The Moon, Mars and Near Earth Objects

This would be where I talk about my fascination with Terra forming Mars for Human habitation. Establishing a Base on the Moon, an advanced orbital production/port/platform infrastructure and mining NEOs for fun and profit.

Culture, Society, Religion and Science

This is not my blog – this is just an example of what I would blog about – I'm just testing the formatting and features of this site to see if I want to use this one or another.....

I think that Culture, Society, Religion and Science are linked. Kind of like how Astrology sparked Astronomy and Alchemy led to Chemistry, but of much deeper and personal significance. More like how patterns of shrills, whistles, grunts and thuds led to Music. Just as deep in our being. Just as stirring in our souls.

For are not science and religion both asking the same questions and hoping for the same answers. Fundamental answers to questions like; Who are we? Why are we here? and What's going to happen to us?   

And they both expect their answers to be correct!

It's easy for us here, sitting with our laptops to try to attempt to answer some of these questions. With Google and Wikipedia at our finger-tips were fucking experts on anything. But without the collective knowledge and experience of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years, our world perspective might be categorized into to just two simple views; 


              What can I eat? and What can eat me?

It's not only understandable, but it was probably necessary for us to try and take some control of our lot by attaching some meaning to the existence we defined for ourselves - just to cope with the harsh and fickle reality of The Physical World. So naturally, we might view the things that we can eat as Life-givers, something to be sought after, enticed and obtained, while the things that eat us would be understood as Life-takers, something to avoid and ward against. Something we must overcome.

Animal Worship

Now, so armed with perhaps the most fundamental concept of Good and Evil we can get acquainted with their Kin: Right and Wrong.

I can just imagine John Q. Caveman tucking little Thonk into bed, counseling his son; “Thonk be good – The Great Gazelle bring you gifts. Thonk be bad – Cave-bear eat you whole.” And so a set of rules and a code of conduct were created to define what it meant to be good, and by contrast bad, with very real consequences for both actions. This social contract is deeply embedded with “religion” or at least a system that had many of the same characteristics we attribute to religion, symbolic imagery, a moral code and ritualistic display.

By establishing a common good and identifying a communal goal we created a system of dependency and obligation. Individuals were expected to contribute to the communal goal to the best of their ability and in return they would shared in the groups success and since the stakes were literally life or death, John Q. was ripe and willing to comply.

Ancestor worship

None the less, some individuals, by condition or circumstance were able to contribute more significantly than others and their removal from the system, by age, death and disease must have been an unwelcome but inevitable random variable in their world view. Something that needed to be explained.

And thus the infant Science was born.

Conclusion: Not to impressed with the layout features, there is not enough "user-friendly" editing and format capabilities to quickly get a cool looking layout - I am aware of the advanced options and embedded HTML and do know with a little effort i could get a nice look - but I want to write my blog not practice my coding.