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The Nucleus

A Cosmic Premis

“We see this in the story of Noah, where God threatens to do away with

humanity because of its constant failure to fulfil the requirements of justice

and peace: “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is

filled with violence through them” (Gen 6:13).”

Although “the wickedness of man was great in the earth” (Gen 6:5) and theLord “was sorry that he had made man on the earth” (Gen 6:6),

nonetheless, through Noah, who remained innocent and just, God decided

to open a path of salvation. In this way he gave humanity the chance of a

new beginning.



-The Pope

Why have we not yet detected intelligent life in the cosmos? It could be that intelligentbeings are extinguishing all life in the galaxy as a mercy. For, they certainly have founda more compassionate solution to existence by now. We are in love with our existenceand our legacy of life on the Earth, but what we are is just another petri dish to them.Maybe someday they will offer to us their solution and extinguish all life on the Earth.Would you choose to be an angel in their invention, called Heaven, or one of thosefaithful to "reality" as we know it?

Chapter x The Mind Bearing Technologies of the Aliens

“The mind-field is the 5th dimension and the 6th sense.”

The science of the “sixth sense” progressed along as all sciences do. One of the mostapplicable spinoffs of six sense research was the discovery that consciousness thatevolved on the Earth does not wholly reside within organics. Consciousness wasoriginally “discovered” by evolution and first made use of by early mammals, birds, andperhaps dinosaurs. It was an invention that gave survival advantages by allowing ananimal to access a dynamic (real-time) “intelligence field” known as consciousness.

Simple animals that do not have consciousness can only react to external stimulithrough hard wired response options. These are naturally limited to instinct level

behaviors and as such are inferior to conscious level behaviors. Nature’s first stabs at aconscious intelligence were based purely in the organic realm - it was limited to thephysical constructs of neural connections. But a breakthrough occurred when evolutionstumbled upon the phenomenon of consciousness which became controllable throughorganics - that is, the evolution of trans-dimensional capacity in the organ that is thebrain.

In a kind of “fuzzy” logic processor type function, an animal’s brain could interact withthe intelligence field to establish a consciousness capable of more than the pre-programmed responses of instinct. With the help of the intelligence field, an animalcould then perceive “reality” as a four dimensional realm of space and time and so

respond to stimuli on a more sophisticated level of perception. Whereas the mostadvanced binary computer can only process data without being conscious, even a semi-intelligent beast is “aware” of reality.

The phenomenon of consciousness was “naturally discovered” first by evolution, which,of course, is not conscious itself. It could then be “philosophically discovered” by thevery consciousnesses that evolution had invented in adequately evolved beings,through its experience as expresses by the musing - “I think, therefore I am”. And then,



with the aid of science, conscious beings may come to understand consciousness as aphenomenon of nature.

It turns out that consciousness has to do with the “fields” generated by the brain.Imagine all the electrical goings-on of the brain. Now imagine that a complex electrical

field, generated by billions of neurons (the cells of the brain) and trillions of neuralconnections (the intercellular wiring of the brain), can itself represent and generateconsciousness. If so, then consciousness is not precisely, intrinsically, or necessarilylimited to flesh or even any physical device - it exists as a field.

It was discovered that animals can communicate with each other at a distance throughthe interactions of these fields. Though this type of communication is very crude, itexplains some animal behaviors that are not easily explained by traditional means. Apopular example is that “sense” that someone is looking at you. Early scientific work inthis field of “mind-field” research included the statistical analysis of data collected duringtests conducted on volunteers. It was proven that certain individuals can consistently

beat the odds by no explainable means. It was concluded that non-traditionalinformation pathways must and do indeed exist.

A combination of steady scientific progress and intuitive leaps enabled the intelligentbeings that gave rise to the Angels to first understand and then control the mind-fieldphenomenon. A time came when the mind of an individual could be mimicked in a mind-field generator (MFG). It was discovered that although a consciousness was indeedgenerated, it lacked all memory and logical foundation. What was generated was a lostconsciousness without knowledge. It wasn't until these artificially generated mind-fields(GMF) were interfaced or synced with “God’s” Universal Mind-Field (UMF) that itbecame possible to communicate with GMF’s.

Chapter x The Community

“ Each mind, a neuron in a brain.”

Some of the intelligent aliens of the Milky Way Galaxy designed a technologies toprotect their consciousness for eternity in networks of “mind vessels”. Being what theybecame they had lost all “natural” connection to the cosmos, but they thought it an idealevolution from what nature had wrought. Some these disembodied spirits chose to

travel the cosmos in ships to find more realities to explore. Yet some longed to be benatural once again and chose to immerse themselves in simulations in which they knewnot what they had become.

One kind traveled with indestructible vessels in which they could survive all but the mostdetermined attack or the more destructive of natural hazards. With their technology theycould control what they wished. Some were guided by environmental and compassionderived ideologies, while others cared not for anything but their own purposes. One



such community of aliens thought themselves angels and dedicated their existence tothe elimination of the suffering of all intelligent and semi-intelligent beings theyencountered.

Once upon a time two vessels clashed over prime real estate and a “nucleus” was

ejected in the nick of time. It was what they called the small ships on which theypreserved their “minds” final back up copies on each ship. This nucleus contained theentire community of the ship in its vessel. The Nucleus propelled itself in the directionthe community of Angels chose to navigate.

What the Angels sought was to restore what had been their way of life - to bring deathto life. However, they only had the knowledge but not the means. In debating theircourse, they realized that If they contacted a more advanced intelligence to themselvesthey would risk becoming specimens. If they contacted an advanced intelligence lessthan their own, yet capable enough to capture and control them, they would riskbecoming slaves to be milked of knowledge. Thus, they sought emerging intelligences

that they could control through deception.

One such emerging intelligence was eventually chosen, Humankind of planet Earth, asit was determined to offer the best combination of desirable traits. Desperation was onesuch primary trait. One day an emissary of the Nucleus landed at a secret locationchosen by the most powerful of nations of this planets intelligent species. The goal ofthe community was to barter with this nation to each others profit.

The community wanted a starship armada most of all. The nation wanted any and allknowledge. The nation feared the community’s emissary and would only constructstarships that they would always have control of. This meant that a contingent of this

intelligent species would accompany the emissary on its journeys, even if this meantthat the contingent would have to adopt the use of the mind bearing technologies of thecommunity.

The nation did all they could to ensure that the contingent would always have controland remain faithful to the nation. But the community was vastly more knowledgeable,and of course there were unknowns and all minds are subject to change. It was themost uneasy of alliances. The nation had a genie in a bottle, and they did not knowabout the other.

Members of the nation that adopted the community’s mode of existence were a class

apart. Some stayed on the Earth, the Valar, while others joined the community of theAngels as the Ainur. They were continuously linked together, although separated by thespeed of light. They were the few, the very best of the nation. For them, the transfer oftheir minds to the mind vessels of Eru were as natural as evolution itself.

They already lived in ivory towers where they sat isolated from the world,communicating with colleagues through technology, cut off from the outside world. Theironly connection to a physical world were the mundane tasks still required by those who



lived in a physical society, and the maintenance of their physical form. (ImagineStephen Hawking). For most it was a delight to cast away all physical limitations.

The Angels could present themselves to the Humans in nearly any fashion they couldconjure. They studied the Human’s literature and media to learn of their psychology and

base of knowledge and imagination. The community considered adopting the good cop-bad cop arrangement utilized by the aliens in the story “The Day the Earth Stood Still”,but thought it might be too heavy handed an approach that would result in dissensionand paranoia instigated by the fear in would inspire in the minds of the humans.

To ease these human’s fears, the community also considered sending the equivalent ofa whimsical Willy Wonka-like character who might charm the gullible humans, yet theythought that might raise doubts as to the sanity of the intelligence presenting itself tothem. Finally, it was agreed to send the small interface ship that was built into theNucleus, which was designed for remote communication, with an interface like theEinsteinian/Robin Williams animated character in Spielberg’s “Artificial Intelligence”

called Dr. Know.

Thus, the community of Angels presented itself to the nation, known as America of theplanet Earth, as a single entity calling itself Eru. But, because the information pathwaybetween the Nucleus and the interface was inter-dimensional and beyond Humanknowledge, they knew not of the Nucleus.

Chapter x Planet Tragedy

They poisoned the oceans. They poisoned the air. They annihilated themselves withnuclear weapons. They destroyed the very vessel of life from which they had sprung.

They cast their precious world into a death of ice. They were so close to evolving farenough to save it all. But, not quite enough. Amongst them were scientists and artists ofgreat genius. Amongst them were people of deep love for their kind and for their world.But, it was not enough.

Like so many other examples of emerging intelligences in the galaxy that could not passtheir test of Cosmic birth because of the self-destructive circumstance of theirtechnological advances exceeding their wisdom, the Earth was seemingly hopelesslydoomed. The Earth would end by a stroke of three. By excess and war. First, oceanacidification destabilized the fragile peace of the nations of the Humans, both within andwithout. Then, war of the worst kind resulted in a nuclear winter. Finally, the ocean

currents became maladjusted in a most fatal way. As had happened more than once tothe Earth in her ancient past, the planet was plunged irrevocably into a global freezethat would last millions of years. The humans referred to such past Earthly states as“snowball Earths”.

The previous icy calamities resulted in the mass extinctions of relatively simplebiospheres. But, life had since evolved through a great history of multitudes offascinatingly complex and varied biospheres that had graced her to become the Earth’s



grand history of life. By comparison, it was like the loss of an amateur composer to thatof Beethoven or Mozart. Now they had made the one that would end everything, utterly.For the first two strokes had already fallen, and the currents had swung, and no poweron Earth could stop the inevitable and total victory of the unceasing winter that hadbefallen their entire world.

For those who cared, and especially for those who could fully understand the tragedythat was playing out before them in their own lifetimes, it was more than many couldbear. But, deeper and higher than the surface of this tragedy there was yet anotherperspective that gave relief to some from the anguish of this unforgivable tragedy in theform of a dream of a cosmic salvation. And, unknown to them, this perspective anddream formed the philosophical basis that divided the Galaxy by opinion and war.

The intelligent beings that inhabited the galaxy found themselves divided over the pointof existence being played out so perfectly on the Earth. Some recognized the legacy,grandeur, and beauty of such biospheres, and the gifts and potential of the pinnacle of

natural evolution that emerging intelligence represents, so typified by Humans. Theybelieved that planets so bestowed with the fruits of the Universe, and species that sonearly survive the test of cosmic birth, deserve a second chance - a cosmicresurrection. Others, while agreeing that planets like the Earth were great and worthyand the very best of what the cosmos could conjure, believed that they deserved a morecompassionate resurrection - a heavenly resurrection.

The division was over the cosmic and the heavenly. The Cosmos, a realm of DarwinianCarnage and suffering, thought of as “reality” and God’s creation. And Heaven, devisedto replicate all the good in the Cosmos without the suffering, in being a compassionatecreation of the “angels”. The beings that believed that reality was the creation of God

and was therefore not to be judged, worked to save and restore all naturally evolved lifethat they encountered, and were known as “The Faithful”. The beings of the other kindbelieved that if God had made them intelligent enough to alter reality that they should do

just that, as a gardener or a painter creates magnificence and perfection from naturalelements. Known as “The Angels”, they labored to exterminate all biospheres so as toeliminate and prevent the suffering intrinsic to reality and resurrect all reality in asimulation of reality called Heaven.

The Angels also argued that because the origin of life was in doubt, it could not beassumed that God had created life. All around the Milky Way life was to be found. Andall said life was fairly related by DNA and a common chemistry. What's more, no

precursors of life of significant complexity and having the characteristic of faithful self-replication had ever been found. Further, no being or computer had ever managed tosimulate the evolution of life starting from scratch, with only with the natural elementsand the laws of the cosmos. So that, given the natural elements and natural laws of theuniverse, to life, the galaxies of the Cosmos are essentially spectacular petri dishes, butnot wombs of origin. Evidently then, life had been introduced to the Cosmos. But, fromwhere?



Some believed that God had introduced the seeds of life in the form of bacteria, thesimplest of self-replicating life, and that all “naturally” generated life in the Milky Way, atleast, had arisen from it through the process of natural evolution. Others imagined that itarrived from other sources outside the galaxy, such as during galactic collision eventslike the one predicted to happen between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy

some four billion years from the time the Earth died - like petri dishes cross-contaminating one another. Still others believed that life, or an intelligence that hadcreated life, had arrived by worm holes from other universes, directly or indirectly, wherelife might naturally be able to evolve from scratch.

The possibility of a non-Godly origin of life led many to wonder whether life had beencreated by God at all. It was possible, they argued, that life in the galaxy might simplybe the result of a scientists experiment run amok, like a deadly pathogen mistakenlyreleased from a militaries biowarfare base, spreading by wormholes from universe touniverse, and from galaxy to galaxy through gravitational interaction. Given thispossibility, the Angels argued that the Faithful were illogical in there views as they could

not prove the true purpose of life and its connection to God.

Chapter x The Suffering

As I drove back from a walk, I was possessed by thoughts of justifiable carnage to savea world on the brink of extinction. Justifiable carnage meant to enhance the fostering ofthe germination of the essential solutions that would be based on the science and theengineering of geniuses, and to most efficiently empower the execution of the requiredterraformation plans by an A-class force, by force, through the elimination of theburdens of the obsolete and the second rate.

Most fundamentally, the petroleum utilized in the production of petroleum-basedproducts such as fertilizer and pesticides would be redirected to the terraformationefforts (of Earth). The result being that the already declining food production would dropdrastically further. Then, what is to be done with the starving masses that must besacrificed? To let them run amok would impair societal function and reduce theefficiency of the “machine”. To barricade them within “zones of sacrifice” would meanthe worst kind of carnage that starvation brings. To painlessly cull them would be amercy!

Then a beautiful sunset spoke to my mind and heart. I recalled all the joy nature hasbrought me in spirit and adoration and how I had become divorced from the glory of

nature and had become endlessly troubled in a life in the city where I was constantlyreminded of the battle at hand. The anger and desperation was replaced a longing toescape the madness, and by a great sadness at the thought of the extinction of what Ihave come to love more dearly than the spoken word can tell.

Then a voice spoke within my mind. It said: John, there is no hope in saving it. It will allend. All of this will be buried in ice and the Earth will never recover. It said that alienarcheologists and paleontologist had reconstructed the history of the Earth millions of



years hence the timeline of my present (of the simulation I was engaged in). That I waspart of a program to study and become enlightened as to the nature of life as Humansand the nature of Darwinian Carnage as concerns natural life, in general. I wondered if ithad arose from my imagination or was communicated to me from an outsideconsciousness. I then came to believe that this prediction was in fact a recital of history

and that I should stop trying to save it and to enjoy the last of the Earth’s glory and mylife (in the simulation) while I still lived.

The voice suggested that I temper my suffering at the thought of the extinction of theEarth with the realization of the imperfections of Humanity and natural life - thesuffering. The suffering of people at the hands of nature and people. To imagine theworst sort of torment. The living hells humans experience due to their own flawed mindsand the flawed minds of others. Of the suffering of semi-intelligent beasts. And, howeven if beings of the natural world labored to bring compassion to reality, that therewould always be cases of defective minds and the associated suffering. And even ifplanetary biospheres were engineered without omnivores and carnivores, of life

evolving back to a state of Darwinian Carnage.

The voice continued: shouldn’t this imperfect invention of reality be extinguished?Shouldn’t it be replaced with something more divine? Isn’t it a grace, a mercy, ablessing that it was extinguished? Would it not be cruel to resurrect a reality sopervaded by suffering? Why not just experience a facsimile of it? A simulation like anyother. It could be appreciated and enjoyed, honored and glorified as a creation of God,resurrected in heaven where pain need not be. That that is why you are suffering in yourpresent simulation - to better decide this greatest and most profound of questions. Thatyou willing entered this simulation as a non-human entity to gain the wisdom yousought. That when you die in this, as with countless others, you will awaken and be your

true self once again.

Chapter x Transcendence of Realty

If I assume that the vision of my reality is genuine, I like to believe that God is theUniverse itself. That matter, energy, space, and time are the manifestations of hisimagination and power. That He imparted to His Universe the rules that govern its life. I

think that Science and Philosophy offer pathways to Him.

However, it occurred to me a while back after watching the movie “The Matrix” that if Iwere plugged into a computer simulation I would not necessarily be able to tell thedifference. I also remember an episode of the old Star Trek series that concerned adangerous intelligence that existed as brains in a bucket. The brains were connected tothe infrastructure of their world in such a way that they controlled it. Also, being familiarwith advancement in the realism of video game technology from its advent to the



present, and the integration of modern technology achieved through medical scienceinto patients, I can deduce that it won’t be very long, historically speaking, before wehave the technology to bring this possibility to life.

Taking this prophesy and the perspective of an historian, it became clear to me that it is

more likely, in terms of probability as relates to timespan, that I am in a simulation ratherthan at the dawn of its advent. So the next question is: Why am I in a simulation? Is itbecause I am a historian who fancies the chance to relive some history in the mostimmersive way possible? When I die, will it be “game over”? Would I want to jump backin? What control do I have over user options? Is the game so engaging or real to methat I would want to jump back in to help influence its outcome or some aspect of it?

If there are other players it could be a community game like “Air Warriors” in whichreenactments of historical events are played out by loyal fans. There could be othergames about other realities, fiction and non-fiction. If we are brains in a bucket or sometechnological equivalent, our lifespans could be infinite. We would have all the time in

the world to engage in any thing we might want. We might divide our “mental resources”among a number of tasks. This simulation might be but one of many awarenesses.

If the former is true I will have but one life because I will not live long enough to see theadvent of this technology. But the gift is: it is truly real and everything we do matters. Ifthe latter is true then I could be immortal, and maybe I would sometimes long formortality. But, with technology we might fix that too.

Then there is that Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which suggests that there is a limitto what detail can be understood. From Wikipedia: “Heisenberg used the word"Unbestimmtheit" ("indeterminacy") to describe the basic theoretical principle. Only in

the endnote did he switch to the word "Unsicherheit" ("uncertainty")”. Does it reflect atechnological limit, or the limit of God’s device, or some purposeful design?

Im also interested in the emerging science of the “sixth sense”. There appears to besome real evidence that other pathways exist to convey information that science is only

just beginning to discover. The most chilling account of this possible hidden informationpathway that I have yet become aware of is a very large spike, detected by a computerprogram designed to detect non-randomness in a global network of atomic randomnumber generators, that occurred about 30 minutes or more before the first attack onthe World trade Centers on 9-11-2001 (see Figure 3 in CORRELATIONS OFCONTINUOUS RANDOM DATA WITH MAJOR WORLD EVENTS, R. D. Nelson,a D. I.

Radin,b R. Shoup,c P. A. Banceld).

The authors conclude: “Barring demonstration of a conventional interaction that canaffect the random generators on a global scale, we are obliged to confront the possibilitythat the measured correlations may be directly associated with some aspect ofconsciousness attendant to global events. In particular, this evidence, if confirmed,would support the idea that some processes in nature that have been assumed to befundamentally random are in fact somewhat mutable.”



If the onset of major world events are predictable, it follows that agencies around theworld will consider such “intelligence” to be of value. Given that some advanced warningof future events can actually be detected, it also follows that we have the means to avertsaid events. The movie “The Minority Report” has a story line that resembles this idea in

the form of a system called “Pre-crime” that allows agents to intervene before a crime(murder) is committed.

If reality is a simulation, then it would be possible to do just about anything. The physicsoutside of this reality (or simulation) may differ from that of the physics within it. God andSatin might exist, or maybe they are programmers. The world of sub-atomic particlesmay not translate to the world of atoms. We humans are such babes in the woods thatwe can only guess at the truth. Keep on trying you physicists, but don't become deludedtoo much about physics. Don't forget about the empirical (even if it is a simulation).Remember that the finished product, and not the code, might be the point of it all! Onthe other hand, you all could be deluded within a delusion. Well, have fun anyway!

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Just because you are not aware of "other information pathways" does not mean thatthey don't exist. The problem with many scientific minded people is that they are notimaginative enough or do not have a good enough sense of history to understand thatwe are continuously expanding the "box", as it were. Unimaginative people cannot seeoutside the box. Imaginative people look into the box from the outside. And yes, one canbe both logical and imaginative - the genius scientists we all know and admire are thesekinds because their logic and imagination allows them to break new ground. OK,

enough with the lecture, now check out this link for a mind expanding read! http://

noosphere.princeton.edu/papers/gcpfpl.pdf

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If human minds could be made to "run" at a greater pace, we would be able to lengthenour lifespans, not in years, but in terms of perception. Also, we could process moreinformation in a given span of time so to accomplish more, or to be able to handle morecomplicated or speed sensitive tasks more effectively. For instance, in the purely mentalsense we would have the ability to read and write at faster paces, or in the mental andphysical sense we could swing a bat, drive a race car, or wage war with more precision.Genetic manipulation and artificial implants will likely play into the future evolution of thehuman mind. Future humans will have bigger brains endowed with the gifts of genius'sand a myriad of enhancements provided by artificial implants.

Chapter x Comets and Exogenesis: Where are the Precursors of Life?

Comets are thought to be made of the material that came together to make the Sun andplanets in a more or less pristine state, whereas the material of planets have been run

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/papers/gcpfpl.pdf



through the mill of the original planet-forming impact of accretion, chemical and physicalalteration though geological and meteorological processes, and even biological processin the case of the Earth, at least. While relatively simple organic compound have beengenerated in labs and have been found outside the Earth, nothing very sophisticated inthe realm between life and non-life that can make copies of itself, “the precursors of life”

in the form of “pre-life” chemical factories, has yet been discovered.

Thinking along cautionary and imaginative lines, if it is a fact that there is a lack of theprecursors of life on the Earth, it would imply that exogenesis, a hypothesis that life

arrived from elsewhere, which is related to the hypothesis of panspermia, is responsiblefor life on Earth. Part of the logic for this argument is that genetic lines of life, or pre-lifechemical factories, for that matter, do not simply evolve into something else andnecessarily disappear, but rather, they branch off other lines as depicted in a “tree oflife” (or “tree of pre-life”), with the parent lines remaining, if not somehow experiencingextinction. Examples of the ongoing existence of parent life include “living fossils” or,really, any of the more primitive life that still exists, but which gave rise to more

advanced life. A primary example would be the connections of evolutionaryadvancements between fish - amphibians - reptiles - mammals. Now, while extinction isoften the case, would you expect, given the evolution of a near infinite variety ofpossible pre-life chemical factories, and the possibility of pre-life re-genesis, that pre-lifeshould exist on the Earth along side life, for all "eternity"? The point I’m making is thatwe can’t realistically argue that there are now no precursors of life on the Earth becausethey all have evolved into life, because evolution does not really work that way - theprecursors should still be around.

On the other hand, we might put forth the idea that the precursors of life are notcompatible with the current environments of the Earth, and so are not found on the

Earth for that reason. But, that at some point in the past, the precursors of life werestable in a prior Earthly environment, at which time they gave rise to life. While thepossibility that such special Earthly environments once existed can’t be ruled out, awide range of environments are present on the Earth today. There are anoxic, volcanic,soil, and deep earth to name some. So, wouldn’t it be reasonable to see the precursorsof life churning away on the Earth, at least in some environment, still? Why shouldn't theprecursors of life be able to adapt to environments as easily or more easily than actuallife given its relative chemical and physical simplicity?

Now, what about these return sample missions to return pristine material from comets tothe Earth? If life exist in comets, and we do not take precautions, such as irradiation ofsamples, would not life on Earth potentially be petri dishes to such life given the lack ofimmunity to said alien life? What if we assume that exogenisis is a rarer event given thatcomets have struck the Earth countless time before and have not transferred new life(that we know of) that has led to mass extinction and a takeover of new alien genetics.This is assuming that life on the Earth has not already developed immunity to outsideexposure through having been exposed to a variety of alien life via a panspermia-styleexogenesis, and, as such, represents some kind of “galactic zoo” of genetics. But, If this



argument for extremely rare exogenesis holds, it could be because life does not survivethe environment of space for very long due to the cumulative, damaging effects ofcosmic rays.

What if exogenesis requires more special circumstances? What if the Mars-sized planet

that struck the Earth to form the Moon was the source of all life on the Earth - that lifeexisted on it when it struck the proto-Earth? What if that Mars-sized, Moon-generatorwas an inhabited planet of another star system that passed through our young solarsystem and made a one in a million collision with the proto-Earth? Then life on the Earthwould be its living legacy, and our Moon, a monument to its sacrifice! Would we call herGrandearth? What do you suggest?

Now, the entire surface of the thus formed Earth was in a molten state following theMoon-forming collision, with the material that was to coalesce into the Moon distributedin a massive ring around the re-born Earth. So, if life had existed on the “Grandearth”, itwould have had to have survived in a viable frozen state in orbit around the Earth, or

somewhere in the Solar System, at least, until it could be transferred back to a cooleddown Earthly surface at some later time. While your average comet probably does notcontain viable life in a frozen state, given that they arise from sterile nebular clouds,some of the material thrown into orbit by the Moon-forming collision would have resultedin life bearing comets! But, how long would that life remain viable? 10,000 years?100,000 years? 1,000,000 years? Because of such possible life-viability timeconstraints, could it be true that exogenesis can only happen between planets within asolar system (like the Earth and Mars), or in cases of solar system on solar systemcollisions as envisioned with the Moon-forming “Grandearth” scenario?

In a less romantic scenario, it is possible that some aliens came to the early Earth to

acquire some raw materials, make a base, or simple use our beloved planet as a “pitstop”, whereby they deposited bacteria-laden gifts that we should be eternally gratefulfor. Thinking ahead, it won’t be long before we have the means to send spacecraft toalien solar systems. We might scan for life among these worlds, and, upon detectingsuitable bodies, seed them with life of our own design to make them welcoming futureabodes.

One final point. While I argue that life did not originate on the Earth, I do not claim that itmight not naturally evolve from pre-life chemical factories in some environmentsomewhere in this universe. However, it does seem a bit odd to me that we do not seesuch things on the Earth given the variable environments and long history of life on the

Earth. Could it be that life cannot evolve naturally anywhere in our universe given its“universal” laws of nature? Could, thus, the answer to this riddle of the origin of life lie inaliens that evolved in universes where the evolution of life can naturally occur and who

brought or sent life to our universe via universe to universe wormholes, or God?

p.s.



I would caution that the introductions of the precursors of life from an extraterrestrialsource into the Earth's environment could have dire consequences for life on the Earth.I think that such chemical machines could act in some way like nano-robots that wouldconsume life as if it were fertilizer. I predict that after some time, when enough computersimulations of pre-life/life evolution have been run, that it will be strongly arguable that

pre-life and life are non-compatible. That pre-life undermines the processes andoverwhelms the immune systems of life to the point that life is at hopeless disadvantageto pre-life. Although I argue for exogenesis in the case of the origin of life on the Earth, Ialso guess that panspermia is unrealistic given that life on the Earth is of a continuousand consistent genetic nature - that is assuming that most of the genetic nature ofpanspermia is not actually represented in the Earth's combinative genome, which, if thecase, would argue for a singular source or singular possibility. I would also expect thatpre-life should be more common in the universe than life, being its precursor, unlesspre-life is not the natural source of life. I'm suggesting the possibility that life in the formof bacteria or other single celled organisms, which could then potentially evolve intomulti-celled organisms, was somehow engineered within or outside this universe, and

that the evolution of pre-life in this universe is not possible! I thinking that, if life and pre-life are inherently not compatible, then the laws of nature of our universe do not permitthe natural evolution of pre-life, and thus life, yet they permit and supports the existenceof introduced life. In other words, this universe was designed to prevent the naturalevolution of pre-life, but support the introduction of life. Wouldn't that be a zinger!

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I think it more probable that life arrived on Earth through exogenesis given that theprecursors to life, or "pre-life", if you will, are not found. And, I doubt that life cannaturally evolve from scratch anywhere in the Universe because I think it unlikely and

probably would undermine life as we know it, but was introduced by some intelligence,in the form of bacteria, for instance. On the other hand, I think that life could havenaturally evolved on Earth into everything the fossil record has revealed to us withoutinterference.

However, it seems certainly possible to me that there could have been outsideinterference of any kind though the long history of the Earth, although I know of no proofof such interference. And, while I suspect that something or things that we might equatewith the concept of "God" exists or existed to create "reality" as we perceive it, I cannotprove it. I would guess that the creators of our reality had some purpose in the effortand that the evolution of life and intelligence is/was part of the plan.

As you speculate, such evolutionary "interference", as I put it, could come in as manyforms as you can imagine, that are logically grounded, at least. But, then we are butbabes in the woods, scientifically speaking. Look at what we have accomplished in therealm of knowledge since the scientific revolution. Who knows what knowledge is yetbeyond us perhaps known by aliens and God?

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In a sightly related subject, if it is a fact that there is a lack of the precursors of life onthe Earth, it would imply panspermia (or exogenesis). This is because genetic lines oflife, or pre-life, do not simply evolve into something else and necessarily disappear, butrather, they branch off other lines, with the parent lines remaining if not somehow

experiencing extinction. Now, while extinction is often the case, would you expect, givena near infinite variety of pre-life, and the possibility of pre-life re-genesis, that pre-lifeshould exist on the Earth along side life, for all eternity? Now, what about these returnsample missions to return pristine material from comets to the Earth? If life exist incomets, and we do not take precautions such as irradiation of samples, would not life onEarth potentially be petri dishes to such life given the lack of immunity to said alien life?What if we assume that exogenisis is a rarer event given that comets have struck theEarth countless time before and have not transferred new life. If this argument holds, itcould be because life does not survive the environment of space for very long. What ifexogenesis requires more special circumstances? What if the Mars-sized planet thatstruck the Earth to form the Moon was the source of all life on the Earth - that life

existed on it when it struck the proto-Earth? What if that Mars-sized, Moon-generatorwas an inhabited planet of another star system that passed through our young solarsystem and made a one in a million collision with the porto-Earth? Then life on the Earthwould be its living legacy, and our Moon, a monument to its sacrifice!

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If life can survive space and inoculate other planets after being ejected from planets likethe Earth, and other planets and moons past and present, there may be someconcentration of life "seed" distributed throughout the galaxy. This would mean thatmany, or perhaps nearly all, suitable planets and moons in the galaxy harbor life at

whatever evolutionary stage that time and circumstance have permitted. That wouldmean that the galaxy should harbor a nearly infinite reality of life. The distribution ofthese abodes of life across the galaxy could, perhaps, be thought a bit akin to islands ina great ocean world where life migrates from island to island on rafts of vegetation.

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The thing about evolution that many people misunderstand is that life branches off newlines (species, genera, etc.) through the process of evolution. The populations of entirespecies do not simultaneously evolve into something else and the parent species doesnot necessarily go extinct. So, if there were "chemical machines", if you will, that were

the precursors to life that evolved along lines of what we might call "pre-life", we wouldfind the descendants of pre-life still going about their business even today. The pre-lifewould not just disappear after they've branched off or led to the simplest forms of whatwe call life - such as bacteria.

Now, while some might suggest that the chemical conditions on the planet are no longercompatible with the supposed pre-life as an explanation for the enigma of the missingpre-life, we should expect that said pre-life should have some adaptability. Also, it is true



that there are many environments of varied chemistry on the surface and undergroundthat would improve the likelihood of pre-life environs. This enigma leads many scientiststo consider exogenesis and panspermia as possible solutions. This basically means thatsimple forms of life arrived from elsewhere. Life then evolved into the all the complexforms of life, past and present.

While viruses are simpler than bacteria and not considered true life, they are also notpre-life because they need life to replicate and cannot exist without life. It is thereforethought that viruses evolved from life as a kind of non-life parasite, in a sense. But,thinking along these same lines, shouldn't life be able to evolve into pre-life? To addressthis question one must understand that evolution means change and not necessarily inany particular direction of complexity or otherwise. Yes, biological evolution meansgenetic CHANGE, only!

Novices misunderstand that evolution can only be in the direction of more complexity.Evolution should be thought of as expansion of possibilities - in all possible directions

and variations. With natural selection sorting through the myriad of possibilitiesmutations represent. So, if pre-life were possible, evolution should have produced itfrom life. The fact that there are no lifeforms or pre-life chemical machines simpler thanbacterium and capable of self-replication argues that no thing that is simpler than abacterium can faithfully replicate! This is another argument for exogenesis.

Chapter x Salvation for Nature

Nature is fabulous and priceless and so we are obligated to preserve it as worthyentities, some would argue, and that we should offer salvation to nature in the wake ofour destruction or natural events. Others argue that predation in general, and being

predated on in particular, are objectionable on grounds of compassion, and that naturenaturally supports predation, and is so flawed, and that we should, indeed, offersalvation to nature, but a salvation that factors in compassion. A solution for this kind ofsalvation for nature is to maintain the predators where they cannot predate, and instead,are fed the dead of herbivores, which are thus entreated to salvation.

This kind of salvation for nature may seem a task that could never be wholly managed,but given the ongoing loss of natural habitats and the global threat of oceanacidification, a time may come for some of those now living when salvation for nature insome form is an option. For instance, in the event of major global starvation, underconditions when most herbivores are consumed globally, the logic of preserving nature

may persuade some to offer their remains to the predators, and even argue that itshould be made law that some population of predators are to be maintained in this way.

Others would say that we should also not predate for compassion sake, and that apopulation of herbivores and predators could be maintained without predation, withhuman remains as a possible maintenance augmenter. The question that follows is: dowe accept the logic of feeding dead humans to the predators under certain conditions



and do we act upon it? This logic would apply on Earth and potentially on extraterrestrialcolonies.

If this logic sets you wondering at becoming a vegetarian because you would rather notpredate, you could choose to only eat animals that die naturally or accidentally, and

argue for science to find a way to grow flesh without brain, thus eliminating thecompassion factor.

Intelligence gave the human line super-predator status. Now, it gives us the power ofcreation. I hope someday we can restore half of the Earth to it's pre-human glory as"nature's half". The other half would be ours. I think that would be a fair balance.

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Nature’s Half

With regard to the Limitless Christian’s favored perspective on the conservation part oftheir Vital Elements as applied to nature, the view was that man should use no morethan fifty percent of the land area of the Earth. This would perfectly balance the need forthe conservation of nature and for the vital element of expansion. This “nature’s half”commitment of the Limitless Christians was to be applied to the Earth and beyond.Colonies beyond the Earth would eventually devote one half of climate controlledvolume to biospheres, or of land area in the case of terraforming, it was hoped. For thenthe Limitless Christians would be fulfilled in God’s purpose to spread life throughout theCosmos.

In the case of the Earth at least, there was debate on this point over fairness. That is,

which recipient receives what land. This debate stemmed from the fact that much of theland is relatively uninhabitable by man or beast, with Antarctica as an virtuallyuninhabitable and continental example, and the great deserts as relatively uninhabitableand regional examples. So that counting these land areas as nature’s half seemedunfair to nature because we have already unfairly claimed the most habitable andproductive lands. Much of these more productive lands would be given back to natureafter a great culling or technological evolution, it was also hoped.

In addressing this moral issue, as it was to the Limitless Christians, of being fair tonature, two popular solutions were most often evoked. The first was to tally up the landareas considered uninhabitable, by whatever standards, and divide equally and apply

towards man’s and nature’s halves. The habitable parts of the Earth’s land areas wouldthen also be split, resulting in a crude fairness on habitability being factored into theequation. In addition, logical solutions as to the specifics of the land split could beapplied in an effort to maximize overall biodiversity, and both natural and humanproductivity.

The second solution was to simply give Antarctica to nature, but not count it towardsnatures’s half. Thusly, the “Antarctica Solution” would largely fulfill nature’s claim on the



point of the imbalance of fairness caused by the great deserts being applied to nature’shalf, some held. For instance, they might decide that the land area of Antarctica willequal the land area of deserts that are applied to nature’s half. They could then choosea standard of habitability which solves for that land area. Simultaneously, the Antarcticasolution circumvented the debate that was otherwise required as to “Standards of

Habitability” status of desert land around the globe by providing a benchmark. And, aswith the first solution, logical solutions for land division designed for the maximization ofbiodiversity and productivities could be applied, but more freely.

Chapter x Threats from alien intelligences

Against the symphony of scientific advances catered towards global domination andenvironmental remediation, there existed the higher-level “reality” that could be thoughtof as survival of the fittest on a galactic scale. Essentially, what can Humans do tosurvive extermination by alien intelligences?

If intelligence evolves commonly in the galaxy, then, as it is on Earth among kittens, asmall percentage of emerging intelligent beings will survive to “adulthood”. I can seehow territoriality among different intelligences could lead to pre-emptive extermination ofemerging intelligences. We may be in for a fight for survival against which we may havelittle chance.

What are we to do? For starters, I would reduce our electromagnetic signature anddevelop and deploy a deep space monitoring and data gathering system. Also, deepspace weapons like space cannons for projectile or torpedo type weapons, andelectromagnetic “ray guns” which encompasses a wide range of solutions should beinvented. An anti-matter bomb should be a top priority.

Our goal is to be the intelligence they can’t stamp out, or better still, the one they figureisn't worth the trouble. Maybe we’re lucky enough to exist in a sparsely inhabited orpeaceful region of our Milky Way. Maybe we’ll be able to handle some of all potentialthreats. The better prepared we are the better the chance we have. I do not agree thatwe would have no chance if threatened by alien intelligences. Our first encounters maybe limited to alien scout ships or small forces that may not have overwhelmingcapabilities.

Darwinian carnage, in the broadest sense as the fight for territory and control, shouldapply to spacefaring intelligences in the Universe as it has on the Earth in the form ofwar and other strategies. For instance, a peaceful alliance of alien intelligences withoutthe means of self defense would be ultimately doomed to subservience orextermination. Assuming that this sort of cosmic Darwinian carnage universally applies,the lifespans of intelligent lines are probably governed, in part, by a kind of cosmicevolution.



So, how long will the Human line last and what can we and our descendants do toextend its lifespan? Ironically, warfare between factions of our descendants should helpto increase the lifespan of the whole as war can foster innovations and increase levelsof preparedness that would allow them to better defend against alien threats and toexpand territory and control (think of Von Braun and the V-2 rocket and the Saturn

rocket). Sorry to say, but I think the more peaceful-minded imaginings of many scientistson the nature of aliens have more to do with their hopes and dreams than with thenature of reality. Yet, the cold war has resulted in many innovations too. Perhaps theywould invent alternate computer-based realities where wars could be waged.

Imagine a scenario where human descendants reach a planet where a peacefulintelligent civilization is present. They could eliminate them or they could offer them thechance at an alliance. They could have bases or claim territory on their home planetand solar system. Reasons to not eliminate them might be because they may be able toprovide innovations they could not imagine, or that they might want to send a messageto other civilizations that they are a cooperative empire. And, that they are pleased to

enjoy their cultural contributions and, or their willingness to cooperatively defend theirhome planet, solar system, or the Human Federation, indeed.

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Fusion Power Plants and Fusion Rays

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fusion-experiment-breakthrough/

"A Milestone on the Long and Winding Road to Fusion." ? Like the detonation of the firsthydrogen bomb was, but without the use of a fission bomb to fuse the atoms. Although

this article is about making clean energy, their is a dark side to this technology as well.What I mean is that in time it might be worked out how to set off a fusion bomb usinglasers. These would have the advantage of not being radioactive in nature. It mighteven be possible to set off one at a distance, such as between the Earth and spaceusing specially designed “bomb embryos” that would direct or apply the laser’s energyin some way to fuse the targeted matter, giving it “life”.

Or, perhaps, even matter in general could be fused using specially shaped andcontrolled laser beams of whatever combinations and wavelengths of light. Imagine aring or halo, or honey comb-shaped beam just so manipulated so as to fuse whateveroccurring matter is targeted at the center or nodes of the beam. If the energy of nuclear

fusion could be released with such ease, targets could be surgically“vaporized” (annihilated or otherwise largely disintegrated), potentially reducinginhabited surfaces on the Earth to bare ground. If the hydrogen in water were to makeespecially good target material, then a human body might be a sort of bomb embryo.

Maybe this is how we will meet our end at the “hands” of aliens, like a doctor might usea laser to eradicate skin abnormalities. Or, maybe we will develop them before we aretargeted by extraterrestrials and we wind up using it on ourselves. In which case our



survivors will have a neat weapon to use on the aliens. Such a weapon would be morelike the “Death Star’s” planet killer than anything I remember from Star Trek. On theother hand, the weapons use in Star Wars was way more overkill than I envision wouldbe necessary. I mean, why waste the whole planet!

Possible names for such a weapon: fusion ray, fusion beam, fusion lasers, maser, orphaser.

I realize that our attempts at resistance against advanced aliens may be hopelesslyfutile given the assumption that the technological progress we have seen humansaccomplish is such a short time applies to aliens as well. And, that given that allies areprobably thousands or millions of years ahead of us technologically we haven’t a ghostof a chance against them. I would remind people of the infinite reality and that theyshould use their imagination supercomputer, if they have one, and realize that theremay be circumstances in which we may have a chance against an alien threat. I remindscientist s that they are expected to think in shade of grey if the wish to be thought of as

worth their salt.

I am also annoyed at the weak-minded nature of many scientist who abhor war andconflict to the point that they have no apparent respect for the most fundamentalelements of life itself, that is Darwinian carnage and the fight for survival. We would notbe here if we did not have “fight” in us, after all. And, I would argue that those whom donot believe in the fight for survival are doomed to extinction. Just because humanhistory includes the extermination of many people whom were, perhaps, unjustlyslaughtered, we cannot preach feminism for men and expect to last. Many scientist aretimid or politically warped by nature, yet I would ask that you try to find your ballsanyway, or at least try not to feminize the men whom you, your families, and your gene

pools depend on for survival.

Now, if we imagine an alien threat arrives at or solar system that is so advanced andcompetent and fully equipped to dust we humans off like child's play, then we see thecircumstance in which we have little to no chance at survival. But, on the other hand, ifwe imagine that the vanquished of some alien conflict, whom we might imagine areweak and poorly equipped to exercise control over us, were to arrive in our solar systemto establish a new home, we might have a far better chance. And, what if the first effortsof an exploring or expanding intelligence were to arrive, testing the waters forcolonization? What if they are robotic devices that are programmed to extinguish life inthe Universe at some alien’s directive to reduce competition, lets say, or to modify the

Earth’s climate for future habitation, and what if such devices are not unconquerable.

One point I’d like to stress is that we need imaginative people to see into the future andto help us prepare for it, as well as find solutions to challenges we might face in realtime. The best minds are those that are both logical and imaginative because logic isthe basis of science as such minds can find solutions straight away, whereas theunimaginative give up and say that we must have no chance because of the simplelogic that the aliens must be so much more advanced than we are. We should also look



to the imaginative and not so logical as they may, per chance, imagine a solution thatcould be modified by, or might inspire, the more logical minded to generate viablesolutions.

Another point is that survival is not just about effectively fighting off an alien threat in the

moment, but can also mean, though less favorably, retaining the chance to bring backwhat is human at some future date. Per chance, if the aliens mean to wipe out thelegacy of terrestrial life to supplant with their own or not, survival could mean to thenpreserve that legacy of life on Earth in whatever way and for the future. We mightimagine underground human establishments on the Earth, on other bodies, or in spacein general as Noah’s arks of sorts.

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I agree with the point made about the importance of dust in the universe. It issomewhat like the physical evidence of crime scenes, whereas light might be related to

video or images of actual crimes. Imagine a space probe that cruises to another solarsystem and can determine what is to be found there in part based on the informationgleaned from the physical evidence that is dust. Now imagine another probe or shipsni!ng its way through the galaxy like a hound dog to find whatever tingles its wetnose. This begs the question: what does the Earth and the solar system smell like toalien intelligences and whether or not we have been sni"ed out yet?

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Someday we will have batteries that can do all that and better. You will be able tocharge your car's battery bank in the time it takes to fill your tank today. If you opt forone, you can speed out of there with your all wheel drive eVette and merge onto theauto way where you will be seamlessly merged into tra!c. Upon reaching the outskirtsof town, you will be given the option of semi-manual control where allowed. After youexit the auto way, you may climb into the mountains to enjoy some curves the oldfashioned way - except for when the crash avoidance system kicks in to save you, yourpassengers, and other drivers when you screw up.

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Like the discoveries of the remnants of ancient cities reveal an evermore detailed visionof mankind's past, the fossil record continues to give up bits of Earth's history of life.

Although we are graced with the life we share our world with in this age, we personallyenjoy but a tiny fraction of the wealth of Earth's history, as with the absence of all thehumans and civilizations that came before. Our lifespans are only a few frames of amovie. Fortunately we are lucky to live in the most modern of ages in terms of comfort,



health, and knowledge. And, with that knowledge, we can watch a movie like JurassicWorld to fill in the gaps.

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Hey, if this is a game of "Living History" or something and we get a bum run of thegame and stress shortens the game time (life span), maybe that's a sort ofcompensation or compassion for dissatisfaction. You get out early if the game sucksfor you! Maybe next time you opt out of the game or you choose a di"erent set ofpersonality and circumstance configurations and jump back in for another try. Maybe inthe future we have multi-core brain processors so that we can experience many thingsat once and our sense of dreams are some kind of spillage between the cores. I hadreally funky dream last night that I would only relate to my closest friends. Maybe it's agame of "What Goes Around Comes Around" tailored just for you so that you will learnwhy and how you can become a better conscious being in the "community of minds"in some spaceship.

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They take advantage of youth in the academic world. Filling their yet ignorant andprogrammable minds with idealistic and simple-minded dreams of love for humanity andeverlasting peace. It is actually a war they are waging in a most distasteful anddishonorable way, and it may ultimately spell their doom. The logic of our realitybecomes more and more apparent to people as they grow older and as their mindsbecome populated with truth, as it is. Then they will understand that, in fact, a war ofgenocide is being waged, and they will come to know the meaning of "blood traitor" andthen decide their ultimate allegiance in the great events of unfolding history. In a normal

civil war, it is generally best to fight for your kind, as birds of a feather will tend to flocktogether. America's second civil war will be a war of race, and its political associations.I'm afraid that in the coming chaos, there will be no room for blood traitors. It will be aquestion of territory. Now, imagine being where you don't blend in and what some ofthem might do to you, even if many of them would show you tolerance. Please don'tmake a youthful mistake that you and your offspring will have to pay for. Imaginationand love are both powerful and wonderful, but Darwinian carnage is ceaseless, in thelong run.

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I think myself fortunate to have enjoyed and loved the glorious beauty and majesty ofEarth as well as I have. As I age and realize that I will not see such dreams displayed inthis wonder-inspiring video in my lifetime. I can only hope that I will awaken upon deathin a future existence and realize that this life of mine was just a game of "Living History".Then it will be possible to experience such wonders! Watching this video, the memoriesof the wonders of Cosmos and the enigmatic voice of Carl Sagan and his visions,enthusiastically shared by my youthful mind, are rekindled.



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I gotta say that taking a neutral stance with inherent hopes is funny-like. A good scientistknows how to separate the objective from the subjective. The thing is, the evolution ofour psychology works against that noble-inspired objective perspective - objective

observation. Also, on the meaning of logic, there is perspective-based logic like catlogic, and there is biased logic such as politically-derived logic, but, above all these isGod’s logic. I don’t mean religious logic, but rather, that logic untainted by human designor desire as applied to reality as we know it - SCIENCE.

Now, it is true that science takes its time to find the TRUTH about things. And, it is truethat the human element introduces flaws like camp-based biases, and individual biasesor flaws, as well. However, even given the flaws of man, science eventually can find thetruth and the “ULTIMATE LOGIC”. At the core of myself, I believe in this ultimate logicthat science is obsessed with.

Science is wondrous and reflects the mind of God with regard to His creations, thatwhich we are aware of at least. Everything else seems like tainted logic to me. That is,except for religious logic, which I give a break to in regard to its parts that help mancope with his imperfections and the challenges of life, its guidance to stay on the path ofgoodness through life, and its fight against the logic of Satan. After all, science cannotprove that there is not more beyond its grasp! And, I find innocence in the logic ofanimals, who are truly children in the purest sense.

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A practical fusion reactor in ten years would be a dream come true. This technology

could really make the difference in the upcoming planetary battle against oceanacidification, which threatens our world in even more potentially devastating andfrightening ways than the more familiar global warming. Both phenomena originate fromthe overabundance of carbon dioxide generated by the burning of fossil fuels. Reducingthe global rate of fossil fuel consumption is one major element in the overall "PlanetaryRemediation Plan".

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Natural or "conventional evolution", if you will, involves mutations and selections ofgenes. In the future, and to some extent in recent times through the use of sperm

banks, we will be able to greatly modify the genome through "artificial" evolution. But,until such technology becomes really important in affecting the human genome, say infifty to one hundred years, more or less natural or conventional, by today's processanyway, will dominate the process of human evolution. By "today's process" I refer tothe way our modern lives have reduced the impact of "survival of the fittest" in the oldsense of actual survival against the elements and other humans, and replaced it with"who has more offspring". The outcome of "today's process" is comically portrayed inthe movie "Idiocracy" in which people of lower IQ have more offspring than people of



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The "West" and the "European East" worked together against the Nazi threat. Now, afterthe cold war, maybe we can work together fighting a common threat, and so, grow

closer. The "West" needs to evolve into the "North" to save this world, I think. Thosecrazy bastards will make themselves targets for our generals and leaders to growcomfortable with each other and see past the past to see a great future together. TheNorth the North the North!

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They are thinking of zapping equipment with lasers for now, but after some progressthey will be able to zap ground troops with antipersonnel lasers in rapid succession, dayor night and beneath foliage from the air. Then they will make fusion-powered laser-equipped drone aircraft that can cover a region indefinitely. Imagine people being

partially vaporized and burned a bit like in the remake of the movie "War of the Worlds",but with horrid partial corpses left behind instead of ash and cloths. They could causetotal genocide directly by laser and through starvation of those who remain hidden.They could eventually defeat an enemy nation utterly without using the usualinfrastructure-damaging weapons, and without risk to personnel in direct combat. Theycould walk into a new territory, uncontested, as conquerers, or to leave it to nature toreclaim. If America lost a city or cities to the nuclear weapons of terrorists, would youvote to annihilate the nation or nations that birthed them? Would you try to stop anothernation from doing the same? That is the power of technology. People in America,Europe, and Russia (and perhaps Israel) may have to face these choices in the future.

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Everyone could have a "camera" in their head to watch for crime. A chip, that is, tomonitor all activity. And monitor not just themselves, but everyone around them.Supercomputers of near-artificial intelligence could monitor all citizen activity to rootout crime. It would be as close to the "pre-crime" solution to murder of "The MinorityReport", but without the pre-cogs. It would be a great deterrent to crime, and thosewho still commit crime would be easily detained and prosecuted. The lefties wouldresists such a plan, of course, citing invasion of privacy and risk of losing freedoms.The righties would say: "We can put a chip or a bullet in your head, and we don't carewhich!" But, as with the war on terrorism, we would have to find balance between

invasion of privacy and freedoms on the one hand, and a safer world on the other. Andwith technologies like nano-robotics and remote control drones becomes evermoreaccessible to anyone, it will become more and more logical to implement such"watchfulness". That is our future, the good and the bad.

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Regular people develop a lot of their opinions through media programming and movies,directly or by word of mouth. Many are convinced that science is awesome and oftenright about things, yet they are of the opinion that mother nature is more awesome stillgiven its size and age and its connection to an all powerful creator. So, they havedoubts whether we puny humans, even with the power of science behind us, can alter

nature enough to alter the climate. But, we scientists can get our heads around more ofreality than regular people because of our generally more expansive minds and thecontinual exposure of science since an early age. When I look at an image of the Earthfrom orbit and see how puny our atmosphere is in relation to the Earth and the solarsystem, I wonder at the fact that it has done such a good job of preserving the legacyof life on Earth as well as it has in the face of enumerable dangers. We are burning upmillions of years of preserved organics in the span of a couple of hundreds of years.That is a lot of carbon dioxide being released! And, it a very important gas in terms ofclimate and ocean chemistry, which further influences continental ice melting andconsequently ocean currents, which feeds back into the climate. Maybe regular peopleshould try to envision the Earth as a really big terrarium with 7 billion people, with

access to the power of science, going about with meddlesome ignorance andindi"erence. A giant asteroid or a super-volcano could do no worse.

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Appendix

Ocean Acidification: Science and PhilosophyRobert B. Gagosian:

“Small plants in the ocean feed the ocean and provide more than 50 percent of ouroxygen. Put carbon dioxide in the ocean, you change chemistry of the ocean, and whatyou end up doing is making the ocean more acidic. And what that does is, it affects a lotof the marine organisms that rely on carbonate to build their skeletons. The larvae can'tform these skeletons, and therefore they don't survive. The desertification of the oceansis an issue, and it’s not something that’s 100 or 200 or 300 years away. It could be inour children’s lifetime unless we do something about it. ”

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Me:

Oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere drops to a point that all life is stressed –productivity of from agriculture and fishing corresponding decreases, leading toworldwide starvation. This is mainly because although plants release oxygen through



photosynthesis, they also “breath” oxygen through a process called transpiration.Research has shown that higher than normal concentrations of oxygen have little effecton plant productivity, however lower than normal concentrations reduces productivity.

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Some Details About How Low Oxygen Affects Plants

Peter Geigenberger

Oxygen can fall to low concentrations within plant tissues, either because ofenvironmental factors that decrease the external oxygen concentration or because themovement of oxygen through the plant tissues cannot keep pace with the rate of oxygenconsumption. Recent studies document that plants can decrease their oxygenconsumption in response to low oxygen concentrations to avoid internal anoxia. This

adaptive response involves a restriction of respiration and a concomitant decrease in ATP consumption that results from the inhibition of a wide range of biosyntheticprocesses.

The inhibition of respiration is rapid and occurs at oxygen concentrations well above theKm(oxygen) of cytochrome oxidase, indicating that an oxygen-sensing system triggers acoordinated inhibition of ATP formation and consumption. In addition to this, low oxygenconcentrations lead to the induction of a plant-specific and energy-conserving pathwayof sucrose degradation, which decreases oxygen consumption and improves plantperformance.

Low oxygen concentrations also lead to long-term morphological adaptations, whichallow respiration per volume tissue to be decreased and oxygen entry to be increased.Recently, advances have been made in elucidating possible oxygen-sensing systemsand regulatory components that are involved in these responses.

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The Permian Mass Extinction: How it Might Relate to Us

Jonathan Payne:

New evidence gleaned by analyzing calcium embedded in Chinese limestone suggeststhat volcanoes, which spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmospherefor a million years, caused the biggest mass extinction on Earth.In a paper published April 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ateam of researchers led by a Stanford geologist said that as carbon dioxide gasdissolved in the oceans, it raised the acidity of seawater.



The research team said it was a deadly combination – carbon dioxide in the atmosphereand higher acidity in the oceans – that eventually wiped out 90 percent of marinespecies and about three-quarters of land species, in a cataclysmic event 250 millionyears ago known as the "end-Permian extinction."L.A. Cicero http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/april/gifs/extinct_news.jpghttp://

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Back then, the ocean teemed with corals, algae, clams and snails. Soon after, however,there was an abrupt change to a thick layer of bacteria and limestone, a "slime-world,"dominated by bacteria.

Lead author Jonathan Payne, an assistant professor of geological and environmentalsciences at Stanford, said the calcium found in limestone from Guizhou Province insoutheast China helps answer a question scientists have been debating for decades:What caused the mass extinction?

Scientists have proposed many possible reasons for the extinction, including asteroids,volcanoes and low levels of oxygen in seawater. Payne and his colleagues earlierthought that carbon isotope evidence pointed to volcanoes, but they couldn't definitivelydistinguish between that and the other possibilities.Two years ago, they realized that the calcium in limestone could hold the answer,because the types of calcium present in the ancient rocks would be different for eachextinction scenario.

By looking at changes in the ratio of heavy to light calcium isotopes in fossils fromdifferent time periods and determining their "calcium signature," the team could infer thechemical changes – and their origin – that occurred in the environment.

The scientists ground up the limestone deposits, which spanned the pre- and post-extinction periods, and analyzed them to determine the relative presence of calciumisotopes. They found that the changes in the ratio matched the calcium signaturepredicted for ocean acidification, and the matching carbon dioxide signature pointed tocarbon release from volcanic eruptions. "Our best geologically supported idea is that thecarbon dioxide release is related to the Siberian Traps volcanoes," Payne said.

Payne calculated that the eruptions, which lasted upward of a million years, released13,000 to 43,000 gigatons (1 gigaton equals 1 billion tons) of carbon in the atmosphere.By comparison, scientists estimate we would release an estimated 5,000 gigatons of

carbon if we used up all the fossil fuels in the Earth.During the eruptions, huge amounts of carbon dioxide and molten rock burst throughthe Earth's crust, burning through coal and limestone, and releasing carbon dioxide intothe atmosphere. That made oceans and rainwater more acidic, and dissolved morecalcium from rocks into the ocean.

Payne said humans may not ultimately release as much carbon dioxide as the SiberianTraps, but we may be doing it at a faster rate. The end-Permian extinction could be

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viewed as a "worst-case scenario" for what we could be facing as we burn more fossilfuels and increase ocean acidity, he said."We won't necessarily end up with a world that looks as bad as it did after the end-Permian extinction, but that event highlights the fact that things can go very, verywrong," Payne said.

The National Research Council recently reported that the ocean's chemistry is changingfaster than it has in hundreds of thousands of years, because carbon dioxide is beingreleased into the atmosphere and absorbed into the oceans, making them more acidic.Studies have shown increased ocean acidity decreases photosynthesis, nutrientabsorption, growth and reproduction of marine organisms.

Payne said the next step as his research continues is to look at rock deposits in otherlocations from the same time period to make sure the samples the researchers usedrepresent a global event, as opposed to a local event. The team already has startedanalyzing rock deposits in south central Turkey, southern Japan and eastern China.

The other authors of the paper are Alexandra Turchyn of Cambridge University; AdinaPaytan of the University of California-Santa Cruz; Donald DePaolo of UC-Berkeley;Daniel Lehrmann of the University of Wisconsin; Meiyi Yu of Guizhou University inChina; and Jiayong Wei of the Guizhou Geological Survey.Gwyneth Dickey is an intern at the Stanford News Service.

Hope and Hopelessness

More than half of the world’s supply of oil has already been consumed. The releasedcarbon dioxide has entered the biosphere and it cannot be artificially removed in any

significant way with today’s technology. The rate of worldwide fossil fuel consumptioncontinues to rise. It is unlikely that other energy sources will be able to reduce the rateof consumption of fossil fuel in the near future - before a starvation event. This is myopinion.

This is a guess: a serious starvation event lasting 1 to 2 years would bring worldpopulation from seven billion to down to one billion. The heaviest losses will occur inunder-developed regions in part because they do not have stockpiles of food and otheressentials, and they do not have the infrastructure and scientific resources to adapt.

Even so, it is still logical to try to save the world as best we can until then. Why?

Because it is a matter of degree. What I mean is, what we do until a starvation event interms of fossil fuel consumption and new technologies will help to reduce the severity ofthe event. And, there are other ways of preparing to help each of us, and humanity,make it through the bottleneck.

Excerpts from my other compositions:



“Some people will argue that the evolution of science and technology has been at theroot of man-created environmental threats. Indeed, progress in science and technologyhas allowed world population to soar in step. While it is true that technology is a double-edged sword, overpopulation is the other half of the equation. We hold that the onlyrealistic solution to this paradox is to move forward. The argument being that people will

have to evolve to the point that population control becomes a highest priority.

The hope is that the combination of new technologies and population control couldenable a population to become relatively isolated from the natural environment in such away that it becomes effectively protected from natural disaster. This is not to say that theenvironment would necessarily be neglected. In the future, it should be possible tolargely restore the biosphere to pre-human conditions while protecting humanity at thesame time.”

“Desperate attempts to reduce the affects of acidification include bio-engineered non-calcareous algae introduced into the oceans to boost O2 output, and the introduction of

chemicals on a massive scale into the oceans to elevate pH.”

Humor: Survival of the fattest.

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“The Nucleus”

by John Arfstrom

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