Indispensable Systems Versus Unsustainable Fantasies

In a long historical view it would not be surprising to find some patterns of activity in the ongoing progress of civilization that have in the past been, or are being, or are in the future to be suddenly curtailed.  Like any recent explosion just off the launch pad only, before it reaches that stage.

Particularly noticeable is the exorbitant expenditure of lavish sums "necessary" for the exploration of space - after the primary determination of sufficient facts to identify which of the world-views from Earth is most correct.  That is, do the Moon, Mars and other celestial bodies have any life or monsters or threats on them, and since ancient times, what are those places, those planets and objects in the sky?

How far is far, so far that it is unattainable even in principle until technology evolves a great deal?  The stars are that, certainly.  Mars is still a pipe dream; it may be coming down the Pike, yet rationally it is a long way off and must be viewed with far greater patience than is currently being presented by the imaginative set.

How does the solar system work - what are eclipses?  These ancient, most familiar
problems moved the deep premises of human societies, to migration, trade, war and marriages.  They are still active.  Just last month, a recent partial eclipse here was greeted with relief by many innocent persons - civil, sane, and rational citizens, that at last those scary things are well understood.

It would be valuable throughout the world's economies to assess the various degrees of sudden or not-so-sudden devolution of the anciently founded space effort.  Perhaps the crashes in recent "privately" funded space flights were not to be so unexpected as that.

Mining asteroids was a pipe dream from science fiction, designed to fund the
essential Moon flights and never actually to mine asteroids.  Science fiction itself
was ramped up from pre-1900's to the intensity of a fury with the realm of that fantasy from Buck Rogers to Star Trek--solely to get more money for space flight, even extravagant speculative gambles like asteroid mining.  Star Wars was the
first science fiction that was pure fantasy, never designed to be an actual destiny for Earth.  Asteroid miners are not merely whipping boys for convenience - they should be, as vital economic factors are scarce and cannot be laid out for speculative airless gambles up an almost-impossible-to believe gravitational gradient up from Earth and up from the Sun.

Certain space activity are already vital--such as weather, communications, agricultural, mineral, shipping and GPS systems.  They are already essential, and indispensable; they will be happily funded forever if the economy is
designed properly.

Others, such as the incredibly stupid asteroid mining projects (no asteroid is going to yield anything precious worth more than the flight systems, space suits and equipment costs necessary to even survey the rocks) will be understood as boondoggles thought necessary to fund essential systems. 

If these events of sudden economic collapse of fantastic factors are true, they may be expected to continue until earthbound civilization makes sense to enough minds to curtail the lavish nonsense.  Deliberate collapse of an inflated space-extravagant economic sector should be undertaken.  After that it will be time to assess just what realities exist in space flight, and what is unsustainable fantasy.


Finally, if it is desired to do things right, the threefold nature of right must be taken into account.  Decisions must be right in all of galactic, ecliptic and geographical rotation.  Galactic is very slow and is not usually apparent unless the four year Leap Year cycle is spanned.  With all three correct, decisions will be far more correct. 

Thermodynamics and the Moon's New Footprints

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.

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

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?







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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.  

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. 

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.

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.  

THINK CAREFULLY. WHAT HAPPENED?.

The world's need for careful reasoning by young people is gravely important. Many deep errors existed during the last five thousand years. They resulted in immense, tragic wars. Virgin ideas do not inevitably replace ancient errors. It would be nice, but it's not so.

The author suggests some of the problem. My ideas are narrow, hurried and stressed out. Yet they are those prevailing at the turning point, when the world was just beginning to see the most obvious implications of what was found by space flight. I personally remember when the prevailing concept in the Pacific Northwest was flat-earth, and it was darkness. Fortunately, Grandpa had been to China and had been around the round world.

As time passes the most important issues will become clearer, and their good and evil will be more amendable to description. Good decisions made in the first century of this new millennium will be of immense value for thousands of years. Bad or neglected decisions that could have been made earlier could cause incomprehensible suffering again.

Think and communicate about it yourselves.  What is written here is one person's view and must be regarded as isolated.  It's not shallow, but it is almost certainly unique or peculiar.

The deep implications of what is now known about the Nature of the World are gravely important to the future. They need to be understood by more people, through long deliberation, and not alone but in conference and communication with others.

It is not just a problem of preserving at all costs those inured, self-protective empires that, heavily armored, burdened the world with an overemphasis on mortal conflict to solve problems that should have been solved by research.Yet nations of good faith, if the issues are clarified, will be seriously determined to repair even ancient errors that remain.

The Moon was ancient goal. Reaching the Moon always was a deep instinctive goal throughout the history of the World.

Over half a billion years ago octopuses and other animals swam in the tides and were drawn back and forth by the Moon. Later, on land, dinosaurs knew the Moon had gravity, and were drawn by it. Probably, young Archaeopteryx, Pteranodon, Pterodactyl and other early flying creatures which saw the Moon rising as a mountain in the East, had a brief impulse to fly there.

The Moon became an elemental goal with instinct's roots deep in the abyss beyond the continental shelves surrounding the lands of the Earth.

The Moon's gravity is in instinct, and is a part of human procreation. Early Mankind too was gravely drawn to the Moon. Yet life was ignorant of Earth's nature, and so in ignorance, monstrous wars occurred, between periods of rapid enlightenment. Though not a sin, ignorance caused conflict.

In the past, the Earth's people were largely ignorant of its Shape and Nature, and ignorant too of the nature of the Sun and Moon.  The lights in the sky were thought to be gods, or spirits, or heavenly beings.  They were given faces and the names of famous people.  Stories were told and written about how they came to be in the sky.

Within living memory, flight to the Moon eliminated the ignorance, and revealed the truth about the ancient struggle for the Moon.

Thousands of years ago, people throughout the world made decisions to worship anything that moved, to struggle at all cost, build everything they could think of, enslave each other and force each other and themselves to try hard, to get to the Moon. They invented, they colonized, they conquered and sailed and trekked and migrated.

War killed many.  Massive armies and navies conquered cities and nations and waged war against each other.  Five, maybe eight thousand years of war.  What inspires war is abstracted inanimate reasoning detached from human emotion, collective consciousness, and substantial, agreeable opinions.  Heidegger wrote like that. 

For some distorted reasoning, Germany manufactured three thousand V-2 rockets in concealed slave labor camps in which thousands of people died during the last phase of that Saturnian period from 1914 to 1945.  Why 3,000?  Evidently that number came from another millennium, the monstrously misconceived Third Reich.  Saturn is again approaching the Galactic Center.  Fortunately, Neptune is past the GC.  The really critical time is when Neptune is approaching the GC, which it will do around 2085.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that kind of slow ignorant brutal stupidity no longer exists.  It could make this new century, in which a happy and legitimate triumphant knowledge of the Earth from Space should be the rightful supreme understanding of the World, into a colossal, unnecessary tragedy.  The new century could be subverted into some weird, stupid, cruel and brutal attempt to reach the stars by the end of the century, or by the year 3,000.

There are signs of that kind of enslavement, which happen around the periphery of economic factors. FEMA camps for instance.  If a part of some nobly enthused primordial intent to war, they might have been called by the internet attention they received. 

 The sudden emergence of a vast coal transport industry, shipping coal to Asia from inland states like Montana, reminds one of the Ruhr Valley Coal industry in Germany.  Why coal?  Coal is carbon. To some, carbon is diamond.  Having the ultimate diamond over a nation that can be disgraced by goading it into inhuman war will ensure supremacy for the nation hoarding the virtue.

The almost rabid production of consumer products by engine driven automatic machinery, with little care to ensure that the products are good and NOT evil or good and NOT bad, but instead, creating good and bad, good and junk products alike, just so long as they can be sold to anybody, to people with the brains of a Teddy Bear, is fascist.  The sudden "positive law" legal sanctification of high risk activities normally tolerated under discretion, is another.

But these descriptions, complicated and derived from observations within the crisis, are from one person alone.  The factors need scrutiny by millions of people using swarm intelligence.

In the final century of the struggle for the Moon, before it was successful, hundreds of millions of living human beings had died by murder in death camps or violence in wars.

The Moon inspired the flights to land on it.  It has not only thin air.  It has no significant air. Reaching the Moon, though, was a goal inspired by the Moon.  Its pursuit brought dreams of reaching the Sun, of the wandering planets and the stars became conscious parts of the dreams of flight.

Along the way it was discovered that Earth's atmosphere actually is thin, so thin that greedy people can and do ruinously exploit and monopolize breath. Now, breath is precious, like gold or precious gems.

The thin atmosphere made the idea important that Earth's air is rapidly vanishing into space.  This false scarcity of the vitally important air is now used to enslave people into struggling too rapidly and ferociously to attain, now, the other planets and beyond the solar system, the exceedingly distant stars.

Speculation about the stars is exploitive in its extremes.  Earth needs rest from exploitation.  In truth, Earth needs a rest from the ruthless, cruel ferocity of war, mortal competition and hectic money-driven ruthless economies designed to exploit all, for money profits.

Money is a medium of distribution, not merely of exchange.  As a means of exchange it is easily monopolized by simply refusing to exchange it further. 

Fictions about space monsters abound in literature dating back to ancient Rome.  Fictions about other worlds being inhabited by monsters, fabulously advanced space aliens, or by other people came to have almost dominant influence over common sense about the stars. Even the government sanctions fantastic stories about horrible creatures coming (from England?) through wormholes in the Defense Departments Cheyenne Mountain strategic bomb shelter.  War of the Worlds, used to terrify innocent people in New Jersey, was written by an Englishman.  Now, with the immense spectacles of science fiction presented by Hollywood, dreams dominate the media. It smacks of a ruthless fascist regime bent on going to the stars RIGHT NOW, immediately, or war. 

Dreams of flying to other stars, finding lovely habitable worlds there to which people could fly, came also to dominate the press and the media-and dominate otherwise responsible government opinions as well.  Yet they have in the past resulted in death camps.

MOST of all, the pitiless ideas about what lies beyond the moon are unscrupulously and aggressively used by filthy rich capitalist pigs to make nothing but profit for themselves, even if it costs more hundreds of millions of lives in FEMA camps or enslaves people to neurotically driven hyped up lives of numbing eternal competition that makes no sense to the instincts of the natural human being.  Capitalists COULD present much better, morally sober, prudent and wise leadership for the Earth's people.  Although a number of them do, many do not. 

Instead, fear that air and water will run out, is used as a whip.  Yet air and water will be abundant far more than thousands of years.  The truth is, Earth's air and water will be abundant for millions of years, possibly billions. If it is kept clean and viable by wildlife, that is. 

Even in principle it is not known whether flight to the stars ever will take place.  Among the scenarios of existing physical laws, some indicate that flight to the stars could be totally impossible.

The most important factors are to understand what is actually accomplished, and to winnow those parts which are good and should be preserved, and separated from the chaff.  The time, place, energy, money, activity, lives and futures of the world's people and the good they do and create, must be separated from the reckless, destructive and frivolous junk and garbage, from the pollution and valueless products are evils.

This is not the time to create war, even if the pretended goal is going to the stars, or even if the concealed goal is to disgrace all but the leading sovereign monarch of the world

Who can say what products are evils, if they are new?  Everybody knows the experience of opening a nifty package that can be used for something, to find in it a badly designed product that fails or worse, injures.
After all, in nature, poisonous insects and disease germs are born new, which are sometimes called evil.
These compete in a zero sum, one-on-one, predator-prey way-the same way business competes today.
Business is symbolic battle to the death, vaguely facilitated with the utility of money and scarcely less distressing.

The world's population must be moderated. It is not debatable.  It is starving.  Strong measures to do this will be unavoidable, or avoidable only at the cost of shirking a problem which becomes worse each day it is avoided.  Nothing can be done about it except to face the difficult problems of which it consists.  China made some tough decisions and imposed what some thought was a hard line, yet many people today in China are comfortable with it and say it was necessary and the path they chose was not the worst.

Now there is considerably more peace and the Moon actually has human footprints on it. This great change brings about the opportunity to care for the world and planet, now known in truth to be the round blue home of all human life.  Earth is certain to be the only home world for all life as we know it for many generations to come.  Perhaps a few low order organisms, like organic molecules, may be discovered in some Moon of Jupiter or Saturn, but it won't be a game changer.

The possibility of extraterrestrial life is important, yet it is a long-run, thousand year issue.  This Earth, now, is what we have to live on, live with, be a part of, take care of, treasure and protect and enjoy.

Yet even in the face of these, the almost violent industrial production which was summoned up at all costs because everything had to be as magnificent and huge as possible, is still running recklessly full speed ahead as if it had not got word that the Moon was attained; that men flew to the Moon and walked on it and photographed Earth from that pale night-time orb. This is a difficulty.

Corporations do not want to stop production, for instance, of war materiel, even if war is obsolete. They do not want to stop production of automobiles or airplanes or yachts.  Instead, new products are designed which are often only slight variations from the overabundant previous versions, only, with more sophisticated engines or faster travel or greater size.

It is imagined, falsely, that to stop production of these things is unthinkable, because, it is hoped, this kind of manufacture will stumble upon some secret that can take human beings to the stars if the Earth should become uninhabitable for any reason.

Yet the most likely cause of the Earth becoming uninhabitable, or a less desirable place to inhabit, is the pollution and the organized violent destruction of the beauty of wildlife and nature, to which human beings have adapted more than a million years.

Moderate well designed homes, fewer roads, much smaller population, fewer vehicles, and in the most general way of putting it, a less catastrophic approach to changing the world, and a return to lower energy activities-all these and many more subtle refinements that will be chosen by people as peace returns, are vital to the future of Earth.

It is NOT necessary to continue digging up all the internal minerals of the Earth and transforming them through entropic processes into random forms for the vanishing vestiges of the struggle for the Moon.  It is NOT necessary to continue rapaciously killing all the fish and animals in the seas and on the land, to feed all the people that can possibly be born.

It IS necessary to reduce the world's human population, and stop the production of garbage, and permit the people to take care of the earth locally, because now they can, everywhere, think globally..

In truth, the whole, entire world of planet Earth, and the whole history, economy, civilization and activities of the human population, must be given thought for many generations by people, all the people of the world, who are to be left in peace by the monstrous onslaughts of the fascist mechanized production economy that digs up the earth's minerals, fish and forests as if ravening wolves, or robot dinosaurs run amok in some sort of mechanical pseudo-life.

It is an odd point: some worry that the footprints on the Moon were shoe prints, as if, somehow, that means there were no actual people there.  Yet those who worry complain that some people have no shoes.  They also breathe, and are not denied air.  The shoes are important on the Moon, because no air, and no water either, not in any significant quantity, exist on the Moon.  Nobody without airtight shoes survives on the Moon, and nobody who does not bring his own drinking water lives on the Moon.  I do not know what to make of the need to describe this.

Evilly, some kinds of capitalist exploitation leave the starving, ignorant poor hoping for miracles from the Moon or Mars.  It is true, the aftermath of discovering the actual true nature of the Moon and Mars will help bring, eventually, blessings of peace and abundance and health to the entire world.

But not if we let fascists enslave the world to more of what happened in last centuries, which were conducted in ignorance of the truth revealed by space flight.

So Much War - Another Cenotaph?

Mankind was not cognizant of the depth of the ignorance that, since primordial times, had underlain the existence of live on Earth. It was in those primordial times that the first organisms to respond to the Moon began accumulating concepts of it. Creatures were moved to and fro in the waters; they were brought to the shallows and onto dry land.

No air is out there, sayeth the falling heart.

Eventually, as in fishes and turtles, they laid their eggs near the shore or on land itself. They were drawn by the Moon, and those which had eyes saw the Moon.  Yet they never had a concept that the Moon contained water, or did not contain water.  They did not have a concept that the Moon contained air or did not contain air, or that it would be devastatingly lethal if they were there on the Moon and not here on Earth.

Those stark facts and absences of facts were what passed for instinct.  Concepts liked these spanned all time, until human beings began to make stone tools and use fire in preparation for the actual event of walking on the Moon. Thus each person, on presenting that goal to others, presented a destiny, which they could accept or fight, that by itself would, without air to breathe, inevitably mean deaths.

No wonder so much war attended the civilizations of Earth during the first ten thousand years of their constructions in the events prior to the first actual, successful explorations of space.

A cenotaph is suggested. It would have a base of basalt or other hard mineral containing shells from ancient clams and oysters, corals and sponges and sea stars.  The base would first gradually, then rapidly rise, suggesting the direction of the Moon. Above the ancient base would be layers of subsequent phases in the development of life as it attained greater height. It would have to move quickly from there to the architecture, from pyramids to the wondrous modern forms and machines and to the nobility that triumphed over the primitive, darkness that had dominated the Earth so deeply.

After all, the expertise attained by cruel zero-sum predation was among the skills and capabilities of those who designed and flew the craft that did, finally and triumphantly, attain the Moon.  It is signal that now the intelligence designing space flight is not zero sum competition.

The result is so significant that it is not even possible to regret the vast destruction of war, even while recognizing that in principle, it was never necessary to kill anything, to send machines and human beings to the Moon, and bring the living beings back to Earth safely. It was never necessary to kill a single human being or other living thing, to reach the Moon. It is possible to mourn the loss.  Earth will do that for a long time.

The path of development had been from total ignorance of the lethality of the Moon's vacuum.  It was ignorance sustained through a billion years of cruel  and often carnivorous predation.  During all that time, not a single cell or organism or creature guessed that the seemingly inevitable threat to life came not from opponent or partner, but from the vacuum of space on the Moon's surface where a living being from Earth would inevitably stand because life had decided to go there, or from devastating energy as if crushed by waves against rocky shore.

Those who died trying, in the centuries preceding triumph, did not die in vain, but only in the aftermath of total knowledge is it clear that the carnage was not necessary to the triumph.  A new World Class Cenotaph now should mean a great deal.  It must transcend vast time and distance; the existence of places that are intrinsically lethal, and the depth of instinct in the human soul or it will be regarded as temporal.

Jack and the Bean Rocket

Jack was a poor boy down south; his Daddy was a miner.

Worked hard all day, brought home a little money.

Sometimes there was food, and sometimes there was not.

When there was, it wasn't cuisine.

Not all the meat you could want, though there was hamburger and chicken Mom made into stew and chicken and dumplings.

In case you had not heard, the hamburger was stretched with potatoes and the chicken was stretched with dumplings.

Sometimes meat flavored potatoes and chicken flavored dumplings.

People weren't better then.  That was just the way it was.

When deep fat fryers were new we bought one and used it about three days.

It didn't come with any food but we fell for the ruse that suggested it did, or that suggested your kid would supply that.

We made some doughnuts but they didn't multiply and turn into dollars.

Like that hundred across the street.

Sometimes there was even a little Money.

Jack went to town with his allowance and his parents thought he was going to get some decent clothes and find work.

Jack came home with three rockets. His Father asked, "Jack, what are you going to do with those rockets?

"I'm going to go the Moon, Dad, and fight the Moon men and take back the promised land on the Moon! We'll be rich, Dad! I promise! You'll see.

Jack's father went back to work digging in the mine.

Sometimes when there was no work in the mines, Jack's father worked in the fields planting potatoes, or turnips or squash.

It wasn't exactly a candy machine because when you put a piece of potato into the ground it didn't suddenly turn into a grown up potato and fall out of the bottom.

Jack was one of the lucky ones, especially for a boy named Jack.

There was one Jack got his head blown off in Texas for promising things like that.

Promised a parking lot for Camels on the Moon.

Called it Camelot.

Sad.

Really was.

A President, too.

Our Jack was lucky in that his messing around with rockets got him a job with NASA.

He worked for Werner von Braun who had built rockets for Hitler and bombed London with them so HE knew where the action was.

They were REALLY going to the Moon and take all the promised land back.

Then they were going to Mars, kill all the space alien monsters and take back the canals.

Then there would be lots of water for the potatoes.

Werner had two brothers.

Together they were all known as the Werner Brothers.

It was a Werner Brothers movie.

It worked, by God.

Jack went to the Moon and brought back some Moon rocks.

That was all there was of the land grab.

Jack came home to his aging parents and said, "Dad, you were right.

There is nothing on the Moon but rock and dry dirt.

There is not even any air to breathe or water to drink.

We actually lost weight.

We threw everything disposable away to save weight.

There's a little organic stuff on the Moon now-the latrine package.

But nothing's going to grow there, what with no water and no air".

That's what Jack said.

Jack was a terrible story teller because the only decent language he knew was engineering English.

But it made sort of a story.

Jack still looks forward to the days when people will go to Mars and see if the canals are maybe there after all.

Canals had, after all, been seen through a real telescope by a real astronomer named Schiaparelli, and the government had invested lots of money in Schiaparelli'e telescope.

So it was thought that it had to be proven by human beings because the threat was so real the world is still infested with incomprehensibly destructive murderous weapons.

Of course Mars was far away and so the government sent robots that took pictures and photographed the land for the advertisements for the land rush.

Measured the air and water for the resort ads.

Looked around for the Martians too but there were none in sight.

Maybe they're hiding just beyond that hill.

Or maybe they are some place on Mars where the Mars landers didn't land.

Jack came back to see his even older parents, and said, "Dad, there weren't any Martians.

There are no invaders from Mars and never were.

There never will be.

There's almost no air on Mars either, and even if you compressed it wouldn't be breathable.

There's no water, though there are a few totally dried out stream beds millions of years old because the last water evaporated from Mars before human beings even dreamed of going there.

Maybe before the dinosaurs, the water was gone from Mars.

There's nothing there to live on.

Ever.

Jack was telling the truth.

But only old people know this.

The new Jacks are running around looking at their tablet computers for "beanstalk" and "giant castle" and "pizza".

Some of the others are looking for "employment counseling".

It would be easy to rave insultingly at them, and say, "Some of them are looking for free handouts".

But those who deceived them made them that way.

Those who deceived them forget (VERY conveniently) that few people work in agricultural fields any more because the thousands of years of invention of machines was partly intended to invent machines that would do agricultural labor.

So there are no farm jobs in the numbers that once existed.

There are cooking jobs, but they depend on people who like to dine in restaurants.

So there are many diners who want to do that, and some cooks and restaurant staff.

The diners bring money and pay the restaurant for the food.

That's business.

To those who enslave the young or leave them in ignorance, that's enough explanation, nothing else will mean anything.

To those who understand, millions of people were deceived during thousands of years and those who damn the people now are the same as those who deceived them before.

That it was a half billion year evolutionary goal explains the importance of getting to the Moon.

Yet it should not have been necessary to deceive the people during all that time.

Those who condemn the unemployed now act as if the tax money available to the Nation is their personal property.

It never was even in the first place.

It certainly is not after they pay their taxes.

They have no right to criticize at all if their criticism contains no element of understanding that there are few agricultural jobs, that the labor in housing is also largely supplanted with machines.

When they moderate their damnation with that understanding, their opinions will no longer fall on ears that could not care less what they say otherwise.

There's no place on the Moon or Mars as livable as any place on Earth, even any place on Earth where people rarely live.

There's no place on the Moon or Mars as livable as any place on Earth that NOTHING ever lives.

No place on Mars or the Moon as livable as Antarctica, the middle of the Sahara Desert, or the tops of the Himalayas or the Gobi Desert.

So Jack bought an iPad, and keyed in the instructions for downloading a pizza, and got a picture of a pizza with a map to the nearest Pizza place, but Jack didn't have much money even for that.

It has a calculator and it can multiply, too, but not into more calculators (you cannot eat calculators anyway).

It only produced pictures of the numbers.

Jack's kids don't even know the numbers on their calculators aren't some sort of game, just like the other games that are loaded onto the thing when it is sold.

Those who condemn the people for not working should confess they want to destroy the agricultural equipment so that more people will have to toil in the fields.

Or if that is not true, why not?

It's not Jack's fault that he's ignorant.

The whole world was promising land and conquest in Moon and Mars since thousands of years ago, and most of the people, being carefully uneducated, fell for it.

To be sure, it was important to get to those places and find out for certain.

Until the very last, people were being promised dazzling things like the diamonds at Tiffany's, or the gold in Fort Knox, or slaughtering Klingons and Romulans in battles for the Universe.

None of that was anything but carnival razzmatazz, dazzling vice, come-on's and carnie talk.

It isn't a time for cynicism.

It's a time to face and coordinate many actual but heavily obscured fact.

Facts of which many have been obscured for thousands of years.

The real and actual assessment is, the people alive today are the inheritors of a vast ten thousand year empire of Promise Them Anything but Fly to the Moon deceit.

It was talk that resulted in success yet left the world with generations of mourning for hundreds of millions of human beings killed in unnecessary wars.

There was no way to prevent it or know as the wars were taking place that they were absolutely unnecessary.

Flights to the Moon have been an instinctive migratory goal since before the dinosaurs began.

Even the other planets-Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and invisible Uranus, Neptune and Pluto-have gravity.

If the deceivers are not defeated, the deceits and the enslavement to economic lies will continue forever.

Mars is not yet actually walked on by people who risk their lives to prove that Mars is either not inhabited or inhabited.

Of course when that happens, those who visit Mars and return will prove that the dominant living things on Mars were human beings from Earth.

The once-feared dominance by Martians will be swept into the palatial homes of the rich on Earth.

Then when the Martian fears are been proved false, it will be pretended that space aliens and monsters might exist on the next planet Jupiter.

Panic-inspiring images of space aliens and monsters from Jupiter will flood the Earth through the television.

Monsters from Jupiter will be envisioned that will come to Earth and enslave the people of Earth and turn their children into zombies.

After people return from Jupiter and serve up their images as models of the monarchy powers, the people will know that the dominant living things on Jupiter were people of Earth.

The once-feared dominance will be quickly taken up into power structures and kept in the lavish homes of the wealthy.

It will then be pretended that space aliens and monsters exist, MIGHT exist, COULD exist on Saturn-Saturnian space aliens that will come to Earth and enslave the people and turn their children into zombie bots.

But people will journey to Saturn, and prove there are no Saturnian monsters, no matter what was predicated in the 2001 movie.

And when they return, the much feared power of the Saturnian Aliens will be harvested by the fabulously rich and famous again.

Uranus is next.

The people will be told that Uranian space monster aliens will come to Earth and enslave the people and turn their children into zombies unless Earth people go there in person and prove there are no Uranians.

When the astronauts to Uranus return and bear witness there are no Uranian Space Monsters, the fear and potential from the myth will be swept into the lions and unicorns of power, to defend the opulent castles against Earth people.

It will then be pretend that Pluto must harbor Alien Space Monsters that threaten Earth and Earth people with enslavement to toil and labor and job-hunting in a world that does most everything with automatic machines guided by computers.

So the Pluto project will commence, and people will risk their lives to bring back rocks from Pluto.

When they do, it will be triumphantly proclaimed that Pluto has no life, it is too cold, there are no signs of any living thing.

Although it will be too obvious to say, "There are no space monsters on Pluto after all, too bad, we will just keep the fear you common people were laboring in for ourselves, in our lavish castles and palaces and enclave homes, and you common shirks and lazy people can go get a job" - though too obvious, that is what they will think of the people, again.

Before life began on Earth, the ancient prehistoric seas of Earth were being washed back and forth in tides by the Moon.

The first life that was big enough to be shaped by that motion tried to anticipate the next wave.

The second wave of life enslaved the children of the first.

From then on to now and for a long time to come, Life Was Dreaming of the Moon, or other planets, or the stars.

Even now a new pretense is unfolding-that the Earth's air and water are going to eventually run out and we should all be in an enslaving panic to discover ways to travel to the stars.

Earth's atmosphere and seas might someday vanish, though it won't be for millions and possibly billions of years.

Meanwhile, though, the deceit already exist.

It is pretended that Earth's atmosphere IS vanishing, that some remembered part ALREADY vanished.

The only thing is, it did not disappear from the planet.

The right to breathe air and drink water was stolen and is now in various castles and palaces, powerful mortgages, and other enclaves of the rich.

The only people who should explore space should be people who are not enslaved to fear of space monsters, space aliens, space invaders or returning astronauts pretended by the enslaving classes to be alien threats.

THE THIRD DIMENSION TAKES ENERGY

            THE THIRD DIMENSION TAKES ENERGY
           
The third millennium will take a more sophisticated understanding of energy than we have yet dreamed. Let's not make more war of it than is absolutely essential.

Seeing smooth round river rocks on Mars, in those dry river beds, brings back memories of some dry spells on Earth. Yet the dry spell on Mars was a death sentence for everything that lived on that planet. The desiccation of Mars was total catastrophe as essentially all the free water on Mars evaporated into the cruel merciless vacuum of space.

That's why interstellar flight is a must do, must have.

We see the thin atmosphere of Earth from mountain tops, airplanes, from orbit and the Moon. We know down deep that it is fragile, and perhaps has a finite lifetime. There is no measure yet of how fast the Earth's fluid environment is disappearing. It may last a hundred million years or more. It may not. It is not disappearing at any measurable rate yet, though techniques for accurate measure of Earth's atmospheric pressure were only recently devised, and statistical records will have to be kept for hundreds or thousands of years, most likely. Or, terribly, we might find the atmosphere is disappearing measurably decade by decade. It is important to know.

That's why interstellar flight is a must do, must have. That's why the discovery, or rather, probably correct inference, that planets exist at other star systems in the Goldilocks zone actually exist. There is hope to plant Earth's concepts of life on other planets at other star systems. And we have not yet given up hope for finding some habitable zones on Mars or other objects in this Star system, the Solar System- though it looks pretty grim. After all, every place on Mars is bleaker and less life supporting than the worst of places on Earth except the spots of volcanic lava here and there on Earth.

We are reminded too, of Mars, by the Grand Canyon and other great eroded valleys. Clearly, water was deeper at some distant time in the past, or the Earth was lower. For instance consider those fossils found in the highlands in England that were believed to have been deposited there when England was under water, before it rose and became dry land. Perhaps that was not what happened at all. Perhaps England was the same height fifty million years ago and the oceans were deeper.

These questions will be given increasingly firm answers as time goes by in future generations among human beings. There is a lot of time, considering the rate of progress of science, chemistry, physics, flight and planetary geology when solutions are sought through organized peaceful cooperation-and corporations or their equivalent, institutes.

On the problem of lift in gravitational fields, some minute progress comes from magnetism, for minute payloads can be levitated a few centimeters. That's like an ancient lizard losing a scale and seeing it waft up into the air by a breeze- it takes a moment to figure just where that scale came from and why it is not where it is supposed to be.

Progress in interstellar propulsion looks bleak too, because the distances are so astonishingly vast. The best we can offer is that expertly controlled fusion and some means of locomotion large distances rapidly in the peculiar sophistication of the interstellar space-time environment will be discovered.

The author believes that the dimensionality of macroscopic space time, like that in which spacecraft, asteroids, planets and stars move, is a two dimensional manifold with a time/frequency domain and relativistically curved space-time around gravitational objects. That's why orbits of planets around stars and other similar systems of loose objects are planar unless energy is introduced from some outside source such as a passing star.

If space is two dimensional then the problem of traveling to another star system is different from the concepts we have of traveling in the three dimensional artificial coordinate systems we devised through assumptions made on the basis of architectural works.

If these ideas are true, then we are constructing three dimensional objects in which two of the dimensions are natural, and the third dimension is a venture into probability space, which always requires extra energy to develop.

We already see considerable extent into the third dimension, in ocean depths, atmospheric depth and mountains on the two dimensional surface of Earth. Life attained three dimensional motion long ago in the oceans and then crawled out on land and stood in the third dimension on legs, eventually flying in all three dimensions as birds. So there is plenty of precedent. It's just that the fundamental rules are slowly emerging now that atomic energy and space flight, cosmology and love have been coordinated.

Just remember that it takes energy to venture into the third dimension. Otherwise we'd not have got past lichens.

Like on Mars.

New Future for Time; New Time for the Future..

More than a billion years of ignorance lies in the archaeology and histories of the past. 

These decades, this century, and this millennium are a time of vast change.

During this time, change itself is drawing the world into an endless future that will always different and new.

For thousands of years now, every generation, the world will be new in ways not yet understood at all.

Our actions will be either meticulous, carefully designed and enduring, or crude, awkward, clumsy and brief. Actions very small will be better designed, often on the quantum scale.  It will take a very much longer time for the world to become jaded again.

This whole new millennium should be totally new.  In particular, it must not contain a repeat of the first stupid half of the preceding century.  2012 is an important year because it is the year twelve in the new millennium now immediately following the attainment of space flight. 

To the Moon, planets, orbital flight around the Earth, toward the stars - all the space flight is a tremendously big deal for all the planet forever.  Anticipated longer ago than can be remembered, it is changing the destiny of the Earth forever, tangibly, already. 

Twelve is the atomic weight of Carbon, the most essential element of life as we know it.  This big event, of the attainment of space flight, is changing the evolutionary patterns of the world in that fundamental element. Its effect, results, and consequences will continue to change the world for millions of years.  Marginally certain ancient species will disappear, and new species will appear and eventually restore a stable balance of life. 

Some governments capitalize on carbon-sometimes fiercely.  Diamonds, loved everywhere for their purity and grace, appear in the Crowns of State of many nations.  Diamonds are made of carbon - pure and crystalline element of atomic weight twelve.  It is important in government to be fundamentally certain in the dimensions of time and space.

The huge diamond in the English Crown is a symbol of that importance.  Artificial diamonds, are already that large, are changing the scale of their importance.  The enduring value of diamond will ensure that concepts treasured in diamonds will continue to be treasured.

Other industries, particularly the fossil fuel industries of coal and oil, are of great economic significance and are based on carbon.  Carbon's number twelve marked this year as an important year to the authorities of states and to their people as well as to the carbon budget and the carbon based life forms of Earth's biosphere. 

It will be valuable to keep an eye on all these immense factors as the space-era world emerges from half a billion years of relative ignorance.

Despite the relatively constant nature of what it is, the world is only now being discovered for what it truly is, in the accurate measure and photographic clarity of secular reasoning.

Differences throughout the world are diminishing fast and will continue to disappear in the future.  Many of the old causes of war have become insignificant variations in human activity.  Few new causa bella are emerging with great significance, because they are defused even as they precipitate, and they become tractable through tourism and trade. 

As peace becomes stronger and justice increases throughout the world, it will become simpler and less costly.  Military traditions will be increasingly on defensive and regulatory, imagining the worst-against which the were, in the past, always required to be prepared. 

Militaries may tend to aggravate international differences into conflict even though now, in the self-aware space-flight world. 

Those differences are often now being moderated to peaceful communications through new media even as they appear. 

Military leaders must be given some consideration in that it is we ourselves who have required them to be prepared at all cost to be ready to defend us at a moment's notice.

Even while peace is becoming more secure and its protections gain in strength, they will be required to lay down their lives on occasion.

We do not need to make those occasions more frequent than necessary.

Nuclear War Potential in the Earth-Sun Barycenter

Nuclear war appears inevitable if the weapons are not dismantled. Probability, action paths and events potential and events realizable are attainable. These are all combinations of material or mass reality, and probability.

This is in a universe consisting of material reality and probability. Except for a multifarious zoo of low probability, relatively faint or obscure phenomena found in the atomic world, the familiar kinds of mass and energy are almost all of existence.

Probability is a dimension in the universe. Probability is deeper wherever mass is great, and tenuous and thin in empty space. It is one of the dimensions involved in the motion of all light-like waves.

Because these waves are found throughout the universe, it is very likely that the dimensionality of light-like waves is identical with the dimensionality of space-time and perhaps of the entire universe.

Variations in dimensionality caused by mass are merely extensions of the dimensionality of light's action. The dimensions of action in light waves are energy, length, length, frequency and the speed of light. These are all strongly interrelated.

Frequency is used as one of the measures of energy. Momentum is another dimension, described in light-like waves, and it is merely a time integral of energy. Conversely, energy is a time derivative of momentum.

The product of momentum and wavelength is the action quantum, and the product of energy and wave time is, similarly, the action quantum. In both cases the action quantum is abbreviated h.

Certain mathematical forms make a fraction, h/(2*pi), useful. That will not be discussed here as it adds unnecessarily to the complexity for this material which deals with the problem of nuclear danger.

Imagine a series of actions in which each step is either an on or off switch, or it is an outcome based on drawing a card or throwing dice. Perhaps twenty or thirty steps are involved in this set of actions.

The steps involved in the switches may be controlled locally, as in the case of thermonuclear weapons where a combination of local settings (for instance with a number of different, responsible officers with specific authorization codes known only to themselves and their superiors which prevent unauthorized persons from launching the weapons systems) to operate the firing signals.

All officers present must agree, and other switches, set by various usually secret means such as radio or other electric signals from higher command centers in other locations, presidential authorization, and so on.

Because the stakes are so high, a great deal of attention, careful design, caution, routine inspection, scrutiny and review goes into the creation and maintenance of such systems. They are carefully guarded, for instance.

 Assume these are sober, responsible people of marked and unusual integrity, honor and capability. They are not in question, and not the problem.

Assume that no system under conscious human control in this way is intended to launch accidentally under any circumstances. In other words, it is assumed that these internationally dangerous weapons systems will not be launched without intention and their fail-safe systems operate correctly.

It is asserted here that other factors remain which make these weapons intrinsically dangerous. Human society can be drawn into thermonuclear war if it does not understand the cosmology in which our planet and world exist.

At the outset, let it be understood that each step in the process of detonating any of the weapons is a probability, not an absolutely  certain yes or no decision. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the probabilities involved are very close to 1 and 0. For instance, instead of the probability of a yes being exactly 1, also written 1!, is not exactly that at all.

Instead it is 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999.

That's a hundred nines.

The probability of a NO is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000123.(that and it is a hundred zeroes with some nonzero possibility at the end.

These switches, though they may not pass an error signal in a million years if the universe consisted only of the Earth, are not absolutely perfect. However, the problem is not that the systems might or will fail.

The problem is that the path which their existence IS, is a probability path. In an environment in which all possibilities exist around that path, a path will be found that will cause all the consequences of the path. 

For one thing, human society is continually drawn by that existence to consider both possibilities at all times.
Second, in the long term the geophysical barycenter of the Earth Sun system lies within the Sun. As the planet Earth orbits the Sun, in the long run the Sun's sheer, saturating energy literally requires that all possibilities come into play.  All possibilities delineated by the path which the switches represent, are surrounded by the high energy ongoing world-like of the Sun's interior at the barycenter of the Earth-Sun system..

Human beings will be led, one day, to launch the weapons, even if every society on Earth is being angels all the while.  They will be led by the implacable inanimate energies of the Sun itself.

Implacably, somebody will be drawn into being a self-justifying bad guy, and it is not morally possible to exclude any society that keeps such weapons deployed. No matter what we do, we cannot avoid following the Sun around which our planet orbits. The Sun saturates every possible action path with its vast energy, and dwarfs the imagined consequences as well.

Thus, the consequences of thermonuclear war, even such earthly grave consequences as annihilation of  population centers in which millions of human persons live, gradually pale into insignificance before the implacable Sun-driven tendency to activate the switches which launch it. 

That implacable character of the Sun's influence on human actions, in relation to the launch sequence of thermonuclear weapons, is the long term as if the four year leap year cycle in sidereal time is the only time base that exists.

No seasons mean anything. Nuclear winter is not distinct from any other time of the year in the barycenter of the Earth-Sun system.

Nuclear weapons exist in the barycenter of the Earth Sun orbital relationship.

On the average, their existence outside the Sun does not register with anything except human beings, who do not control the Sun.

Consider this:  the weapons systems consists of Uranium or Plutonium starter masses. Chemical explosives are to force the masses together to constitute a larger-than-critical mass which then explodes into runaway fission reactions. The fission explosion is surrounded by tritium and lithium masses which constitute fuel for the resulting thermonuclear fusion reactions which constitute the real Big Bang, the actual Big Bang.

Images which equate the Big Bang with the beginning of the entire universe are merely attempting to avoid the reality that the weapons are like a powder keg in a furnace as they orbit the Sun.  This was a strategy in Roman times:  the conquering soldiers told the conquered peoples, "Now, your world began with our Leader."  "For you, the war is over."

Collections of potentially fusing elements such as those which human warriors have assembled are rare in the universe, and in fact exist (so far as is known only on Earth.  Even the very speculation that some might exist on other worlds, at other star systems, is another superstitious invocation of a ridiculously distant, faint, remote, inaccessible and improbably enemy monster, demon or alien.

Consider that the Earth just went through five or ten thousand years of just plain pure hell, starting with sandstone blocks and human energy, to chase the dream of flying to the Moon to determine whether it is a fit place to live, or contains monsters or demons, space aliens or strange animals that will come to Earth and gobble everybody up, or whether Mars, or Venus, or Jupiter or Saturn hold the same possible problems or rewards.

All of life, until about the 16th century A.D.  was full of such superstitious misinterpretations of the light. Animals were not known not to be kings or gods, and the beings on the other side of any significant mountain range were, half the time, considered to be monsters or demons anyway. It was assumed the Earth contained demons, trolls and goblins of various sorts.

Even after the 16th century, when motion pictures were invented they were immediately saturated with fictional images of space monsters and people struggling to save the Earth from alien invasions.

This was the environment in which thermonuclear weapons were created and placed on board rockets that could carry them to any place on Earth on a signal - and the rockets could be directed to any place within moments on a signal. Each would just about guarantee the deaths of millions of people, if the city they hit had that many in it.

Many "modern" weapons have Multiple Independent Retargetable Vehicles - several nuclear weapons which could each hit a different population, industrial or military center.

Presumably, if there was an invasion by space aliens, these could be redirected to destroy several of the mythical creatures.  Imaginary space aliens do keep military budgets rolling in dough.

Just imagine what life would be like if one actually were an innocent space alien. Did you ever hear of an innocent space alien?  "No" replies the military.

It is the military that made the deal with Hollywood that Hollywood could use the North American Air Defense Command Headquarters, nuclear-bomb-proofed under Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs in the Rocky Mountains, as a cinematic filming location for space-alien adventures in which space monsters trying to take over the Earth (with names that sound deliberately like the word "Gold") come through magic portals into the cave from stars millions of light years away somehow.

Perhaps to trigger thermonuclear war.

People who claim that God must be the important thing in determining whether thermonuclear war must take place, fail to take into account that the general human concept of God was refined from the evolved spirituality of the natural world, in which the human species is only one of the species sharing the planet.  It was not until the Egyptian pyramids were three thousand years old that the idea of One God became serious enough to define a Dynasty.  Another thousand passed before the idea became permanently accepted.

Another two thousand years passed to reach the emerging Christian understanding that instead of one God, there should be two, and they would naturally be man and woman, which is to say, that women can be god too, or that half of the two gods can be female, the other of course, male. That's just the human part.

Earth is not the only planet in the Universe. It orbits the star which we call the Sun, Sol, or other similar words depending on which language you know it in.

The daily rotation and the annual orbit are not exactly in phase. Instead, they are about a quarter day off each year, which means that four years pass between the rotations return to the same phase they were in at the beginning of that cycle. That's not alarming and not unusual.

The number of days in the four year cycle is 1461, or 365*4 +1; that too is neither alarming nor suspicious and it is only mentioned because it was useful here to describe the four year Leap Year cycle. 1461 is divisible by three; there are three 487 at use may be made of that is not known; it is an aside illustrating that modern concepts of time are much more accurate and certain than at any time during the past 6 or 8 thousand years.  They are so accurate they can predict the motions and positions of the stars and planets many years in the future.  Centuries, if you must.

This new precise and certain accuracy obviates ancient concepts of chance, chancery, probability and randomness to perfections previously unknown to man.  What remains is the probability distributions that arise from molecular and atomic activity, from the motions of electrons, and from the nature of light-like waves from the most distant parts of the universe.

These new concepts emerged during the past four hundred years, since the discovery of optical telescopes that revealed the existence of moons (then called planets) around Jupiter and Saturn.  They are among the factors that are trying the case of the existence of thermonuclear weapons at all, and the case of possibly irresponsible invention, design and construction of nuclear sources of electrical energy.

That is because the Earth and Sun orbit, together, around a common center of mass called the Earth-Sun barycenter. This is not unusual either, and it is not alarming per se. Every orbiting system does the same thing.

In many systems, where the masses are similar and the objects are far from each other, the barycenter or  common center of mass is between the two objects. In other systems, such as the Earth-Sun system, the barycenter is within the heavier object.

In fact, the Earth-Moon system barycenter is within the Earth because the Moon is smaller than the Earth.

As an aside, what would be the mass relationship if a moon were to orbit a planet, or a planet a star, at such a distance that the barycenter were to be exactly at the surface of the larger object?

Well, the problem is that the barycenter of the set of all thermonuclear weapons and nuclear reactors taken as one object, and the Sun as the other object, is within the Earth.

Yet the barycenter of the Earth-Sun system is within the Sun.

Therefore, the barycenter of the nuclear
energy objects and the Sun, is within the Sun.

Because the Sun is so violently active throughout, that barycenter wherever it is does not resolve the Earth as a perfect or even approximate image at all.

The barycenter of the nuclear materials and the Sun is quite probably diffuse and distinct from other objects constituting the Earth, perhaps being spread out in atomic mass or other factors and certain it is not located at any one point within the Sun.

Instead, it is continually moving deep within the Sun, through the thermonuclear plasma near the center of the Sun.

In the long run, for instance after three decades (one Saturn orbit) or more, the average position of the radioactive nuclear fuel in atomic and thermonuclear weapons is within the Sun, and close to the center of the Sun.

Where almost nothing of interest takes place except fusion reactions such as those discovered by Hans Bethe and Carl von Weizsacker.

These involve the elements Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen of which people and other living beings are made.

The Sun literally drags elements like those within ourselves into a destiny that involves thermonuclear fusion.

We must not let the paths intersect or become confused with an order to launch the existing weapons.

In other words, the action of the Sun tends to draw us through the launch switch sequence, and at each stage either human beings diverge and argue and resolve something that acts as a stopgap reason for ignoring the suggestion to launch the war, or, they move toward the switches, and wondering why, struggle quickly to invent a stronger and more secure switch that people cannot set off.

Yet nobody is actually drawing people though the switch settings-the Sun is drawing the elemental structure of the entire planet through the switch settings.

The Sun is an inanimate prime mover of everything, and yet the results of its motion need not be war.

Another problem is that these images, which are based on the real and actual substantial physical structure of the solar system, rapidly become entangled with cinematic and fictional scenarios such as computer war games like Fallout and others.

Everybody is being inexorably drawn through movie scenarios of exactly what it takes to launch thermonuclear war.

This will continue until either actual thermonuclear war happens, or the whole propaganda, whether it is deliberate or innocent, is ended by sensibility.

And it can be innocent because understanding, of what world lines are in the long secular time of the Earth-Sun barycenter, is not common and prevalent.

Add to this the simple idea that many wars costing hundreds of millions of lives and untold tragedy have already misshaped the destiny of Man.

It is common to say all that loss of life can be called justified by successes that occurred later.

In the last five or ten thousand  years, the sole cause was to attain the Moon.

Despite the tragedy and sacrifice, it was never necessary in all those ten thousand years to kill a single human being in order to fly to the Moon.

That is known, because the eventual, actual flights were accomplished with no more than accidental loss of life, and even that was regretted, and acknowledged to have been preventable.

Remarkably better foresight would have been necessary, even though foresight was already exceedingly competent.

But it is now known that it would have possible to attain the Moon without any loss of life whatsoever.

The argument sounds weak, but is only to say that the marker at the end of the journey is only a little flag, a little strip of cloth.

It is not much and does little except flutter, or be torn apart.

That of course is one of those hundred-zeros scenarios.

It is sufficient to understand that in the next ten thousand year such goals will not require internecine or international war slaughtering millions of living human beings like they are so many gaming chips.

Of course people are willing to risk their lives to attain great goals, yet slaughtering millions on battlefields is little more than an action in which the only outcome was intended to be slaughter, usually in the name of saving the world from some imaginary space alien or other equivalently absolute danger.

If this does not seem to be a problem any more, consider how many will die in unnecessary wars to attain manned space flight to and return from Mars, especially if the Mars manned  exploration missions turn out to have a high safety record.

And then consider how many more will die in wars to attain faster than light travel to other star systems, even though no indication is available even from the most sophisticated theory or practice of modern technology, that faster than light motion is ever to be possible at all.