The odds of humanity reaching 2050 are about half the odds that we will blow-up the planet first. That’s one of the most troubling takeout’s from a major project around here that involves historical research, A.I. modeling, and someone’s modest writing skills.
In the first of what’s likely to be a multi-part series, we consider the Big Picture first: does the world need to “get global” in order to find the resources and brainpower to become a space-faring culture?
First, though, the mid-week madness as we go through the latest Trump-bashings, fresh jobs data and a new GDP reading.
And then a detour into our stock chart collection as the marker smelled a bit “toppy Tuesday” at yesterday’s close.
Then we get into it. With a “TL;DR” summary for the time-challenged and 7-thousand words for those thoughtful enough to wade through it. And this is only Part 1?
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I would say keep doing what is best for you. You’re driving this bus. I’m sure everyone will stick around no matter what you decide.
I spend at least 3 hours a day working in the hoops and the rest of the time out working the ranch. What precious free time we have, Diana and I spend chasing each other around or cooking up some new project or scheme. The last meeting with our financial advisor pointed out, for me at least, that they have me ending at age 92. Poppycock and Balderdash!
Stay safe. 73
“Amazon… Display Tariff-Related Import Charges.”
Why not – what’s the secret? Some fuel pumps will show the fuel taxes.
Instead of sending flowers I now send pies using grocery delivery services. Some fees include the shopper/goods/tax/delivery.
Auction houses break out fees – hammer bid/buyer’s premium/sales tax/shipping and handling.
$AMZN should break out the tariffs in a separate field on a long receipt vs short receipt – wholesale cost/tariff/seller’s mark-up/tax/shipping and handling/etc, etc. on the long receipt.
It’s all gimmicks anyway. Instead of F and GM building new factories they are getting tariff concessions. What a joke. But people at it up.
First 100 days……..WOW!!
Second 100 days..OUCH!!
The bigger they are, ……………!!!!
If you are a stanch Hindu and Muslims hate you only fix is hate them and christians…so europe and arabia…
We are flooding again due to extreme rain. School is closed. An emergency alert whent out early this morning saying to stay home and off the roads. At least a dozen roads are closed in the city due to high levels of impassable water. When I got mail yesterday the ground was squishy, like walking on the tundra in Alaska. There’s nowhere for the water to go. When the dam released water last weekend many fish came with it. A friend with two overflowing ponds said that people are pulling over on the side of the road next to her farm and fishing with nets in the ditches along her road. They are catching snakes, fish (carp mostly) and turtles and putting them in their freezers Her husband killed a 2 foot wide , angry and aggressive turtle who was threatening his dog.
Do NOT like the long AI generated reports.
Maybe leave them as a link but don’t clutter up the site with them. A short one paragraph summary of what they are attempting to talk about should be enough for people to decide if they want to read the entire AI report.
The writer Issac Asimov was a strong advocate for a one world government., for one very specific reason. Getting mankind off this planet and into space exploration – to start with colonies on the Moon and Mars. Individually, as a single nation, we won’t do it. Or, to be more precise, can’t do it. We can’t do it because we are so busy trying to destroy each other.
As prolific a thinker and writer as he was, he could never come up with a way to get everyone around the camp fire, hold hands and sing kum-by-yah. “I do not pretend to see that happening any time soon.”
And he was right. It will not happen in our life time., nor our childrens’. We are not at that stage of evolution., or development. The odds are magnitude higher that we as a species will destroy ourselves, before we can gain that “Oneness” which will be needed, required to achieve a unifying one mission goal of getting mankind off this sphere.
As history has shown us, advanced civilizations have a routine destiny to self-destruct. “Shit happens”, whether it be social or environmental and they just can’t seem to hold it together. And with the advancement in modern technology that “self-destruct” could easily go global and take-out most of the population. Unification at that level is rather improbable.
One “Space Theory” is based on this same thought. That throughout our local galaxy there have been many technological civilizations, but as they advanced, just like we are doing., they blow themselves up., killing themselves and their dreams off. They never achieve space exploration due to the same reason that we won’t.
Earthbloom is, I will admit, a catchy little phrase. But it is a dream., a possibility that will, sadly, remain unrealized., at least for now.
Hope is not a strategy.
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If you keep the longer reports / ideas into the clickable PDF format – then all is well. This gives the audience a choice to opt-out., or download and read when time allows.
That was an experiment – I may do more of that – the tl;dr summary and then the deep drill in. Even so, 7-thousand words (not counting a 40 page ChartPack twice a week, is a little stupid on my part for $40 a year, lol
Oddity
– For the last three nights in a row I have woken up at three in morning. Sound asleep to wide awake – right at 3:00
– Anyone else having their sleep disrupted lately?