Re: Troolean operators

You know, it's times like this, that I wish I could explain to you,
what it is like.
I'm a scientist, a field commander of a sort, under cover, deep cover,
but not alone, by any means. There are lots of S3's here on good ol
terra firma and you will find them in all walks of life. Some of you
reading this are probably S3's. So you know of whence I speak. The only
framework for discussion that we have, is not really an earthly science
based framework, we have our own framework, that we use. Foreign to
most people. They wouldn't understand the terminology, the references
etc because they are outside their realm of experience, outside their
world view.
It must be nice I suppose, to be strapped into an X-15 though, being
dropped by a B-52 bomber, and feeling the rockets fire, and propel you
from mach.8 to mach 5 or 6, in a 80 to 120 second burn. It must be
thrilling. But then there is the 4 G's of accelleration, you feel on
your chest, which is like a fat lady from a circus sideshow act,
perched on your chest, for 80 to 120 seconds and you feel like you are
going to die.
You are thinking things like, well if I crash, at least the oxygen
cylinder beside me will freeze dry me, in a few seconds when it
explodes, so I won't suffer much. There is comfort in that, I am sure.

But for me, it is different, I have nothing to gain, by climbing into
an X-15, because all the results of that exciting ride, which are
outside the expected, can only be negative.

I have seen the things disintegrate, and they do disintegrate, when the
air flow, is not exactly streamlined. If that puppy, is not exactly
into the wind, if you start to tumble, you are not in a fixed wing
aircraft falling after a nose over, you are going 5 or 6 times the
speed of sound. It is just flllltttt.... and scattered debris
basically.

And there is this argument on-going whether we should even be sending
people into space at all, or if we should be just sending robots, and I
personally can't answer that question, because it is the human element
that makes it interesting.
So for us, it is also the human element that makes it interesting. We
just don't need the hardware, to get from a to b in that regard.

Given the choice, of climbing into an X-15, or doing what I do, which
is to fly the DeLorean in mindspace, I will fly the DeLorean any day of
the week.

What is the most I could hope to accomplish, as an X-15 pilot?

Well I will tell you it would never add up to one ounce of the
enjoyment I had today, as I walked to the liquor store, to pick up a 6
pack of Heinekens, and was stalked all the way there, and all the way
home, by a young goddess, yes a real honest to goodness goddess, who
didn't get to go one the DeLorean last night with us, so she made sure
by gar that I am going to take her with us tonight. She signed me and
signed me and signed me and made sure that I knew exactly what she was
telling me, and that she wanted to be included tonight. Wearing certain
colors, making all the hand gestures etc from our own S3 sign language
we developed last year.
And we will. A bunch of us, will get into the DeLorean tonight, like we
did last night and we will go on an adventure. Last night we went back
in time, to days of the *** Van Dyke show, and snogged Mary Tyler
Moore.Now you can't beat that with a stick if you ask me. Sure it's
science, it is just not the dangerous kind of science.
Does it acomplish anything oh yes it sure does, but not the tangible
sort of hardware high tech improvements that people want, it
accomplishges things like it makes people happy and content.
Hardware we can have any hardware we want, without having to put hammer
to steel.
So what does it benefit us, as a group, to risk life and limb, have
some fat lady sit on us for 80 to 120 seconds, well it would serve no
purpose. Sure it would be exciting, so is a roller coaster, but you
know, until we learn to live with each other, in some semblance of
harmony, then what would the hardware be used for except for some sort
of weaponry anyways.
The real interesting thing might be to tow the space station into orbit
around the moon.
That might be interesting.
Unless NASA can show the people something interesting, something
special, something wild and exciting, something extraordinary,
fantastic, remarkable, wonderous, like finding an alien artifact on the
moon, or finding anything that has
a human element in it, beside yet more rock and maybe water under the
ground, they can't expect the people to buy into their dream.
If space is lifeless, dead, then it is just a rock quarry and who
cares? We already know what rocks consist of and we have the physics of
black holes and all that.
You see for us, we can go places in inner space as a group and
experience anything we can dream up and it costs nothing, and it is not
in any way dangerous, and it is fun.
That is where we are at. To me from my experience, it seems like a
better place to be.
It also seems light years ahead of climbing into a rocket and flying 62
miles above the earth, risking life and limb. If there is nothing out
there, then why bother?

If all there is is yet more nice photographs of planets, then we have
seen them in all sorts of colors. Do we need to see them some more? In
more and different colors?
I am just not getting it I suppose.

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