Re: The moon, solar power and 'dark pollution'.

jonathan (Write@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

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: The brilliant moonlight that we take
: > for granted might be nothing more than history to our descendants. The
: > moon might be gradually changed from a shining white to a patchy, dull
: > grey.


: If we use up our space and research bucks building difficult
: colonies all over, what they'll find is the earth has become
: a 'whiter shade of pale'....from our neglect.

Isn't that a song by Procol Harum? Also done by Anne Lennox, formerly from
the band the Eurythmics? Heck, I even think Joe Cocker did the song.

: Building colonies does not enhance humanity, it's an
: ...escape from planet earth.

Could be both.

: >
: > And that could be a problem. Quite apart from the aesthetic
: > implications, what about the environmental ones? How many species of
: > animals and plant rely on the moon's light and cycles to navigate by,
: > to regulate their breeding patterns, to know when to sleep and wake up
: > and hibernate and migrate? What about us humans? The moon is known to
: > have a affect human psychology, and how many more of its subtle effects
: > will we not even know about until they are absent? We've taken
: > moonlight for granted, and we've never even thought about the
: > possibility of it being taken away. Who knows what damage that might
: > cause? Maybe none, but should we be risking it if we don't know?



: Considering that FACT that the earth is not only the most
: habitable world in our known universe, but an almost
: perfect example of 'habitable', it seems incomprehensible
: even psychotic to desire to live elsewhere.

People say that about California, but look at the population of New York.

: Exploring other worlds yes, getting to know them yes.
: But a colony, that's lunacy. It's ignorance and a complete
: departure from rational thought.

Might be necessary if we get to about 30 billion or more here on earth.

: And yes I just smoked a big fat joint. So what, I mean
: every word~

Stoned word, you mean... :)

: >
: > Of course, for the moon's luminosity to be significantly reduced there
: > would have to be a *lot* of solar panels up there, but I'm looking
: > generations into the future here. Do you think the authors of the
: > industrial revolution could have conceived that their works might turn
: > out to be the first steps on the path to gloabl climate change? Do you
: > think the inventor of the gas lamp or the light bulb ever imagined
: > cities that would be visible from space at might?
: > If things continue as they are now, there will be tens of billions of
: > humans alive a century from now. How many of them will live on Earth?


: I don't for a minute buy the notion that the population of the
: earth will exceed capacity. That's not what the facts on the
: ground indicate. As democracy and freedom spread, population
: growth slows considerably. In the more advanced democracies
: population growth is already at a sustainable level.

: If we're worried about that, we should push democracy, not
: colonies.

Well since we live in a plutocratic oligarchy, who's model of democracy is
the one that you want to push?

: > Lunar cities with populations in the millions might one day be a
: > reality, and we have to start wondering just where they will be getting
: > their power from.


: That's right, for those that feel the need to be different just for
: the sake of it, and insist on living elsewhere, even though a
: rational mind would recognize space travel is more like
: a self imposed sentence to prison, then yes power has
: to come first, then travel and colonization.

: Is that a run on sentence or what?


Yes, you're good at that, even when you're not stoned. LOL!

Eric

: >
: > Just a thought...
: >

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