Have You Heard the One About Russian Cockoos in Alaska?

The birds are invading Alaska because of global warming. The ones from Washington D.C. have already been there.

https://www.popsci.com/russian-cuckoo-invading-alaska

Can Pres Trump Make US Internet Great Again?

  The United States ranks way diown there in 28th place on global Internet speed. Americans just aren't competitive at fast connections, chess playing and trading or bidding on the world stage. President Trump should try to get a border security wall built plainly, yet building good Internet connections for ordinary Americans is necessary for democracy to be in the competition.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15747486/united-states-developed-world-mobile-internet-speeds-akamai

I tried an Internet speed test from mid-America and found that the Internet speed is fastest via Moscow, then Hong Kong and Amsterdam with Seattle and San Francisco brinbg up the rear. One should not need to rely on Moscow for fat Internet speed. 

In the 1980s I sent an email via bitnet to the Ecole Normale or Superior or whatever from Alaska and got a rely in a week or ten days. America used to be up there in global Internet speed, yet it hasn't got that much better. President Trump; make American Internet speed great again, for us all.

Three M Blitz Van'T Kruijs Opening

I played black in this three minute game- 

Will Arctic Ice Melt Entirely Away this Year?

  Arctic sea ice is at a record low for this time of year. Bering Sea ice was mostly gone in April making it reasonable to wonder how far the Arctic ice cap will shrink. Very likely this will be another modern era record setting year. There is also modern carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any time in the past 800,000 years with that greenhouse gas reaching a significant 410 ppm level.

Carla Asks Solomon Eban About the Multiverse (fiction)

©2018 Garrison Clifford Gibson

   Carla addressing Eban said; “Then I may avail myself of the opportunity to learn more of the Multiverse as you know it Solomon.”

   “Yes of course Carla, such as I have any more knowledge than you of it.” 

   She asked; ”The transcendence of the physical boundaries of any given Universe seems to be at least symbolically accomplished with the FTL 5, yet we relinquish our physical bodies as we enter and are reduced to our very souls. With our souls we may observe and learn some of the structure. I saw that not all of the Universes were actualized with a linear history. Some were interrupted with collisions from other Universes, while others were shaken in repulsion from approaching Universes because of antipathetic fundamental charges or particle spin. Is it consistent for an actualized Universe to have structure with imperfectly fulfilled Universe histories?”

   “My guess is yes. The complete Multiverse has its own consistent, tautologous physical history that renormalized each locally apparent anisotropic evolution to a logical course in regard to the greater good as it were.

   Consider the eight Universes that spent their organization and became lowest entropy state membranes. They were subducted into a black hole and re-emerged as a unified four dimensional Universe following destabilization, repulsive explosion and faster than light expansion and a cooling off interval. Four dimensions and four basic forces followed structuring the Universe history that was the present and future to the end of normal lines.

   From our point of view there could be an infinite number of proto-Universe dots located along an infinite line, each of which could be divided from the others as a line with one concentrated Universe within its boundaries. Some think that virgin birth and natural perturbation would stimulate expansion of Universe dot-eggs, while others might believe they were given to expand under the work of design. The power of Spirit to generate just one infinite super-string made of a trans-finite set of scalable proto-Universe dot-singularities could be one-dimensional and two dimensional examples of the extra-Universal medium wherein the Multiverse is actualized fully complete regarding implicit temporal axis in four dimensions-even with hidden extra-dimensions. The FTL 5 unit has led me to infer that the eternal spiritual realm hosting the proto and actualized Universes thought of as a Multiverse, hasn’t a comparable physical peer for representation. Consider this.

   Long ago the Bible book of the Revelation described heaven’s city; the New Jerusalem, as existing upon a sea of glass. So think of us now with extra-Universal space-time travel. Wheresoever we may be it is possible to encounter illusory glimpses of shadows of extra dimensions, or glitches- memories carried over into ours of prior Universes that left information within this Universe, and even signs of a higher reality that is spiritual. It reminds us of the temporal construction of every actualized Universe even though it is static and we are the sentient souls that travel through them interacting as if it was the Universe in motion. That can give one a sense of insecurity existing within the temporal Universe, and should bring one to feel, at least if drawn toward God, that the temporal experience is existence as if standing on thin glass-like ice above an infinite depth of hell or heaven below with the choices one makes in-the-temporal determining where one goes in regard to the post-temporal reality. What seems convenient for temporality morally speaking may be absolutely wrong in regard to the eternal.

   Evil wants to convert all to become subject as spiritless, malleable mass unto its will of degradation and destruction. Good seeks creation and the Creator, evil is nihilistic and works for destruction. Spiritual rebirth with the Lord Jesus Christ lets the soul exit the maze of temporal Universes. So Carla, I can fairly say of the Multiverse that all I know is the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord crucified.”

Free Will, Determinism and Multiverse Theology (science fiction)

©2018 Garrison Clifford Gibson

   “I wanted to ask you what you think about the FTL 5 technology John. It’s new to me, and as I understand it, based on the Multiverse structure.”

   “I too have given the FTL technology some thought, though mine is probably infused with less probity than that of your inquiring and more experienced mind.”

   “You are too modest John. I know you have exceptional logical reasoning ability and have invested some time in learning of the scientific history and knowledge of humanity.”

   “Well Carla, the structure of the Multiverse would seem to be a salient, necessary element of whatever model an FTL 5 unit would reflect.”

   “Quite. The theology of a Multiverse and its deterministic structure also seems to me to be of paramount concern. Consider the point that if a Universe were to be entirely deterministic a priori, then everything within it including evil would be pre-determined too.”

   “Carla I doubt that the theology of the Multiverse would be an acceptable subject on many worlds. Human worlds subject to the Aristarch impact already are under the rule of the Supreme Junta of Justice that proscribed theology as a topic universally. Fortunately the free worlds still tolerate, being taller, than enslaved worlds and their evil judicial decretals; and I have given the theology some thought for-myself that I shall elaborate with you.”

   “Good John, I thought you might.”

   “How can God pre-determine and create a Universe and be consistent with His nature as perfect and without sin hence Multiverse and if they are pre-determined then God has created sin and wickedness too, no?

   “I must stipulate a no John. God cannot sin or create wickedness.”

   “Yet each exists and the Universe must be predetermined along with the Multiverse if God is to have created it.”

   “Hell exists John. And the Lord was crucified. Each were or are at least nominally wicked from my point of view. I don’t mean that the plan of God to allow His Son to be crucified as a substitute for the original sin debt of humanity was wicked; it is just that it was existentially a wicked experience for the Lord; for any human, to go through.”

   “Sure Carla; wickedness exists and the Lord God being omni-powerful created not only it- he created everything else; and yet free will exists. For many that is another apparently contradictory point about God. I believe however that the Multiverse and quantum mechanics may account for each, as it also may account for quantum gravity and relativity.”

   “How so John?”

   “Consider Carla, that relativity requires a time dimension to exist as anything besides a static form of space-time composition. If the Universe were entirely pre-determined and pre-created in its fullness from alpha to omega however, comparable to a digital action movie stored on a microchip, the relativistic effects and changes of space-time would be contingent and superficial emergent characteristics of the present time line position of inhabitants of the movie. Even relativity would be an apparent rather than a real experience.”

   “Yes John. I follow that. The characteristic of a fully created and static Universe that had apparent motion experienced by people living within it just as minds or thoughts experiencing it as they moved forward within the Universe’s space-time line might well appear to have the qualities of real motion, time and general relativity commonly regarded as actual qualities of space-time.”

   “Thus it is that there is a great difference between apparent and actual material facts regarded by a conscious mind, at least potentially or theoretically. Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave recorded that idea many thousands of years ago in the Earth’s lost past. Still, we have the problem of evil as it relates to God in addition to the nature of the Multiverse and FTL 5 units to consider.”

   “Of course John, please continue.”

   “An infinite Multiverse could be encompassed by God as an idea pre-determined yet infinitely malleable. For now I will stipulate that the Multiverse created is static and that minds existing within it experience it contingently without awareness.  That it is their ideas trave within its spatio-temporal substance rather than Multiverse or any given Universe itself morphimg.

   Every possible Universe in any form is pre-created within an idea of God that hasn’t spatial-temporal dimension or scale; God is spirit. The Multiverse is a contingent idea of less necessary size than that of a Plank length.”

   “Then John, the Multiverse to be consistent would require that each thought of any mind would be consistent with the appropriate pre-determined physical structure of a single Universe; logically then a single thought would switch any individual’s thought to another Universe with a structure consistent with that thought selected by the individual.”

   “Yes Carla. That is perhaps one of the most remarkable features of a Multiverse with free will and pre-determinism coexisting. All of the infinite Universes existing within the Multiverse allow seamless thought transference laterally. It is just the number of souls that are conscious thought that are finite or at least numbered and known to God that exist within the Multiverse.

   And that is why God could pre-determine every possible Universe and pre-create it in its fullness and allow free will to flow within it to such an extent that it could choose wickedness and occupy spatio-temporal material locations consistent with it.  Until people choose wickedness, the locations of wickedness aren’t used. They are empty shells without spirit within them.”

   “Sure John. Hell existed yet one needs to choose not to be saved to occupy it. Wicked scenes in the Multiverse exist yet until someone chooses wickedness no one goes there.”

   “And Carla, though God created Lucifer as an angel of light, Hell was brought into existence to contain him as he choose wickedness. It is amazing that wickedness is selected by some as a creative power of destruction as they hope to create more wickedness. They expand human and other spiritual experience into realms that God never intended for anyone to go to. Heaven and hell as places of existential self-deterministic destiny would be challenging and even anathematic concepts for many during the passage of time that is human experience.”

   “What of the quantum mechanics of it all John? What would the structure of a static Multiverse be in regard to quantum mechanics, subatomic and virtual particles?”

   “My thoughts on the topic are nothing more than inferences. Consider how gravity exists transcendently within a Universe yet draws mass only at the speed of light. Gravity need have some sort of faster than light presence to transcend local limitations of space-time yet draws other mass together only up to the speed limits of mass within a field described by general relativity.  Gravity is another emergent characteristic of the entanglement of virtual particles that for any given particle occupies theoretically every possible location in the space-time of a Universe. The probabilities of entanglement increase compresent with the increase of mass. Hence mass is drawn together as an emergent phenomena that seems to be gravity.

   Each individual virtual particle and a unique configuration of a Universe as a unique Universe differing from another by as little difference as the location selected through entanglement of one virtual particle from another is required for comprehensive permutations of all possible structures to exist alongside those of all possible Universes that could be occupied by a human being thought actualization state. Of the switching mechanics of a soul from one Universe to another that is consistent with his or her thoughts and free will selections in a world-line I cannot say right now. I will, God willing, give that some additional thought eventually. It may be either a material or a spiritual mechanics since either is consistent with a theology of a Multiverse fully actualized by God.”

   “Then I may infer John, that God has provided people with free will that allows them, existentially, to choose their own destination in hell, should they decide not to accept his call unto eternal salvation through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ?”

   “I agree with that inference Carla. Keeping in mind of course, that wickedness is the evil that men do, while plain evil are events enacted by nature and else without act of human will, so far as one interprets Biblical use of the terms. Satan is wicked while earthquakes that collapse well designed and built structures may be evil, contingent upon their effects on humanity-for instance the city may have been long deserted and an eyesore and the Earthquake served as an accelerated improvisational urban renewal phase one; hence not evil.”

   “Evil in nature need impact humans adversely to be evil and therefore is a secondary emergent phenomena?”

   “Again Carla, I must agree.”

   “Well then John, we should make our way to the observation deck and then check out the available crew quarters.”

Solid Oxygen (frozen) Bars by the Ton for Space

At some point solid frozen oxygen bars would be useful for humans on planetary missions. Oxygen freezes solid at about 371 degrees below zero f. If it can be stored without loss or sublimation inside some kind of thin wrapper that oxygen might be gathered and frozen on the Moon and Mars. Sending practical oxygen ice making machines to various solar system locations to produce caches of oxygen ice blocks night be an early business opportunity in support of mining and industrial innovation for materials tech.

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

http://www.esrf.eu/news/spotlight/spotlight89 the structure of metallic oxygen