What we shall do will be limited only by our imaginations. Consider:
1. simplify transport & distribution
- orbital ring & global railway
- elevator to LEO with low gee lift
- ground railways to space depot
- inexpensive personal transport
- 1-3 days global bulk commodities
2. create a value/work economy
- not based on debt & borrowing
- project or employment contracts
- accumulated worth, living wage
- products, services, resources
- ranked difficulty & importance
3. make enough land for everyone
- Lunar base, Mars colony
- constructed orbital habitats
- modular housing attachment
- high-tech agriculture methods
- maximum systems recycling
4. develop many eutopian cultures
- freedom of ideology & identity
- freedom of association
- orbital flexibility & relocation
- abundance of resources & energy
- non-interference & non-agression
5. discover cures for age disability
- nanorobotics for cancer or drugs
- stem cell therapy / organs
- scientific dietetics & exercise
- embryonic eugenic correction
- washout therapy / antioxidants
6. control & adjust Earth's climate
- shade / mirrors in orbit
- cloud / ocean chemistry
- redirected monsoons
- regulating solar influx
- defending vs solar flares & wind
7. high bandwidth communication
- intracranial plug, internet & chips
- interpersonal word/image telepathy
- advanced learning techniques
- social & political participation
- manned-machine integration
8. become more than human
- genetic interpretation studies
- human cyborg prosthetics
- extended lifespans
- enhanced intelligence
- improved focus & reactions
9. spread life around the galaxy
- find new habitable worlds
- bioengineering in situ
- collecting alien samples
- habitat ecologies
- adaptive cultures
10. search for other "peoples"
- observation / listening
- signalling for commerce
- broadcast beacons
- travel & exploration
- leaving signpost cairns
11. learn all that can be known
- biochemistry & abiogenesis
- astronomy & physics
- sociology & psychology
- materials & engineering
- theology, purpose & meaning
12. explore unlimited adventures
- wormhole diving
- gravity wave surfing
- trekking beyond the frontiers
- riding rainbow dust clouds
- wishing upon the stars
How is that for a beginning?
"May Adonai bless you and protect you! May Adonai deal kindly and graciously with you! May Adonai lift up his countenance upon you and grant you peace!" (Torah, Numbers 6:24-26) And Jesus said, "Allow the little children to come unto me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Truly, I say unto you, unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a little child does, you shall not enter therein." (New Testament, Mark 10:14-16)
Sojourning at an Oasis Paradise
My purpose for living this life, and for writing this blog, is to understand the faith that links us to God. I wish to explore and discuss the reality at the heart of all of the world's religions. This is an immense task, but I know that God also has faith in us, trusting that we do desire the truth, as well as freedom, love and wisdom. Thus, as always, He meets us halfway. Even as God has given us individual souls, so we must each of us trace out an individual pathway to God. Whether we reside in the cities of orthodox religion, or wend our solitary ways through the barren wastelands, God watches over us and offers us guidance and sustenance for the journey.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
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