space the final frontier
- From: Willie.Mookie@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:49:02 -0700 (PDT)
"If we do not develop the resources of our frontier, we will find
ourselves facing increasingly high energy prices, increasingly steep
commodity prices, and a slowing economy in the face of rising
unemployment and poverty."
William Mook - 1986
A sampling of recent headlines
The Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2008
"A proposed $7 billion downtown Seattle project became the latest
major urban development to be scotched or delayed because of the
credit crisis and a faltering economy."
"Merril's CEO defended directors at the annual meeting from blame over
the firm's losses."
"Commercial banks increased their use of the Fed's discount window
this week."
"New home sales slumped an unexpected 8.5% in March."
"Microsoft's profit fell 11%"
"Motorola's loss widened as handset sales slid 39%"
"American Express posted a 6.2% drop in net as loan loss provisions
ballooned"
"Credit Suisse swung to a loss on $5.2 billion in write down for major
buyout loans."
"US Airways and Alaska Air reported losses"
"A strike at a Scotland refinery this weekend could force BP to close
a key pipeline which could have a big effect on the UK.
"Whirlpool's earnings slid 20% amid costly materials and weak US
demand"
"Northrup's net fell 32% hurt by problems at its Gulf Coast
shipbuilding operations"
"Brazilian Mining Titan takes on Global Giants"
"Honda Motor's earnings are likely to provide a gloomy reminder of the
tough times the auto sector faces amid the stronger yen, high
materials prices, and sluggish US auto demand."
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* NOTE * This all could have been started in 1958 and completed by
1989
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YEAR 1 to 3 - $6 billion
An airframe built around the design for the space shuttle External
Tank. 39 meters longer with the same diamter and equipped with an
aerospike engine at its base the flight article masses 1,000 metric
tons at lift off. Propelled by an engine housing five RS-68 pumpsets,
the engine has a maximum thrust at lift off of 1,450 tons. It
masses 120 tons empty.
The airframe is equipped with a cross-feed capability, fold away wings
similar in operation to those of a Tomahawk cruise missile, though the
wings here are larger in size - appropriate to the 120 ton empty
mass. Its nose houses an advanced thermal protection system, based on
technology developed for the NASP and SSTO programs, but configured as
a 1959 - winged Titan.
The flight element takes off vertically on its altitude compensating
rocket engine, while gliding to a landing horizontally. The vehicle
slows from flight speed to subsonic speeds behind its nose mounted
thermal protection system. When slowed to subsonic speeds, the fold-
away wings deploy and lift to drag rises from 1.5 to 1 up to 15 to 1.
At this point a GPS guided aircraft flies to the gliding booster and
snags it mid-flight and tows it back to the launch center where it is
released for a gliding touchdown - using much the same software and
equipment as a Predator aircraft.
In its simplest configuration, this booster is equipped with a 300 ton
upper stage propelled by one RS-68 engine and ringed by 6 RL-10
engines. It carries a 75 ton payload to orbit. This stage separates
when the main booster burns out at 3.8 km/sec - and separates to be
recovered downrange. The 300 ton booster has the same diameter at the
ET sized booster, but is much shorter. It is equipped with a heat
sheild at its base and accelerates to orbital velocity capable of
placing 75 metric tons into a 300 km altitude orbit. The vehicle
deorbits and lands vertically DC-X fashion, for complete reuse.
Aa more advanced configuration consists of 3 boosters staged in
parallel. The two outboard boosters feed propellant to the central
boosters while all fire at lift off. The two outboard boosters drain
first and are released down range and are recovered. The central
booster continues to orbit, carrying a 300 ton payload. This payload
may be a fully loaded third stage that kicks a 125 ton lunar lander/
mars lander along a free return trajectory to either of these worlds -
with return of the kick stage - or a 150 ton solar power satellite to
GEO - or carries 22 communication satellites in a bus to deploy along
a single orbital plane.
YEAR 4 to 7 - $9.5 billion
A fleet of five vehicles allows launches twice per week to support a
wide range of space services, including lunar and mars tourism,
deploying communications and power satellites.
The lunar lander uses rockets to land vertically on the lunar surface
carrying 25 tons of useful payload and returns it safely to Earth.
The rocket aerobrakes and lands vertically by rocket power upon its
return. The lander may carry 3 tons both ways and deposit 40 tons on
the lunar surface in 'freighter' mode.
As a mars lander the vehicle aerobrakes at mars and lands fully
fueled. The kick stage that accompanies the lander to Mars is
equipped as an advanced Skylab style space station - launched 'wet' -
once drained - is used as a habitat for the crew - and the two
vehicles are tethered together, like the earlier Gemini experiments -
to produce a low gravity environment during the 90 day transfer. The
lander with crew separate from the transfer stage, and land directly
on Mars after aerobraking - executing a vertical rocket powered touch
down. The kick stage on a 2 year orbit - returns to Earth 21 months
after Mars encounter - the orbit after passing Mars is deflected and
passes Mars again on its way back to Earth. At that point, the crew
in the lander, blast off from Mars, and rejoin the transfer stage on
its return to Earth - both vehicles execute an aerocapture maneuver
and execute a powered touchdown - to be reused. The payloads are
comparable with 25 tons of payload sent to Mars and returned to Earth,
whilst 40 tons may be sent one way, with 3 tons returning.
YEAR 8 to 10 - Break even
A 150 ton solar power satellite consists primarily of a 5 micron thick
film formed into a donut shaped balloon with a large parabolic
concentrator at the center. At 8.25 tons per square kilometer, this
satellite is 2.4 km in diameter and generates 2.175 GW of laser energy
which it beams to Earth continuously to solar panel arrays already
established on the surface - increasing output 16x from pure solar
panel operation. At $0.03 per kWh for energy this satellite
generates $571 million per year - and has a life span of 30 years.
22 communications satellites placed into the same orbital plane, form
a ring in polar orbit around the Earth. Open optical communications
provide a broadband optical communications backbone among all
satellites at 50 terahertz. Each satellite is equipped with phased
array antenna that uses GPS signals to paint stationary doppler
corrected virtual cells over the Earth beneath the ring - allowing
simple wireless communications chip sets to communicate digitally
through the network. Each satellite operates as a router for the
network.
30 orbital planes are populated in this way - 660 satellites in all -
to provide 5 billion channels and earn $100 billion per year for
communication services. Banking and financial services provide
additional revenue. Telepresence and telerobotic services add still
more revenues and generate more wealth for Earth.
Year 11 to 12 - Expansion
A seven element launcher - 7-up configuration - puts over 500 tons
into LEO - and allows the placement of 250 tons into GEO for a larger
more advanced 4 GW powersatellite that generates a cool $1 billion per
year for 30 years - with zero recurring costs.
Unlike today's space launch providers, this aerospace operation is a
one stop shop, where payloads and boosters are built, operated,
maintained - for a piece of the action.
The 7-up configuration (painted lime green with bubbles) allows larger
landers and transfer stages to operate off-world, allowing 90 tons to
be deposited one way - and 50 tons on a round trip. A small fleet of
30 passenger interplanetary stages along with 90 ton freighter stages
- provide regular service between Earth the Moon and Mars. 300 people
are supported on Mars, and 6,000 people are living on the Moon.
The development of water sources found locally both on the Moon and
Mars cause logistics to improve to the point where 1,500 people are
supported on Mars and 30,000 people are supported on the Moon by this
operation - without any increase in fleet size.
Meanwhile, the revenue from communications and power satellites
continues.
Year 13 to 15 - Break through
Experimentation with inertial confinement fusion continue, with the
development of a fusion power satellite powered by a boron-protium
fuel mix (borane) secondary initiated by deuterium-tritium 'primary'
and a hydrogen-flouride laser 'initiator'. A 40 billion watt fusion
powered satellite is placed in GEO - and generates $5 billion per year
- beaming energy to Earth at 1.5cents per kWh.
The aerospike engine on an older chemical powered flight element is
converted to a 1,500 ton thrust nuclear pulse propulsion system -
using a 'magnetic blanket' momentum transfer system. The vehicle
before conversion weighed only 120 tons - but with an added 300 ton
nuclear pulse engine - and permanent payload fixturing - the empty
mass has climbed to 450 tons. It is capable of carrying 100 tons of
propulsive units, and 500 tons of payload. The vehicle is capable of
sustained gee flight - and flies directly to the moon and back, in a
matter of hours, and directly to Mars and back in a matter of days.
Successful flight testing of this experimental craft leads to the
wholesale conversion of the entire fleet of flight elements to nuclear
pulse propulsion. The number of people capable of being supported on
the moon rises to 1,000,000 - the number of people capable of being
supported on mars rises to 200,000 - with conversion of half the
chemical elements to nuclear pulse spacecraft.
The other half are converted to asteroid exploration and development.
Meanwhile, MEMs based propulsive skins have undergone a decade of
development and with laser energy beamed from space, are now ready for
prime time.
Year 16 to 20 -Transformation
Here, 300 tons and a crew of 80 are flown to various points in the
asteroid belt in less than a week. In a few months each vehicle
examines thousands of small bodies and begins returning to Earth orbit
a steady stream of specially chosen 'rich' asteroidal bodies of
appropriate size composition and consistency - in the end, a 100 m
diameter body arrives at Earth every 20 minutes. Here, a fleet of
nuclear pulse spacecraft rendezvous with each returning body when it
is 3 million km from Earth and shepherd the body safely into a precise
polar orbit above the terminator of Earth. There, other spacecraft
loft 500 ton remotely operated factory elements, to mine the
asteroidal bodies and smelt out needed materials. Those materials are
formed on orbit into industrial goods, that are assembled into large
pressure vessels. These pressure vessels form factories that produce
finished goods and durable consumer goods, using tele-robotic labor
with a small space based crew. Ultimately farming and forestry
satellites add non-durable consumer goods - food, wood, clothing, and
paper products - to the mix of products available from space -
delivered directly to consumers in small automated propulsive
packaging.
Year 21 to 25 - Revolution
With increasing transfer of industrial production off world, the
demand for industrial and durable consumer goods wanes with increasing
demand being placed on non-durable consumer goods. The Pareto
principle operates, with 20% of the world's 6.7 billion people,
consuming 80% of the resources being produced. Disparity of income
between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' is putting downward pressure on
continued expansion, which limits the economies of scale possible with
this technology. To increase margins short term from the haves, while
creating growth opportunities among the have-nots 'reverse transfer
pricing' is instituted through the electronic banking system
controlled by the aerospace firm. This basically uses a portion of
the profits earned from the haves to subsidize growth among the 3.3
billion have nots.
To avoid confrontation with restrictive policies and regimes, the idle
industrial goods and durable goods manufacturing sectors are kept
active building Fuller style 'cloud nine' floating cities. Each city
is kept afloat by air warmed by laser beam arriving from space. Each
city is powered by the same laser beam using bandgap matched
photocells. Each sphere is built, folded into a compact shape, and
deorbited using a magnetic launcher. It aerobrakes and deploys -
built from the stars among the stars - the sphere never touches Earth,
but floats like a hot air balloon - capable of supporting 50,000
inhabitants internally. It is also equipped with a fleet of VTOL
aircraft - also laser powered but capable of short duration hops using
hydrogen and air - propelled by propulsive skin MEMs rockets - adapted
from the earlier propulsive packaging.
66,000 spheres are deployed over a 3 year period at a rate of 5 every
2 hours from orbit. These spheres circulate around the Earth focusing
on trouble spots, offering aid and assistance, and citzenship,
training and work to any in need anywhere at any time. These free
flying cities hover between 30,000ft and 70,000ft altitude and travel
at nearly 100 mph around the planet - completing a circuit around the
world twice a month. Equipped with telepresence and telerobotic
hardware - each person in the city may work anywhere or visit anywhere
at any time. Pay and activities are planned for each person picked up
so that savings accumulate, and individuals pay for their room and
board, and over time may buy homes and transport and other assets
either at remote locations on Earth negotiated by the aerospace firm,
or off-world on orbit, off-world on luna, or on mars, or even the
dwarf planets beyond mars.
With the deployment of the 66,000 Fuller 'cloud nines' complete, the
industrial component turns to building ultra-low cost pressure vessels
on orbit, to create luxurious yet low cost, space homes in large
numbers from incoming asteroidal materials.
Year 26 to 30 - Consolidation
With increasing number of people flowing off world - ballistic
transport craft which have displaced nearly all long distance air
transport - are adapted for Earth orbiting operation. Large numbers
of low cost pressure vessels are sold as space homes to individual
families - and billions leave Earth.
Larger nuclear pulse spacecraft are built to transport 300,000 tons or
more around the inner solar system - in a matter of days. Boron and
Lithium resources are found off-world, and used to make large
quantities of pulse units. The fusion based laser power satellite, is
augmented by solar orbiting power satellites that operate within 3
million km of the sun's surface. Large optics are deployed throughout
the solar system, to provide industrial power from the sun, as well as
support laser light craft in the outer solar system and beyond.
Kuiper belt objects are explored and developed for industrial use -
Mars and the Moon are both terraformed, along with efforts to
terraform Venus and Mercury, and the larger dwarf planets in the
asteroid belt. Very large pressure vessels are experimented with in
the asteroid belt, as well as large 'drive in' colony arrays.
Propulsive units are adapted and made lower in cost and easier to
operate - and are attached to personal space colonies - allowing
people to leave Earth orbit in large numbers, and spend time at all
the worlds of the solar system.
The population of Earth dropped by 3.3 billion with the arrival of the
cloud nines. The bulk of those as they became adept at living on the
cloud nines and earning a good living there, elected to leave Earth
altogether. So, over this period, Earth's population falls from 6.7
billion to 3.7 billion - with 300 million relocated to the coast of
Chile and the uninhabited islands of Indonesia, and the coast of
Australia - in self sufficient colonies supplied from space - in
return for discounts to each of those nations for space based
resources. The success of 3.0 billion people off-world in such short
time, along with the first terraforming efforts on Mars, announced
plans to terraform all rocky inner planets, and work being done to
build truly massive space colonies and space colony arrays beyond
Mars, inspires 2.5 billion people in this period to join the exodus
off-world - reducing the world's population to 1.2 billion people.
Year 31+ Diaspora
Increasingly sophisticated telerobotics develop into largely
autonomous industrial and agrarian robots. The banking systems and
payrolls have been planned from the beginning to allow the bulk of
workers to accumulate investments and other assets with which they
earn an income from something other than their labor. Inheritence
laws and tax laws are adjusted to permit intergenerational
accumulation of wealth. This creates a very stable banking and
economic system, and allows an expansion of consumption as labor rates
decline - by making sure sufficient living space, energy, food and
materials are created to meet everyone's needs, demands and
expectations.
The natural curiosity and excitement of exploration draws nearly
everyone off-world. Even those remaining on Earth view their stay-at-
home activity in terms of exploration and frontiers. Sub-sea
exploration and habitation is at an all time high. Exploration into
the possible social structures of non-human species, apes, elephants,
dolphins - becomes an important activity. Rebuilding key moments in
the past using humaniform robots - to recreate Paris in the 30s, or
New York in the 70s, or San Francisco in the 1900s - turn historically
important cities into theme parks.
Off world industrialists buy Earth's major art galleries to create
huge collections on Luna and Mars - to add to the new artworks being
created on these worlds - while funding research into ecosystems to
make space colonies more attractive, lower cost, and higher valued.
In this period the first expeditions are sent off to nearby stars -
using two stage laser light sails. Asteroidal debris and Kuiper belt
type debris around nearby stars is exploited, along with stellar
energy - to build a 'return' lane - allowing low mass single stage
laser light sails to operate between systems at 1/3 light speed. A
trip to alpha centauri takes 12 years Earth time - 1 way.
Medical exploration and discovery focuses on longevity research as
well as stasis research. In this time frame medical results allow a
slowing of the aging process first by a factor of 10 then by a factor
of 100 - and later developments allow people to choose the biological
age they wish to maintain - allowing them to transform their
physiology within a matter of months. Other developments allow
genetic improvements to be made, and still other developments allow
genetically improvements to meld with cybernetic augments - to provide
a wide range of improved capabilities.
The number of people leaving Sol start out small, only 100,000 in the
first 20 years - but the numbers grow rapidly as quality of life and
education levels - especially educational systems relying on computer
controlled virtual reality combined with implanted memories and
augmented capabilities - provide high skill levels in any human who
desires it in any subject. Such humans aided by human level - and
later super-human level robotic systems - some humaniform some not -
confidently spread out from sol - 1 billion in the second 20 years -
and the rest of humanity - in the third 20 years. -
By 2100 AD - most of the people alive today are still alive - and most
are living off world. The numbers are;
0.24 billion - Earth
0.50 billion - Earth orbit
0.11 billion - Luna
0.32 billion - Mars
0.05 billion - Venus
0.07 billion - Mercury
0.22 billion - Dwarf Planets - inner
0.03 billion - Outer Solar system
0.14 billion - Kuiper Belt Objects
0.01 billion - Oort Cloud
1.69 billion - Sol Total
5.10 billion - Interstellar Transit
0.01 billion - Nearby Stars within 10 light years
Destination of those in transit
[0.28 billion] - Nearby stars within 10 light years
[4.82 billion] - Perseus Arm Stars -within 60 light years
VLBI optical, infrared and microwave observatories have mapped in
detail over 22,000 star systems including planetary systems throughout
the Perseus arm. Any evidence of life on any of these 22,000 - either
primary or secondary (and 200 may be likely candidates of life) have
caused them to be closed to commercial development, and subject of the
various interstellar science councils - who are tasked with learning
more about these systems without harming them, or even being detected
by them - research funded by fees charged explorers to the other
20,000 'open worlds'. With 20,000 open star systems, and 5.1 billion
people (mostly in stasis) augmented by genetic improvements,
cybernetic implants, and each with an army of superhuman robots -
backed by a personal space colony - and all the tooling and systems
that implies, each exploring family (think Space Family Robinson)
becomes a seed in a human controlled self-replicating machine system.
The average density per STAR SYSTEM - beyond Sol, is;
Sol 1.69 billion (and falling 10% per year)
Nearby 200,000,000 (and rising 5% per year)
Perseus 225,000 (and rising 3% per year)
Most models of interstellar expansion show these rising waves are
temporary. Within another 100 years as population growth rates
moderate (people in stasis do not have kids) - and expanding numbers
of star systems - population density per star system falls everywhere
- just as an explosion once quenched continues to expand with lesser
and lesser force as its volume increases.
Within 300 years of the diaspora explosion - human numbers fall to
trivial levels per star system even around Sol. And humanity reaches
an equilibrium point, where further expansion occurs by diffusion -
beyond the 60 light year radius.
I am assuming at this stage, within 60 light years of Earth there are
no advance technical species we have to worry about - either home
worlds or colony worlds - to make a point about human numbers during
this diaspora phase. Namely, that beyond 100 light years from Earth -
and even the most optimistic assumptions about life in the cosmos puts
the nearest technical civilization no closer than 200 light years of
Earth - the high densities and massive number of humans we take for
granted - is unique to our times. Before the present epoch, humans
roamed the wilds in self sufficient bands of a few dozen to a few
hundred - diffusing across the landscape. After the present epoch -
humans again will roam the interstellar space in dozens to hundreds of
people, augmented with thousands to tens of thousands of humaniform
robots with superhuman intelligence, and aided by a virtual Earth - a
matrix like computer program very much like that in the movie The
Matrix - with all human intelligence scanned and stored and set
running in a 1990s to 2010s world - when humanity was at its peak - to
act as a social, technical, skill creational and recreational resource
for remote human settlements.
We will be well on our way by 2040 -if we start today- toward this
world of 2100. In 2040 we should reach technological singularity,
with the advent of superhuman computing and robotics as well as
advanced medical systems and advanced space systems.
Somewhere beyond 2100 but before 2200 - before population densities
fall too far - we may be able to organize the creation of synthetic
black hole dusts. Subatomic sized black holes each the mass of a
mountain - made from 12 or more shaped masses of iron-56 - collided at
1/3 light speed - to implode to form a black hole. By charging and
turning and shaping each piece, the event horizon around each hole may
be engineered with great detail. By performing a series of
experiements, populations of black holes may be formed by a single
collision and set to interact in ways that give more information about
spacetime - and that knowledge may be used to create engineered
machinery out of black hole populations that may have remarkable
properties.
If such machinery can be made to tap into the zero point energy that
is propelling the acceleration of the entire cosmos, to create copies
of themselves, devices may be made in large quantity at low cost - and
made available broadly.
The size of the accelerator net - based on laser light sail technology
- determines the frequency with which experiements may be performed.
Choosing an out of the way spot far from any star system or planetary
system is preferred. Within 50 to 100 years - success should result
in amazing capabilities - including
1. time telephone
2. time machine
3. gravity drive
4. dilation drive
time telephone combined with radio telescope allows instantaneous
communications over interstellar distances.
time machine combined with dilation drive and gravity drive (arbitrary
gee forces) allows instantaneous travel over interstellar distances.
Travel to the supermassive black holes at the center of the galaxy and
mapping them in detail may permit travel in time to any point in time
these black holes exist - including 10 billion years in the past and
100s billions of years into the future.
At 1 million gees - possible with a gravity drive - where you fall
toward a black hole array at 1 million and 1 gees while the black hole
array itself accelerates away from you at 1 million gees - leaving you
with a 1 gee sensible force - while accelerating through space at 1
million gees - allows you to travel anywhere within 1 billion light
years - and 5 billion time years forward or backward - courtesy of
the black holes at the center of our galaxy - within minutes - AND
RETURN TO YOUR OWN TIME AND PLACE.
Such technology if possible - and if it is possible we should know
within 80 years of today - would allow us to visit any time and any
place +/- 5 billion time years out to a radius of 1 billion years -
within minutes - at essentially zero cost.
I assume here that we are using the van Stockum zones around spinning
black holes to traverse causal-timelike-loops. In this case, you may
get stuck in time, assuming many worlds interpretation of quantum
physics is right. Using a Thorne style wormhole type time machine -
you may traverse back to your timeline no matter what you did in the
past.
Again not only is the technology highly speculative the physics is
highly speculative.
The point is, there are 100 billion star systems within our galaxy.
Laser light sails and space colonies put 20,000 of them within our
grasp. Intelligently experimenting with resources and energies
available to us through laser light sail technology, allows us to
contemplate doing truly amazing things within 80 years. This not only
opens up over 10 trillion star systems to our grasp, but 10 trillion
star systems in 10 trillion time lines... over a period where our
numbers are unlikely to grow beyond 10 billion.
Taking us off world into orbit and beyond, quickly reduces the number
of humans on Earth. Laser light sails and personal space colonies
take us to the 20,000 nearest stars - and reduces our numbers to
250,000 per star system - while truly advanced technology - reduces
our density to about one human in 10 quadrillion star systems.
When we look out into the cosmos - it appears to be largely devoid of
intelligent life. The ability of intelligence to span not only all of
space, but all of time, may explain this situation.
The only regions that would be off limits, to explorers, and under the
control of any remaining governments, and scientific councils, would
be our own time and space - when densities were high and slight
changes have monumental impact on the future.
In fact, it may be that it overwhelmingly likely that our world was
discovered by some distant explorer at some far off time - as a
radioactive remnant of a world war fought billions of years ago - in
the wake of what was then known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This
explorer tasks some of his self-replicating robots to explore this
species further and report back. They examine the radioactive
isotopes and map out how the war proceeded and get precise dates for
each explosion - and travel to the supermassive black hole at the
center of the galaxy, and return to Earth in 1960s - they monitor from
orbit, and return in the 1940s - and return again in the 1920s - and
so forth - mapping out the entire human race.
They then do an experiment in time. They cause a slight failure in
the readiness of missiles put on alert in a place called Turkey - by
one of the belligerents. This combined with failures in the other
belligerent's system - cause both to question their readiness to fight
and win a nuclear conflict. Things wind down, a different path is
taken - until 20 years later - when a more advanced space borne system
malfunctions - and sends false warning of attack.
Here, the robots of one time line meet the robots of another time
line, who mapped a different history - they are the same robots in
parallel times - they arrange an exchange of information. They decide
to use their improved knowledge of the hu-mans to do another
experiment in time. The focus attention on one individual - making a
minor adjustment in his psychological conditioning during his
upbringing - a Col Petrov - who decides - against all reason - not to
give the order to attack their enemy. The world is saved from nuclear
annihlation again - for another 20 years. In the 2010s - an array of
loose nukes scavanged from a variety of sources falls into the hands
of those who seek to throw off what they consider the yoke of
oppression from the surviving belligerent - resulting in a limited
nuclear exchange. However, a rising power in the world at this time
taking advantage of its temporary position to put the remaining
belligerent in two previous nuclear wars at a permanent disadvantage,
leads to a miscalculation, and a third nuclear annihilation - and a
third run in with the robotic dopplegangers from the distant future -
along another timeline. The three sets of robots - each adapted to
the conditions found on the remnant world - arrange an exchange of
information - and postulate another course of action - more invasive
than that last. This species though promising - seem quite determined
to self destruct. This is seen as a challenge to the robots who
received a specific directive to gather as much value from this
species as possible for their builders. Even so, there are slight
variations along the various timelines, which have the potential to
cause disagreements among the three separate lines - sent back by the
same species from three separate timelines - meeting at each point
where total destruction took place.
On the one hand, the newly arising belligerents that caused such
trouble in the early part of the 21st century, find they are very
unlucky indeed. This causes a general failure in their plans, both in
what is called China and the area running from Morrocco to Pakistan -
the 'backside' of the world - some call it in that age - below the
third world even.
The robots also decide to return to this world in what the locals call
the 1880s and in that time, inspire fantastical notions about
outlandish possibilities in the future - identify humans inspired by
these visions - who then find that their careers against all odds -
somehow advance - in a harsh and souless world - to allow the creation
of the stages - similar to the developmental stages on the builder's
home world - who is from another galaxy in another time - but again
this species seems determined to die. Their moon, so close and so
inspiring - becomes a symbol of impossiblity - not possibility - and
even when dragged step by step into the space age - those who brought
it about are marginalized and even assasinated by the 'rational'
powers that promote death and destruction on this world. Worse yet,
increasing presence surrounding the major destructive events along
with promotion of life-giving events for this species - attract
increasingly negative attention from these same 'rational' powers.
Despite several attempts of these robotic emmisaries to make direct
contact with these 'rational' forces to address the problem head on -
none have met with the success desired.
The central difficulty of the robotic species tasked with saving the
human race so that its unique view of the cosmos may be added to the
collective conciousness of the universe - is how a human might say it
- is that the human perception of the universe is distinctly different
than any other species. To a human space and time are a fundamental
given - and anything different than spacetime is not only more
different than humans imagine - but more different than humans CAN
imagine. Likewise, the extremely narrow view of human conciousness,
which is also liberating in the personal sense of freedom and
'private' thoughts it affords, is unimaginable to other intellligent
species which come to their technical capabilities along quite
different routes.
This disparity disappears with the proper description of the cosmos as
it is. Time and space do not exist in certain configuration diagrams
representing quantum reality. Reality is fixed and changeless in
this view, while we build mental models around the ambiguities of our
perceptions. This explains the 'paradox' of wave-particle, and
various observer effcts that humans perceive. The simplest way for
humans to understand the difficulty is to think of a necker cube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Necker_cube.svg
This is a simple wire-frame image drawn in 2 dimensions but seen in
3. By choosing how to interpret the way the lines cross - the mind of
the viewer can cause the front surface to be one or the other square
in the image. In a similar way stationary images can be made to
rotate by changing your mind about them- or waves seem to appear.
These systems, a quite natural way to interpret the universe in the
context of other intelligences - are so counter-intuitive among
humans, that they are seen as optical illusions or tricks of the eye.
They are in reality tricks of the mind - and by changing your mind -
what you perceive changes. These optical illusions so called - bring
about a changed reality which reflects only changes in your mental
condition against an unchanging field. Quantum reality is at root
unchanging and only appears to evolve based on how you make decisions
about the ambiguous bits. These create self consistent models - some
of which seem to evolve in space and time - but space and time are
merely mental constructs. For example, every human experiences the
'eternal now' - but worries mostly about the future or the past - and
avoids the now. Yet any appreciation whatever of the real world must
come down to the fact that only NOW really exists. The past is always
over the future hasn't happened yet. This points very clearly, even
for humans, to the fact that time is a mental construct. Furthermore,
if time doesn't really exist, neither does space.
Here is an optical illusion - so-called - that apperas to be
rotating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Revolving_circles.svg
But its really a mental illusion - based on how you decide to
interpret the ambiguities inherent in the picture. Its not an
illusion due to any physical defect in the eye - its is an illusion
based on how you decide to interpret what you see. This exercises a
region of the brain nearly inactive in humans - and can cause great
discomforture. Being more comfortable with this effect - and actually
gaining some control over it can activate this mental regoin and cause
huge changes in the way you effect your reality -
Here is a more interesting one - to convince yourself that this is
really not changing - print it out on a high quality printer and look
at the paper printout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anomalous_motion_illusion1.png
again - this causes some discomfort among those who are rooted in the
spacetime notion of reality. but opening yourself up to the fact that
there is ONLY now - and that nothing really changes - this can serve
to activate that portion of your brain that controls the events of the
world 'out there' that seem to happen to you - but in reality - you
choose to have happen to you.
Once this is done - and you feel comfortable - or even look forward to
controlling the wavelke patterns in this image you're ready for the
next step.
By the way, for any human physicist reading this, note that the
wavelike motions against a pattern of particles - recreates in form
many aspects of quantum reality.
When you are comfortable with this sort of mental exercise you may
then wish to program yourself to have lucid dreams. What happens
here, is you will get an idea about something. Start with something
small. A small object say. Say you will manifest something - if you
don't know what - ask your dream time self to give you an idea. When
you have it - ask to dream about it very specifically. It may be a
rock, or a flower, a fragment from a machine - a specific article of
clothing - anything that you don't now have. When you get a clear
image of it during your dream time - write about it, draw a picture of
it - and hold the image in your mind - the part of your mind you
exercised above. Do this - and in a matter of days - the PRECISE
object will show up in your life. Take possession of the object and
keep it with you - as proof of your ability to CREATE your own
reality.
You have taken your first step into a larger world.
And away from the self-destructive world humans seem bound and
determined to create.
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Good luck
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