Materials Technology Will Change Space Exploration and Settlements

Considering the advances in materials technology it is amusing to consider how space ships, stations, mobiles and planetary and moon buildings may change from the present general non-adaptive finished and ossified product. It is easy to imagine slowly building an extra igloo on Earth out of urine (not that anyone would of course), yet it is simpler and more practical to consider building Martian ice structures in shadowed craters from Martian ice or raising structures from metals that turn liquid and then harden in the desired shape. Space ships too could be made of such transformative materials that could go so far as to be burnable as fuel for ion engines over the course of a long journey.

http://www.finditwestvalley.com/index.php/science/3-d-pop-up-silicon-structures-transforming-planar-materials-into-3-d-microarchitectures-h45396.html

Mankind's efforts to colonize space create a greater platform to give glory unto God. Human beings venturing into the expanses of space may have more time to contemplate God's glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1uumEkfj4A

I believe there may be actual concept of using 3-D printers of the future to produce edible potatoes for baking with a new kind of material. One wonders why a future Mars settlement cannot be built without human hands-on such that it would be ready for arriving travelers from Earth? The moon should be a good place to experiment and develop remote construction technology. Some kind of competitive prize could be offered by the Federal Reserve for building one at low-cost. The Fed may need something from space to help its balance sheet one day.

Innumerable approaches to pre-fabricating adaptive housing on Mars including deposition of building panels for double-walled Martian regolith insulated dwellings exist. The innovation of new ways to sprinkle exteriors with micro-tech solar cells or exploit Martian and lunar materials for solar cells covering for dwellings has barely started to be explored I would think.

http://taylor.research.yale.edu/

http://www.arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/ateme-workshop-presentation_FINAL%201%2030%2013.pdf

http://www.nist.gov/tip/proj_briefs/upload/tip_project_brief_090033_10h003.pdf

http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/project-profile-low-cost-metal-hydride-thermal-energy-storage-system

Evolving Evolution as a Political Phlosophy

Evolution theory has become used as an all-purpose excuse for the deletion of social morality as meaningful in recent times. As a pragmatic way to overstep existing social boundaries a political leader need only say that his position is evolving. Evolution is a scientific theory rather than a political philosophy however, so one must wonder what effect upon existing political philosophy that evolution applied as political philosophy has; is it consistent, logic or simply a first-order method of obfuscating political philosophy?

Does evolution imply progress? Is evolution a synonym for social progressivism? Isn't it just as possible for natural selection to evolve species extirpation when it over-consumes planetary resources as it is to produce an ecological economic genius for leader? There are numerous questions about the validity of evolution as a political philosophy too easy to raise.

Evolution is often used to negate human social judgments and even meaning as having any sort of value. It is of course often a way of expressing disbelief in anything spiritual though the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel developed the philosophical paradigm of dialectical evolution that Karl Marx and others of a material inclination later used to negate the existence of spirit. Evolution as a kind of progressive natural selection of mass to produce sentient beings is taken for granted by some evolution as political philosophy theorists perhaps, while Hegel originally intended the entire steady state Universe mass-energy field to be a development of Absolute Spirit realizing itself through historical evolution (in modern terms).

Natural selection sometimes is understood as meaning the selection of the  best as in  producing a champion.  In evolutionary contexts it may just indicate species and/or individuals naturally selected to survive disaster and  mass  species extinction. The  natural selection of market forces to create  solutions to environmental challenges is therefor a disaster itself  creating  a solid prospect  for  social  failure to  intentionally determine  and implement  remedies to ecospheric challenge and decay.

A small mammal species named purgatorius  hypothetically was the best  natural selection to survive the global cooling and mass extinctions of 65 million years ago. Social reliance on market forces and natural selection to get world human population through the tight spot in the environmental  Hourglass ahead is not likely to produce  a better  result than  for the dinosaurs of that  day. Spiritual freedom rather  than decadent  evolution  as political philosophy is the best and perhaps the only way to get through this  anthropocene era.

The Realms of Absolute Spirit that Hegel regarded as evolving material reality could be taken as something akin to the process that the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus took to be an emanation of substance in forms by the Intelligence authorized by the One (Spirit). Contemporary brane theory like the atomic theory of monadology that the philosopher and mathematician Leibniz invented along with calculus (simultaneously with Newton) could be readily regarded along Hegelian lines of spirit actualizing through forms of energy that entangle as matter to create stars, molecules, elements and so forth. In short evolution has numerous paradigms in which it might be regarded, yet that of political philosophy is one of the most challenging to take seriously.

As a political philosophy evolution is something of a negation of political philosophy as meaningful. When hard-won political systems like democracy and civil rights of mankind theories are largely set aside as secondary or even ancillary fabrications of phenomenal history within evolution it is very easy to lose those rights for the masses. 

One too easily can discover the concentration of wealth and power as well as that of elites returning to positions of social dominance with the help of evolution as a political philosophy. The natural selection of the best or the rich almost requires no support when power for its own sake become its own political and philosophical justification. Laws may evolve to subjugate the law abiding to rule by elites of supermen above the law. Anti-democratic, sardonic yipcasters may condition citizens to provide voluntary extra tax payments to support quasi-governmental agencies until the proles have nothing left. Evolution as political philosophy may readily be exploited as a tool of social corruption.

If-world population increase stops at ten billion for-the standard of living for all to be equal to that of the U.S.A. today would need to increase 25 times. The elites may evolve a mass population reduction to deal with that and let themselves survive as the most fit. In a way it is the natural evolution of evolution as political philosophy. Similar ways of thought prevailed in some elite circles in the1920s.

The world would be a better place socially if the majority of humanity evolved a belief in God and sought to reflect his glory.

G.O.P. Party Prospects 2015

With the Republican Party majority taking control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress in 2015 it is worthwhile to briefly consider their prospects for reversing the Obama doctrine, or if they will even wish to. President Obama gave the rich more than Mitt Romney possibly could have. Democrats would have opposed such policy instead of reaming them.

President Obama's economic policy made permanent the Bush II tax cuts and assented to ooddles (billions or trillions?) of zero-interest loans to banks enabling banks to manufacture maybe 5 bucks for each fiction buck loaned by the Federal Reserve since they need only keep 20% or so as deposits. Borrowers repay real dollars and interest for the fiction money, so the President effectively gave billions or trillions of dollars and permanent tax cuts making the idea of bank robbery laughable comparatively.

The Federal Reserve QE3 policy has helped the Fed Reserve buy 4.5 trillion in obligations that were once deemed perhaps unfairly 'toxic' from the Treasury. At least banks able to mint money from thin air with the President's help are quite an improvement over the primitive gun, mask and bag era of money for nothing.

What remains for the Republican party to desire—a roll-back of the Nixon health care plan renamed Obamacare? Perhaps stopping the increase of U.S. public debt at 19 or 20 trillion dollars would be reasonable except the Fed policy to toss fiction money around may not always work. What would happen if economics had to be done with real rather than play money is ponderable and a problem for economists instead of out of work house painters.

One might think that the Republican Party would build a saltwater desalinization moat with locks and berms along the Mexican border pumping seawater up from San Diego to create jobs and border security yet the President would veto that an it is an election year in 2016. Republicans want some Hispanic votes too and Marco Rubio as V.P. candidate might not be enough to put Ralp Nadir III or whomever over-the-top.

All of that Obama doctrine of enriching the rich and concentrating wealth coupled with a foreign policy of isolating Russia, investing in China and creating a European super-state of the Eurozone leaves little for Republicans to wish for except perhaps for more and expanded Obama economic doctrine requiring the Eurozone to issue zero interest loans to the 1% of the 1% and quantitative easing to toss in a sweetener. Ecospheric conservation and restoration is off their radar screen and Wall Street seems to have signed off on the Obama homosexual marriage doctrine and even godless atheistic evolutionary repression of spiritual freedom since the President has the Fed cornucopia with the quantitative easing making a sham of balanced budgets and traditional domestic investment.

U.S. Foreign Policy in 2015

U.S. foreign policy to isolate Russia and reinforce development of the Syrian civil conflict is likely to continue during 2015. The Obama administration has determined evidently that adding the Ukraine to the incipient European Super-State is desirable, and that requires weakening Russia politically and economically. It is not certain that a European Super-State will regard a N.A.T.O. policy dominated by U.S. policy planners as desirable nor that the European Super-State will find it useful to be followers rather than leaders of any trans-Atlantic alliance that may continue to exist after a decade or two of consolidating power.

A Russia economically and politically situated between the billion three hundred million pound Chinese gorilla and the billion class gorilla to it's west while bordered on the south by the youthful Muslim world has obvious security issues especially with a population of fewer than 150 million souls. It is challenging to anticipate how that circumstance benefits U.S. foreign policy unless perhaps one views it through anachronistic cold war glasses with Russia as a legacy threat of the U.S.S.R. while disregarding the political gestalt of reality.

Building a Sunni belt across the Middle East that is in perennial civil conflict with Shi'a may be regarded as politically pragmatic though engineering higher education may provide a counter-cyclical opportunity for future terrorists to discover new methods of attacking cracker-box palace first-world urban infrastructure while liberals seek to educate the poor out of social conditions that cause poverty while concomitantly poverty is believed to cause terrorism rather than Muslim ideology. The policy seems muddled.

President Obama's early socialization in a Sunni Muslim nation-the largest Muslim nation in the world-Indonesia-is telling. He is likely to continue to pursue policies that benefit China, Asia, atheists and homosexuals while seeking to flood the United States with southern immigrants legally and illegally in order to weaken American nationalism and-sustainable policies for economic independence. Federal policy to degrade Christianity and spirituality subtly might proceed in order to take the rough edges off interaction with Chinese communist leadership fearful of spiritual and civil free expression domestically.

U.S. foreign policy today is largely based upon creating wealth for the upper class and especially a global neo-plutocracy invested heavily in globalism. Three years of quantitative easing policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve buying federal paper liabilities and issuing zero-interest loans to banks has in effect given those banks free dollars they can electronically mint and loan to purchasers of Wall Street stocks or to invest in abroad. One free dollar lets a bank loan five equally fictitious dollars that become real when the borrower repays the principle and interest. So long as there isn't run on the banks it seems to work well enough. The rich get richer.

The receivers of that fiction-issued capital will pay back some real tax dollars to the U.S. Government eventually. In spite of permanent tax cuts to the rich led by the President the rich too will pay some taxes in the years ahead. Building up the wealth of the most rich in order to allow investment in China is in effect a synthetic U.S. Government foreign and domestic policy procedure taking priority over all else.

The administration may encourage the Eurozone to make zero-interest loans to the plutocracy and implement quantitative easing in order to reconstruct the good old days of royalty and kick down ordinary people better.

Another variable is what the Chinese Communist party leadership thinks of all the investment largess to Wall Street. It experiences a U.S. Government weakening its Russian neighbor across the Amur River who has vast land and natural resource holdings. Perhaps U.S. foreign policy planners intend to strengthen China, weaken Russia, build a European Super-State and reduce Americans domestically to rent collectors in global corporations or to live on fiction-financed federal relief. Reducing national and global population in order to allow elites to run the Earth non-democratically may be regarded as a scientific necessity to conserve life on Earth-yet obviously that is not the only or even the better course human political development might take.

Outlook

With the election of an ecological economic, nationalist political genius to the Presidency in the Nov. 2016 election U.S. foreign policy is likely to continue in an age of fracture with fundamental reinforcement of Wall Street and plutocratic globalization working closely with Chinese Communist Party elites to render world policy into a corporatist-collectivist status with sham democracy for patronized masses.

Africa will continue to be exploited as a resource colony by the five major world political blocks with the ameliorating factor of local independent African exploitation of natural resources occasionally. Continuing cheaper fossil fuel prices will permit accelerating global warming and following acidification of the world oceans. Wild species decline and extermination will accelerate with counter-cyclical apologetics or denial of value by prop-broadcasting media sycophants of the econ-power will-to-power.

Forking Gravity (science fiction)

“An infinite number of Universes arrayed like diamonds in the rough dark soil of the imperium worlds. It seems my friend like one way the initial field collapsed in the precipitation to virtual being..” Shelly removed her comm-visor lifting herself up another notch on the collective ladder. She continued;

“Ninety-nine percent of the energy of the first field was drawn from virtually nowhere until nowhere became exhausted. Complying with the initial field over-all strength as total quanta it collapsed unto itself as charged particles attracted to the missing spin-matrix in particle pairs. The second law of thermodynamics with its nature of increasing disorder in a finite field over time was conserved. From infinite Spirit with impossibility of disorder it was elemental to issue field content morphing into particle pairs with evolution through cycles of beingness structures leading to general sentience.”

Maxim inhaled the nutrient-analytic air flowing cool as a draft along the shimmering darkness coating the trilexian highway. Like a hologram she moved with counter-rotating surfaces through space-time richly compacted by field actualizers to a state useful to an Itch-queen of silence. Measuring her ideas carefully, spacing them like cadenced, nuanced exhalation of meaning she said; “Shelly, they will turn off gravity when the power bill isn't paid by the first!”

The Nahgo King won't let it happen. Prestige as capital value is contra-indicative of that sort of eventuation. Remember the last time the the Microvasm shut off the gravity in a galaxy and the worlds were flung apart and star fields went nova in wave fields of thanatak. Sentients of the Imperium's worlds along with the ecospheres were suddenly flung into the void as gravity holding everything together stopped and necessary structural cohesion was lost. Without gravity even the remaining dust cloud of the galaxy was in constant collision as its entropy sought to increase. That created far too many troubles for neighboring galaxies to tolerate.”

“Yes you are right Shelly. The Nahgo King was sued for letting the disorder increase and fined seventeen galaxies. That sort of fine isn't trivial even for the Imperium. He won't let it happen again.”

While Shelly and Maxim continued to traverse semblance of sentience express highway Shelly continued her exchange with the prison-guard robot; “So let me ask you this Maxim, what do you think kept the infinite quantity of Universes you can see in the mystery bird's eye view of things from collapsing under some kind of attracting neo-gravitational field themselves into what-the mother of all singularities?”

Maxim jerked on Shelly's chain a little before saying; “The Universes are energetically neutral-they aren't particle-antiparticle pairs or embedded within a field themselves. There is nothing to attract them to one another.”

“The what about dimensional status of the Universes? Do all have the same number and kind of dimensions regarding micro and macro? If they have differing quantities and quality of dimensions can they collapse or change if they can collide with dimensions from intersecting Universes? Are dimensions all local to a particular Universe or do they extend from any given Universe throughout all possible Universes to infinity?

“These are interesting question Prisoner Shelly yek they won't help you find an escape route.”?

“Across each Universe the shape given to it by neighboring Universes embedded in a sack energy field draws mass along the space-time downslope to terminus energy pole. Photons with no mass just drift around the circumference of a Universe and the mass falling downslope even as disorganization increases over all along principles of the second law of thermodynamics.

Alternatively, mass could Universally be settling toward another dimension though remaining within four dimensions of normal space-tine.”

“You were convicted for spreading that sort of flunkerchat Prisoner Shelly. Yumans art slope to learn, mmm?”

Federal Reserve Free Money at Heart of Economic Recovery

Federal Reserve Zero-Interest Loans Enrich Rich

Some wonder what will happen when the Federal Reserve stops its program of letting the biggest banks mint 5 dollars themselves for every zero interest dollar the Fed Reserve 'loans' them? The Federal Reserve printing trillions of electronic dollars to loan to the U.S. Government and banks is a curious thing. I wonder what effects it will have on inflation and the value of the dollar over time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#US_QE1.2C_QE2.2C_and_QE3 4.5 trillion dollars so far

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/01/news/economy/fed_reserve_data_release/ 9 trillion dollars in zero-interest loans overnight

Obama administration economic policy apparently relies on zero interest loans to make up federal budget shortfalls while the U.S. public debt has passed 18 trillion dollars.. Hitler had trouble with such policies causing hyper-inflation yet Obama seems able to get away with it because the U.S. Government is too big to fail- like the banks. Russian President Putin could not print rubles to make up for the sanctions and drop in oil value without causing hyper-inflation comparatively.

If I understand it right, and I may not, when the federal reserve invents money out of thin air with nothing backing it up like gold or whatever and then gives that money electronically to a bank, the bank need only keep a certain percentage of that new capital in its accounts and can issue loans on the basis of having that capital asset. It can issue something like 5 times the amount of money that it has on hand. Thus when the Federal Reserve issues one dollar of fiction money to a bank the bank can mint 5 dollars of fiction money itself and give that out as a loan to Wall Street or people that will buy Wall Street stocks.

With so much new money flowing about the financial circuits the liquidity problem of 2008 obviously is solved for the rich. The rich can buy all the nationally distressed housing from the crash era if they like and of course buy up stock, and that could inflate the value of the stock market. It is possible that all the free government money given to the banks along with tax cuts for the rich does stimulate the plutocrats yet it does little for the poor or ordinary Americans. The Euro-zone is expected to pursue the same policy of enriching the rich in order to create another fountain of wealth for the plutocracy.

It could be that inflation actually accumulated in Wall Street during the three years of quantitative easing during which time the stock market rose to a record level surpassing 18,000 itself as if it were indexed inversely to the public debt of 18 trillion. That was a rare convergence of debt and fiction cash financed market recovery that may converge again some day in the future in an unforeseen manner.

Investing in China and making a super-nation of the E.C. may pressurize Russian national security on two of three fronts with the Muslim threat from the south continuing as a problem, yet that sort of avoidable insecurity is not unrelated to the global financial situation that the administration has taken farther along the slim-flam to advantage market investors policy that appeals to a planetary imperium of plutocrats.

The next installment of global financial perfidy might be as good as the original show.

Use-Truths, Propaganda etc in Politics

Sartre wrote about use-truths in his 'Critique of Dialectical Reason'. Organizations tend to define reality verbally in a way that benefits their self-interest..that isn't new. Hitler said that Poland attacked the Werhmacht or Germany first and the invasion was a reply...a use-truth. The actual investment in a given power structure such as colonialism, a major political party, global corporation, plutocracy etc requires reinvestment in facts that support its existence. One finds anti-global warming rhetoric from oil corporations or anti-tobacco causes cancer rhetoric from tobacco companies in history. Homosexual marriage advocates often obfuscate the biological foundation of marriage in order to expropriate the social, political and financial benefits; none of that is new.

President Obama has one version of the history of the Ukraine that wrested control from Russian patrimony the past 1000 years or so to one that adds territory for a plutocracy to invest in. Disputation is what some civil law seems to be about with the true version of events sometimes ancillary to power and credibility. If the ethics of the Lord were used instead, if a value theory were innovated that did not reward raw economic power with political power concentrating each, humanity might have a better chance to respond to global social and ecospheric challenges.

Noah and the Flood

I have written a little about Noah. I believe the story is true. The problem of credibility for some I think arises in the indeterminacy of translation-not just language meanings but referent objects and the context in which the story was conveyed from what was essentially near pre-history unto the written language.

Rosenberg wrote a good book named 'Abraham; The First Historical Biography' that would convey some idea of the complexities of the flood story and the way it made it into the book of Genesis.

Assuredly the flood story of Gilgamesh and Noah are similar. They seem to refer to some kind of a Mesopotamian flood in the late Pleistocene when the Persian Gulf sea level was 200 feet lower than today. You may not know that Ararat where the Ark came down was transliterated by ancient Jews from the word Urartu-a defunct nation on the east side of the Euphrates River-a reasonable place for a boat to come to rest after a storm and tidal surge.

The first human civilization or proto-civilization may have been on along the Persian Gulf littoral where people had gathered walking over across the lower Red Sea from Africa long ago. With the rising sea level at the end of the Wisconsin Ice age a starter mud-brick built city may have suddenly flooded when a river berm or natural diking system gave way.

In some parts of the Bible the word 'Earth' is a synonym for dirt. In ancient cultures the entire world was sometimes defined as the distance a man could walk in three days. If all of the dirt (Adamas in Arabic I think) was suddenly flooded yet Noah was prepared it would have been a cataclysmic event when the entire civilization was wiped out. The sons of Noah had someplace to go you might recall, after the flood that is.

There are numerous theoretical contexts that may be made by reasonable people to account for the flood story and of Noah-too many for me to write about here.

The Value of 'Supernatural Non-sense' to Science

'Supernatural nonsense' is something of a vague, undefinable term perhaps. The energy field that supports a steady-state Universe is of course what science studies. Philosophers and theologians though are free to regard the Higgs Field and Universe from a theoretical, metaphysical point of view. Philosophical thought can be a kind of abstract cad-cam modeling tool for contemplating Universes and anything else. While it may not be physically possible to step beyond the Universe or the energy-mass guts that comprise the Universe of human experience, it is possible with thought to view it with what is in effect 'supernatural nonsense' or metaphysics and contemplate how it works or may be structured within meta-structures.

One may for instance consider the Universal field as a singularity or before the singularity and wonder why the flow of virtual particles that fed into the incipient singularity through gravity stopped? Why didn't all of the virtual particles that could possibly exist go into the initial singularity leaving nothing else beyond. One might have simultaneous coalescence of singularities from an endless, inexhaustible primordial virtual field hidden in nothingness that is thought of as the vacuum and yet wonder why an inexhaustible virtual particle, zero-point energy field exists in the first place; that is a kind of metaphysical nonsense yet hypothetically useful in considering how physics might work. It is a form of abstract reasoning-and that in a way is what Aquinas practiced with his summa theologica as well as using logic.

Many of the great scientific theorists were Christians including Copernicus, Newton etc. The ability to step beyond the material boundaries with metaphysical and theological thought has perhaps stimulated abstract contemplation of the way things appear and function in the Universe. Even Charles Darwin was a man of faith not really seeking to glorify himself as a secular little god-for-himself.

Leibniz conjectured about one-dimensional monads being the fundamental quanta of nature. One-dimensional branes that can become strings serve that role today. That does not mean that the entire Universe of energy quanta are not build ups from a spiritual source and entirely at the will of the spirit. Metaphysics is interesting enough and a useful philosophical endeavor. 

One might alternately stipulate that reasoning beyond the energy clump is too difficult, challenging or socially unrewarding and keep ones head in the sand of matter-only where the buttered biscuits and gravy are found.

Will Republicans Win the Triple Crown in 2016?

The last to times the triple crown has been worn in the U.S. Government it was by the Democrats with Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton presiding while both legislative chambers controlled by their party of Democrat politicians. The results were deregulation of Wall Street, permanent tax cuts for the most rich, concentration of wealth and power and globalization while the ecosphere declined in health. One naturally wonders if the U.S. electorate will finally let the Republicans try on the political triple crown with the Presidency and Congress in their pocket-they could hardly do worse than the Democrats it seems.

With the Federal debt greater than 18 trillion dollars and increasing the 'what me worry' approach of the Democrat party has some Americans growing a little concerned.  It is a terrible thing to expect the Republican Party to look after the economic interests of the poor and middle class-yet the Democrats haven't been willing in their rush toward gentrification and flooding the nation with cheap labor.