Blowing The Lid Off The Earth

The Catlin Arctic Survey has analyzed the data from its unique trip to study Arctic ice conditions:

Scientists are busy analysing data from the Catlin Arctic Survey. The data will provide important new evidence for the crucial climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December.

The Catlin Arctic Survey team returned this May with unique new measurements of the thickness and extent of sea ice in the Arctic. The University of Cambridge’s Polar Oceans Physics Group is currently analysing the data, with initial results already suggesting that the sea ice is newer and thinner (and therefore more liable to melt) than expected. The results will help climate scientists around the world to understand how quickly the dwindling summer sea ice will melt and to predict more accurately the effect this will have on the global climate.

WWF are providing funding to help the research team speed up their analysis. It’s crucial that the results are available in time for the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, as they will strengthen WWF’s calls for a strong global climate deal. Governments must take action urgently to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, the threshold beyond which most scientists predict climate change could become catastrophic.

“Climate change is happening now and nowhere is it more evident than in the Arctic,” said WWF’s head of climate change, Keith Allott.

“Sea ice is a critical part of Earth’s climate system and the loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is happening decades ahead of most predictions. We cannot predict all of the effects of this ice loss, but scientists foresee severe disruption to the natural world on both a local and a global scale.”

(Catlin Arctic Survey, emphasis added). The group of top Arctic scientists travelled through the Arctic for months during their study.

Let's hope the Copenhagen talks get real and break free from the death trance governments have now, planning for triage rather than for healing remedies.

Properly caring for the earth is the first lesson the human species must learn if the species is to become fit to survive in the cosmos.

Nanoengines For Spacecraft?

If humanity is ever to travel to another habitable planet it will be the result of new physics and new technology yet to be implemented.

An interesting source for a perpetual supply of electricity is now being discussed:

Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of “persistent current,” a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.
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The counterintuitive current is the result of a quantum mechanical effect that influences how electrons travel through metals, and arises from the same kind of motion that allows the electrons inside an atom to orbit the nucleus forever. “These are ordinary, non-superconducting metal rings, which we typically think of as resistors,” Harris said. “Yet these currents will flow forever, even in the absence of an applied voltage.”

(Science Daily). Whether or not this technology could help to meet the Tenet 3(b) necessity of developing space craft that will travel exceedingly fast, it does show that there are sources of power we have not explored yet.

The Mysticism Of Failure

What part does mysticism play in the failure of empires, and in the failure of extinct species?

Tenet Two says that the only species who do not become extinct in the cosmos are those who pass "The Test" of Ecocosmology.

The human species at this time is not doing so well on one of the aspects of The Test, Tenet 3(a). We are destroying our home world which means we will not even get to Tenet 3(b)-(f).

Today the camps of creationism and evolutionism are into a backward looking series of ideological wars about how we got here; about where we have been:

Both evolution and creationism are rear-view mirror concepts.

That is, they ask "where did we come from?", however, Ecocosmology is a front wind shield concept asking "where are we going?", and so it is a completely different approach.

(Will Humans Evolve ...). It is easier to steer while looking out the front wind shield, which displays where one is going, than it is to steer while looking into the rear view mirror, which displays only where one has been.

Ecocosmology asks both camps, creationists and evolutionists, to look forward while working together so that we may pass The Test.

The founders of the United States held what appears to be a somewhat mystical belief that some of the power on this home world contained toxins that would corrupt any individual exercising that power, unless steps were taken to produce antidotes to those toxins.

Since governments are the main instruments for exercising that power and therefore are subjects of corruption thereby, how will that effect the future evolution on this planet? I say "this planet" because we do not know if that condition of the corruption of power exists on any other planet or not.

Traditionally nations on earth do not work together to help the human species pass The Test, and in general nations work to the contrary, fighting and warring, making it much more difficult to accomplish the incredible technological challenges our species faces.

The history of failed empires and the legacy of natural extinction in history should counsel us that, while it may be mystical why we do many things to bring about our own demise, we must deal with it mystical or not.

Especially when the cosmos by nature is not adverse to extinctions, nor is it adverse to long term or perpetual survival.

Survival of the fittest and extinction of the unfit are very real and very serious in this cosmos.