Space Vanguard

If some of you can't wait to try new living systems then I suggest that one way would be for some of you (I'm not interested) to collectively organize and buy up a couple of old destoyer ships, with the cannon removed. Then you could hitch them together with the tops of a couple of old drilling rig platforms across the bows and sterns creating a stable catamaran that could pierce through the occasional tall rogue wave. Looking for an income source to keep you going I thought about the resource of all of the plastic particles floating in the Pacific Ocean. The currents have concentrated them into a garbage pile circling some distance north of Hawaii. With filter nets you could bring this resource up on deck and feed it into a char reduction furnace to create some residual fuel oil to sell. At the same time you would being cleaning up the Earth and be living the independent life. A small test example of one is shown at: http://www.windward.org/notes/notes70/opalyn7002.htm When t...

With the publication of the new SIG list we are starting to get some new members. Welcome all! Some people work for NASA and JPL so I expect they will keep us in line scientifically. I can't wait to hear your ideas, just comment on any of my posts and eventually I will transition to a webite where we can keep the ideas in separate folders for easy access. Remember to click "older posts" at the bottom to get to the earlier posts.

The measurement systems are tough to reform because they are so ingrained in our production systems. Ideally, we would start down at the nano scale and say that at absolute zero temperature and zero pressure the singular hydrogen atom has a diameter of one Dync. There are different isotopes in nature so a normal tank of mixed hydrogen isotopes at room temperature might show an average hydrogen atom diameter of 1.1 Dyncs (I'm just guessing). From there we could scale up to a standard gigadync size that we would use in our normal life scale measurements. Thus it would be easy to measure chemicals and infer roughly how their weights would add up in industrial combinations. I think that for the time being it will be easier to just stick with the Metric system for distance and mass measurements until we really start colonizing new planets and want to get pure and simple with our measurements. I suggest we change the Milli prefix (one thousandth) to Thili so we don't confuse it with ...

In a sense all governments compete with each other to retain their taxpaying citizens and residents. Taxpayers can usually relocate to more attractive countries or states if they perceive that the relative quality of life, opportunities, protections, and tax burden are better on the other side of the fence. So in the marketplace of governance systems we could pick an island and set up an idealized federal-only government with the rational goal of fostering the health and wealth of us, its citizens. In our era of fast communications there is no need for redundant state and local govermnents that churn the tax revenue around again and again and waste a lot of it. First I want to address the tax system. "Before all else there is the land." There is an old idea of a simple land value based tax system that was espoused long ago by Henry George, and I propose to make it even simpler. In the USA the government really owns all of the land. You may think you own your front yard "...

The Space Vanguard is a society that promotes peaceful private space exploration. To effect this ideal human expansion we advocate: Spontaneous order, beneficial cooperation and mutual protection; Small government with simple, low taxes and fees; The promotion of human potential, happiness and wealth; Innovative commercial production that generates a relatively healthy and supportive environment; And attempts to peacefully cooperate with other sentient lifeforms. General Philosophy: Society can advance and grow under many different political systems but we believe that some politicians have large governments experiment on the population and deliberately create some unjustified wars which directly reduce the productive human surplus. In pop culture venacular it means that you can learn many valuable skills at a Starfleet Academy but you'll be more useful to us once you have fulfilled your legal public obligations and can now freely follow your personal moral compass.

In order to develop cheap space travel we have to keep up with new technologies that are being invented and we have to invent some of them ourselves. There is a new field of science called Magnetronics. Electrons are small electical monopoles and carry electricity. In this article scientists discovered small magnet monopoles that carry magnetricity: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17983-magnetricity-observed-for-first-time.html And in this article scientists show that the Sun develops a magnetic portal with the Earth every eight minutes and throws a magnetic flux transference: http://www.physorg.com/news144677133.html Steve

This is my new Relational Wheel of Elements which simply illustrates the proportional relationships between the different elements. Just click on the picture to blow it up bigger. You will notice that the Noble elements are in the vertical row starting with Helium. They have their electron shells completely filled with just the right number of electrons and that makes them compact and stable. Hydrogen is the smallest element by number of parts but its single loose electron floats around a lot and gives it a bigger atomic radius than Helium, so I put it a little farther away from the center of the wheel to denote its proportional size. Notice that the elements on the left side of the vertical noble element row want to give up their extra electrons to fit into their standard electron shells and those elements on the right side of the noble elements want to absorb more electrons in order to fill out their standard electron shells. They would each like to be just like the stable noble elem...