Ice on the Moon

Plato did not like democracy because the mob voted the death penalty for Socrates. That is where representative democracy came into play to moderate direct democracy. A very simplified and paraphrased and somewhat analogized version of an over two-thousand-year-old historical saga, but as true as any such approximation. Climate catastrophe is looming and whether civilization will survive is the question no one can answer. The truth is what will save humankind and nothing else. And, as Pilate asked, “what is truth?”

The very reason this blog was created 7 years ago is Elon Musk. His cyberthugs had me banned, repeatedly, from all the popular space forums. So, I started writing here. And here we are with Musk and Trump and a host of neo-fascists trying to ban the truth and the concept of democracy. Why? Because democracy is the absolute enemy of those who worship money as the god of this world. Money is the only real magic and greed the only real conspiracy. All things evil and destructive can be traced back to the demon prince of hell Mammon. And in Orwellian fashion these very same Ayn-Rand-in-space-libertarian whack jobs that forced me to create this blog consider greed and craving for god-like power to be the only “good” in their nihilistic universe. Much like the Nazis.

Truth is the lifeblood of a functioning democracy, and the fourth estate of a free press is the only truth we the people know. A free press disseminating facts as truth is supported by an academia based on the scientific method. This is the big advantage modern society has over ancient Greece. Anti-science such as anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories and White Christian Nationalist grievance replacement conspiracy theories pushed on social media, denying the truth presented by the press as “fake news”, is fatal poison to American democracy. We know how the algorithms work to radicalize the lower half of the IQ spectrum in pursuit of clicks. This so simple mechanism is deadly to the truth. America as we know it is dying and unless an antidote is administered soon it will be too late. Truth.

Climate change is the red flag telling humankind to get woke. To tax billionaires out of existence before they burn civilization to the ground is our only hope.

Democracy Delegitimizing Extremism.

To the far right the term “Democracy” is not much different than “Communism.” In their view they are both systems that steal from the wealth creators.

I have posted several comments on YouTube on the white supremacist “secret dream” of a white planet and no one seems to think it is actually a possibility. There are people who, having grown up watching apocalyptic movies, want to burn civilization down and depopulate the world so their favorite ethnicity can repopulate. How many of these crazies?

Who knows. But they are out there and starting to do damage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/jan-6-as-white-supremacy-new-research-on-the-toxic-spread-of-great-replacement-theory/ar-AA153TwP?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7ebda13af98245db9d29535bb6e41bec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Litten

A certain lawyer who tried to stop Hitler. It did not end well for him. Though I am not a lawyer, I do have quite a bit of material posted on the internet, which is forever. And if they take power, me, and many others, will also end badly. Very badly.

These creatures on the right lie and lie and endlessly, incessantly, and unashamedly, lie. To them the concept of truth is a pathetic joke. Truth is something to be corrupted and turned against those who believe it will save them. Those who hold to the truth have a huge obstacle to overcome when dealing with the right. We think that they think as we do…that the truth has meaning and should be held sacrosanct. But they do not think that way at all. In fact, they go in the opposite direction and believe the truth is a problem and an obstacle to them taking absolute power. They hate the truth.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/i-exposed-nazis-i-know-it-s-time-to-call-out-trump/ar-AA14R5aa?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=435a4acd8c6e4f9ba1bcb9eabf98bb49

I attended a holocaust memorial event some years ago at an Army base and it was one of the most intense experiences of my long life. It was not the testimony of the very aged survivor or solemn words by other speakers that changed me forever. It was simply the look on the faces of the two visiting German army exchange officers who took part. I had never seen such profound sadness and guilt displayed by human beings. It is possible they were acting but I do not think they were. They were owning it.

As the planet lurches toward a climate catastrophe what no mainstream media will talk about is the Neo-Nazi final solution to all problems on Earth. The secret dream of the extreme right is for seven billion non-whites, jews, progressives, and useless eaters to be exterminated. That would leave a billion healthy “Aryans” to breed their best and repopulate the world with supermen. The scariest thing about it is…no one seems to believe it is possible- except the ones who are working on making it a reality. In four years, the Nazis put to death two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. They did this by using industrialized techniques of mass murder. These factory-like programs utilized mass transportation by train to death camps run by inmates who were allowed to live longer by herding others into the gas chambers and then removing the bodies to the crematoriums.

If you think such horrors can never be repeated, then think again. The Nazis designed their genocide program to run largely by itself while they stood around the electric fences with guns and smoked and joked. It was designed to be easy for them to just not look at what was happening right in front of them. And it worked. This kind of organizational psychology has come a long way and genocide is no difficult project.

I once read somewhere that the “good German”, who was ostensibly not part of the Nazi evil, was an inside joke in postwar Germany. It is obvious that very few would actually admit to knowing what was happening in the camps. But it is hard to believe they did not. Imagine whole neighborhoods in your town suddenly vacant. They thought they would win, and, in the end, the genocide written out of history. As if it never happened and as if the millions who were murdered had never existed. Simple. It is not hard to imagine, regarding six million jews and five million other undesirables, that 21st century technology could scale up from millions to billions. In a single decade it could all be over, and the billion humans left, having saved their now white planet, could then begin a new age. A polluted overheated world no longer overpopulated with inferior races and given a second chance with evermore healthy and intelligent beings.

This is white grievance and nihilism followed to their logical nightmare ending. And if you do not think there are millions who hold this secret dream as the best of all possible worlds, then you are just not one of them. I have met them every so often my whole Caucasian blue-collar life. Just the tip of the iceberg. They are real. Believe it.

https://newatlas.com/energy/light-catalyst-ammonia-rice/

This could solve the single biggest problem with decarbonizing civilization and averting climate catastrophe, which is how to transport energy in various conveyances. Ground vehicles, Aircraft, and Ships, all must carry their energy with them and simply burning ammonia creates nitrous oxide which is far worse than carbon dioxide. Separating the hydrogen and nitrogen in Ammonia and releasing the nitrogen back into our largely nitrogen atmosphere while burning hydrogen which produces mostly water as a byproduct could, indeed, change the world and avert a very bad future for humankind. Very exciting and good writing from Loz Blain. Thank you.

You can build a very large ship and accelerate it with Space Solar Power to some percentage of the speed of light out of the solar system. Store enough nuclear energy and reaction mass to slow it down once it reaches its destination. And that is how you get to another star in however many centuries it takes. A small group living their lives on the ship and providing future generations of passengers is the only option at present. The far more likely scenario is not only reversing aging giving human beings an indefinite lifespan, but also freezing them without damage. Star travelers would thus look forward to thousands of years in which to explore other worlds and since almost all of the transit time would be spent frozen, they would be alive tens of thousands of years after they left Earth. Artificial intellects would eventually create Starships capable of flying close to the speed of light using artificial small black holes. The time spent frozen would then only be a year or so at a time.

Exploration across these thousands of years would only be incidental to the common task of resurrecting all life and then ascending to a higher plane.

It can be done by using hydrogen/oxygen reusable rockets sending factory tooling to the Moon and building the components in lunar factories. It is the only real solution to climate change.

“We are energy independent, we are food independent, we are in a good place”- but Christiane asks why all the corporations are axing people. As a capitalist, Galloway loves to trivialize what the news makes a big deal out of.

“I am a believer the faster you fire people, the faster you can rehire them.”

What the hell is he talking about?

He uses Musk as an example of a religious figure that is failing which is good at least.

“This notion that there is a super-being, I have found that this notion never proves out.”

Space Karen reinstated Trumps twitter account today. Unforgiveable.

Researchers Say They Are Close To Reversing Aging

I have always thought a way freeze people without damage would come first and then there would be a race to reverse aging while millions would be frozen and stored to keep them from dying. Maybe we will not have to freeze anyone.

Money has become the demon-god of this world. There is little doubt of this in the early 21st century. Neoliberalism has become the driving force in civilization and now threatens to burn it to the ground by way of Climate Change. What immediately comes to mind is the Fermi Paradox and the most likely solution that technological civilizations quickly and inevitably self-destruct. Biological life may be just too stupid to survive. We believe we are intelligent, but this does not seem to be so. That old liberal saw that education solves all problems does not hold when the idea of truth itself is destroyed. The Orwellian firehose of falsehood that is now corroding the structure of our civilization is not being addressed. And I trace the evil back to simple greed.

The complexity of reality is such a hard feature to overcome both individually and collectively that we, as a species, may well be doomed. Our Darwinian survival strategy is based on fiction, not fact. We imagine the best possible future and then change this lie into truth. But if we look too far into that future, we find the opposite of life short circuiting the whole project. All are driven mad in this sense. I suspect an indefinite lifespan would bring sanity and It is the only path I can see; that our survival as a species depends on our survival as individuals. As long as we are submerged and slowly drowning in existential madness, there is no hope. If I die, we all die. If you die, we all die. We will cease to exist, and the universe will continue in silence. This is what our radio telescopes seem to be telling us. That the majority of our efforts as a race should be united and focused on reversing aging is an idea that does not exist. And so, I believe, as long as that idea does not exist, we certainly are doomed to extinction and perhaps far sooner than anyone imagines.

In terms of politics, there is no mystery if our organization is contemplated outside of the left and right cultural echo chambers. The closest humankind has come to a fully functioning society was undoubtedly the American mixed economy in the middle of the 20th century. Sadly, democracy as a collective check against institutionalized sociopathy is a concept the majority of humankind chooses to ignore, or at least is easily distracted from. The only device capable of interrupting the rise and fall of empire, the boom-and-bust cycle of capitalism, and the only path to a sustainable future. Calls for a “Green New Deal” and a “New Bretton Woods” go unheeded. Oligarchy, Autocracy, Plutocracy, in all their guises, and Fascism, are on the march again. Darwinian economics will end us like dinosaurs.

But…there is hope. Or I would not be writing this.