Re: Barack Obama Pits Space Explorers Against School Children

Commercial 35% h2o2 can be safely vacuum pumped down to giving as pure
of h2o2 as you'd like, and if kept chilled or nearly frozen it's quite
safe to use and/or transport within multiple types of containers. It
actually is not unstable unless you're a certified village idiot (such
as *** Cheney or GW Bush).
- Brad Guth


Ian Parker wrote:
On 3 Dec, 18:26, Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hydogen Peroxide is unstable. People in this group have in fact
suggested using it as rocket fuel. Can anyone explain to me how anyone
with any pretensions of building an existentially dangerous weapon can
possibly go into their kitchen and distill H2O2 in an ordinary pan.
Lies, lies, lies. Saddam Hussein had WMD, Syria is danderous. Now the
CIA realises that the Staights of Hormuz would be blocked in the event
of a war with Iran and they are chaging their tune. You see a $200
barrel + petrol ratoning would be even more difficult to sell than
space clonies. They are now changing their lie accordingly.

Yes, the risks are "man-made". But we're not prepared to control the
growth of world population. Terrorists and foreign governments aren't
under our control. So, limiting the options available to the people
trying to solve the problems, when you can't control the people
causing them, doesn't help matters.

If you are not careful you will find that space colonies actually
increase the existential risk, not reduce it.

They may increase the risk to Earth slightly, but the overall risk to
humanity as a whole, once the colonies are independent of Earth, is
clearly lowered. But my expectation is, instead, that once the enemies
of freedom are faced with the reality that the total destruction of
freedom is beyond their power, they will be demoralized, rather than
redoubling their efforts. And because all our eggs are not in one
basket, the West's leaders can take a calmer and more determined
approach to threats.

Since I see al-Qaeda, Sudan, China, and so on as being *all* the
problem, and George W. Bush as part of the solution, not the problem,
naturally I don't find that sort of option as likely to be helpful.

They have no real power. The US does. The way ti stop China is by
international agreement. GWB is the prime problem. He lied his way
into office by smearing his opponents and has consistently lied and
mismanaged the situation.

My friend. A space colony is going to be impossible to sell. Would you
prefer to listen to someone who advocatred space colonies or to
someone with a deep understanding of the Middle East who offered
constructive solutions.

In the Moiddle East as I see it religion is the main problem. The US
should be building its relations with secular rulers like Assad, not
supporting Saudi Arabia. GWB ddoes not understand the ME. He has a
propaganist position that he half believes himself. No, he is simply
drifting from crisis to crisis.

Space colonies will require the resources of space in any case. If I
had these resources at my disposal a colony would NOT be the first
thing I would do. I would go for solar power, build a sunshield to
protect against global warming and I would do research on weather
control. Can the formation and path of hurricanes and typhons be
controlled?


- Ian Parker

Think blue moon, as owned and operated by China.
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