Inflatable Space Module the Start of Something Big

When the Bigelow inflatable space model went up on the second try at the Space Station it proved an important derivative point; inflatable building forms-for example a sphere, could be used in zero gravity or on Mars and spray coated or rolled with a permanent adhesive substance. Building thousands of empty space spheres for various living purposes easily and at low cost requires the invention or application of the right materials for zero-G, Mars and the Moon.

Inventors and governments cannot always have classified insider documents go to currency speculators via blackberry and guarantee booming financial success. Even when a Yoda-breaking-bad to the dark side of the force doesn’t work to finance pioneering exploration work investors periodically appear to fill in the gaps.

The inflatable Bigelow inflatable module showed it works outside the Washington D.C. beltway in the micro-gravity field. One would like to see inflatable building forms develop with field testing on the moon, Mars and at the Space Station. Making the special strong-lightweight coating that can be applied at near absolute zero and yet will harden to make a strong-permanent building shell should be something easy of materials physicists today.

I have read somewhere that aluminum naturally welds itself in micro-gravity. Maybe ground ground up aluminum dust coatings have potential as a building shell coating.

Inflatable forms could be scalable to very large sizes. Complete sphere could have exterior connectors to other spheres and even low-cost ion engines to speed them around the solar system as working, transport, freight, agriculture, research and habitation and storage modules by the hundreds of thousands.

How Energy & Tax Issues Differ in 2016 Election Cycle

Traditionally democrats and Republicans have had substantial differences in policy approaches to energy and taxation during Presidential election cycles since the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973. President carter's synthetic fuel plant at Parachute Colorado never went to far. The Federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve did however, and even now that oil in salt domes seems quaint. Fracking has crashed the value of oil per barrel and the price may stay low the next 20 years or longer if foreign nations commence large scale fracking too.

It is a paradox that U.S. energy companies may look toward the rival solar and wind power producers, that they have already begun to buy in to, as a way to help keep oil from dropping too far in sales price. If solar power becomes ubiquitous as building coatings, automobile finishes; even highway repaving material and roofing material, and if foreign oil developers begin large scale fracking, the motivation to increase American fracking may decrease and oil supplies may thus be slower to increase in volume available overall.

If demand for U.S. oil decreases while solar and wind power dramatically increase a careful maintenance of the value of oil may follow because of the decrease domestically for it. Large U.S, multinational oil corporations have vast quantities of foreign oil as well they can import in a few days with supertankers to moderate price. Because restricting supply increases demand and sales price generally if there is an existing demand for a product, just as restricting labor supply increases the value of labor if there is an existing demand for labor, limiting the increase of demand for oil and increasing the availability of solar and wind power that oil corporations invest in may make the best price moderation criterion for the multinationals and consumers alike.

Fundamentally there is little real difference in U.S. energy policy from Democrats or Republicans in 2016. No one likes coal of course except for the honest, honorable workers employed in that difficult industry. Demagogic appeals from either side have different values of course, yet retraining workers and capping the dirty business is the best realistic plan.

Energy policy of either party isn't too different, yet neither is tax policy. Democrats in the majority with a Democrat President made tax cuts for the rich permanent. Yet rhetorically the President gave crocodile tears about wishing to increase taxes on the rich-nearly and impossibility without a Democrat majority, and of course it was the Democrats to passed the tax bill in the first place, so that issue is as much bunk as the President Obama dropping into Hiroshima to make a legacy speech about getting rid of all nuclear weapons. Seven years into his administration is too late to muse about that. Informed people are aware that arms nuclear arms reduction requires serious and substantive talks and require several elements to be aligned.

A certain trust must be established among nations. President Obama has increased distrust of Russian leadership and President Putin has little reason to trust the U.S.A. after its Ukraine and Syria policies. President Obama led sanctions against not only Syria, but Russia too and has done much economic harm.

The President hasn't exactly made India and Pakistan more trusting of each other, and neither North Korea. It is also hard to imagine China getting rid of its nuclear arsenal. If anything they are likely to increase it.

It the President's tax are nuclear disarmament policies are a sham, so are the differences between the Republican and Democrat parties on energy and taxation. Environmental policy is important however neither party has the slightest ecospheric economic foundation too its economic approach. Each have non-renewable economic value principles are from my perspective are primitive. Democrats say much about supporting good environmental policy and actually make a very slight difference, while Republicans honestly say they don 't give rats ass about keeping wilderness or restoring it and stopping mass extinction. The bottom line is that the environment loses 99 to 0 with Republicans and 89 to 0 with Democrats in the game of human life on Earth

Get Job Training & Work for Euro-Bound Refugees

Providing job training for European bound cross-Mediterranean refugees in a secure North African enclave would be better than admitting them to Europe for eventual distribution into the body politic. Especially in the case of Libya and Syria the refugees may have been selected by Al Qaeda and ISIS as sleeper agents or support elements to attack Europe. At the least they would add a lot to crime and education costs for receptive European nations. Another problem is that they are generally Muslims; the more the arrive in Europe the greater is the problem of an antipathetic internal proletariat.

Africa and the Middle East have innumerable problems that might be partly alleviated with a new source of well-trained teachers and advisors to build electrical, water extraction and health facilities etc. A veritable alternative peace corps comprised of refugees signed into a 3 to 6 month training program with three years of paid employment in select African and Middle Eastern countries with substantial social survival and standard of living issues that is paid for by European nations would probably cost less in several respects than disregarding African issues and flooding Europe with refugees that European security forces would actually have a fairly difficult time in vetting-Muslims might at any rate change their minds later when approached by actual mufsidoonists.

A special refugee enclave and job training center built in Africa with full European support could collect refugees and educate them in valuable skills programs with a modest stipend to enable them to live and work. African nations would benefit with the input from the former refugees. A three year program might be adequate to allow refugees to return to a home nation where problems have been resolved. Of course since President Obama and European leaders deposed the Khaddafi regime intentionally and created the ISIS-Al Qaeda problem in Libya, they may not expect that Libya can be stabilized in another three years. Perhaps a re-enlistment to serve a total of six years would be possible.

A functioning put-the-refugees-to human work with education and support is a realistic approach to solving the recurrent problem. The refugees would need to actually be from a nation with real civil war and chaos sorts of issues created commonly by interfering western leaders, yet even locally caused strife probably would be sufficient to get those admitted to a refugee training enclave.

Quite likely their should be a number of refugee training enclave built around the globe to better process people fleeing war, government and media persecution etc. Even Mexicans fleeing Mexican poverty and war illegally entering the U.S.A. might benefit from a catch and release job training program while ordinary criminals go to jail. Perhaps most of the illegal aliens are unskilled in labor and need to become electricians, water treatment specialists, medics, computer repairmen, solar panel installers etc. If the United States trained them and paid them one dollar and hour to remain in Mexico (or some sort of local minimum wage equivalent), they might actually remain in Mexico and do some good saving the taxpayers of the states. money and letting wages rise.

The Fate of Mud, Bugs and Man (poem)

The bug as vexatious tyranny of intent

complex evolving composition acting for-itself

flying in leaps for plant designs

of rain-born forms stretching toward the sun

Leaves waver in a breeze pushed by clouds

swirling thoughtlessly gathering strength

growing ample numbers tornadoes won't disturb

scattering flowers with seed forward in time

Where the field of starlight, dry lines distant

living terms breathing for-themselves

transferring continua of actualized genes

forms with decisive ideas

The fate of mud is of all things concerned

with compact shedding structure dissolving

to entropy's average shape

of an unshaped soundless medium

The potter works

purity of purpose

vessels of wrath

assemblies of grace

To be and not to be with a million questions

remaining like a life of ideas finding new expressions

parallelism of Aristotelian successions

bugs and man each actualizing life

A realm of forms encased in life itself

contrasting with a realm of forms of ideas

flowing in temporal beingness

space-time actualizing all-too-human uncertainty

With the end of speculation

a cosmic microwave cloud of beginning

c.m.b. pattern to Earth,

distant and remote in time

Metaphysic of forms of ideas abstracting

shapes and logic of the for-itself

and the cloud of unknowing

flowing after the word to start

Uttered light into darkness

being and becoming

concentrates of ideas

actualized as thoughts of Spirit

In faith Jacob's ladder of transformation,

ideates a Platonic, temporal realm of forms

given themselves unto eternal spirit

leaving the mud for Jesus Christ.

Shouldn't Trump's Wall Be a 2000 Mile Solar Panel?

The Mexican border security wall should serve some synergetic goals such as energy and water making for the American S.W. and perhaps Mexico instead of being a dead, metal screen. Metal fencing is easy for politicians and contractors to think about and provide paychecks to a few, yet it isn't the more bang for the buck approach to governing.

It might be possible to sell space to erect a solar panel coated barrier to corporations that could share in the profit from selling electricity to utilities. A vast solar panel could also power electric cars that would drive patrols along the berm and maybe canal for desalinating saltwater through evaporation and condensation. Saltwater would be pumped from the Pacific Ocean to Deming New Mexico to fill the canal with locks that would actually be used for recreation with lagoons in some areas too.

Sen. Lankford's Points About Pres. Obama Rerouting Zika Funds to U.N./Global Warming

Oklahoma Senator Lankford wrote an interesting article about President Obama steering a half billion dollars away from fighting Zika to other priorities....especially to a global green climate U.N. initiative. The latter is a worthwhile project when cars, oil, urban sprawl and poor zoning in regard to human habitation and the ecosphere (it hasn't changed paradigm much the past 2000 years).

http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/23/obama-raided-500m-for-zika-to-finance-uns-green-climate-fund/ Not a significant percent of Americans can take the time to research contemporary issues in depth if lucky enough to have a good job. Lankford notes that the President already has billions of dollars to draw from to attack Zika.

 Public affairs take a hit as the public is uniformed or misinformed by the broadcast media.

When Evolution Arrived (a poem)

When evolution arrived at government

a million flowers of ideas bloomed

about wild eleatic forms

with accountability and responsibility

fractalized and forgotten like shadows in transit

glimmering deposits and currency frenzies

were pieces of mosaics gone tomorrow

Reason and logic; innate human characteristics, stopped

to feel sensations of evolving forms of experience

from the inside out arrayed with numbers

driving on in neat lines

with Cantor's trans-fine sets

thoughts of infinity replete with humility

seemed more shapes of being and becoming

Consciousness was an apparition for survival

giving enhanced adaptive character

intelligence sorting through material for-itself

wondering sometimes of its origin and universe

of experience taken to a scattering of electrons

from plasma, from a perfectly order singularity

dimensions thought to expand as energy's space

A Universe destiny like a gut object of art

its area of being with Occam's economy

taking no more than itself

the reason of mortals evolved to organic nullification

where waters fall like horizontal bands

striking notes of digital quanta clouds

as every dimension reaches an horizon

God was not in the lean stomach muscle

that a dead animal had before run down

crunching in a silver bumper a blue morning

saw the red blood and sunrise together

skinned remnants of reality

passed over through life

He was in the life of spirit

Greater than a living Universe

the sets of actualized destiny

packaged in one issue

malleable to the Word

weren't bureaucracies of theo-political establishment

tossing horseshoes at pegs,

tying dissidents to stakes

burned.