made with vastly more information about the Nature of the World and the objects in the sky, and they are very likely to be excellent decisions which will increasingly have simply permanent good consequences. Economic changes now have a quality of finality now, which is likely to be utterly different from the economic changes of the recent past, which we called cycles, and boom-and-bust, prosperity and depression and so on. Before, the world was much more sensitive to the planets, which moved in cycles lasting from a month to thirty years. From now on, few people are ever going to change their ways of life greatly because of, say, the motions of the planets. As peace increases, Earth is making deeper, more comfortable, more correct decisions that will increasingly stand the test of time in the future because they are better decisions in the long run.
Fortunately, some of these decisions already exist, and those that have several decades or more of practical utility are already showing signs of stability. Consider bricks, glass, iron, transportation, water collection, storage and distribution; agriculture and granaries and food distribution, and electrical energy and fuel production. These have spread like lightning throughout the world and similar industries exist in almost every country. The stability these will have during the coming centuries is why the future now is accepted with almost no controversy. The future portends stability and improvement now far more often than the danger of disaster so characteristic of the past. Economically significant change toward both improvement and stability is likely to be enduring in ways in which durability has not existed for a long time-it is more likely now to be permanent than in the past.
The real existence of action quanta is as fundamental as the existence of atoms. We cannot avoid the existence of action quanta in life. The action quanta in individual molecules is the same kind of quantum as exists in the motions of a chariot, car, ship, airplane, computer or other machine. The quantum of action in starlight or ocean waves or Marian springtime is the same as the quantum of action on Earth in our complex machinery although the action in nature was a part of natural processed, and that in our artifice was designed into the machines deliberately by planning and thought. Action quanta are not merely something depicted in a movie; they are a fundamental natural part of the activity of things of all kinds.
There is one area which was formerly thought of as likely to be terribly disappointing if it did not work out, It is the matter of space flight to the stars. Robotic flights to the other planets of Earth's solar system are likely to be numerous during the coming decades. Already their cost is daunting, but they will continue at least until sufficient evidence exists that life on or in them either exists or does not exist. Interest in human exploration of these other planets does exist, though it is diminishing as people everywhere become increasingly dedicated to what is manifestly the most beautiful world anywhere in the accessible universe-Earth. Sensible visions of travel to the stars are fading rapidly. Some calculations indicate a likelihood that travel to other star systems is impossible even in principle for living organisms. The problem is energy - for both fuel and for sustaining meaningful, reasonable life of any stable kind.
Other calculations find different outcomes possible, yet none are seriously optimistic any more about flitting from star to star like the fantasied depicted on Star Trek. Fantasies about invaders from alien worlds are similarly evaporating rapidly. Life may exist on planets at other star systems, yet that life too, faces the same costs if it thinks of space flight. In that scenario life may exist at other star system on planets orbiting the star, and advanced civilizations may attain space flight to their planets, though not to other stars. Travel within a solar system is measured in years. Travel between stars is measured in thousands of years at a minimum, millions of years in most instances. Flight to the planets of Earth's Solar System already involves years. It is likely to be hundreds of years before humans have even orbited all the planets of the solar system. Flight to the stars may never happen at all.
Even communication with other star systems is not likely to yield results soon. No signals of artificial kind have ever been received, and what the public is given to understand, unless they inquire, is how sensitive and determined efforts have already been to detect such signals if they exist. The antenna and receivers are enormously sensitive and meticulously scan the entire spectrum in fine detail continuously. Nothing. Not so much as an advertisement has ever been received from any other star system. Almost all human ideas regarding life at other star systems is based on elaboration or extrapolation from human events.
How much people value the indigenous way of life of the familiar homeland of our planet!. People love the Earth and are content to care very little about whether there are other people beyond the horizons of the seas. They understand it is possible, but so what? When they get here, they will get here by and by. Earth is likely to unfold into that kind of attitude toward life from the stars within a century and when it does, it won't look back, or worry about the stars much. After all, the stars will eventually be regarded as "fixed" quite reasonably even though the knowledge that exceedingly careful observations can reveal their proper motion all the same.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Meteorology and Geology in the Americas
America has a somewhat more savage environment than does Europe and it arises from geophysical and meteorological causes. This continent is exposed to the Sun in a different way than is the Eurasian land mass. America is exposed almost at one time each day. When the Sun rises in Boston, the sky is becoming lighter in Seattle as the first dawn twilight begins. Roughly speaking, the Sun rises and sets over the whole United States at one time. For the United States, seacoast storms are fueled on both East and West coast at least eight hours a day. Meteorology on the American continent has weather from both the Pacific and Atlantic at the same time.
East Coast weather patterns in North America sometimes stretch all the way to the West Coast. In the Americas, as everywhere, volcanoes exist, but in the Americas they engage the solar environment and space itself. Weather in the United States is not tame; it has something of the jagged character of asteroids and moons, that increase greatly the contrast between volcanoes and river valleys. In North America, the Mountains cleave Longitude, and the Earth's character seems less sheltered from meteors. Nothing in America cares how much space comes to Earth to meet the stones and volcanoes.
In a distinctly different pattern, when the Sun rises in Tokyo at the distant Eastern end of the Eurasian land mass, it is just setting in London where the whole night is yet to pass before dawn's twilight begins. By the time the Sun rises in Warsaw, any weather brought by that object has come across eight thousand miles of land, and no sharks. Europe gets a rest from solar-driven weather originating at the Eastern discontinuity of Asia with the Western Pacific. West-Pac weather never reaches Europe. Land tames the wind in the Eurasian continent. Meteorology becomes stabilized by geology, and theology's spiritual religions become embedded in the Earth with the planting of crops, the harvesting of food, and the burial of the dead. Much of Asia never worries about meteors falling from the sky; instead the Himalayas seem to be where Earth's stone reaches for that sphere instead.
The geopolitics and spirituality are very different in the Americas, than they are in the Eurasian land mass. That is why large houses in the America's were not extensively successful until the resolution of forces in mechanics provided architectural design with nearly wind-proof design standards. In Europe before the new designs, human beings sometimes lived for generations in houses that within a few years would invariably have been weathered to unusable in the Americas. America has a fiercer dynamical relationship in the relation between weather and geology than does the Old World's Eurasian continent.
Why is this important? Because houses are important everywhere in the world. In Europe, nothing exists like the tornado season in the mid-West of America. Weather is at cross purposes with geology in America; the interplay between the two seems to have only the most ferocious purposes in its mindless violence. What does it matter if it is purpose or not? If there are animals named for purpose in the ocean, something on land can be thought of as having purpose-yet perhaps it is not an animal. Perhaps on the American continent, the inanimate dynamical land's complex and violent, inevitable, even implacable succession should be thought of has having, even so, some bewildering purpose. Just as dolphins leave us wondering what purpose really is, so does the complex interplay of meteorological spirituality and geological establishment leave us sometimes bewildered, sometimes astonished, and always surprised.
In China, ancient in that vast land, Feng Shui appeared because it was possible to make sense of the way in which the long term consistency of weather patterns made possible sensible design of the house. This consistency appears to exist all across the Eurasian land, to Greece and Scotland. In America, one is lucky to engage anything of the wind safely, and it must be viewed with caution in relation to the very existence of the house. Weather in America threatens houses constantly, where in some parts a person is lucky just to have a house that allows breath, warmth, sunlight, safety and moderate humidity at the same time.
Weather in America inevitably and implacably comes into contradiction with European style houses. Not that European style houses can't succeed, even thrive here. American style housing architecture is only beginning to appear distinct from European style housing, in both their extensive variety, on the basis of geological and meteorological dynamics. That distinction is welcome, and will be a valuable source of innovation in the future as it expertise increases. Already, several international organizations exist that take a global view of these kinds of regional variations into account.
East Coast weather patterns in North America sometimes stretch all the way to the West Coast. In the Americas, as everywhere, volcanoes exist, but in the Americas they engage the solar environment and space itself. Weather in the United States is not tame; it has something of the jagged character of asteroids and moons, that increase greatly the contrast between volcanoes and river valleys. In North America, the Mountains cleave Longitude, and the Earth's character seems less sheltered from meteors. Nothing in America cares how much space comes to Earth to meet the stones and volcanoes.
In a distinctly different pattern, when the Sun rises in Tokyo at the distant Eastern end of the Eurasian land mass, it is just setting in London where the whole night is yet to pass before dawn's twilight begins. By the time the Sun rises in Warsaw, any weather brought by that object has come across eight thousand miles of land, and no sharks. Europe gets a rest from solar-driven weather originating at the Eastern discontinuity of Asia with the Western Pacific. West-Pac weather never reaches Europe. Land tames the wind in the Eurasian continent. Meteorology becomes stabilized by geology, and theology's spiritual religions become embedded in the Earth with the planting of crops, the harvesting of food, and the burial of the dead. Much of Asia never worries about meteors falling from the sky; instead the Himalayas seem to be where Earth's stone reaches for that sphere instead.
The geopolitics and spirituality are very different in the Americas, than they are in the Eurasian land mass. That is why large houses in the America's were not extensively successful until the resolution of forces in mechanics provided architectural design with nearly wind-proof design standards. In Europe before the new designs, human beings sometimes lived for generations in houses that within a few years would invariably have been weathered to unusable in the Americas. America has a fiercer dynamical relationship in the relation between weather and geology than does the Old World's Eurasian continent.
Why is this important? Because houses are important everywhere in the world. In Europe, nothing exists like the tornado season in the mid-West of America. Weather is at cross purposes with geology in America; the interplay between the two seems to have only the most ferocious purposes in its mindless violence. What does it matter if it is purpose or not? If there are animals named for purpose in the ocean, something on land can be thought of as having purpose-yet perhaps it is not an animal. Perhaps on the American continent, the inanimate dynamical land's complex and violent, inevitable, even implacable succession should be thought of has having, even so, some bewildering purpose. Just as dolphins leave us wondering what purpose really is, so does the complex interplay of meteorological spirituality and geological establishment leave us sometimes bewildered, sometimes astonished, and always surprised.
In China, ancient in that vast land, Feng Shui appeared because it was possible to make sense of the way in which the long term consistency of weather patterns made possible sensible design of the house. This consistency appears to exist all across the Eurasian land, to Greece and Scotland. In America, one is lucky to engage anything of the wind safely, and it must be viewed with caution in relation to the very existence of the house. Weather in America threatens houses constantly, where in some parts a person is lucky just to have a house that allows breath, warmth, sunlight, safety and moderate humidity at the same time.
Weather in America inevitably and implacably comes into contradiction with European style houses. Not that European style houses can't succeed, even thrive here. American style housing architecture is only beginning to appear distinct from European style housing, in both their extensive variety, on the basis of geological and meteorological dynamics. That distinction is welcome, and will be a valuable source of innovation in the future as it expertise increases. Already, several international organizations exist that take a global view of these kinds of regional variations into account.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Asian Interstellar Flight
China and its neighbors should be encouraged to develop the Asian star flight adventure theater.
This could take pressure off North Korea, and ease the problem of the United States appearing to be a source of oppression. In contrast, Russia has no such problem because it has its own science fiction. Russia's theater culture has strong traditions, including some from France, in which space flight is tolerable popular entertainment. China, by contrast, derives its formal theater from Confucian family values that tolerate little nonsense.
From the importance of the Moon in Chinese philosophy and literature, some kind of consciousness emerged around 500 A.D. in China about the Moon in its future. There were also paintings of the Moon and at least one reference to a Chinese person who attached many rockets to his sedan chair and was never seen again. One of the constellations, called "The Slipper" has to do with a Princess who went to the Moon.
That kind of stuff, as well as the ancient Egyptian paintings of men in winged boats sailing across waters toward a disk in the sky, is ancient. It indicates that for much of the world the highly successful and globally televised Apollo manned space flight project was the fulfillment of many ancient cultural ideas that had been devolved into instinct through many generations of time.
In the West, space flight to the stars was highly illustrated in theater and factual information publicized widely. Among other things there is an idea that flight to the stars will eventually become vital if mankind is to survive.
While the author is of the opinion that Earth will be quite habitable for another hundred million years at least, the traditional world did not have such confidence. In part this was due to the fact that the Earth was depicted in the Christian tradition as having been created only six thousand years ago, an insignificant time clearly meant to convey the idea that the civilization involved was temporal.
Meanwhile, idea such as the absolute necessity of discovering ways to travel to the stars, to determine the existence of extraterrestrial life, and to discover new worlds to inhabit has become at least entrenched and will continue to preoccupy human destiny for a long time. It will require either success, or failure for unending generations, to make those determinations.
Some cultures today, particularly those advancing rapidly in technology and the sciences, use the idea of a fundamental need to find new planets where human beings can life as a source of support for their research. To them, the idea that Earth's future is limited means that research in extraterrestrial space flight is vital, and the concept tends to lead to good job security and high incomes.
In other words, there is at least monetary value in keeping the world slightly alarmed in favor of research in space flight.
If China is itself concerned in that way, it could be that anything which inhibits Asian progress and enthusiasm for extraterrestrial flight could be interpreted as an enemy. The United States and European countries have dominated fictional literature and theater in the scenarios about extraterrestrial flight and colonization of planets at other star systems. England's H. G. Welles, Voltaire's description of space beings from Sirius, and the United States theater of Star Trek and Stargate essentially dominate world theater in fictional depiction of space flight to the stars.
China, naturally inhibited, may have been reluctant to venture into spectacular space fiction theater except by joining American theater groups, such as the participation of Mr. Sulu in Star Trek. If this is so, the theater-loving cultures of China, Japan and Korea could be feeling oppressed and prevented from developing their own amusing space theater in order to turn to the prosaic, almost mind-numbing militaristic-seeming development of economic progress.
China should be, ah, led serendipitously into the development of its own science fiction theater and introduced to the fantastic profits that can accrue from really big hit movies about space flight. Of course it should be delicately led to that success, so that most of its value can be attributed to Asian minds.
It is possible this could take pressure off North Korea, and thus ease the problem of the United States appearing to be an oppressive monster of some kind.
This could take pressure off North Korea, and ease the problem of the United States appearing to be a source of oppression. In contrast, Russia has no such problem because it has its own science fiction. Russia's theater culture has strong traditions, including some from France, in which space flight is tolerable popular entertainment. China, by contrast, derives its formal theater from Confucian family values that tolerate little nonsense.
From the importance of the Moon in Chinese philosophy and literature, some kind of consciousness emerged around 500 A.D. in China about the Moon in its future. There were also paintings of the Moon and at least one reference to a Chinese person who attached many rockets to his sedan chair and was never seen again. One of the constellations, called "The Slipper" has to do with a Princess who went to the Moon.
That kind of stuff, as well as the ancient Egyptian paintings of men in winged boats sailing across waters toward a disk in the sky, is ancient. It indicates that for much of the world the highly successful and globally televised Apollo manned space flight project was the fulfillment of many ancient cultural ideas that had been devolved into instinct through many generations of time.
In the West, space flight to the stars was highly illustrated in theater and factual information publicized widely. Among other things there is an idea that flight to the stars will eventually become vital if mankind is to survive.
While the author is of the opinion that Earth will be quite habitable for another hundred million years at least, the traditional world did not have such confidence. In part this was due to the fact that the Earth was depicted in the Christian tradition as having been created only six thousand years ago, an insignificant time clearly meant to convey the idea that the civilization involved was temporal.
Meanwhile, idea such as the absolute necessity of discovering ways to travel to the stars, to determine the existence of extraterrestrial life, and to discover new worlds to inhabit has become at least entrenched and will continue to preoccupy human destiny for a long time. It will require either success, or failure for unending generations, to make those determinations.
Some cultures today, particularly those advancing rapidly in technology and the sciences, use the idea of a fundamental need to find new planets where human beings can life as a source of support for their research. To them, the idea that Earth's future is limited means that research in extraterrestrial space flight is vital, and the concept tends to lead to good job security and high incomes.
In other words, there is at least monetary value in keeping the world slightly alarmed in favor of research in space flight.
If China is itself concerned in that way, it could be that anything which inhibits Asian progress and enthusiasm for extraterrestrial flight could be interpreted as an enemy. The United States and European countries have dominated fictional literature and theater in the scenarios about extraterrestrial flight and colonization of planets at other star systems. England's H. G. Welles, Voltaire's description of space beings from Sirius, and the United States theater of Star Trek and Stargate essentially dominate world theater in fictional depiction of space flight to the stars.
China, naturally inhibited, may have been reluctant to venture into spectacular space fiction theater except by joining American theater groups, such as the participation of Mr. Sulu in Star Trek. If this is so, the theater-loving cultures of China, Japan and Korea could be feeling oppressed and prevented from developing their own amusing space theater in order to turn to the prosaic, almost mind-numbing militaristic-seeming development of economic progress.
China should be, ah, led serendipitously into the development of its own science fiction theater and introduced to the fantastic profits that can accrue from really big hit movies about space flight. Of course it should be delicately led to that success, so that most of its value can be attributed to Asian minds.
It is possible this could take pressure off North Korea, and thus ease the problem of the United States appearing to be an oppressive monster of some kind.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Prescription: 750 Years Recuperation
Honestly, it is going to take 750 years to recover from the long struggle to reach the Moon.
Please, people, do not fight more than necessary.
That long struggle for the Moon began before life emerged from the Oceans, when ancient octopuses and other neural and chordate animals swam and anticipated in the ebb and flow of Moon-driven tides. Progress toward the goal of reaching the Moon became significant when animals emerged onto land, and sensed the Moon apart from the waters. That was hundreds of millions of years before England emerged from the seas west of Russia.
Attaining the Moon, whatever it was - whether it was full of predators, prey, false or true beings of any kind, gods or demons or space monsters, gardens or forests or seas - was an instinct during the passage of at least three complete orbits of the Solar System and Earth around the Milky Way galaxy. As an instinct, it was a part of every pounce on prey, and so was embedded deep in the savage zero-sum win-or-lose predation that characterized all carnivorous competition.
The first constructions were by marine animals, and included diatoms and corals. Instinct did not plan, and it did not even grope for goals other than food or mates. That's why corals never even attained the dreams which arose from being drawn back and forth by the Moon, though they did leave recognizable vestiges in layers of their limestone skeletons.
The final (because successful) venture to reach the Moon did not consists of adaptation of form, but emerged from artificial constructions. The first durable constructions were of stone- usually carved stone, because the natural forms of rock simply collapsed into rocky earth and did not remain recognizable as artificial constructions. Carved stone-at first, often the soft sandstone-were those most likely to remain recognizable as constructions by living beings. That began between five and ten thousand years ago, and the exact date is not important.
Relative approximate dates are extremely important in understanding the world's position now. That's because they indicate which of the several celestial spheres, all of which have to do at different time rates with great ephemeral cycles, were those most nearly timing the developments. The fact that serious rational progress-progress by measured and planned actions- did not occur until three galactic cycles had passed, meant that rational activity had to be accomplished on shorter time scales. These would have to be determined by the establishment of constructions which would endure. The Pyramids were deliberately constructed, with specific angles having to do with positions of various stars and of the Milky Way Galaxy's dazzling Galactic Center.
Little else mattered than that those pyramids were three in number-so that whatever progress was made in the future, it would have to begin knowing that counting had already begun; -that the angle between the Galaxy and the Ecliptic was already known and thus being taken into account; and that the pyramids were constructed by human beings and were obviously designed to be durable. The project was open ended and it was declared, its execution had already been put into effect and it would continue until its goal was met. Their size meant that it was intended to be an eternal world goal.
Sad thing is, they did not place any limit on the competition at all, since no such limit was known. Because of that, it was far easier than it should have been, to fall into zero sum, predator-prey competition, and that meant forced labor and war were among the norms accepted by the early planners of the Moon Projects.
The actual flights to the Moon demonstrated clearly that it was never necessary to deliberately kill anybody to fly beyond the atmosphere and to the Moon, then bring them back. It could not be avoided that some would be lost in accidents, and the astronauts lost are carefully remembered. Those losses to accidents are thought to have been unnecessary. What is clear is that in principle it was never necessary to go to war to reach the Moon, yet the Earth's people did war among themselves, and many were lost. More war now, in the aftermath of the successful flights to the Moon, is not desired by anybody.
The important fact is that the Moon actually was reached. An implication which slowly comes into mind is that it will take three of the relevant time domains to come for the Earth to return to peace, health and normalcy. If the galactic rotation had failed, then the next shorter time domains which are nonetheless longer than previously calculated are probably important. The discovery of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto did the trick. That's the order proceeding outward from the Sun.
Since 1975 is over 35 years in the past, Jupiter is a good example of a heavy, outer, important planet that has gone round the sun three times since the end of the manned Apollo Moon Project, with its highly successful flights, landings, exploration by men, and safe return to Earth. That interval ended three orbits of the great planet Jupiter around the Sun since the Moon flights. Jupiter is one of the heavyweights of the Solar System and was well known to the ancients.
The passage of more than thirty years means that Saturn has gone round the Sun one complete orbit already. Many people alive today will be alive in 2065, when Saturn completes three of its powerfully influential orbits around the Sun (and Earth's entire orbit) - since the completion of the Apollo moon flights. If the world can just wait until 2065 before another significant war, it will permit much better and more comprehensive agreement throughout the world under that ancient, well known planet as well.
The orbital periods of these planets are the basis for estimates of the time required for tetrapodal species like mankind to come to quiescence and tranquility. The longest, Pluto, orbits the Earth and Sun in 248 years; Neptune orbits in 165 years, and Uranus orbits us in 84 years. That order is inward from the stars. I used it here because this reasoning process either approaches the entire problem from a transfinite view, exterior objects first, then visible stars which are all in the Milky Way, then planets, and then Earth', or often in the reverse order, Earth first, then planets, then stars and then exterior universe.
The estimate is based on a common conventional calculation, that three such intervals will bring a system so near to quiescence that remaining fluctuations are typically exceeded by other factors entirely.
This results (248*3=744 years for Pluto; 165*3= 495 for Neptune, and 85*3=255 for Uranus) are more useful in the secular temporal domain when rounded off to 750, 500 and 250 years.
In calendar order, the years in the future when these intervals that will mark the returning to peace, for the three invisible outer planets, are
2250 A.D. will mark the Uranian peace;
2500 A.D will mark the Neptunian peace; and
2750 A.D. will mark the Plutonian peace.
The moral of the story is, don't expect too much peace from your neighbor, or more than he can bear, until he is reassured about the past, and the event of successful attainment of the Moon, and the future-that it is not the past, and that Peace is possible.
Neither should thou lose faith, nor attempt hurry to the stars. They are a far different, greater and more distant goal than the Moon, and even much different, greater and more distant that Mars or any of the other planets. The stars a a very different thing-a different goal, a different dream, and a different future.
Please, people, do not fight more than necessary.
That long struggle for the Moon began before life emerged from the Oceans, when ancient octopuses and other neural and chordate animals swam and anticipated in the ebb and flow of Moon-driven tides. Progress toward the goal of reaching the Moon became significant when animals emerged onto land, and sensed the Moon apart from the waters. That was hundreds of millions of years before England emerged from the seas west of Russia.
Attaining the Moon, whatever it was - whether it was full of predators, prey, false or true beings of any kind, gods or demons or space monsters, gardens or forests or seas - was an instinct during the passage of at least three complete orbits of the Solar System and Earth around the Milky Way galaxy. As an instinct, it was a part of every pounce on prey, and so was embedded deep in the savage zero-sum win-or-lose predation that characterized all carnivorous competition.
The first constructions were by marine animals, and included diatoms and corals. Instinct did not plan, and it did not even grope for goals other than food or mates. That's why corals never even attained the dreams which arose from being drawn back and forth by the Moon, though they did leave recognizable vestiges in layers of their limestone skeletons.
The final (because successful) venture to reach the Moon did not consists of adaptation of form, but emerged from artificial constructions. The first durable constructions were of stone- usually carved stone, because the natural forms of rock simply collapsed into rocky earth and did not remain recognizable as artificial constructions. Carved stone-at first, often the soft sandstone-were those most likely to remain recognizable as constructions by living beings. That began between five and ten thousand years ago, and the exact date is not important.
Relative approximate dates are extremely important in understanding the world's position now. That's because they indicate which of the several celestial spheres, all of which have to do at different time rates with great ephemeral cycles, were those most nearly timing the developments. The fact that serious rational progress-progress by measured and planned actions- did not occur until three galactic cycles had passed, meant that rational activity had to be accomplished on shorter time scales. These would have to be determined by the establishment of constructions which would endure. The Pyramids were deliberately constructed, with specific angles having to do with positions of various stars and of the Milky Way Galaxy's dazzling Galactic Center.
Little else mattered than that those pyramids were three in number-so that whatever progress was made in the future, it would have to begin knowing that counting had already begun; -that the angle between the Galaxy and the Ecliptic was already known and thus being taken into account; and that the pyramids were constructed by human beings and were obviously designed to be durable. The project was open ended and it was declared, its execution had already been put into effect and it would continue until its goal was met. Their size meant that it was intended to be an eternal world goal.
Sad thing is, they did not place any limit on the competition at all, since no such limit was known. Because of that, it was far easier than it should have been, to fall into zero sum, predator-prey competition, and that meant forced labor and war were among the norms accepted by the early planners of the Moon Projects.
The actual flights to the Moon demonstrated clearly that it was never necessary to deliberately kill anybody to fly beyond the atmosphere and to the Moon, then bring them back. It could not be avoided that some would be lost in accidents, and the astronauts lost are carefully remembered. Those losses to accidents are thought to have been unnecessary. What is clear is that in principle it was never necessary to go to war to reach the Moon, yet the Earth's people did war among themselves, and many were lost. More war now, in the aftermath of the successful flights to the Moon, is not desired by anybody.
The important fact is that the Moon actually was reached. An implication which slowly comes into mind is that it will take three of the relevant time domains to come for the Earth to return to peace, health and normalcy. If the galactic rotation had failed, then the next shorter time domains which are nonetheless longer than previously calculated are probably important. The discovery of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto did the trick. That's the order proceeding outward from the Sun.
Since 1975 is over 35 years in the past, Jupiter is a good example of a heavy, outer, important planet that has gone round the sun three times since the end of the manned Apollo Moon Project, with its highly successful flights, landings, exploration by men, and safe return to Earth. That interval ended three orbits of the great planet Jupiter around the Sun since the Moon flights. Jupiter is one of the heavyweights of the Solar System and was well known to the ancients.
The passage of more than thirty years means that Saturn has gone round the Sun one complete orbit already. Many people alive today will be alive in 2065, when Saturn completes three of its powerfully influential orbits around the Sun (and Earth's entire orbit) - since the completion of the Apollo moon flights. If the world can just wait until 2065 before another significant war, it will permit much better and more comprehensive agreement throughout the world under that ancient, well known planet as well.
The orbital periods of these planets are the basis for estimates of the time required for tetrapodal species like mankind to come to quiescence and tranquility. The longest, Pluto, orbits the Earth and Sun in 248 years; Neptune orbits in 165 years, and Uranus orbits us in 84 years. That order is inward from the stars. I used it here because this reasoning process either approaches the entire problem from a transfinite view, exterior objects first, then visible stars which are all in the Milky Way, then planets, and then Earth', or often in the reverse order, Earth first, then planets, then stars and then exterior universe.
The estimate is based on a common conventional calculation, that three such intervals will bring a system so near to quiescence that remaining fluctuations are typically exceeded by other factors entirely.
This results (248*3=744 years for Pluto; 165*3= 495 for Neptune, and 85*3=255 for Uranus) are more useful in the secular temporal domain when rounded off to 750, 500 and 250 years.
In calendar order, the years in the future when these intervals that will mark the returning to peace, for the three invisible outer planets, are
2250 A.D. will mark the Uranian peace;
2500 A.D will mark the Neptunian peace; and
2750 A.D. will mark the Plutonian peace.
The moral of the story is, don't expect too much peace from your neighbor, or more than he can bear, until he is reassured about the past, and the event of successful attainment of the Moon, and the future-that it is not the past, and that Peace is possible.
Neither should thou lose faith, nor attempt hurry to the stars. They are a far different, greater and more distant goal than the Moon, and even much different, greater and more distant that Mars or any of the other planets. The stars a a very different thing-a different goal, a different dream, and a different future.
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