Space Vanguard

The economy is in rough shape right now and there is a cyclical trend going on. The price of precious metals has been artificially depressed by Central Banks leasing out their gold to banks and hedge funds. It creates a new temporary supply of gold for the banks to sell futures contracts on. The problem is that futures contracts buyers eventually want to take delivery on the gold that they have contracted for and then there won't be any to return to the Central Banks at the end of the leases. That is the artificial situation that has been dumped on us now. It is going to cause a five year super bubble in precious metals prices. Silver is the metal that has been depressed the most. As silver runs from $18/troy oz to maybe $80 the common stock of established silver mining companies will skyrocket even farther. They are already covering their production costs so any increase in silver prices will drop straight down to the bottom line as pure profit. Again, this is an temporary engine

It looks like Phobos (one of Mars' two moons) is 30% hollow and constructed with an engineered frame and covering. The penetrating radar from our satelites discovered a series of discreet internal bays, some with intact pressurized atmospheres. Most of the moon has been wrecked by meteorites and alternating tidal tugging from Mars itself. Much of this has been discovered and reported by Richard Hoagland and friends at the website: http://www.enterprisemission.com/Phobos2.html The spacing nations are assembling and will announce soon that they will form a joint mission to Phobos to try and retrieve the advanced technology left behind there by whoever built the craft. Since Phobos is small its gravity is insignificant and it doesn't require much rocket power to land and take off again from its surface. The whole mission should take less fuel than when we went to our Moon and back in the Apollo missions. Do they need any nonscientist handymen? I'm available...

In the US our electric power has normally been produced in large AC (alternating current) generating plants and distributed over the electrical grid to the residential and commercial users. With the improved power technologies like Bedini generators, fuel cells and solar cells becoming affordable for the home the power delivery system will probably change to a more decentralized network with homes having private power generators backed up by 96 DC (direct current) battery packs to store up extra energy, and maybe supplemented by the traditional AC grid during peak usage times. The advantage of our present AC electrical system is that the voltage can be stepped up very high by a transformer and then transmitted great distances with very little line loss from resistance. When the electricty gets to its final destination it is stepped back down by another transformer and carried around town. At your street it is stepped down again and carried into your house at a peak 240 volts AC. That