Science exploration and the search for Origins.

 Science and it's various exploits in the search for origins. Origins of life on earth, origins of the universe.

    How much money is being spent on scientific exploration for the sake of exploration. If scientists had an end goal in their explorations that would shed some actual benefit to humanity that would be great.

    We as a species seem to be nearing a precipice, a tipping point, an inflection point where we need to be studying things that will reign in runaway issues concerning our planet's ability to sustain us now and in the future.

    I do not say that we need to develop a method of preventing global weather patterns or preventing volcanic activity and by extension earth quakes or other natural disasters. I dont believe those matters are actually achievable. Though there have been some wacky ideas put forth. 

    But the steps that we can make towards climatic issues where they pertain to acid rain and horrible air and water pollution seem gravely important. I do believe that we can get a grip on air and land and water pollution. Out of control wild fires are at some level avoidable. Baring the Idiot Fire Bug who wants to see his work on the TV.

     Scientists make breakthrough in solving the mystery of life's origin

     This article caused me to write on this topic today. What is the end goal of figuring out the origins of life? This help humanity how? Will 'The' scientist who finally nails down the origins of life on Planet Earth get some sort of Nobel prize? Will this discovery somehow advance drug discovery and manufacture? Will it help us in any measurable way? I do recall the same questions posed about the moon landing programs. The same with the Space Shuttle and the ISS. (International Space Station) and it's predecessor Skylab. I dont have the stats and specifics on that answer but there have been payoffs from those efforts. We all know about Velcro and Tang and freeze-dried ice cream.

    But to what good end is the James Webb telescope and its predecessor the Hubble telescope. Cool we can now apparently see back in time to with in 280 million years after the Big Bang. That picture cost 10 Billion dollars. The Hubble cost 1.5 billion. Are we (the royal we) now going to spend 100 billion of the next super telescope? The Hubble got us back to 13.4 billion years ago. The next 100 billion dollar super-scope better take an 8 by 10 color glossy of God himself reaching out his hand towards us and I hope it's not him flipping us the high hard one.

    Every week or so scientists declare that they have found yet another planet in the "Goldilocks" zone around some star some light-years from here. Currently the nearest is Proxima-b, 4.2 light-years away in the Proxima Centauri system. Now I do know that a light year, any light year is too far away for us to get excited about colonizing/destroying our next rental property. This quest to find a new apartment feels like Jeff Goldblum's Apartments.com. We know they are out there but they are in an entirely different solar system, in an entirely different galaxy. So not much good to us currently, or ever if my understanding of physics and approaching the speed of light is correct. We accelerate protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light and that is 11 km/h (6.8 mph) short of the speed of light. That is 1 (one), A, Singular Proton. Not A person and not even an entire atom. 

    We go from looking back 280 million years ago to smashing particles looking for what? We at some point recently found the Higgs Boson. As I recall we called that the God particle. There is talk about the Cern creating a black hole somehow. Wont that be interesting when they create a black hole and it swallows up a great crater in the earth where Switzerland used to be. I dont know if black holes can get fill. I hope so. It would be a problem if it didn't leave a crater in the planed but a void in space where our solar system used to be. Its my understanding that black holes are the sorts things that involve themselves in the tradition of the Muckbang. I did read an article where the Cern Collider spontaneously shut down because something had happened that the operators of the collider didn't understand. Now in the age of AI generated nonsense this may and in all probability is a case of that nonsense. I got tricked by a YouTube story regarding the (I think) Google effort towards a quantum computer chip. Something about its spontaneously working on a problem of rearranging atoms in material allowing "It" to render matter mass less or something like that. It was late/early in the night/morning, so there is that. This may have been it or something like it.  

    Is this pursuit of the next smallest thing going to have follow on benefits for humanity? If there is some goal in finding the next smallest thing? Will it will allow us (the royal us) figure out reasonable fusion reactor power sources? 

Trans - Society-mental illnes.

    There seems to be a new pattern evolving. The TRANS mass shooter pattern.

    I dont claim that every mass-shooting is perpetrated by a trans individual. But there is a rising tide of such shootings. And the most recent shooter left a confusing bit of a manifesto in which he wishes that he had not brain washed himself. 

    In recent months some trans individuals have stormed into schools and shot the place up. Leaving manifestos ranting about how they HATE just about everything that ever was or is or will be. This the most recent example. This publication uses angry language describing the event and does not hold back on the TRANS shooter angle. Other publications call for the public to stop villainizing of trans individuals. Perhaps we shouldn't villanize these individuals but we certainly should not hold these people up as heroes fighting The System. And by the system I mean the new world order that was Heralded by the overwhelming electoral victory of President Donald J Trump. These people are not heroes. This is my favorite answer to the How many Genders are there question.

    I assume that the reason that this person's manifesto is not publicly available is due in some part to the recentness of this incident.

    At this time I dont care enough to try to unravel the mysteries of this person's mental illness. That will be done by people who are better at it and who care more about it.

    As for me I have my thoughts and beliefs surrounding Trans-ness. And in general I do not look very kindly on the trans issue. Not the individuals them selves but the societal structures that support Trans-ness and dont seek to understand it. And I know that there are people who remember the gay conversion therapies that existed decades ago. And I know that those people are going to hold up Trans-ness to the same ideas that Trans-ness cant be Cured any more than Gayness can be cured. I do recall that homosexuality used to be covered in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders book until recently. (1973) I dont guess that qualifies as recently.

    I DO believe that there are only TWO genders and, as was so eloquently stated in the above video, a near infinite number is mental illnesses.

    I do feel badly for people with mental illnesses I my self am one. I believe that mental illness is a serious problem in America and the world.

    The statistic is often trotted out that men commit suicide more often than women. I dont know about the total number of occurrences versus the number of successful occurrences. I read a statistic that women attempt as often as men but that they are less successful in their attempts. Sad to say that this may be a situation where men are just plain better than women. Not a thing that one should aspire to be better at.

    I dont pretend to understand homosexuality. I dont contend that it is a mental disorder. I can however point to statistics that point in that general direction. This is a google search (lesbian domestic abuse stats) that outlines some of those statistics.

     

Society - Candy?!?

    M & M's?!?

    Are you shitting me??? Now candy is going woke, again...

    I only today mention it because of this article. Recently for pride month Skittles went white, actually sort of an ashy light grey, because "Only one Rainbow matters during Pride". The colorful candies went white in 'honor' of pride month. But caught shit because the went "white'. Apparently that was somehow White Supremacist. There people out there on both ends of the spectrum who see conspiracies in EVERYTHING!

    I dont know why companies do what they do under the guise of marketing. There are sure some super 'geniuses' in the corporate ether that believe they have a grip on the Zeitgeist of America. But yet with all of their education they always seem to miss the mark. Bud Lite became the inflection point/flash point for this "Woke" commercialism a couple years ago. I dont know if they have recovered yet. I hope they dont. I hope that marketing blunder will stand as a monument to the marketing industry "Go Woke Go Broke!".

    Cracker Barrel just laid their head on the chopping block and results were not at all favorable. I dont know the numbers, but after loosing a S#IT TONNE of money overnight they went back to the standard model.

    Harley Davidson tried it. Hired a "Cluster" of marketing "Geniuses" and the last I heard they were or were about to declare bankruptcy.

    I see that Victoria's Secret is back to advertising with young 'Thin' models again. At least on the youtube.

    American Eagle Outfitters "Came Out" as UN-Woke and made a killing. Sold out the "Good Jeans" in days. Stocks went UP by some. All the while the woke community was shitting them selves. Reading in to the commercial copy all manner of Nazi propaganda signals. I dont know what the end result of their add campaign is. But it did cause quite the sensation.

    I dont guess I need to mention disney and the 'Wokification' of Snow White. And it seems that everything that the big z touches going forward is doomed by dint of association. 

    Target, The makers of Jack Daniels, Caterpillar, Ford, Boeing, John Deer, Amazon, McDonald's, Walmart... "The list is Long but Distinguished". (I tried to 'crop' this video down shorter but then I ran into a cookies problem)

    But the One thing that can be incontrovertibly said is that being "White" in America is the one "Terrible No Good Rotten" thing that there is in America. White people bear the burden of Everything that goes wrong in America and by extension the world.