Send the I.S.S. on a Slow Journey for Earth-Mars Orbit

 If the I.S.S. is becoming a hazard because of it's condition, would it be possible to send the space station to orbit between Mars and Earth after being sealed, or sent on a one-way mission to the sun or Pluto, instead of crashing and burning in the Earth's atmosphere?

It is good to repurpose material when possible instead of disposing of it. Some day the I.S.S. could be a valuable addition to some collector of space station classics living somewhere in the outer solar system.

https://unionrayo.com/en/nasa-warning-iss-critical-condition/

Ditty of War (a poem)

 

In the clouds and mist
of the alps poetics rise
sounds of salvation and Julie’s kiss
a fantasy verse of fertile skies

The ice-man cometh with mortal screed
battling echoes of wars’ confusions
talus slope timing springtime’s seeds
for peace and growth the players need

Spear-points, shards, fragments and futures
A.I., nuclear, microwavable holocausts
no good reason can even suture
the body of conflict’s unaffordable loss.

Religion's Cultured Despisers Considered

 I looked up TANSF and got Temporary Assistance for Needy Families- a government program.  TANSF is an acronym for those that attack people of faith with ridicule suggesting ad hominems, and muddy analogies? Richard Dawkins has made a few of those.  He wrote a book titled 'The God Delusion. That idea has, to use a Dawkinsism "infected the minds" of a generation. 

 I withdrew from being a group member in a couple of science fiction groups here because they were completely intolerant of spirit. They were died in the monkey believers in Darwinism-only and believe the question of spirit and God was settled once and for all by Clarence Darrow and defended by Aldous Huxley. Yet theology and philosophy have depth that fundamentalists of science only and Biblical literalism only aren't aware. Some things are slow to change. One could labor as did Freidrich Schleiermacher in his: 'On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers' published in 1799 and write to modern despisers of faith.

Scientists tend not to think about God and spiritual matters in a serious way and so remain less than neophytes in understanding the Bible unlike some philosophers and theologians that research science matters routinely. In my opinion Socrates' idea about knowing that he knows nothing was a reasonable distrust of the certainty of meaning of knowledge including science that is operatively, pragmatically useful yet perhaps ultimately superficial and of course temporal. Nothing that happens in the Universe is of consequence for humanity from a Christian perspective except the matter of salvation. The Apostle Paul said that he knows nothing except Jesus Christ crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:2, Paul states, "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

The nature of space-time may be wrong though it seems correct. The Hindu philosophy that reality is an illusion – Maya in the Advaita Vedanta (Nondualist) is comparable to the ideas of Bishop Berkeley and Ideaism as well as contemporary quantum mechanics with the Higgs Field.

It's a bit off topic yet interesting enough. I tend to regard Moses as the author of the Pentateuch as well as the inventor of the aleph beth- he was particularly well situated to make an alpha bet for the Jewish tribe instead of using hieroglyphs to write down ecclesiastical data. yet Moses said "Deuteronomy 18:15-18 states that God would raise up a prophet from among the Israelites, similar to Moses, whom the people should listen to in all things, as they were to listen to Moses." One could take that as a reference to David who collected all of the scripture and put it into the Pentateuch form. Plainly there has been redaction of the Pentateuch. Yet for Genesis there is no question that it has two beginnings; Austin Gentry opined of it that " Genesis 1 focuses on the broader, cosmological creation of the universe and the earth, while Genesis 2 zooms in on the creation of humanity and the Garden of Eden." It is obvious that there are two starts of Genesis and neither was omitted by the collator of the work.

The GR paradigm of space-time is challenged by more recent cosmology theories. and certainly the the book of Genesis appears to have two narratives or beginnings that aren’t inconsistent with the concept that Adam and Eve were interpolated into an already created Universe after they disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge learning the difference between good and evil unlike animals. The great initial lifespans of the patriarchs reduce in a paradigm suggestive of some kind of transfer from a timeless realm into one with time. That could be explained by innumerable scientific and metaphysical theories without one ever knowing the correct answer. Alternatively atheist evolutionary biologists would interpret the paradigm literally and say it's wrong in the same way that a 1920s Biblical fundamentalist would take it literally and say it's right.

Reorienting U.S. Economy To material Production instead of the Losing Policy Abroad

 President Trump has no easy task. The nation after Reagan moved toward shifting production overseas with the end of Cold War 1.0. The nation moved toward being a service and finance economy running federal budget and trade deficits as a permanent paradigm. That of course couldn’t last and as the President has tried to recover the national production ability with tariffs feathers have been ruffled for those invested in America losing on all fronts. I wonder though if the huge trade problem with China could be offset by some kind of reciprocal investment and development in Mexico instead of China?

Mexico is a close neighbor and needs to become even more productive to keep its younger workers home. It would be easier to share production with Mexico and the nation on things like manufacture of aircraft instead of China. Not an economist myself, it is something I wonder about.

Even creating dental labs in Mexico instead of China would return denture production closer to home and lower transportation costs. The administration could research the issue and perhaps build a fresh water making desalinating salt-water security canal along the entire Mexican border using solar power for pumping water uphill to Deming New Mexico for trickling downhill east and west.

Zelenskyy Saps Peace Talks- Continues Post-Birth Adult Abortion Services (war) for Ukraine

 Ukrainian marshal law President for war Zelenskyy sapped the London Peace talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war. He prefers more ‘pressure’ to force Russia to accept his own terms. Those terms basically are that Russia retreat to the 1991 boundaries that existed when the internal ‘states’ of the former Soviet Evil Empire declared independence in the absence of a ruling authority in Moscow.

Those boundaries were inventions of the Soviet communist leadership that served political purposes. Even Jews were given a small ‘reservation’ in Siberia. Plainly the Russian Federation would never accept the shrinkage of Russia to the much smaller boundaries the Communists had set. Because it was mostly historians who recognized the fact that a future war of Russia to recover its lost ground would develop without correction, the tragedy of vacuous western European leadership failing to recognize the problem and adjust the Russian areas in Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation let millions of casualties occur in a senseless conflict that President-while-marshal-law-exists Zelenskyy seeks to continue with full western backing.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-london-peace-talks-downgraded-as-kyiv-rejects-us-plan-to-recognise-crimea-as-russian-13354011

It was only the vast left-wing military support of the Biden administration that enabled the Ukraine to de frappe the Russian reconquista of part of Ukraine and Crimea that began in 2014. Although Mr. Zelensky as an experienced comedic actor can tolerate the accretion of a couple hundred thousand more Ukrainian military and civil deaths in 2025-26 to continue the war instead of cutting Ukraine’s losses and establishing a solid peace- in time the significance of the new Russia-Ukraine border would fade into insignificance with free trade and good relations- Ukraine seems likely to be in a worse position in several months than it presently is.

For Moscow’s part it too would be in their interests to seek a peace that recognizes the west’s unwillingness to allow Russian expansion westward beyond the Dnipro to occur. Historical illiteracy, paranoia and greed have brought the west to believe that the Baltic states and Poland- even Finland are objects of Russian Federation plans of conquest.

Realpolitik should recognize a final status of Russian annexation of any Ukraine land it possesses to the east of the Dnipro, free navigation of the Dnipro by all nations, that Ukraine cannot be part of N.A.T.O. and that Ukraine’s 800,000 man Army is reduced to fewer than 250,000 soldiers for a period of twenty years. Russia should proceed to establish tax free zones along the Ukraine-Russia border to encourage civil investment and business development preferably along ecological economic lines. It could also guarantee the peace of Ukraine itself in some innovative way that assures Ukraine that it will not resume war if Ukraine seems less of a military opponent.

The west probably does need to have some military security concerns in Ukraine to monitor the development of peaceful reconstruction. Perhaps 50,000 soldiers located on bases as were garrisoned in post W.W. 2 Germany could be set around Ukraine for twenty years yet not as a border force on a DMZ. Ukraine could join the E.U. in order to expedite its recovery from the war. Relations with Russia should be normalized by the E.U. as part of the peace settlement to reassure Russia that the west is not just tricking it so Ukraine can have a better chance to reload militarily and counterattack again.

The United States might consider pressuring Ukraine and Marshal Law President Zelenskyy to accept a realistic peace settlement by stopping providing military intelligence to Ukraine until it does, as well as a halt to all military and economic aid until the U.S. federal budget is balanced.

AI and Open Source Operating Systems

My guess is that with AI supporting chips with NPUs (neural processing units) produced by AMD and Intel programmer-developers writing code for open source operating systems will adapt free AI systems like Deep Seek for users.

Installing AIs to help users modify programs in terminal will make open source operating systems much easier to use and change for non-programmers unfamiliar with operating systems. Yet the natural application also contains the open door of the danger of letting AI change code itself. A philosophical problem not of ethics. Rather it is one of a pragmatic criterion of immediate value and utility versus long run risk. It’s easy to guess which direction at the fork in the road people will go.

Pope Francis Passes: Carl Sagan; 'The Demon Haunted World', Misc Cosmology/Scopes Trial

 One probably should read science, philosophy and history for-oneself. If so one may learn about the tenuous grasp on existence humanity faces today with numerous self-generated challenges that may end human anytime. The future has dystopian vectors proliferating. Hard science fiction today tends to run behind the pace of actual science. If one mentions spirit and the paradigm of the existence of the cosmology of the Universe as a sort of virtual field, the establishment narrative vociferously defends their worldly turf as if in reaction to salt touching a slug.. It is like the parable of the crabpots were crabs could not escape because other crabs pulled them down as they tried to climb out of the trap. Tegmark's 'The Mathematical Universe' was just one non-standard approach to cosmological investigation- there are numerous others.

I read some of Sagan's works like Dragon's of Eden and have a fairly good idea of his public information having lived through that era. Democrats prefer ad hominems and straw men. You may regard a two-dimensional universe as silly and uninformed, yet it is a real scientific idea. Here is a paper from 2009 in Physics Letters B https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0370269309009204

 My casual reference to a quantum cosmology paradigm that is fairly well known seemed scientifically uneducated to some. Well at least google AI knows about it- a consolation for me if you have a bad opinion… "The idea of two dimensions underlying the entangled universe suggests that quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where two or more particles become linked in such a way that they share the same fate, might be connected to the existence of extra dimensions beyond our 3 spatial dimensions and time. This connection proposes that entanglement could be a manifestation of interactions happening in higher dimensions, perhaps even acting as a form of "geometric glue" holding spacetime together, according to some theoretical models. "

Sagan didn't prove anything in philosophy or theology to support his appearance of atheism (he may have been an agnostic). Unfortunately he is regarded as a media forerunner of Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins; scientist that have taken Sagan's 'I have no proof for the God hypothesis' to a public atheist militant posture.. I didn't write anything about theologians or philosophers being dilettantes. I have read a lot of philosophy and theology and would not be so inclined. Perhaps you don't know the definition- "a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge". Sagan's science was solid enough. Scientific knowledge really does not encompass philosophy, theology and metaphysics. It seems to me unscientific to use science as a support for faith in atheism.

I read all of those cosmology books like Weinberg's (an atheist) 'The First Three Minutes' etc back in the day. John Barrow's 'The Book of Universes' was interesting, as was Tegmark's 'The Mathematical Universe' and several others that I read. Watson and Crick were fairly new when I was a kid as were Penzias and WilsonIf Fred Hoyle and his static Universe hypothesis still was an acceptable alternative minority theory. If scientists stick with science their work is credible. There are several that write popular books on cosmology and physics that I like and other such as those by Sean Carrol that toss in a few gratuitous shots at people of faith like Ken Follet would toss in a gratuitous sloppy sex scene in his otherwise good reading fiction books.

A lot of people are ill-informed about the Bible, including people identifying as Christians, much less scientists. It takes a lot of time to be well read in various disciplines and people are specialists and mostly unaware of depth content in other fields. Someone could program an AI to interrogate specialist in science and other fields to ask Socratic questions of them to demonstrate their ignorance. There is real depth in theology, the Bible and especially the paradigm of God that people are often dismissive of as if it were part of 'the demon haunted world'. 

Clarence Darrow and the Scopes trial, Charles Darwin and the monkey trial paradigm was an excuse for many to dismiss faith in God. Knowledge however increased in the field of Christianity as well as in science. The Bible was ever independent of the people that made hermeneutics from it. George LeMaitre was a Belgian priest, Gregory Mendel an Augustinian friar. If God were evolving the Universe, or shaped it in stages with his thought, who would know in the scientific community today?

On this day where notice of Pope Francis dying was made, and I am not Catholic, I will say I don't believe Carl Sagan is a demon haunting the world. I have made an effort to explain some of the paradigm I mentioned above in a few free ebooks. https://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-c-gibson/christianity-evolution-and-digital-universes/ebook/product-wnddgd.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Regarding time warps- there is actually a theory that time does not exist as it is presented in the unified space-time paradigm of General Relativity. A woman physicist published a paper recently on time being generated as a phenomena of quantum entanglement. I am not too well read on the concept right now. I did go over related ideas about faster than light travel in other ways than the GR paradigm for wormholes in an essay post I made a while ago. I will post that below. I read an interesting book a few years ago named ‘Faster Than the Speed of Light’ by Dr. Joao Magueijo- he speculated that the speed of light may be variable.

The wormhole idea may have started with Einstein and Rosen (ER) critiquing quantum mechanics; they regarded it as an incomplete theory.. They believed that quantum entanglement could hypothetically be explained by a wormhole between entangled quantum particles. Plainly that opens the way to fiction paradigms for star trek transporters sending people through shaped quantum wormholes.

A modern theory that may surpass the Lamda Cold Dark Matter CDM model is one that has space-time and all of the contingent-entangled Universe being comparable to an illusion that occurs on or from an underlying timeless realm. Today some believe it could be explained by the four-dimensional universe being somewhat like a physical projection or phenomenon from an underlying two-dimensional field. That is the Universe of four dimensions is comparable to an illusion or phenomenon made because the field fluctuations of the two dimensional field yield waves that become entangled at points as particles and so the extra dimensions exist in the entangled state. The new criterion would allow star-trek style transporters to relocate travelers anyplace in the Universe instantly. In a sense they would exploit quantum entanglement to disentangle themselves from local spacetime and reappear in another. More about that below.

ER=EPR stimulated, as I understand it, further ideas about wormholes between black holes and white holes. I hate to think about the way time is affected between the black hole and white holes in the wormholes. Some opinion based on ER is that the black white hole vector is the only form that wormholes could exist in space-time. One need put an asterisk next to many “only place” ideas obviously for they are difficult to prove.

There are other theories today about gravity and black holes instead of quantum gravity theories. One is that singularities don’t really exist in black holes and instead they stop reducing at a certain size and spew out their mass through the wormhole and white hole on the other end.

Quantum entropy is a new explanation for gravity that obviously isn’t proven yet. Yet it could provide another opportunity for faster-than-light-travel theory. One should be able to use a star trek transporter to reduce an individual to an unentangled state and bounce the information down to the timeless two-dimensional place that uplifts the contingent universe of four dimensions. Space-time in that timeless two-dimensional realm is quite different (no time and no distance in comparison to the four dimension realm). Then one need return the disentangled quanta to a different location in the Universe.

Here is some information about quantum entropy gravity theory summarized by Gemini-

“The "quantum entropy theory of gravity" is a framework that proposes that gravity can be derived from quantum relative entropy, a measure of how different two quantum states are. This approach attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity by treating gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the differences in information content between spacetime and matter.

Entropy and Gravity:

The core idea is that gravity isn't a fundamental force but rather a consequence of the increasing disorder (entropy) within a system. In this framework, the geometry of spacetime is related to a quantum operator, and the difference between the natural spacetime metric and the metric induced by matter fields is quantified by quantum relative entropy.

Bridging Quantum and General Relativity:

By linking gravity to quantum information, this theory aims to reconcile the two seemingly incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Modified Einstein Equations:

The entropic action leads to modified Einstein equations that, under certain conditions, reduce to the familiar equations of general relativity. However, it also predicts a small, positive cosmological constant, which aligns better with the observed accelerated expansion of the universe than other existing theories.

The G-field:

The theory introduces a G-field, an auxiliary field acting as a Lagrangian multiplier, which plays a crucial role in the modified gravity equations and potentially offers new insights into dark matter.

Emergent Gravity:

This approach suggests that gravity might be an emergent phenomenon, meaning it arises from the collective behavior of smaller, more fundamental constituents of spacetime.”