Wholistic Extra-Terrestrial Ecosphere Manufacture Goals

Wholistic Extra-Terrestrial Ecosphere Manufacture Goals

Contemporary science has learned a lot about ecosystems and biology. On the Earth however there is no opportunity to apply all that knowledge to create a complete living ecosphere; for one planetary ecosphere already exists. So science without any practical opportunity to develop an ecosphere on this world must look to others to apply concepts as practical works.                                         image credit: N.A.S.A.

Science is not exclusively owned by government of course; the private sector applies science to manufacture items of value and also funds research. The government could take a small step for mankind in zoning ecosphere manufacture plots on the moon of a thousand acres each in a variety of lunar environments for the use of any corporate research and development entity that wants to locate a grow your own ecosphere on the moon. No nation should be excluded from the opportunity to create a demonstration ecosphere on the Moon of the Earth if it is willing to try.

There is a lot more barren rock with no atmosphere in the solar system than human friendly, verdant worlds. Ecosphere Engineering needs to get started on learning how to really make green environments where there is only cold death. Maybe some of the articficial ecospheres will have a different color motif for photosynthesis, or base growth on heat from a planetary core, microwaves reflected from a star or etc.

Obviously there is an obligatory need to roundly trash talk politicians and human leadership as idiots, greedy varmints, ##!! etc. I trust that recognition is sufficient to allow me to proceed. Plainly investing in practical works is not a normal government activity these days in a psychological age of fracture with plenty of Hollywood special effects, drugs and globalism.

The U.S. Government as unofficial owners of the moon by primitive right of first dibs should make industrial lunar plots of a thousand acres for ecosphere building available to anyone that can get to the moon and build one. It would be rather like the frontier homestead program adapted for large-scale ecosphere experimentation.

There are innumerable and different approaches to building a self-contained ecosphere on a planet or moon with zero atmosphere and near absolute zero temperatures. Little thousand acre experimental plots could provide room for proof of concept manufacture. There is no requirement that an extra-terrestrial body be entirely converted to human habitability. It would be sufficient to manufacture cellular habitats of a thousand acres or so in such quantity as is deemed useful.

Building self-sustaining real ecospheres in extra-terrestrial local would require ecosphere engineering of an intellectual scale challenging to the do it by the book bureaucratic collectives flourishing on Earth today. What is learned on the Moon could benefit recovery of the Earths dwindling ecosphere as well as being used as a way to improve human prospects on Mars.

Human beings need to improve their use of natural ecospheres such that they are more efficient, more conservative and reduce added entropy to a minimum while continuing production. Even so expansion of new ecospheric regions around the solar system is requisite for sustainable human development. Recovery of a healthy Earth ecosphere, perhaps using fishing as a measuring tool-the earth should attain fish population health like that existing in 12,000 B.C.-ought to be a goal of a mature ecosphere manufacturing industry.

Government tends to want to encourage construction of faster space engines and flimsy Martian temporary housing yet if humans arriving at distant places off-world have the same inability to build healthy ecospheres and just consume and destroy them as at present, their prospects will be pretty poor as they are in effect running from themselves and their own nasty habits.

Concerning Governance of the Tongue

In about 1655 Richard Baxter published one of four volumes of Practical Works titled 'Ethics'. Baxter was something of a brilliant reformed theologian. He described time as being the place where we have the opportunity to experience life. A unification of space and time such as they are each dimensions was a common social perception then, surprisingly. His brilliance pertained to practical christian concerns generally, as he was cast out of the church along with other independent minded churchmen by the Cromwell administration and he did not have much of a library to take about the countryside with him. I have made a few comments about chapter none of 'Ethics' as they concern contemporary states of affairs generally.

Concerning Chapter 9: Directions for the Government of the Tongue

Baxter cites psalm 7-4 "our lips are own own, who is lord over us" as an example of those that regard words and thoughts as trivial and of little consideration, who then use language inconsiderably. The raving broadcast media is exemplary in that regard with demotic slurring and morphing of words often to confuse truth with falsehood. If words and thoughts were indeed of such trivial concern it would be a different world than it is.

I think that the basic casualty of slop-talk by the media is the civilian properties of rights and democracy. With mass confusion political power becomes concentrated and is regarded as a lighthouse in the fog. Voters may elect prominent objects that appear through the fog for a time yet never organize or think for themselves. In the collective broadcast news media class creative social destruction enables the concentration of wealth and plutocratic imperialism globally. Media slop-talk runs roughshod over individualism and individual (bright) political ideas such as ecological economic development.

Words and language are in a sense mankind's best attribute; they express intelligent thought and content of the mind. Words can be used to praise the glory of God, and they can also be used to debase the soul and create envy and strife.

The Holy Spirit is a remarkable concept to regard. God as a spirit; the primary spirit is of course known to humanity as three persons, and we are saved through the Son, yet the Father is too spirit, as is the Son who took on flesh...

Spirit that can create or phenomenalize matter and energy in space-time is concerned that humanity (so far as I know) advance to intelligent thought cognizant of spirit. Falling back into creatureliness and a troubled sleep as existential clumps of mass without regard to godliness, rational governance of mind or having a right relationship to the Spirit (Father) through the Son with the help of the Holy Spirit is a prevailing malady for much of society. One can hear in the mass broadcast media archetypes of the social collective ungodliness that is like Platonic language forms from a broadcast media realm of word forms manifested in ordinary imitation as little particular forms by the masses in ordinary intra-social speech. When the government itself corrupts the tongue and works evil, when sin has itself taken over governance of social discourse, it is not good.

The tongue may be used directly for sin, such as with blasphemy, false doctrine (that probably includes pre-tribulationism and dispensationalism), ridiculing godliness, lying, forbidding preaching of the word, boasting, talking about common things too much in a holy setting, tempting to sin, carnal handling of holy things, traducing superiors (this does not include truthful and objective evaluation of and participation in peer proceedings of democracy or of those appointed to serve the public in office who fail to execute their tasks competently and honestly, or to publish opinion about public policy, international relations, environment and of the conduct of those in office, and of those concerned with creating public problems of commensurate scale. In fact for Christians to fail to speak their opinion about public issues in a democracy when they know the facts about an issue accurately, and to allow wrong policy to proceed with maladministration and maladministrators is a kind of sin of omission by the citizen to fail to perform his or her civic or ecclesiastical duty.)

Fish In Ocean 50% Down from 1970

Scientists have found that fish have dropped in quantity by 50% since 1970.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-fish-numbers-cut-in-half-since-1970/

That's bad for fishing prospects with the world population maybe doubled since then.

On the other hand, wages for white males have stagnated since then too, and there are only as many Americans working now as there were in 1977.

http://www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/budget/toward-the-looming-us-fiscal-crisis.html

On the bright side though, in 11,500 B.C. fishing was good on Alaska rivers and early Americans caught and maybe traded salmon.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0922/Ice-age-Alaskans-dined-on-salmon-say-researchers

As a practical matter the broadcast media psychs the collective so they believe whatever they are told about national prospects to a certain extent making people believe that worse is better and decay is progressive.

If ecological economics could be used to make self-supporting, self-sustaining green living ecospheres with fish and a variety of species on the Moon or Mars, that would be encouraging and dissipate the sense of eco-doom quite a bit. In science fiction at least, anything is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics

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'Directions for the Government of the Senses'

Governing the senses, rather than being governed by the senses, is an implicit human characteristic of reason. Reason is a process of mind sorting through a large body of sense data that is evaluated to comprehend and implement behavior in best self-interest. Chapter eight of Richard Baxter's 'Ethics' concerns governing the senses. It is another brilliant essay in 'Ethics'. I think Baxter's acute philosophical thought would surprise many philosophers. After all, Baxter wrote this book circa 1655-a contemporary of Descartes and prior to Hume and Sartre. Perennial ideas concerning mind, reason, perceptions, sense data and the relation between the temporal world and the atemporal eternal reality from which the Universe condensed or precipitated perhaps phenomenally like a hologram or more substantially as a steady state of quantum entanglement of energy packets are of continuing interest and have beginning for the west with pre-Socratic philosophers besides the obvious Athenians Socrates, Plato and Democritus. Baxter's applied use of the salient philosophical concepts is entirely within a theological paradigm however and might easily slip past the review of overly technical contemporary philosophers and philologists interested in the history of ideas.

To a certain extent encountering sense-data is a forced rather than an optional experience. A mind without sense data input fundamentally would need to be non-existent or without a body and hence non-existent. It may be possible for a human spirit via the grace of God to exist without a body, however the human mind seems to be a concatenation of human physiology existing as a processor of information at a conscious and subconscious level.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in his book 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' a piece examining the relationship of mind to sense data. That is a perennial philosophical line of inquiry. Bishop Berkeley for instance developed ideaism (aka idealism) through the consideration of the mind to sense data relation). Schopenhauer showed that mind can input and reconfigure sense data in such a way as to get more out of sense data than the mere physical input provides. The example he used was that of 3-D vision.

Sense data actually provides flat-screen 2-dimensional visual input and the brain with a little training uses the different angles of input from the eyes being set apart to create a virtual 3-D appearance. That has since been a well-researched field of study that has been broadly applied to horses and creatures that look up from the ground or down from above and so forth regarding the position of their eyes on the skull.

Not to get too far into that particular sense data inquiry, the relationship of mind to sense data and of reason to sense data is of interest for Christians; sanctification according to the measure of God's grace permits reason to develop a spiritual and eternal capacity rather than simply a temporal relation and capacity for reason-and that is a profound difference concerning actual individual and social human behavior.

Contemporary American psychology largely concerns empirical and temporal reason and physiological relations of mind to body and sense data. Because it is fundamentally empirical it has lent itself to an anti-eternal bias. It is like Plato without a realm of forms, or Socratic virtue without eternal reason. As American psychology is a temporal and reductionist study discovering 'mechanical' or innate causality for sense data and cognitive processing it has tended to move toward a fracturization of reason in the temporal and nihilation of reason concerning eternal, non-phenomenal things.

That observation isn't new of course. David Hume was the first of philosophers to formalize the maxim that if a book isn't about sense data input, concrete things one should burn it as sophistry. That point of view seems commensurate with contemporary British imperialism through corporatism and the destruction and degradation of civilian rights, morals and reason in order to default to rule by financial elites without actual democracy being developed.

Baxter has a great page or two (actually most all of them are compared to much writing today) describing the fundamental state of human reason in comparison to that of brutes (or purely materialistic feminists and others seeking pure class ego advancement and advantage without reason of eternal values).

The quote from chapter eight, direction 1; "Reason is dethroned by sin; and the will is left unguided and unguarded to the rapes of sensual violence. Reason must be restored, before sense will be well governed; for what else must be their immediate governor? it is no sin for brutes to live by sense, because they have not reason to rule it; and in man it is ruled more or less, as reason is more or less restored. When reason is only cleared about things temporal (as in men of worldly wisdom,) there sense will be mastered and ruled as to such temporal, as far as they require it. But where is reason is sanctified, there sense is ruled to the ends of sanctification, according to the measure of grace."

I think the development of reason is not so well respected today by select elites though there is more knowledge than ever before. There is perhaps a variegated advance along the social front regarding knowledge, reason and spiritual discernment that does not occur at an equal pace everyplace on Earth in space and time. So if reason falls victim now and then to politics and mass psychology martinets, it probably recovers eventually after some mayhem and destruction, despair and chaos. The U.S.A. presently has a non-reasoning sense-data kind of foreign policy vectors in the Middle-East and Ukraine, and the President has levered through homosexual marriage and a homosexual nominee for Secretary of the Army. Since pre-trib evangelicals also are simplistic and non-reasoning enough concerning their choice of eschatology it seems apropos that so much of U.S. foreign policy and domestic social development is off-balance and non-reasoning about eternal values and principles. Maybe that will again change yet one should never misunderestimate the powers of mass error under the tutelage of the broadcast media. One cannot expect Americans all to be John Rambo disregarding pain as easily as the mythical Buddhist monk for whom all is illusory and when the bell tolls it is silent or no bell at all. It is possible however to develop reason about the senses such that objectivity concerning the senses and sense data builds up. For Christians original sin tolls the bell for all and thee, yet it is not the signal for an, unreasoning temporal spree. Reason with an eye to the eternal world lets the Lord shield one with grace . From sense data that would overcome reason, and resonant bells sounding Satan hellish pace, the Lord Jesus navigates one through temporal, sensory shoals to the eternal place of God.

It is also the case that experience really changes reception of and reaction to sense data and empirical circumstance. Consider how one can prevent blisters from walking in boots through a variety of means, or that infected blisters can cause blood poisoning and death fairly swiftly. The naive walk right into disaster, while the experienced applying the benefit of knowledge with reason act to prevent such development from occurring. Christians too have innumerable sensory traps that might be avoided with reason and experience, and just relying upon the word of God, that are common and recurrent to all that experience life.

Concerning Baxter's Directions to Weak Christians for Their Establishment and Growth

There are numerous practical instructions in the second chapter of Richard Baxter's 'Ethics' for the safe development of an individual's Christian religious practice as he is new to the faith or young. The several points that Baxter makes are remarkably clear and apply to areas even beyond Christianity. This is another chapter with theology amidst the practical that is excellent for philosophically inclined Christians to encounter as well as anyone else.

Points such as the attraction of the new and novel to people, including religion, and how people may move after a time to the next new thing and fail to increase their understanding of God through the Lord Jesus Christ are plainly right. In contemporary politics forgetting the past and disregarding present points of view-if not suppressing them, that are politically inconvenient is standard operating procedure for the federal government. Farther into the chapter Baxter warns against leaping into every controversy and distracting oneself from deeper understanding of God. He illustrates the fact that several character traits may be overdeveloped in controversy, and I would think that the temporal view and circumstance may be overly accentuated eclipsing thereby the eternal. Too much ego can make one miss the subtly and immanent end of the temporal experience. Jesus Christ is the doorway to eternal life with God. That is an epiphenomena l and narrow circumstance, or extrusion of the eternal into the temporal that it is too easy to lose sight of if overly preoccupied with sundry social, or worldly concerns.

I think it was Baxter, yet perhaps it was Gentry, who wrote that worldly in the Biblical context, or 'the world' referred more to the social order and social reality than the geophysical. Worldliness can thus mean the social and temporal order. It is in the social and temporal order that controversy occurs and zeal for wrong ideas may develop. Zeal to prosecute doctrine that may be in error can lead to some great and marvelous irony.

Though Athenasius and Augustine basically held post-millennial viewpoints, and Jesus said that within his present generation all of the end times things described in Matthew would be done (and the Temple was destroyed about 37 years after crucifixion), there are millions and millions of pre-tribulationist Christians with zeal for the wrong eschatology. It is a great example of what Baxter was writing about in this second chapter of Ethics.

For example, creative adaptive pop-eschatology could consider it possible that the James Webb Space Telescope may catch first sight of a vast left-wing dragon seeking to put the bite on and consume a woman in space who will flee to the wilderness of Proxima Centauri for refuge. That is a long way from the sober partial preterist first century interpretation of Matthew's eschatology and that of the Revelation.

"And they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”" (Rev. 13:4).

"It is evident that the initial, paradigmatic role, extreme cruelty, and length of Nero’s persecution of Christianity fit well the role required in Revelation for the Beast. Nero did wage “war with the saints” to “overcome them” (Rev. 13:7). And he is the only Roman emperor of the first century to have done such. Not only so but he did it for the length of time specified in the Revelational record: 42 months. Surely Nero is before us in Revelation 13 as the specific manifestation of the Beast."-Gentry, page 55 The Beast of Revelation

It is possible to create and offer a course in first century Christian prophecy and prophecy fulfillment that would illuminate the tremendous, living power of God to structure, decree and fulfill events in world history. There are few accurate presentations of preterist, post-millennial paradigmata from Matthew and the Revelation brought to the public in concise form that summarize the incredible accuracy of Jesus and John. Kenneth Gentry describes all of the criterion in two books; The Beast of Revelation, and He Shall Have Dominion, yet too few Christians ever encounter or read those books. In other words most Christians don't know the truth about their own religion, and what a difference it makes. Imagine if people thought the prophecies of the Old Testament were never fulfilled and were yet to occur.

Some Christians await a Jewish sort of Messianic paradigm to emerge as if they were zealots expecting an imperial ruler; something like the Emperor-Dragon with the Caesar's made in his image to rule with an iron fist and put down evil opposition. Instead a gradual build up of Christians to a majority of the population will occur even though pre-tribbers expect a doom and dwindling of believers until a new Anti-Christ world ruler takes over like Nero of old. What a difference.

A Secular Syria and Other Fantasy Sports Plans

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States and Russia share the same goal of transitioning to a secular Syrian state that is stable. Some would like to have the Moon made into green cheese, and that may be equally likely. The administration should take a look ahead and imagine a post-Alawite, Sunni Syrian state.

The fundamental orientation of Middle Eastern states is that of sectarianism. Sunni states do not tolerate Shi'a mosques and vice versa. Muslims do not tolerate Jews except if absolutely necessary, and few tolerate Christians except as an oppressed minority. The best prospects for a secular Middle Eastern state was that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The inventor of Baathist secular socialist politics was from Syria. Re-establishing a Syrian socialist party with no religion too may be an Obama administration goal, yet it seems completely daft or disingenuous.

No one in the U.S. administration seems able to comprehend that removing the Assad and Alawite government from Syria-perhaps in order to liberate 140 billion dollars in gold bullion the Assad Government is rumored to have-will result in the purge of all sects besides the winning Sunni, and that won't promote stability. Once the Alawi and Christians are purged from Syria by U.S. design or malevolent negligence it would be impossible for them to lead any kind of return to power. The effective real Von Kerry plan is a permanent transition to a new Sunni state in Syria and that won't be at all stabilizing.

Instead the most likely outcome is for a steady transition to a right, conservative fundamentalist Sunni government that seeks overthrow of Saudi, Jordanian and Gulf States royal government. It would also pressure Turkey to become more fundamentalist and end its pro-western tilt. A secular Sunni Syria would need a western puppet military dictator to exist at all other than a Baathy socialist dictator of a cruel disposition.

Turkey 's leadership generally has favored westernism since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire when the young turks saw the writing on the wall of the future. A Christian, white Europe with a better military and technology was a better direction than affiliation with backward Muslim powers. That situation is changing though. It ought to be recalled that western leaning military leadeship in non-royal Sunni states is the primary reason why Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey are not led by clerics. I will not include Asian muslim nations in that paradigm, though they purge minorities too.

The Obama administration support for the Syrian civil war has stimulated a flood of Muslim migrants to a more godless, atheist and secularist Europe while the fortunes of Muslim states including Iran and Palestine is rising. Turkish fundamentalist may feel the pressure and opportunity to terminate secular leadership in turkey in the years ahead-especially in a decade or two when Iran resumes producing nuclear weapons components and a populist Shi'a fundamentalist clergy remains highly influential politically.

A post-Assad Syrian government will be implicitly unstable except as it is dominated by one power. Since the Allenby-Balfour era the former tribalism within an Ottoman Empire that had kept a state of peace generally existing has not existed. The nation-states created by the British at the end of the first world war that excluded the Kurds from having a homeland in the Middle East have been often in conflict within and without, and several times protagonists have been involved in conflict with Israel. Tribal and ethnic collective associations remained the basic foundation of every Middle Eastern state; the Lennonist dream of doped atheist citizens in godless prosperity mindlessly glowing under Imperial rule remains nothing more than a slithering p.r. dream for the Obama administration and Sect. Kerry that cannot be fulfilled by arming thousands of rebels to subvert the lawful Syrian government. Not even a U.S. army under a homosexual Sect. of the Army could inspire Sunni militants to move farther toward the west. Recruiting of youth with 'Gay Uncle Sam Wants You' might not work in the Muslim world well, though it inspires those of Boston..

If the Syrian government is finally deposed the most likely aftermath would include Sunni leadership transition to cali0hate militancy and war upon Lebanon to drive the Shi'a out. Christians might be viewed as foes of Hezballah as well as ISIS and AL Qaeda of Syria that would perhaps have the same relation to the Next Syrian government as Hezballah does to Iran.

A protracted Lebanese civil war that would establish a Sunni majority and send Hezballah packing would permit a caliphate state from Lebanon to northern Iraq and even Turkey. Yet it would include Palestinian territories and Jordan as well in addition to Saudi Arabia.

Obviously Iran could act to interdict Sunni expansionism yet that would also fail to produce more than protracted conflicts that the United States could not end nor rationally take sides on, though some in Congress and perhaps in the White House would agitate bombing Middle Eastern targets for peace.

In some respects U.S. politics have evolved to be a fantasy league with bureaucrats versus the Uber Rich. Neither side regards the public as more than fantasy leagues players that should be manipulated to serve class victories. Foreign policy has fallen prey to the fantasy league too.

The most economical way to end the conflict sending Syrian refugees to Europe is to fund development of an international refugee state-perhaps in South Sudan-where the existing Sudanese could be given permanent native corporations and compensation while immigrant refugees provide security and economic development, and second to reinforce the Assad Government and simple back the ISIS clan out of Syria. Any extra land that international elements do not want to remain in Syrian control should be given to Kurds to form a Kurdish State. I had not mentioned that the Next Syrian Government of conservative Sunni terrorists will probably in time purge the Kurds from Turkey and Syria as anti-state elements, and that wouldn't be beneficial to American interests either.