TOMORROW IN FOUR BILLION YEARS

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/science/space/andromeda-and-the-milky-way-a-merger-of-galactic-proportions.html

I'm having a rough time getting to sleep.

I'm thinking about some disturbing news concerning the future.

In about two to four billion years the Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

That's the bad news.

The good news (or maybe it isn't) is that humans will be long gone...unless future human life has continued in the form of cyborgs.

We will never know unless we can get time

travel to work.

Worrying about this prediction is like worrying about whether the sun will rise tomorrow.

I am now taking two aspirin, and will begin counting sheep.

Goodnight.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

CATS CAT LITTER---ORGANIC AND INORGANIC---AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE

 

I have owned a few cats in my lifetime.

Or I should say that they owned me.

One cat that I had was either killed or ran away.

So, I've seen---and cleaned!---shitloads of cat litter, or I should say loads and loads of shit in cat litter.

Either way it was not very pleasant, but I wanted my cats to feel comfortable, be at home, and have their special place to poop.

They never thanked me in any demonstrative way.

And it nettled me when they wanted to poop right after I had just cleaned their little house of poop.

Sometimes they chose a place outside in the dirt or sand to do their little duty, and that helped me on the cost of the the cat litter since I wouldn't need to buy as much when they were doing their duty outdoors.

I didn't worry too much about the type of litter that I bought, as long as it was the cheapest price.

I confess that I did like the kind that smelled better than the others, and I liked the kind that said on the bag or container that it was dust free.

Now I have learned that there is organic and inorganic cat litter, AND IT DOES MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE WHETHER THE LITTER IS ORGANIC OR INORGANIC, especially when radioactive waste is packed by the litter:

 

“ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico environment officials say more than 500 barrels of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory were packed with the kitty litter suspected of causing a chemical reaction and radiation release at the government's underground nuclear waste dump.”

{May 20, 2014}

 

[http://www.elpasotimes.com/latestnews/ci_25800250/new-mexico-500-barrels-questionable-nuke-waste-packed]

Humans are being killed by their own waste, whether it be plastic, radioactive, or carbon.

But we're having a jolly good time, aren't we?

We're always going places.

We're texting our asses off... well, they're actually quite large, but we are doing a lot of texting.

We're social networking!

We're watching so much television that nature and books seem dead to us.

There are exceptions.

I don't have cats anymore.

Or cat litter...

Organic, inorganic, or dust-free.

 

 

 

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

THE LAST PROPOSAL

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
-General Douglas MacArthur



What the the United States and the world ought to do to put a halt to the mad arms race was shockingly revealed in Washington last week at the annual International Conference of Amalgamated Aerospace Engineers. The conference was attended by aerospace executives, government officials and wealthy stockholders. It was closed to the Press. But fortunately one clever reporter, sporting himself as a well-to-do stockholder, slipped by security. Here is what he heard and saw.
Near the conclusion of the conference, after some very impressive and glittering speeches from all sides, a slim, old, weary-eyed gentleman stood up and took his position in front of the podium. He addressed the audience only when there was total silence.
"Gentleman, all of us here are children of the Atomic Age. Most of you cannot imagine a world devoid of earth-destroying weapons and neither can I. We have come too far to think such liberal and utopian nonsense. What I now propose, however, is the least but best option open to the international aerospace community and to the world at large. It is a proposal which can enhance profits and technology while simultaneously smooth a way for a safer earth. I propose that the United States and all nations immediately and jointly begin development of sophisticated space weapons to be used against the Aliens. You may laugh gentlemen, but mark my words, those Aliens are out there and they are fast-approaching us. Some say they are here already. They will have their weapons ready. If the nations of the world do not stop their silly shenanigans and disagreements on this planet, and soon, then those Aliens will find us like sitting ducks. It is now or never, gentlemen.
The audience, initially skeptical, now showed rising approval, and finally gave a standing ovation to the wise, old man. When the thunderous applause stopped, a listener jumped from his seat (he had not stood up like all the rest). He spoke to the old man.
"Sir, you forget, we are in a global war against terror. The aerospace industry cannot just drop its guns and stop its friendly and prosperous contract with the Pentagon. This will be disastrous! We cannot act as if we are at peace with terrorists, and that there is no war."
Then the old man spoke.
"Yes. I believe we can. We must. And the sooner the better if this world is to remain in our hands and not the Aliens."
The next day the reporter was able to get his story out. White House spokespersons were at first quiet. Then they denied such a proposal was ever given. Then they admitted that there was such a proposal. A White House official gave this report from the President on the proposal:
"The President believes that Terrorism will always be a far greater threat to our National Security than any aliens...even if they did exist. The government recognizes no enemy as permanent and irreconcilable as Terrorism. We shall, therefore, not retreat to any schemes of the far-fetched imagination. Our official policy is and shall continue to be a vigilant and strong Peace Through Strength strategy. Our national security policy for Victory in Iraq and the military defense of the Homeland will continue until the Global War on Terror is won. After that we can think about those aliens."

[I published a different version of THE LAST PROPOSAL in the Guam Tribune in 1982. It was the year that I attended the Anti-Nuclear Weapons/Great Peace March in New York City. It was also the year that my obsession with UFOS began.]


Here is an edited version I just sent to the Nation magazine:


The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
-General Douglas MacArthur



What the the United States and the world ought to do to put a halt to the nuclear arms race was shockingly revealed in Washington last week at the annual International Conference of Amalgamated Aerospace Engineers. The conference was attended by aerospace executives, government officials and wealthy stockholders. It was closed to the Press. But fortunately one clever reporter, sporting himself as a well-to-do stockholder, slipped by security. Here is what he heard and saw.
Near the conclusion of the conference, after some very impressive and glittering speeches from all sides, a slim, old, weary-eyed gentleman stood up and took his position in front of the podium. He addressed the audience only when there was total silence.
"Gentleman, all of us here are children of the Atomic Age. Most of you cannot imagine a world devoid of earth-destroying weapons and neither can I. We have come too far to think such liberal and utopian nonsense. What I now propose, however, is the best option open to the international aerospace community and to the nations of the world. It is a proposal which can enhance profits and technology while simultaneously pave a way for a safer earth. I propose that the United States and all nations immediately and jointly begin accelerated development of sophisticated space weapons to be used against the Aliens. You may laugh gentlemen, but mark my words, those Aliens are out there and they are fast-approaching us. Some say they are here already. They will have their weapons ready. If the nations of the world do not stop their silly shenanigans and disagreements on this planet, and soon, then those Aliens will find us like sitting ducks. It is now or never, gentlemen.
The audience, initially skeptical, now showed rising approval, and finally gave a standing ovation to the wise, old man. When the thunderous applause stopped, a listener jumped from his seat (he had not stood up like all the rest). He spoke to the old man.
"Sir, you forget, we are in a global war against terror. The aerospace industry cannot just drop its guns and stop its friendly and prosperous contract with the Pentagon. This would be disastrous! We cannot act as if we are at peace with terrorists, and that there is no war."
Then the old man spoke.
"Yes. I believe we can. We must. And the sooner the better if this world is to remain in our hands and not the Aliens."
The next day the reporter was able to get his story out. White House spokespersons were at first quiet. Then they denied such a proposal was ever given. Then they admitted that there was such a proposal. A White House official gave this report from the President on the proposal:
"The President believes that Nuclear Terrorism will always be a far greater threat to our National Security than any aliens...even if they did exist. The government recognizes no enemy as permanent and irreconcilable as Nuclear Terrorism. We shall, therefore, not retreat to any schemes of the far-fetched imagination. Our official policy is and shall continue to be a vigilant and strong Peace Through Strength strategy. Our national security policy, and the military defense of the Homeland, will continue. After that we will worry about aliens."

BOB DYLAN AND WILLIE NELSON ON A ROLLING STONE

 

 

Four pages of original Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-lyrics-going-up-for-auction-20140501

Bob Dylan still tours.

So does Willie Nelson.

Maybe Bob should ride along with Willie in his bus for awhile, if he can stand all the pot smoke swirling inside the entrails.

But I don't think this would be a problem, because Willy uses one of those bongs that filters the smoke, and removes the harmful heat before it goes running down through his lungs.

Does Bob still smoke cigarettes?

I think he used to smoke menthols.

Yeah, Willie and Bob.

That would be a good show.

Bob could sing Willie's songs, and Willie could sings Bob's, with an occasional duet. 

I'd pay to go to see them play together.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES WILLIE NELSON AND BOB DYLAN

THE PYRAMIDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/02/the-surprisingly-simple-way-egyptians-moved-massive-pyramid-stones-without-modern-technology/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3

The loud laughter that you hear is coming from those extraterrestrial beings who made the Egyptian pyramids .

They're laughing at a new theory explaining how those huge stones were brought across the desert.

This new theory (if it holds water) claims that the pyramid builders simply made the sand wet to allow them to easily drag, pull (push?) the giant stones.

Voila & eureka!

They then could start building their pyramids.

The wet sand decreased friction, and, thus, the stones slid smoothly across this moistened sand.

Beer that the pyramid builders drank also helped a lot.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!