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"Trump fires acting attorney general who defied him". DS 1 31 17

Today in history

6/2/1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

The Takeover of America

   Suppose there was a takeover of the United States. Now, suppose that it was so insideous, so far reaching that you never even knew. It was so far reaching, far down, deep down, inside, to your very existence, to your own soul. The takeover was so complete, so sure, so true, that you couldn’t tell from yourself, and you didn’t want to play the fool and admit this. The takeover would have to be…

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Kids, computers and the future

    Having computers, learning computers and using computers is really good, but think of the consequences of future computing. For one, if computing power reaches planetary porportions, we are going to be in a mess with all the data that’s produced. Sure, they teach kids a lot, but think of that. We still must provide thinking power with the data to arrive at answers to the results.

    Do we want designer babies? How about robots that do our thinking? Or aggressive cars on the road? Unmanageable laws? Automatic houses that fall apart. Food processors that decide not to do the work they were designed to. Stereos that change channels when we want one. Lights switching on in the middle of the night. Or units that power up when we want to save. Non-working self-tying “Back to the Future” shoes. The list is endless.

    Computing is a resource, but in this time of global realization, for 10 billion people, all resources need to be managed, and managed better than we are doing right now. We could start right here. You might say, there’s nothing I could do or let someone else do it. What about using the connections to others we have now? Because now is when this will happen. Tell friends, talk is the one communication available to us we still have. Create a way to slow the juggernaut. Before it is too late.

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David Schaedler 10/13/15

December 8, 2013

Previous blogs from ”dmschaedlersblog”

December 9 - “The Left of Right-ness” December 8 - ”Imagine Above” December 6 - ”Part E” November 30 - “Living In An Increasingly Unfit World (Part C)” November 30 - (Part D) November 30 - (Part B) November 30 - (Part A) November 27 - ”What Is This New World Order?” November 20 - ”How Hard Is It To Change ”Climate Change”?” November 19 - ”Do You Remember Abraham Lincoln”? November 12 - ”What Could Be Worse Than Global Warming”? October 13 - (the previous, previous blog ”titles listing”)

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Sacramento, 103rd annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Anywhere else? 4/22/17 David Schaedler

4/23 was also Earth Day 2017 and International Record Store Day. DS 4/24/17

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120 companies including Apple, Google, others …

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Water is even weirder than we knew, supercool study shows. Follow this interesting story on water, that covers 2/3 of the planet.

What happened to NASA?

January 27, 2014

Do We Need Another Space Truck?

NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended July 8, 2011, we no longer have any satellite boosting capacity, other than ‘throw-away rockets’ that were until then the mainstay.

The Space Shuttle was our ‘Cargo Capable Carrier’ from Earth to orbit, retreival of non-functioning, repair and return-to-orbit satellites, and, was re-usable. Only the orbiter’s main tank needed replacing when used (refitting was also required). Once the ‘way to go’ was worked out and snarls removed, many satelittes were put into orbit, including the very large ”International Space Station” inhabited by dozens of ”space fare-ers” up to now. There were a total of 135 missions. Canada produced the ”Canadarm”, the necessary mechanical arm used to remove ‘cargo’ and delicately place it into  orbit.

Notable satellite, “The Hubble Space telescope” was one. Due to the vacuum of space and distance from gravity-heavy, atmosphere and tremor-filled Earth, the Hubble has, and continues to produce awesome images of billion light-year distant Stars and Galaxies. Now what could be more inspiring than that? Knowledge of other planets with lifeforms like our own would be a momentous occasion.

”SpaceX” in 2011 has commited to designing and building a heavy-lift, low-cost rocket booster that would do twice the job of current rockets, at a third of the cost, in the ‘mythical’  $1,000/pound range, still being worked on.

In 2012, NASA was building a heavy lift rocket bigger than the Saturn V, that would have a payload of 77 metric tons, due in 2017. But is it a Space Shuttle? Not being reusable, this would not be the case. It’s a ‘different package’ rocket, to be used for deep space missions.

Manned Mars missions would cost $500 million with a scaled up version of this new rocket, with a 130 ton payload, compared to a shuttle SRB worth $23 - $70 million. The SRB did have a lower payload.

So, space is not being ‘left alone’, we do have future plans for inter-planetary travel, and, it will be spectacular.

. Sources: Ask.com, Google images

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