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Conceptual Issues - Science and ReligionEven if the daily mechanics of our clockwork reality exhibit regular behaviors that we call laws, for some reason it is not difficult for most people to imagine that the clockwork was set in motion, even if from outside time, by a creator that we do not claim to fathom, who may continue to exercise a mysterious and boundless will at times within that creation. As for the details, we don't think God or the devil is trying to trick us with dinosaur skeletons or carbon dating formulas. We choose not to debate the literality of the Bible or be drawn into false debates to "prove" the existence of God within limited conceptual systems. God laid forth a world before us, and though we should not allow ourselves to be mesmerized by it, we should learn to appreciate it at every level, but we must let love temper our curiosity.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]no need for a space elevator
There is no need to build a space elevator from the equator into orbit. Whether balanced on each side or not, the rotation and orbits of the earth and moon around the sun are a dynamic system, and swinging pendulum whips around the axis with shifting loads on the elevator may have unexpected effects not accounted for by computer models because those models cannot account the large space of higher dimensional uncertainty that may play upon gravitational interactions. The Tower of Babel that splintered the empire's language when it fell may be metaphoric, but there is every reason take that metaphor seriously and apply it to a literal tower to heaven.The primary reason why we do not need such a structure is that our solar system is full of raw materials already. Caves on the moon might even strike gold. The asteroid belt is already pulverized. Maybe dolphins can pilot the ship in the chaotic belt by giving them a representation of their echoes. If we use radar ships to resolve the weaving trajectories of the smaller asteroids, we can deduce which ones contain concentrations of different minerals by their relative motion to other asteroids and patterns of their spin. Then we go after the right ones and attach tugs to bring them in orbit around Mars over a period of a few years. Mars needs a proportionate moon to drive its internal dynamo if we are to give her an atmosphere.
With understanding, we can expand to space and live there more easily, spreading life and replenishing the Earth and the new earth on Mars. Why take much with us, when out there we will find everything we need?
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