Sunday, July 15, 2012

Finality, and how it doesn't mean what it thinks it means.

So, I sit here drinking a double shot espresso again, as my roommate's girlfriend has yet to take her fancy coffee machine, or boxes of coffee from my house still. (no qualms there.) I contemplate on how it's the last day at my current job, like most folk my job has certain non-disclosure contracts to which end I'll be vague. But I assemble for this Big-Box home repair store, and it's been a great job honestly. Legos for grown ups really. Of course it didn't hurt that my Co-Worker and I both have the same taste in music, literature, and the pursuit of philosophical knowledge. It was a sometimes frustrating, but always enjoyable job. So now I'll likely be in a bind should I not get another job before I move to Cincinnati (which I thought was what people meant by Sin-City for a while... nope.) Either way, some personal stuff wraps up in my life in august granting me both money to move, and earning potential to sustain myself more passively. I'll be up there paying off my modest student loan debt, and returning to school to wrap up my English and philosophy studies and then onto Chase Law hopefully. But I feel I've typed a large amount of this before to a large extent, in my last entry.

It seems I pick the best times to start blogging again. Once again we have a laughable political competition between two parties that do not fully satisfy the voters, we still don't have a form of alternate vote in the US of A, to allow third party voter confidence either, or to even ensure a solid majority rule for that matter. This election year comes down to a Crooked failed governor and CEO, versus a rather successful low-spending over compromising incumbent president. Of course some hope comes with faith in the continued pattern of the two term democrat, wherein the first term safeguards the second term, and the second term they actually seem to have balls. I still don't think Obama will legalize Marijuana however, my reasoning is somewhat about racism. If the first black president legalized marijuana, the republicans would yet again have an issue that they originally championed to chastise liberals and minorities for. The one solid factor in our political system however, (most certainly is not the democrats, or their voting records.) the republicans can always be counted on blame others for problems they aggravate in order to highlight the fact that government has the potential to harm. Kind of like shooting people, to let them know about gun safety... Over and over again. If I had the time to look up my citations I'd go on a rant here about how Saudi money controls the GOP propaganda machine, and is fine with keeping the population here destabilized and profits from being somewhat stable in a war torn region... until some recent riots that is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16704550http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16995286http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/uk-saudi-security-iran-idUKBRE86B0WY20120712

Hopefully the global riots will lead to something greater than individual change. Seeking human rights, and fair economic policies in individual countries as great as that might be, and as necessary as it would be.. it pales in comparison to the necessity of an end to nationalist concepts. In a world with no borders, we cannot be told which imaginary lines make men into monsters. Lies propagate all war, whether it's religious extremists in the US government, or the hills of Arabic countries we so long ago devastated to control the oil markets. Or Cold War era 'us versus them' mentalities which cultivated fear and refusal to understand first the Soviets, and more recently the Chinese. And I'm sure there are just as meaningful foreign examples, but I have only the pleasure to live in the United States of America... which is in large part why I am so free to criticize it. It is however daunting that we now allow our police forces to use drone surveillance robots.. but on the other hand I am totally down the the EPA using them to monitor safe waste disposal, and clean water practices. But that's all opinion piece let's get down to actually important stuff. Science!

So it seems that Virgin Galactic has contracted some asteroid mining conveyance contracts, Space X has likewise contracted with Bigelow to be the main launch source for their inflatable space stations. (which btw, are 3x the volume of the ISS, and actually laid out like an earth building, with floors rather than tin-cans attached via pvc connectors lol.).


The Higgs Boson, -or 'That God Damned Particle' in other more recent news has been not only detected, with verifiable data several times now, has far more implications than explaining 4% of mass associated with baryonic structures such as ourselves. (most people claim it assigns all mass, but strong and weak nuclear force actually have a good deal more of the share in that burden.)  

What exactly does the Higgs Boson do that is so revolutionary? Well, in this bloggers caffeine riddled understanding (and opinion in terms of assigning grandeur -I'm like my own Higgs Boson in that way.) 



It assigns mass, by interacting with particles in such a way that it instigates a resistance to movement, this is measured in turn a contributing factor to the mass of said particles. But this interaction may not be entirely limited to what we currently understand as baryonic matter. Dark Matter is also heavily theorized to interact with the Higgs boson in the same way! Why am I so excited by this that I choose to use an exclamation point? Well, my logic is as follows (flawed as perhaps it may be.) to understand the Higgs Boson, is to one day readily find, or generate said particle in laboratory conditions> if the Higgs boson can manipulate the resistance level of Dark Matter, then that moves us towards being able to find, and possibly contain said material for study, and potential future use. Perhaps the Higgs Boson could even one day provide a stable way to contain anti-matter, for 1 to 1 Matter to energy conversion drives on starships. Or Sadly more likely to destroy areas of the world where we think they have resources and are not anglo. As my understanding goes, there are implications into fields that I haven't even begun to understand, such as computing, telecommunications, and electronics. We'll have to wait and see.

On the subject of Dark Matter I'd like to just mention before I have to get ready for work. That we've recently directly observed a thin layer of massive dark matter connecting two galaxies, providing sustenance to our growing understanding of Dark Matter's role as a connective structuring filament for our universe which connects (maybe dictates the origin points of) the large observable galactic formations which comprise our universe -to our understanding. Here, have a picture and a link!


As you can see the Galactic clusters in question are named Abell 223 and Abell 222. Here is an article that goes more indepth. 

Before I jump off here I'd just like to say I'm glad my viewer ship in finally picking up. I've noticed that not all of my readers come from google+ and facebook anymore. And that's neat. Adios amigos.


Saturday, July 14, 2012

Wine and Espresso in the morning.

Bleh... With this kind of sleep schedule I should live on a farm. LoL. I've decided though, with all this time to think. I am passionate about Space Science, but all of my previous education experience is setup to transition to a humanities based end game such as law. And I am passionate about that too. Perhaps with increasing my earning potential instead of throwing all my college so far to scrap and following my dreams... I can one day have a job that allows me to earn enough to invest in my other passions. Sometimes you gotta call your talents where they lay, and your heart where it lays too. Bah what's it matter anyways right now. I've still got a few grand in financial aide to pay off, or at least into the good before I start back to classes... though that could be sooner than later, could also be later than sooner.

So it looks like I'm going to stay on this blog as a lay-scientist, perhaps my interest in law can provide some relevance to issues. Hell I'm an interested self-declared genius one way or the other. I prefer it one way, perhaps it works out the other but like I've said I guess it doesn't matter in the end. I am however still going to proceed with my innovations firm, which plans to work heavily with a new era of space based business.

I'll be moving to the Cincinnati area in a month and a half, at the most two months. This largely depends on getting a job there, or not being able to get a job here haha! But I go to tour apartments while visiting my old roommates, for their birthday. Live in girlfriend of other fellow Blogger Comic Chaos, who I will retain some anonymity for out of respect for the grand ol' internet. But I'll get to see those apartments on the 26th at 9:30am I'm excited. Craigslist should help me find a job. that's the plan anyhow.  

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Review of Vincent Jedselius' premiere album 'WebCam Stories'


I know I don't usually do music reviews. But this album really takes the Cake IMO, and needs to get some attention.

WebCam Stories - Vincent Jedselius

The first album by Fagersta, Sweden's own Vincent
Jedselius. A modern folkish take on today's life,
the lyrics and musical accompaniment are sure to
take the listener on a melodic stroll through
their own self-reflection. In my opinion This
entire album is a hit, it really connects with my
Kentucky soul. Maybe it's the similar geographies
between Morehead, Kentucky and Fagersta, Sweden?
Then again maybe it's the universality of the
human condition. Below is the link, and on a
final note I'll recommend my favourite track
before I go - "Let's call her Whiskey" certainly
speaks to this Ol' Kentucky Soul.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Back to the scene

Time once again, to start Blogging. And as such here is my Blog starter Blog entry.... How about them Oppressive world governments we all have across the world eh? Wouldn't it be nice to realize that we don't have borders. They are only in the mouths of our leaders, and the minds of our children. The guns they give us help keep peace away at night. Fear is the enemy in a world built for lovers. So why are you afraid? let's all get over it together, with resolve and an understanding of who we are and what we all share. I'll post again  later tonight on recent SpaceX developments following the first successful Docking of a commercial ship with the ISS. China completes their first crewed orbital docking. Making them the first government to join the ranks of manned space capable Governments and Corporations (post the inclusion of corporations that is.) But seriously I like them for that, we need the pressure so we start putting space money back into NASA instead of leaving it all in the air force. Speaking of which the Governments worst kept secret Space Plane landed after 496 days in orbit of earth... after I figure out who is honking.
something strange about that when the airforce has a replacement shuttle basically before NASA has even considered it. But I am glad that we retired the shuttle program, it was necessary. Now we can ride safely in modern craft every time, which is to say I wouldn't be happy if we were going to rely on being overcharged by the Russians to ride in their tuna cans either. I'll type more later 

Thursday, February 16, 2012

A working class zero is something to be

Well it's been a long time off, and I don't have much prepared right now with the exception of some personal information. I can of course come back later to talk about recent planetary news, and technologically specific topics in the recent weeks, and days.

I found some work as a chicken wing chef, let's call it. That's something, it's a lot easier to blog with the bills paid, but there isn't as much to distract myself from with it now. Especially with an average readership of less than 10. Or 3. I moved, from a place that was fairly shitty as well, into a place that's pretty nice.

I began in a conversation with a group on reddit about some entrepreneurial space interests that we felt some random interested minds could collaborate on the development, or support for the development of technologies that we feel will provide much needed industry to a world that is ready for it. I'd like to see this industry come and replace the various industries that harm and pollute this earth. I have some plans, and I think they'll be neat. haha. I'll be back later with some actual news on the developments of whatever I talk about.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Short Entry, first in a while. I filed a patent!

I don't know what I'm within good wisdom to discuss. But I have filed for a Provisional Patent as of today. There are a few things I need to get over, a fee I need to save up for. But it's not too bad, and I get half off because I am a 'small entity' instead of a corporation. It may well be a long process, and I've got some follow up patents I want to file when I save up for them aswell. I think I can afford reasonably to file one patent a month until I get a job, which would allow me to greater freedom, at the cost of my time. Hopefully I can grab onto this, and get it done. Because that's the plan.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Congress to cut funding for milestone NASA programs while leaving the Department of War expenses High enough to cover the current NASA expenses for half a century in only two years!

So wow, yeah. Long time without writing. so I'll just jump right into things. I've been collaborating with my good buddy Comic Chaos over at 'anthem of impending doom' which you all non-existant people should definitely give a checking out too. The project is a webcomic but I'm not going to go into details, mutually exclusive la de da happy dappy wonder pup type stuff you know. I'm excited about that and you all will be sure to be informed when the pilot arc premieres, meanwhile check out the art over on my good buddies blog I mention previously.

I'm sure you've all heard. Or perhaps you were too busy being concerned about the retirement of the space shuttle program with the final launch of atlantis yesterday morning, or perhaps the culmination of the Casey Anthony Trial... to which I suggest that worse crimes go unpunished, or are attributed directly to our legal system every day to no big fuss, things like this only serve to distract otherwise rational people during times when it would behoove them to keep an eye out and an ear open. What I am upset about is the budget cuts that NASA is due to receive a major budget slash while our Department of War pumps out cash into Airconditioned Battle suits that never even see a soldier's use because of their expense. I've ranted enough about the JWST in previous posts that I don't believe I need to give that speil again, the most important NASA project between 2015 and 2018 to hit the skies... The replacement program for Hubble for crying out loud. Ah well what I want to get out there is the ability to follow this link to fill in your information and send an email to your local congressman or congresswoman as the case may be voicing your opinion that we should not defund the JWST. below is a preformed letter that I found on reddit's space subreddit.

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This correspondence is in reference to the house appropriations bill that seeks to cut funding to NASA, specifically the James Web Space Telescope (JWST). While the price of the JWST may cause sticker shock to many, the inspirational discoveries that this precision instrument are likely to make will set the bar for astronomy of the 21st century and beyond. Following in the footsteps of the profoundly successful Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST will not only provide a wealth of scientific data, but it will also provide the general population with breathtaking views of the cosmos. As academic performance in math and science of the United States’ school children continues to fall behind that of many other first world countries, it is imperative that we strive to inspire young people to see the beauty of nature so that they become passionate about the sciences and pursue careers in such fields. I believe that the JWST, already largely completed, is the perfect motivator to help bolster this country’s sense of scientific wonder and exploration. I urge you to support the James Webb Space Telescope along with NASA, the National Science Foundation, and other future scientific projects of great importance.
"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature¬. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.¬" - George Washington¬, address to Congress, 8 January, 1790
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Well, this is kind of a whim to keep up with the regular (Hah!) blog entries. Please click the link, and message your conressional representative. The pre-form is just a suggestion, feel free to write out your own personalized message.

P.S. sorry for linking a news site instead of NASA but I was in a hurry and have no readers.

P.P.S. I'd like to throw in a late addiction to this article to link to this awesome article about commercial space entrepreneurs and the ushering in of Commercial space ventures with the end of the Shuttle Program.