Monday was spent, much as Sunday, on the back of the old Kubota as spring clean-up time is here. The brush has been beaten back by Winter and it’s easier now before the creatures come out in Spring.
For those who have never lived on a large piece of land, keeping it up involves a tremendous amount of work and no small measure of diesel. So far, about 10-gallons into what will be a 20-gallon project, about half of the open part of Uretopia Ranch is looking very much like a state park. Or will when the tractorfying is done.
There is a lot to go, yet. And the “burn pile” is still smoldering after three days of fire. It is astounding how much wood comes down as “deadfall” around here. Plus, this year we had three old trees, perhaps late victims of our drought several years back, that needed to come down.
The test is simple: I put the tractor in compound four-wheel low and smash into it with the loader bucket at about 7-feet off the ground. If it survives 3-4 whacks, then I figure the tree remains are good for another year and not likely to come crashing down on us. But this year, we had some trees that we’re up to tractor abuse. I look at the process as training sessions for an auto accident.
Broinlaw Panama and I hold differing views on old trees. He’s a fan of leaving them for the wildlife. That’s fine, if the residents were restricted to some neat bird species, but once they fall, things like snakes winter-over in them. And to my way of thinking, the fewer dead trees within 500-feet of the house, the lower the odds of snakes.
With the brush slicked off, the hawks and vultures can see anything heading for the house and do their jobs.
Every year about this time, I get started on the project. It’s time and diesel and while the diesel prices are nice, the time is a real pain. And that’s our jumping-off point for this morning’s discussion.
It’s about our shrinking future.
I sometimes think farmers may be the most intelligent people in the world because there is not a lot of interruption when working the land. Uninterrupted thinking time abounds. I spent the tractor-back time working out the next Peoplenomics report. It will cover seven essential skills for the future.
I wanted to get you started thinking about this today with a few reflections on space – the kind of square footage that makes life good. How much is enough?
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To begin with, there is a simple calculation we can do to begin “bounding” the problem of so many people but only this much land.
We look up the amount of land on the planet and divide among the number of people.
A quick Google (because my calculator and I aren’t on good terms until 10 AM, or so) and we find this:
The total land surface area of Earth is about 57,308,738 square miles, of which about 33% is desert and about 24% is mountainous. Subtracting this uninhabitable 57% (32,665,981 mi2) from the total land area leaves 24,642,757 square miles or 15.77 billion acres of habitable land.
Since we know that there are about 7-billion people in the world, we can guestimate that each human has (in theory) a little over 2-acres per person.
If we were alert enough to remember there are 640-acres per square mile, this would mean averaged out, about 300-people per square mile would be a reasonable shot from the hip. You take the arid Nevada country east of Reno which is technically habitable; we’ll stick with the 90-foot pines and 60-odd inches of rain in East Texas, thanks.
Of course, even the land mentioned by the cite is not all useful. A lot of it depends on whether the land gets enough rainfall. A lot of land up in Nebraska or the back-side of the Rockies is pretty dry and not exactly warm and inviting. Not desert, but not fun. Even for those of us with modest means an only a single-engine, this is fly-over country.
That’s why although Tornado Alley has a bad rap in terms of mobile homes being blown around, it also is generally where there’s enough rain to where a family could make a stab as living off the land. They did…and then came Phillips and then came fracking, but another diversion from point.
East Texas, and the huge areas north of the Southern coastal states and south of the Appalachia and west farm lands, is really great property to hold. Although places like Mongolia have amazing grasslands, the climate is less friendly. And except for the mountains east of Salt Lake (the Wasatch) a whole bunch of Utah, Nevada, ands even Colorado and Wyoming is hard-living country.
Eastern Montana, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota are pretty good, too. Except they have this beast called Winter up that way. Gentlemen don’t do winter.
The mind plays things back when your only job is to turn the tractor around and cut another swath and cast an occasional eye at the burn pile.
The haunting question always comes back to this: How much space does a human need to live an optimized life? And who is doing the optimizing?
The space question is pretty easy to answer. Prisons have that down to something of a science. A really minimalist lifestyle in a 6-foot by 8-foot cell can be done, especially if it comes with bedding and meals done elsewhere.
The interesting thing to note is that humans, like all animals, get to range. Even in prisons, inmates are usually allowed to move around a bit. The showers, the meal areas, the “day room” and so on. Plus a decent exercise yard,. I hear.
I look back at our experience living on the boat (11-years before the mast) and while I was living in less than 200-square feet, my range was miles and miles: to multiple stores, pubs, pool halls, shops, libraries (*this was back in the paper book era) and what-not usually within a mile, or five, of the boat. My office was downtown most of the time, so that was 6-miles each way.
The big apartments of my youth have becoming modern-day luxury dwellings. My kids are all living in micro-housing (like 200-400 square feet which is the new “normal”).
To make up for their version of small cells, they have very large ranges. George II, for example, has a nice though small studio, but since he’s either working, studying, or sky-diving, he wouldn’t really use additional square-footage, even if he had it.
Even in our rebuilt mobile/modular home out in the woods, which is a very eclectic space, indeed, the rooms we spend the most time in are the bedroom, kitchen, and living room. Areas like the dining room are only used when we have guests, which isn’t often. Half a dozen times per year.
And even that number seems likely to decrease since we are spending a lot of time with the kids on Skype which is faster and cheaper than an airline ticket.
Elaine uses the second bathroom as “hers” but it’s not like the other bath “mine” wouldn’t accommodate us. We’ve just learned that if rooms are not used, they become stale and begin to deteriorate. Elaine has used the second bedroom a time or two – when I have a bad snoring event which is rare…
Back to point: Got an interesting note on point from a reader in North Carolina, who has something of a radio addiction, as I do. Ideally, a radio property is a full wavelength down on the 160-meter band. 260-feet on a side, or about 1.6 acres.
Well, he’s been thinking along the same lines: How much is enough?
“Thou hast spake as follows:
“Who needs a computer room, or a library, or a den when you have
a tablet with Win-10 and all spreadsheets synched, a zillion eBooks,
and Tinder?”
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Some years ago I was involved in some studies that identified and
tried to quantify a human need for “snug-ness.” For “enclosed
privacy.” For “apart-ness.” For something like “secret personal
isolated protected nest-ness.”It’s related to a feeling of security, but is a quite different thing — a “cut-off-edness” if you will.
This can be reflected in dens, reading rooms, “studies,” private
inner offices, man-caves, and similar “quiet” retreats.
Most notably, cats, but other pets as well often need nest boxes,
or hidey-holes to nap in. People seem to have a closely related
desire for such secure retreats with some isolation.Some people are very self-conscious when speaking on the phone,
even if the conversation is totally mundane and with other people
anyone overhearing wouldn’t care in particular about. The self
conscious feeling is not about secrecy, or surreptitiousness, or
guilt, or anything like that; it’s more like some guys can’t pee with
somebody watching. (Ask any nurse who has to collect “samples”
for drug testing.)The whole “open office” plan is very uncomfortable for these
people, although few can articulate why.Some others could never conduct completely innocent and
routine social media communications with even close friends
while sitting in the kitchen or living room with family members
they have no problems with — “exposed to everybody.”I don’t understand it, but it’s there. I suggest for many people
it’s a Necessary Thing for one reason or another.I like my combo “computorium,” “audio-video editorium,” and
ham shack all in one spare bedroom. It’s my retreat / den, I guess.
At last we arrive at the deep point of this morning’s meander:
Elaine and I live on 1.253 million square feet of land. Yet on a daily basis, we only use a tiny fraction of that, perhaps 1,000 square feet in a particular day. Yet we do range around the property a good bit. But, as we were sitting outside with our afternoon adult beverages, looking at the park-like setting, I found myself asking a nagging question.
If I had all the money in the world, would I be appreciably happier with even more?
I don’t think I would, frankly. And therein lies the point: At what point do each of us sit back and acknowledge that we have achieved suitable sufficiency and say “Enough!” ?
There are seven related skills to this, as it turns out. I call them The Future Seven and its tomorrow’s Peoplenomics.
And no, I won’t regale you with plans for monstrous traveling-wave antennas once the land is slicked off. But that’s the kind of thought that passes between the ears, possibly amplified by the scent of diesel and smoke from the burn pile.
Yes, this has a total bearing on economic life since once we know our range, and can achieve that, what is the point of additional work? The very paradox of progress then comes into focus.
And we like paradoxes. Give the mind something to do besides getting bounced around and turning this way, or that.
A Useful UFO Reference
In the Monday column, we went completely overboard on the question of ancient aliens and are these referenced in religious foundation materials?
Our long-suffering reader (dating back to my pre-spell-check era) was kind enough to send along a detailed list of citations of bible references to UFO’s.
No, there will not be a quiz, but it is a far longer list than I was expecting:
“In addition to the Ezekiel’s Wheel passages, there are many more in the Bible suggestive of ET/UFO experiences. I may have included you in their distribution in the past, but here are the ones of which I am aware:
Genesis 28:10-12 – And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them down for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending it. (Jacob is so impressed by the experience that he anoints the pillow rocks with oil he was carrying in a sacred ritual and names the place Bethel [“God’s House” in Hebrew], which later becomes an ancient town).
Genesis 32:24-30 – And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, what is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
2 Kings 2:1-10 – And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth–el. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth–el. And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth–el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on. And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan. And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
(Note that, once again, that the key event in this story, Elijah’s departure with God, takes place at Beth-el, the same spot that Jacob encountered the UFO with its occupants going up and down the ladder into “heaven.”)
2 Kings 2:11-12 – And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings 6:14-20 – Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
Genesis 11:1-9 – And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Interesting aspects of this passage are that “Shinar” was the Biblical name for ancient Sumer, where the first known ziggurat-style pyramids were constructed [and were indeed constructed as described in this passage] and one has to wonder whom “God” is addressing in saying “let us go down,” making it seem like a joint enterprise with other heavenly beings, and, finally, the characterization of God’s role vis a vís men, wherein he expresses a concern that men will become too powerful for his taste, echoing the concerns of the Sumerian gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which features the Great Flood as one godly group’s solution to the threatening progress of humans on the earth. It is a rather strange concern to be harbored by the All Powerful Creator of the Universe, making one think that ancient people saw God as rather more limited in and possessive of his power.)
Genesis 6:4 – There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And some might argue that there are others as well, that even the tale of the creation of Adam and Eve is basically about genetic engineering.
As for the Bible being a history book, there is ample room for doubt on that score. While there is a modest amount of possible archeological confirmation of a few Biblical passages here and there, most of the Bible appears to be made up of whole cloth by its three groups of authors, intended more as a cultural and religious unification device, as a sort of national touchstone of identification, i.e., this is what sets us apart.
But, as with all ancient texts, whether it is the Mahabharata or the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Chronicles of the Pharaohs, or whatever, is that every once in a while there are passages that clearly are subject to a UFO/ET encounter interpretation (some quite matter-of-factly, such as when the Chronicles flatly report that a fleet of smoking UFOs flew into the Nile River Valley and took up a static formation, hovering over the Valley and giving off noxious fumes for several days, giving much concern to the authorities, who gathered Pharaoh’s armies about him for his protection, after which the craft departed, or the Mahabharata reporting that two off-word civilizations came to Earth in competition and did battle here with what appear to be nuclear weapons and aircraft.)
Keep up the fight,”
As I mentioned, it’s a longer list than I expected. And the notion that we are all part of a UFO/Off-World geo-engineering project is at the core of the bible retranslations up at www.thechronicleproject.org.
While there is much to be debated, there is one item which I’ve never heard a physicist adequately answer, although if you have, please send it along:
“Why does the Moon not appear to rotate and show only one face to the Sun? It seems a mighty big damn coincidence that it would have a rotation speed equal to its orbital period…”
Seems to me the odds of that are a) either very low or b) we don’t know jack about physics because passing objects don’t just wander by and not rotate.
I’m not the first to ask. There’s a dandy article over here that admits that some moons rotate off orbital period, but others do. But as to the reason (I mean something that is presented in a neat, tidy formulaic way), that’s a little more sketchy.
You don’t suppose the synchronous moons have been placed that way for a reason, do you?
I mean like stepping stones?
OK, another too long, so so long…and?
Write when you break-even
George george@ure.net
Re: the moon. I think the non rotation has something to do with our tides.
Some observers believe the moon was constructed and when put into place caused the biblical flood, as evidenced by the water mark on the Sphinx.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Built-Moon-Christopher-Knight-ebook/dp/B00ILSYZJK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453812818&sr=1-1&keywords=who+built+the+moon
Ah, come on George. You must know about tidal locking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
But a more interesting question. Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the moon appears to be exactly the same size as the sun at the same moment in history that humans are intelligent enough to use the coincidence?
I am absolutely thunderstruck, almost in awe of your myopic view of the American lifestyle and your blindness concerning other cultures. There are ar least a couple billion humans living on less than $3 per day.
It’s not the square footage that counts, it’s the amount of world resources you suck up. It’s the reason why each American consumes resources to the level that causes AT LEAST 90 other humans to live a subsistence existence. There is a reason why America has 8x the retail per square foot than any other country in the world.
A Kubota used a few times a year for nonessential projects. In India, 50 farmers would get together and buy one tractor like that. In our village, there is one farm tractor, owned by an entrepreneur who hires out and works on someone’s land at least 4 days per week. Two backhoes, four dump trucks and 30 pickup taxis serves the needs of 5,000 people.
I have no toleration for G-7 environmentalists. I tell them if they want to really save the earth they should just kill themselves and quit consuming. For some reason, they don’t like hearing that.
The biggest problem for aging people in the USA is retiring into too large a place. As they age, they simply cannot care for everything, and it either turns into a hovel or they injure themselves and become permanently gimped up because they cannot rest long enough to heal. And then even a small place turns into a hovel. Second biggest problem is they isolate. Think about this. You have a condition/accident that keeps you away from your place for 3 months in a rehab facility. What would things look like when you finally made it home, and you could only work at 60% capacity for a couple of months. And don’t depend on older people for real support. They are only one incident from being gimped up themselves.
This is from a hospice nurse who has been in the home of hundreds of dying elderly patients.
Why should a man in Texas feel guilty because he owns a tractor and so do 10 others in his county? Will it raise the standard of living in India if he sells the tractor and rents one from some guy 30 miles away every time he needs one? Texas is a big place you know, nothing is nearby. The fuel to travel to the rental place could be better used to run the Kubota and be done with it.
The old, “Clean your plate because there are starving children in Africa.” does nothing for the starving children, it only makes for fat American children.
We have also been doing the math about living space. The new sweet spot appears to be 1500-1800 square feet, 3 bedroom, 2 bath — down from 3600 square feet, 5 bedroom, 4 bath (2 masters included in that count).
But, I like the “insulation factor” of a big house — even though we have good neighbors. Thanks for the “range” idea and the review of land areas; I will add them to the equation.
George,
Instead of reading you opine about “tractorfying” your acreage, a more noble column may have been an examination of WHY human beings feel a need to constantly Terra-form our planet into something it was not intended to become. Here’s a radical thought: how about leaving well enough alone in your outback and allow the earth to remain as God created it? Wild, yet pristine, inviting yet exciting?
pristine and inviting until some water moccasin is chasing your ass. Suddenly, terra-forming makes a whole bunch of sense within xxx feet of your home
I disagree, when you live in an environment Square lots of creatures that you normally don’t see in the city exist will appear and you will get to know them and if you are raised in that area from a kid you will have learned how to deal with all of those things for as a city FUNKER goes like I don’t know what I’m going to do, everything out in nature has a purpose including feeding you, because you were raised in the country to accept these things but instead he spent 10 years on a boat yes you know how to exist on a boat or I don’t I stay away from that, I have an elderly neighbor who’s near 90 years old and says during the last depression they had chickens but then the chickens instead of reproducing the chickens so they were in chicken noodle and Lidl there without no eggs because they ain’t the last surviving chickens and roosters if that had number one keep your land at all cost even if you have to pull a gun on the sheriff because that’s why we left England for was to get rid of the taxes so if you fight hard enough you can win and there were people back then during the depression that they went down with our guns to City Hall and said hey we’re and that was released because the people outnumber the government in that locality not taking it no more and all that was released was released that was released was released
The moon has a bulge. This bulge has gravity.
Over billions of years, this “off-center” gravity caused the moon to become gravitationally “locked in” so that the same side always faces earth.
Interestingly, the earth’s oceans also bulge and have gravity. Because the earth rotates faster than the moon revolves, this pushes the ocean bulge out ahead of the moon. This is causing the moon to speed up in its revolution, and move to a higher orbit by about an inch or so per year. It’s also causing the earth to slow down a bit. Eventually the earth and moon will become tidally locked so that our rotation will exactly equal the moon’s revolution. Only one side of the earth will ever see the moon then.
Of course, before that happens the sun will have gone red giant and swallowed up both bodies. So I’m not letting it affect my long term plans.
2017 there is a total solar eclipse that runs right through the middle of the US. I’m making plans to go stand in the shadow of the moon. Probably my only chance in my lifetime.
Of course, that only explains the “how.”
The “why” of it all is above my pay grade.
On space requirements: I live in a one bedroom apartment of about 700 square feet. It is sufficient for me and my three kitties. The unit contains all my necessities and hobbies gear and does permit having a handful of guests. I have had similar thoughts of why such big houses or such for the rich. Do they even go in all the rooms? You can only use one at a time. Your son has it about right. The apartment meets his needs for the ways in which he uses it. Now that I am retired, I spend a lot of my time at home, and yet, I still find the apartment meets my needs. I still am amazed at how much smaller Japanese and European apartments are compared to mine.
When I absorb YOUR prose I have difficulty sometimes to believe that a person like you really exists (compliment!). I (>85, 1. vacuum tube generation) barely manage to do 20% of the things I want to do during my allotted time, versus all the things you seem to accomplish within the short time span allotted to you. Why aren’t “folks like your kind” in the presidential debates as contrasted to the clowns (however accomplished?) offered to us to make decisions for us? I’d rather be inclined to follow decisions that you would make for all of us than any other elected or potential official. We need a change in paradigm in many aspects of our lives, that’s for sure. Alas, No one is listening!
George, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
for your Moon problem.
Hi G
Although Jupiter does have four moons that mimic ours in their synchronous orbit, ours is waaaaaay different. Ignore the fact that its almost one quarter the size of Earth, making it almost a twin planet, it is only 1% of Earth’s mass. Without it, life on Earth could not exist as we know it. It is a stabilizer to Earth to prevent wobble, mixes our oceans and was the ancient timepiece for Earth’s people. That having been said, it could still be an accidental product of evolution…except:
The Moon, Measurement and 273
– The ratio of Earth’s diameter to the moon’s diameter is 0.273
– The circumference of the sun in miles is 2,730,000. An odd coincidence as the mile is not a standard based on any calculation other than itself. Perhaps the unit of length called the foot did not originate from a part of anatomy of an ancient king or pharaoh but from circumference of our planet?
1,000 x 360 (number of degrees in a circle) x 365.24 (days in a year) = 131,486,400.
131,486,400 feet = 40,077 km. Official equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075 kilometers and the mean length of the year is 365.2425 days.
– 273.2 degrees Celsius is the temperature of absolute zero. Celsius was created by taking the boiling point of water and the freezing point and dividing it by one hundred points. This then is not a random calculation, but one based on a standard element for life and a standard measure.
– 27.32 earth days is the Sidereal period (complete orbit) of the moon. Or easier said, the exact time it takes the moon to go around the Earth exactly once.
– Gasses expand by 1/273 of their volume with every degree on the Celsius/centigrade scale
– If you were to draw a circle inside a square, with the circle’s diameter the same as the square’s length, the area left over that the circle does not cover is 27.32% of the total area of the square.
– 27.3 days is also the average rotation period of a sunspot.
The Moon, Measurement and 1092
– There are 109.2 Earth diameters across the width of the sun
– There are 109.2 sun diameters between the sun and the Earth when Earth is farthest away from the sun.
– The circumference of the moon is 10920.8 km
The Moon, Measurement and 400
– The Moon rotates at a speed of 400 km/h.
– The Earth turns at 100 times the rate and travels 40,000 km per rotation.
– Conversely the Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon and 400 times further away from Earth, making the sun and moon appear exactly the same size in the sky. For this reason when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, it creates eclipses.
– The moon reflects 1/400,000 the amount of the light from the sun to us.
– Moon Diameter is: 2,160 miles. Diameter of the Sun is 865,294 miles. Divide 865,294 by 2,160 = 400.6
– Earths circumference is almost exactly 40,000,000 m along the meridian.
The Moon, Measurement and 366
– 366 lunar days (1 lunar day = 27.32 Earth days) = 10,000 earth days
– The ratio of the moon’s diameter to Earth’s diameter is 3.66
– The Earth is 366% the measurement of the moon at the polar circumference
– Strangely enough, the earth rotates 366 times in a single full orbit of the sun. And if you divide that recurring 400 by 3.66, you get that recurring
109.28.
(source: The Destruction of Sabbath)
Cool huh?
Most biblical stories were drawn from far more ancient texts from a variety of countries, showing that the Bible is not the “word of God”, but an amalgamation of earlier historical events, written in such a way as to promote the “specialness” of the tribe that compiled it (it may not have been written down at first). I’m an ancient history freak, and my conclusion after 60 years of perusing history and archeology is that the god of the Bible is not Creator#1, but one of the off-world beings (Annunaki?)who came to earth and did genetic modifications on the beings who were already here, leading the earthlings to consider him their creator/god and fight his wars. Unfortunately, these wars are still being fought.
“Why does the Moon not appear to rotate and show only one face to the Sun? It seems a mighty big damn coincidence that it would have a rotation speed equal to its orbital period…”
Used to think this evidenced intervention of a higher intelligence, but on its own it doesn’t. I learned that The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum is such that when two bodies orbit each other long enough, the smaller will end up in this situation (with same side constantly facing the larger).
“The Moon used to rotate at a different rate than it orbited around Earth, but over time our planet tugged at different parts of the Moon. Over time, more of the Moon’s mass shifted to our side of its body and its rotation became locked to its revolution. This phenomenon, by the way, is also present in other moons in the Solar System. Also interesting: this immense shift inside the Moon made the crust thinner on our side, which means there are more ancient lava seas on our side and more mountains on the other side.”
Hooray for math and science. :)
Still, there are several odd facts about the moon – just a few:
they have quakes – “moonquakes”; when we detonated on the moon, it seemed to resonate as if hollow (one hypothesis); the rocks brought back were magnetized – indicating that the moon once had a magnetic field; our moon is the only in the solar system to have a near perfect circular orbit while the moon’s center of mass is about 6000 feet closer to the Earth than its geometric center. This should cause wobbling, but because of the moon’s bulge it doesn’t.
Seems like “Something” had to put the moon in orbit with its precise altitude, course, and speed.
Moon diameter & distance: How does one explain the coincidence that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter, to completely cover the sun during an eclipse?
Isaac Asimov responds,
“There is no astronomical reason why the moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion.”
Hi George, here is a link to begin your historical study.
http://meiersaken.info/terrestrial_humans.html
As for the moon? It was dislodged from it’s original location in the Lyran home worlds by the Destroyer, a large object that wreaked havoc in the home worlds. It was dislodged at some point in time and took a trajectory that caused it to take up an irregular orbit in our solar system. In it’s trip here it dragged the moon here also. The Destroyer was so named because of the geological cataclysims it wreaked on planets in the home worlds when it’s path came close to the inhabited planets there.
Here it has done the samething. Velikovsky’s work Earth in Cataclysim was detailed research in the Destroyers close approach to Earth in times past. It had an orbit that was approximately 225 year, then returned some 600+ years later then again 225 years then again 600+ years.
I don’t remember the exact figure for the 600+ years.
It also caused Venus to moved into the present orbit back about 10,000 or so years ago from it’s original orbit out around Neptune &/or Pluto…it was an outer planet.
In the records here at this link you may find the history of the Destroyer or you may not. Do not make the mistake of equating the Destroyer with Sitchin’s Niburu. That would be a mistake.
I know there is a detailed explanation of the Destroyers activities in one of the four book series by Wendelle Steven’s which he published before his death…UFO Contact from the Pleiades.
Perhaps sometime in the next week or so I can find time to look up and post (quote) properly what he wrote.
At sometime in the recent past, I believe the Destroyers orbital path was altered due so as to not be so damaging to the present civilized development here on Earth.
Again I read about it but don’t remember if it was this site or in a book.
I used to be pretty sharp on this stuff because it was really important to me, but life has gotten in the way.
Cheers, Roger
I think one of the best areas to set up a survival compound would be inside the triangle created by: Nashville SW to the Pickwith dam, East to Huntsville, then back to Nashville. I have dreamed about setting up a self sufficient lifestyle within that area. Being 64 and not having 500K excess cash, I suppose I will continue to garden and can here in Parker County.
Mark “Red Dog”
I hope you provide a few hints to your 7 skills. I would think water purification, gardening, skinning of game, preservation of foods, health / medical treatment, being a good handyman, knowing how to make crude weapons would be on the list. George you have a unique perspective on life.
Hi George,
I’m not a physicist, though I have worked in major physics labs in my time. Suppose the moon has an eccentric center of mass, such that it would always tend to be more drawn to the earth’s gravity well. It would be like rolling such a ball, where it would roll erratically, and finally always come to rest with the center of mass toward the earth.
The moon has been in orbit a long time, and it apparently does not have a molten core, so wherever its center of mass remains, it is fixed. That point, if asymmetric, would tend to locate as close to earth as possible while maintaining orbit. That would account for the earth facing moon.
Regarding my comment and the moon, a simpler statement is that the earth and other planets/moons are dynamically balanced by their molten core, and the moon is not.
Leaving the trees or better dragging them to a more distant part of the property and stacking/piling with some dirt/plant debris thrown on top them is a great for the land and will attract the snakes away from your home areas. The insects and little critters living in the decaying trees attract the snakes, especially water moccasins in hot environments, due the easy food hunting and moisture. This in turn attracts more hawks, falcons other meat eating animals to feed off the other animals and again drawing all things snake/scorpion like away from the home areas especially during hot, dry summers. The trees can be used to add land to areas that need some good soil built up, as in hugelkulture (worth doing a google search), thus helping to change water run off problems.
Just my experience living in the Appalachian mts and having more then my share of water moccasin problems over the decades. Easier to draw them away then having to kill them and easier then having a burn in dry times that can get out of control with a good errant wind. ~ regards from a long time subscriber.
We have actually done this on the back of the property. It was a half-dozen downed pines. Dug out about a 3-foot pit and laid them all in lengthwise. I appreciate the needs of the critters for habitat – and the periodic cleaning of the property down at that end won’t happen until the grasses start coming up elsewhere. There are about a dozen while tail deer that live down on that side – and they do get a pass. In the event ther shtf, they mayt contribute to our food supplies…but not till local stores have been empty a while.