Books

While I wait for my Malware and Spyware programs to clean up my PC I will make this post on the Apple laptop. Meanwhile my email is also on the PC and unavailable unless it is "cleaned".

Ah. Modern tech. Simple EMP pulse would knock us into the stone age and starve millions to death. I have been told by my barber that a local farmer is going "back" to old equipment. His computerized modern tractor was knocked out by a lightening strike "close in the neighborhood within 5 miles and the company has still not got it fixed right".

Two hours into my full scan on Malware and still no infections showing. Umm. Maybe cable problems.

Just got in two books...."Entering Space" by Robert Zubrin (of Mars fame-1999) and "Mining the Sky" by John S. Lewis-(1996). Both look great. I will give you an opinion on them as I read them. Checking the index on either one and I don't see "MagBeam". Google it. Magnetized-beam plasma propulsion. "To Mars and back in 90 days". Things change and change fast. Better tech, and newer tech.

But people hold to traditions and keep repeating history. Joplin Mo could use a major rebuild just now and might look into the idea of "SIP" or Shelter In Place.  Look up Monolithic Dome homes. Domes are super insulated and therefore lower energy costs. No roofing repairs. They are "twister resisters" resisting winds up to 300 mph. With a HEPA filter they are BioWar shelters. But they are "NOT SQUARE" like the homes we always build. My six year old watches Bubble Guppies cartoon. Neat little bubble underwater houses. I guess fish are smarter than we are.... maybe.

It's because people keep repeating history that we need to understand history. My degree is in Biology with a minor in Math, but history was my other passion in college. From what I see we are in deep trouble folks. Not being pessimistic, just realistic. ....and hoping I'm wrong on that.