Re: retrieving material from asteroids

Lawrence Gales (aka Larry Gales),
Our once upon a time icy proto-moon is offering science the best ever
Near Earth Asteroid as is, along with loads of smaller tidbits of
worthy asteroides as captured upon/within the portions of the rather
thick dusty deck, and it's even offering a rather salty remains of an
orb as having been badly deposited with nearly every known element plus
everything else you can think of, including the cosmic kitchen sink,
that's offering us an absolute cosmic morgue worth of fresh information
from spores to you name it, plus there's absolute loads of nifty energy
alternatives, some of which (the likes of He3) are clearly going to
become worth 10 fold the effort of obtaining.

Too bad we're simply not smart enough nor have we been hardly honest
enough to having established LL-1 as our best do-everything platform on
behalf of Earth-science and moon-science, as for having our best
robotics hard at work or perhaps having established our very own ISS
depot/abode in the sky that's always situated interactively between
Earth and the moon. At least by now we'd have some understanding of
what our local situation is about, and we'd obviously be holding the
ultimate key to safely and efficiently accessing the moon, as well as
LL-1 representing the ultimate worth of high-ground on behalf of
star-wars and of so much other to come. Instead China will most likely
become the CM/ISS inn keeper of what's so absolutely nifty, affordable
and downright profitable about LL-1.

However, first we'll have to get something to LL-1, and then
efficiently station-keep that sucker interactively within the zone.
Fortunately, the LL-1 zone is one of the most efficient spots to
deliver the most tonnage with the least amount of effort. As only then
may the real science begin. If need be, I'll re-edit my external pages
and include whatever you'd like to see, although I seem to have far
more questions than answers to share at this time.

Such as having the hard-science upon the notions of to terraform or not
to terraform may have become a little too late in the game for good old
Earth, having been seriously way too late for Mars, but otherwise
looking as just an alternative beginning for the likes of Venus. At
least the sky isn't falling on Venus the way it has been falling on
Earth, and ESA's Venus EXPRESS is soon going to greatly improve upon
that understanding.

It has been scientifically reported that as of 1670 we've lost 15% of
our magnetic field, thereby if roughly 333 years = -15%, whereas this
represents doing the math gets our worse case outcome down to less than
2,500 years away. Therefore, giving mother nature the widest benefit
of the doubt, it seems at best we have another 5,000 (+/- 1,000) years
before we will not have to worry ourselves about the SAA(South Atlantic
Anomaly) because, as by then there will not be a sufficient Van Allen
buffer zone or magnetosphere expanse of death surrounding our Earth
because, whereas by then the extremely low field density and thus weak
energy worth of our magnetosphere that's surrounding us will have
collapsed that buffer zone to residing extremely near or having
deposited itself entirely upon the surface, making Earth itself into
the actual Van Allen badlands with only our polluted atmosphere for
shielding thy sorry butts, which is only going to become thinner and
ultimately this simply isn't going to cut it, unless we've
intelligently redesigned our DNA into being sufficiently rad-hard DNA,
or else taking to living extensively underground, especially since
continually migrating ourselves into the nighttime of Earth isn't going
work for the vast majority of humanity.

A mere hundred thousand years ago (that's obviously well in advance to
the onset of our last ice-age having gradually forced most forms of
life [intelligent or not] towards the equator) our atmosphere was
measurably thicker plus having many other life beneficial ways of being
more robust and obviously unpolluted along with having a 100% layer of
ozone coverage, as well as our magnetosphere having been a whole lot
more substantial, thereby life had been initially at least 10 fold
better shielded and even the sun itself was measurably less intensive
with regard to having distributed such lethal forms of radiation.

Of course the final nail in the Mars coffin came about in a similar
form of magnetic demise, especially testy once the Mars core had
solidified, thus offering extremely little if any accessible geothermal
energy to speak of, and without a viable magnetosphere there simply
wasn't an alternative other than to abandon ship or having died trying.
Thus far it doesn't appear that even in the good times there simply
wasn't a great deal going for life upon Mars. Whereas Venus at the
time was somewhat representing the ideal alternative, as having been in
the opposite situation from ever being sub-frozen to death and least of
all deficient in atmosphere, in that having terrific geothermal energy
to spare and as a result offering so much atmosphere to work with
insures that even without a Van Allen zone, that of life technically
accommodated, adapted or of sufficiently evolved upon the Venus surface
might well have been receiving far less influx radiation impact today
than Earth had been getting as of 100,000 years ago.

Unfortunately, unless sufficient evolutionary mutations take affect,
our human DNA can not adapt to withstanding yet another 10 fold
increase in TBI dosage, much less tolerate 100 fold which is the more
likely amount we're due to receive, along with a certainty of the more
elevated and thus unfortunate areas eventually receiving a thousand
fold. The influx energy filtering and thus shielding capability of our
atmosphere is certainly terrific, however by itself it's not going to
be sufficient, especially on those bad solar days. Thus it doesn't
hardly matter if we pillage and rape mother nature to death, sucking
out every last barrel of her oil, m3 of her natural gas and tonne of
her nasty coal, even fore knowing that such sources of energy had been
exactly of what had been contributing by far the most lethal forms of
environmental radiation because (such as the artificially discarded and
exposed radium becoming radon which shortly thereafter becomes lead),
whereas within the next 1,000 years it actually will not seem to matter
one way or another. At least that's what the best expertise of
hard-science has contributed thus far, that we'll have exhausted the
affordably accessible geological energy alternatives and looking at
having lost another 45% of the magnetosphere, representing that the SSA
will have become the SEA (South Equatorial Anomaly) covering perhaps
10%(50e12 m2) of Earth, and getting worse off each year as the solar
winds continually excavate our atmosphere, as it continues to thin and
the core of Earth fails to sustain the magnetic field that's our first
and essential line of defence.

Perhaps by then a custom engineered human (aka intelligent design) will
have made our frail DNA into a tougher species of life that can be
cloned into existence. Of course also by then, China will have long
since established the one and only LSE-CM/ISS, making their well
shielded CM/ISS abode as perfectly survivable as being underground
within our moon, that which can actually be terraformed into hosting an
amount of atmosphere. Possibly their combined LL2 and LL1 tethers
becoming an artificial alternative for having established it's own
magnetosphere. Meanwhile, of whatever's left of our LLPOF government
and of it's pagan NASA will still be covering thy perpetrated cold-war
butts, plus as usual lying through their teeth.
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"If you're not looking for the truth, you will not find it."
-Brad Guth

"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
-Stanislaus I

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust

"Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an
action, not a thought."
-F.W. Robertson
~
Even Kurt Vonnegut would have to agree that; WAR is WAR, thus "in war
there are no rules" - In fact, war has been the very reason why honest
folks are having to deal with the likes of others that haven't been
playing by whatever the supposed rules, such as our resident warlord(GW
Bush) having invented WMD.

Life upon Venus, a township w/Bridge & ET/UFO Park-n-Ride Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
The Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Venus ETs, plus the updated sub-topics; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm

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