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Lack of Transportation
Sunday, August 30th, 2020; trying to reach the stars.
The current time in Anchorage 2:57 AM, Shanghai 6:59 PM, Moscow 2:00 PM, and Toronto 7:00 AM.
Here are the latest numbers from Worldometer:
25,198,206 people have been infected around the globe with Covid-19.
847,357 have died from the disease. 17,547,268 have recovered. 5% death rate.
The rest are open cases awaiting an outcome.
On YouTube, listened to three hours of the sound the planet Mars creates in space. It’s a real thing. The sound of celestial objects. Went outside and saw the red planet in the sky and confirmed it with an app on my phone.
A real connection with another world nearby. There are three spacecraft making the six month journey right now. All timed out with the nearest approach in orbit.
One American, one Chinese, and one from the United Arab Emirates. The Chinese persecute the Muslims or something? I don’t know.
Just think of it though, all the resources that are required to make that trip. The small compact objects like precious gifts sent in the mail. Only that’s it. There is nothing else there.
It’s difficult to believe that Henry Ford has not yet made it into space. Not the man of course. Only the idea behind the man, and the ability to mass produce on the production line.
Yet that development in our civilization has now started. The Pandemic acts as a deterrent to military conquest. Uniting the world in an uncomfortable truce. Only allowing us to feel comfortable enough to make that next step.
SpaceX now launching satellites into space for its Starlink internet project. Astronomers complain of blocking out the night sky, in the same way that people complained about shopping online, reading newspapers online, watching blockbuster movies on a streaming channel, or driverless cars. Yet the technology advances, and you either have the money to compete or get out of the race.
That’s where Astronomy is going. Why did Hubble have to take all those pictures? We could have thousands of Hubble space telescopes orbiting all the planets and moons in our solar system. Even the Sun. Constantly taking pictures of space and the surfaces of each planet and moon. Constantly watching and monitoring. People never thought of it before. Now they have, and the movement to make this happen is underway.
The Solar System is ours for the taking. Earth can rule over it all. Nothing can stop us.
We build on the Moon so we can go to Mercury, Venus, and Mars in better spaceships. We colonize these planets, and develop technologies to make them hospitable to us. We mine the asteroid belt. We begin to colonize the moons of the outer solar system. We make scientific breakthroughs and develop new technologies through the process.
People never thought of that before. Now they have, and the movement to make this happen is underway.
We might never see it in our lifetime, yet this inevitable expansion of the human spirit has already begun. Only the death of our civilization can keep us from planning these trips that we lack the transportation for at this time.
And so there it is, put out before you like the expansion of space in the vacuum. How far can you go? No one is stopping you in your spare time. Just reach for the stars. Yet you lack the transportation. You can only sit and stare like a cat without the understanding of cars. So sad, say the men in black, for whom this is nothing more than booking passage on an airline.
Where is your heart and mind truly? All these years of arguing over petty disagreements as if to procrastinate from the real goal. How are you going to get there without transportation?
Some day you must go and if you don’t plan now then when? The Sun will become a red giant. The Andromeda Galaxy’s halo almost touches our own as we are on a collision course. Here on Earth things move slowly because of gravity’s effects on space time while out there everything moves near the speed of light.
People never thought of that before. Now they have, and the movement to make this happen is underway.
From the Newsroom,
Cyrus Emerson
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