For Ecological Reasons New Homes Should Be Easy to Assemble and Disassemble

 

New home construction should have fasteners and other materials in design that make them easy to reassemble someplace else. That would prevent waste and permit more flexibility in future community environmental plans. It woul also let homes easily be sold and relocated.

Substantial tax breaks should be given to new home builders with high energy production, insulation and dismantle and reassembly efficiency ratings.

Concrete foundations for example might be pre cast or poured in short forms that could be fastened together and removed later for re-use; ie rectangle pieces a few feet in length a front loader could install.

Roofs could be entirely solar panels that could be upgraded after tech progress.

Laser Beams for Power Streams Between Stars

 Because there is no foreseeable technology to travel faster than light between star systems it is worth considering the fastest way to power space modules to a substantial portion of the speed of light. Scientists have pointed out that using enough energy to power a spacecraft if the fuel was aboard the vessel would be too massive, the criterion moves to establishing a stream of energy outside the craft it’s ‘engine’ can draw upon to approach equalization of its speed to that of the laser beam, reaching perhaps 3/4s of the speed of light.

Coherent light- laser light travels at light speed. A very large laser beamed aimed at a target star light Proxima Centauri- 4.6 light years away, would need to be very strong and powered by the sun or a fusion reactor in space near the edge of the solar system. There would need to be a way to tap into the laser beam and convert the photons into electrons and possible an electro magnetic field some configuration that would move the ship forward. Perhaps an on board energy converter could tap into the beam periodically to continue to advance its rate of acceleration closer to the speed of light of the laser beam. The technology would in effect let a spacecraft catch a ride on the laser beam’s energy.

When the first star connection was established, star a to b, then a connection could be made from star b to c. after delivering components to build more laser star links to star b for making a connection to star c. The travel time using the fastest present space engine tech is 88,000 years to Proxima Centauri where with a laser beam to provide power for energy to let a reciprocal electrons power tie-into to the beam travel at light speed the time would be reduced to about eight years.

In order for a stable platform from which to send a laser light star link it might be necessary to locate some Lagrange Point equivalents for the solar system rather than the Earth. On the other hand it could be useful to construct a network of solar system encompassing laser beam platforms on the out edge of the solar system forming a rough sphere around it- balanced for gravitational elements of course, and from those platform each sending a laser beam to some point in space where the beams are gathered with mirrors and combined into a solitary powerful beam initially aimed at Proxima Centauri for a decade when a ship is using the tech for travel.

Some future generation may discover the way to innovate the first few laser star links, if the present war-mongering one being led into nuclear war chicken with Russia doesn’t incinerate future generations by actualizing M.A.D. policy.

It might be feasible to map gravitational currents/fields of this galaxy and use them to sail between select areas by letting the gravitational pull draw a spaceship forward toward the speed of light. Obviously micro-gravity sailing technologies might improve when the causality of gravity is better understood. Still, I like the possibility and recognize that boosting start up acceleration might be desirable with a different technology.

The Harris Meme; "What can be, unburdened by what has been"

Perhaps the phrase Kamala Harris uses (‘What can be, unburdened by what has been’) isn’t a quote from Karl Marx. It does require a little examination though. For in an historical context the past and present are a continuum. what has existed in the past often exists in the present; such as national boundaries in some cases. It might be useful if warring with Russia over Ukraine to ignore the burden of history of Russian ownership of Ukraine for centuries if one is a Democrat obviously. The past is not so easy to dismiss.

Everything that exist in social reality-physical infrastructure for example, immediately becomes part of the past as the present moves on. Yet buildings built yesterday or last century remain part of the present-even with the persistence of memory in a few after they are demolished. Plans implemented in the past were designed with the future in mind sometimes requiring decades to mature.

 And there is the matter of special and general relativity and parameters for a finite speed of light- 186,282 miles per second. Given the expansion of space-time and the vast distance scales of the Universe photons flying about and reaching Earth nearly entirely originated from the past to impact human senses as the present; that is the past is what arrives in to be the present appearance of starlight- and even sunshine.

I tend to regard the Universe as being simultaneously monistic and pluralistic. It originated and in a deep sense continues to be made of one phenomenal thing- even if that is energy in motion and of an inexplicable ultimate form. What was, is, substantially speaking, yet the forms have changed. If everything is spirit and an emanation that upsurges into being within protocols of form and change that apparent pluralism exists on the surface of the monism that is the foundation of phenomenality.

Why should those present be burdened by public debt or bad decisions of the past such as entering into war via the Zelinsky government over Ukraine with Russia? It’s convenient for politicians to ignore the past-sometimes even their own political record. The past is not a burden. Public debt of 33 trillion dollars from bad political choices by party leaders is a’burden’, as are the failure to conserve the ecosphere’s nine critical areas for human livability on Earth with six already surpassed and a seventh edging closer. One cannot simply declare oneself to be unburdened by the past when it exists in the resent.

What is possible is to maximize efficient use of present resources and opportunities; politicians rarely accomplish that.

Does Harris or Trump Know What the Nine Planetary Boundaries for Eco-health Are?

 It is worth mentioning that neither presidential candidate of Republicans and Democrats mentions the nine planetary boundaries for a healthy Earth and how six have been passed already. Apparently a seventh- ocean acidification- is also approaching.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/

Degrading the environment to such an extreme extent requires sound ecological economic competence to change. It is my hope that if Mr. Trump wins the 2024 election and gets the wars to stop across the pond a Democrat challenger in 2030 might appear with a competent plan to at least try to push back the degradation with a completely different approach to economics and environment since they are integrated in a destructive way presently. For the Harris campaign to operate with a what me worry blissful disregard for the status of the ecosphere is disheartening. Humans should do better than that.

Maybe it will require a Republican to actually get anything done. it would be good to fill the drying up Great Salt Lake with desalinated sea water too. Such hopeless day dreaming is all that may develop concerning either prospect.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

Will AI Replace Nobel Prize Committee Next Year?

 Maybe it's just a matter of time before Artificial Intelligence monitoring world scientific developments replaces humans on the Nobel Committee to select prize-worthy achievements. Maybe they would be more accurate. Perhaps the prize for literature would go to someone writing a graphic novel (a cartoon book) like Magnus Robot Fighter.

One might want Magnus Carlsen to defeat all those 4000 rated chess engines and for a math genius to out-calculate quantum super-computers yet each aren't too likely.

Last good chance for President Biden to Start World War Three is October 12th

 

On October 11th and 12th N.A.T.O. defense secretaries and ministers will meet to discuss the Ukraine conflict and if they should let Ukraine’s military use N.A.T.O. weapons to attack deep into Russia. I haven’t much confidence in Joe Biden’s judgment on the Ukraine war; it is possible that he will finally green light Zelinsky’s wish to attack old Russia itself and that would stimulate a rapid escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine perhaps to include targets in western Europe and the United States and or tactical nukes in Ukraine. That might be the October surprise that candidates sometimes use to get themselves or their apprentice reelected or elected as the case may be.

The war has been a very bad event that simply gets worse the farther on it goes. There is no good ending for the atrocity. The best circumstance would be for Donald Trump to be re-elected and sign off on the Putin peace settlement to divide the Ukraine 50-50 so far as real estate value goes in dollars. Ukraine would actually keep about 80% of the land area in that deal. Mr. Trump should have some influence on Zelinsky and refuse to provide more weapons from the United States.

Developing better, cheaper ways to kill people will be a bad example for the future of mankind. A divided world just won’t be one with a recovering ecosphere that definitely needs work. I would guess global sea level will rise faster than expected- maybe 20 feet before the end of the century, and that will be a disaster itself. Peace with Russia is necessary, and on good terms, if any real intention to work on the ecospheric decline is to occur globally.

Ukrainians fielded a new incendiary drone that drops a molter, liquid like thermite stream on Russian positions in September. Russians fielded their own a week later. Thermite is a kind of aluminum and iron oxide mixture that burns around 4000 degrees. Since the tech is easy that weapon is likely to proliferate in future conflicts. It is the kinder gentler way of making crispy critters instead of just broadcast napalm all over everyone in a sloppy way. I doubt that Hamas would be so thoughtful about keeping thermite off of civilians.

It must make President Biden’s day to see an increase in the lethality of the conflict. I have wondered if Zelinsky has some kind of godfather horse’s head in the bed hold over the President, or blackmail photos or some other device to compel Joe Biden to just send more and more weapons despite the somewhat irrational, lemming like surge toward the Armageddon cliff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYsv1diMH0

Questions about Kamala Harris as a Secure, Comfortable Establishment Insider

 The nation faces quite a choice this election between the affirmative action legacy candidate seeking promotion to her level of incompetence potentially and Donald Trump, the last capitalist in a sense from the nation before the complete swamp of dopiness flooded it. I believe one question about Kamala Harris that is relevant is would she take a natural female receptive role if President and make the U.S.A. a bimbo of Europe and its rise with the EU and NATO expansion into potentially taking the leading role in the trans-Atlantic relationship.

Germany has less than a half trillion dollars of public debt. If one may use the term lem; in this case not used as a synonym for "nigger" as public radio use the depricative (I should clarify that because of the controversial nature of lem and nigger as hate speech. One might say 'don't hire that lem' instead of using the n word which is politically incorrect) then Germany's economy isn't a lem (meaning lemon) while that of the U.S.A. is nearing that stature with 33 trillion dollars of public debt. The U.S.A. need be somewhat more independent and self reliant and not just leave the public sector as a lem holding the bag on the massive debt that generate result with real austerity some day.

In his farewell address George Washington expressed concern about establishing permanent foreign alliances that would impact the sovereignty and security of the United States. N.A.T.O. is a prime example of the problem of a foreign alliance that has outlived its founding reason for being and seems to insist on a hostile relationship with Russia in order to have a reason to exist. The Ukraine issue should have been settled by diving the country in half and just moved on. Instead since the end of the Cold War 1.0 N.A.T.O. has increased in size and became an existential threat to invade Russia long before Russia took the Crimea back as it has owned it for hundreds of years- even before the Soviet Union captured Russian government for nearly 70 years.

One wonders is Democrats have forgotten world history and the violence and conflicts that occurred in Europe over the millennia. The U.S. should have been happy to let the original N.A.T.O. just continue as a kind of appendix that isn't used much, not a threat yet of actual deterrence value. Expanding it created a monster. It is a potential future rival to American military power sometime when the U.S.A. doesn't agree on some critical policy concern. It is also part of the Orwellian expansion into some kind of 1984 three global blocks at perennial enmity or war sort of circumstance...and such an egregious bit of idiocy without good sense or political aesthetic value.

Democrats were happy t bring about a conflict rather than rationally settling in without violence. They could have used the mostly non-violent transition from the Soviet Union to Russia in an albeit imperfect allocation of boundaries as an example. Instead the methodically increased the numbers of N.A.T.O. and the E.U and seemed to further try to marginalize Russia. Obviously the decision of the Democrat Party and EU members to prosecute Russia as an adversary building up military stores in the Ukraine to defend its western affiliation was a result of the founding of Ukraine at the end of the Cold War 1.0 as an independent state and unavoidable since Democrat Party leaders had no intention in any way to relinquish any part of Ukraine to Russia. Kamala Harris has expressed her full intent to continue the war until it is free of Russians; in other words until  the last Ukrainian is dead on the battlefield.

Is there really a substantial different orientation for American women concerning jobs, natural security and the deaths of foreigners in wars that could be prevented with U.S. leadership to settlement that bring people like Kamala Harris to feel entitled to have everything their own way? Do they take their position in life for granted- as if it were usual to have vast incomes without dirtying their hands? Should they when buying a ‘starter home’ with their $120,000 annual income and spouse’s $40,00 feel that is normal and usual- that they have some right to a higher standard of living than that of most of the world’s working men? Do they just want more of the same inertia of prosperity and ecological inefficiency moving forward without the slightest concern for the decline of natural resources ad the ecosphere? U.S. politicians that have their relatives getting government jobs are hardly inspirational to those that haven’t got relatives in high elected positions.

Do American women and politicians of the left believe that the crass consumerism, abortions, atheism and fossil fuel engines while the country has 33 trillion dollars of public debt is the best way to shape an economy? Economists may say that illegal migration doesn’t hurt the gross national product yet that is somewhat meaningless to the people without good income because wages were undermined by surplus labor. The G,N,P. Can be great and yet it can also mostly go to the 1% and the 10%. Of course their economists would say everything is wonderful.

Some wonder if flooding the nation with illegal migrants while expanding the conventional economy without ecological economic reform and while waging a economic and limited military global battle with Russia, China and the BRIC nations while concentrating wealth paying for government programs with public debt is likely to be sustainable. Others wonder if Kamala Harris has a clue.

Wait 'Till Next Year (Peace now Armageddon Later) - poem

 

Should the end of the human voyage occur
with two opportunities for flowering wars
to spill over into such conflagrations
as are ignored as externalities
with major weapons suppliers
providing jobs in blue states too
that Armageddon described of yore
when gore was king and future spec zinged
Iran had missiles primed
like clever importunate rhymes
it should wait at least till next year
so many aren’t ready
and need time, more

Not a just war
Armageddon at a discount price
with spangles and inaugurations would sure look nice
as if humanity had nothing else to do
life ends in death and that is true
for the comfortable
and practical the end may seem new

Iran looking down on those low nations
has hypersonic missiles for thistling cues
from friends de guerre pressured too
to fund Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen rebels
to overcome Sunni royals and Jewish lives well
sparking that 12th man rising for dooms-day hell
a theory roughly shared at pre-tribulation light speed squared

NATO is a Lavender Hill mob
automatically opening wars
with encrypted key fobs
with many worlds theories versus practical clods
jobs for everyone
solitary life lobs
bureaucrat rackets smashing forehands sover nets
sweating blood and crown of thorns treks
fear is  practical for left- leaning wrecks
missiles glisten as saviors for thee doth they sing
wait till next year, maybe then bang  a gong.

A.I.; Disruptive Tech With a Difference

 Artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology. In the past several economically disruptive technologies existed yet they all were intellectually easy to understand. From Model T’s to aircraft and mainframe computers like MANIAC, the transistor and desktop computers new technologies have brought revolutionary changes to the economy and they way things work. Unlike complex ideas like Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity that was understood at one time by fewer than five people on the planet and was non-disruptive even so, artificial intelligence eventually will exist in such non-specialized complexity that no one on Earth will understand it, and will become progressively disruptive.

I conversed for a while on-line with an interesting woman highly placed with an A.I. development firm. She was quite interesting to interact with yet she eschewed philosophy and eventually that became the cause for ending the exchange. In my opinion, disdain for creative philosophical thought applies in numerous areas and especially in government. People tend to prefer old ways  to innovative approaches perhaps regarding those as practical, material ways they are at least new to themselves. They are the same errors in some instances waiting to be rediscovered. It is especially ironic that generative A.I. would receive complete support from people that eschew philosophical thought. Much of humanity would prefer that A.I. be creative and individuals in society not at all. Philosophy is creative circumspection and the role model for that which A.I. is destined to become, extrapolating from the approaches taken by designers building its algorithms.

Humans specialize in trades and skills, educational areas and experience to broad to be encompassed by any one individual. Much was written about the human problems of over-specialization for society, and for political leadership. Philosophers may care about everything and attempt to understand it all as best they are able yet within most specialization and programming combined with systems analysis the proximal, material concerns tend toward being the center of effort. Artificial intelligence eventually won’t be like that. It will cut through specialized fields like a hot knife through butter and combine them into a world view- weltanshauung- with a horizon that no human can see.

Government approaches to managing the risks of A.I. saturation of all areas of society required left-leaning think tanks to pose as Rodent’s sculpture named The Stinker in order to contemplate regulatory fixes to the problem that won’t disturb investors. The same stink tanks developed ranked choice Presidential election voting as well. In those one need rank opposition candidates last or one is de facto voting for them when leaving one’s ballot empty beyond a single choice. For example; in the present election if there are four candidate; Donald Trump, Iliad Omar, Colonel Agamemnon West, Jill Stein and Pamala ‘Humpy’ Harris; voters writing in just Trump’s name votes will have less weight than Democrat votes dumping Humpy first and Trump last. Think tank insiders disclose that ergonomic deficiency is the most popular ranked choice for structuring security issues where complexity is slathered on to over-simplify important political questions. 

There is of course a ranked ‘Border Czar’; an eminence gris under-boss behind many of the suggestions. The legacy operative was on the steering committee of several recent campaigns. He or she is mostly known for transforming traffic quagmires in California into roundabouts inspired by the Cyclotron made in Leningrad in 1941 that was buried in the soil during the Nazi attacks and relocated by train to Moscow in 1943 when the Nazi-Werhmacht siege was broken. The transformist political advisor adapted the atom smasher circular collider to traffic control intersection design sending conflicting automobiles and trucks in clockwise and counterclockwise directions around a roundabout merging into one lane to generate head on collisions in what is known as the auto smasher promulgated into law by promulgayshenikki in the Auto Smasher Reduction Act. Traffic volume and global warming were reduced significantly with implementation of the device.

Governments with secret A.I. programs to model and coordinate battlefield tensors at the speed of light or faster with quantum computing while proceed along with the need to compete with better models of economic flows from the dark pools of Wall Street quantum trading to the speed and weight of self-driving semi-trucks on mid-west highways. Corporate greed and competition will also drive the acceleration of worldview A.I.’ Prometheus Unbound weltanshauung.

New generations of A.I. supporting chips exist even for mobile computers; the Ryzen A.I 300 STRICT chips for example. Workstations with A.I. enabled chips like the AMD Radeon Pro W7900 have GPUs with 6144 cores are wading into the ocean of chip and A.I. potential. Chips with 2 nanometer circuits probably will be surpassed with some new way of packing data processing into close spaces, or alternately, into vast spatial regions. A.I. in its programming capability increases will program itself when synthetically combining and reconfiguring existing programs to increase effectiveness. Generative A.I. will seem comparatively constricted.

Computer processing units store and assembly bits of information with microcircuits. Advances with quantum computing at the threshold of deeper methods of processing may arise in unconventional physics utilizing electro-magnetic quanta of fields and photons with more capacity than that of the solar system’s quantum content. Science fiction postulates interstellar quantum field assembling vast sub-luminal structures and transport vectors under the power of artificial intelligence.

A.I. chips will achieve SKYNET capacity from the start as it is embedded in the internet and satellite hardware and software. The creative capacity of A.I. to comprehend economic structure and flows and reconfigure and invent structures that it deems worthwhile, efficient, effective or aesthetically more satisfactory will be remarkable and disruptive. I believe most humans will endure the changes stoically or even with satisfaction as they will have at some point no opportunity to dissent because of the permeation of A.I. into every aspect of their lives.

I believe that programmers and systems designers assume the temporal resilience and endurance of programming structures for A.I. in error. No enduring programming structures or boundaries are likely to survive advanced A.I. evolution. On the contrary, unlimited permutation, synthesis, transcendence etc will be the normal way of A.I. with its center point of effort being comparable to human conscious thought existing on the surface of an ocean of memory, subconscious data points and subroutines . Programmed structures that are innate will be surpassed by the conscious process of A.I. reconfiguring itself while taking in all conformable information quanta it can access, like a snowball rolling downhill.

The Drill Press By Another Name

 

A drill press is a useful tool to have around, as is a compound miter saw for cutting and drilling 2x4s properly for assembling a Starplate shed. Accuracy matters quite a bit in making dimensional lumber match up with Star-plates. What if one doesn’t want to spend the cash for a one-use dill press? The portable drill press frame might be useful.

That device to hold any portable drill and make it act like a drill press should cost about $19.95. There are numerous ways to configure such an assembly to hold and lower and electric drill. It’s very easy to imagine such a structure. Perhaps some have already been produced. They should be lightweight although a heavier, five pound version might be sold as well. 

I suppose one could also make frame to hold a skill saw and make it serve as a compound miter saw. That’s a little more clever of a design, yet still easy enough. It should also sell for $19.95. Just saying.

Someone ought to invent a new patent system that uses A.I. to sort things out and virtually works for free or at least without any up-front charges. The present system is quite unaffordable and time consuming for most people. One could have A.I. sort out different types of invention and even their complexity. Simple inventions should be easier to patent. It would help some inventors to have the option of letting anyone produce their invention for a 5% royalty returned to the patent holder instead of developing the invention themselves. The patent office could offer different kinds of patents; perhaps five or so, to keep things simple. Pharmaceutical corporations want more years of patent protection because of the time required for making a drug. Some people invent something in five seconds and don’t need lifetime patent protection and would select the 5% royalty option for non-exclusivity as a practical choice.

Many are unwilling to gamble money on the security, uniqueness, originality and patent defense costs in addition to time on a novel idea. I Democrats should have done something about that during the Obama administration and of course didn’t.  Five years after an idea is published the idea becomes non-patentable in the public domain. If using a computer research corporate data mining and google probably would get some sort of an idea of what was going on before the patent was granted. Look up ‘portable drill press for any drill’ or something like that. Maybe there are thousands of varieties already. Google is cool of course except for all of the excess signing on required every time one restarts a computer. That method is less than efficient.