Smeltertown Roots and Rants

Putting real measurements to time and distance on where man might SOME DAY attempt to reach, our nearest POSSIBLE neighbor life sustaining planet. This is a best GUESS scenario

From Wiki:Lightspeed

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1 light year= 9.47*10^15 m, 9.46 petameters, 9,460 terameters, 9.46 trillion km, 5.84 trillion miles.

The nearest star is Alpha Proximi, 4 light years away or 23.4 trillion miles from earth.

If you could drive there at 60 mph it would take 4.45*10^7 years, 44.5 million years

The fastest humans were the Apollo astronaughts, who reached 25,000 mph, it would take them 106,849 years to get Alpha Proximi.

1 parsec is 3.27 light years, =3.1*10^16 m, 31 petameters, 310 trillion km, 191.35 trillion miles.

The nearest possible earth like planet, Gliese 581 C, is 20.5 light years, or 6.3 parsecs away.

Using today’s conventional chemical rockets, (25,000 mph) it would take 547,198 years to get there.

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There is NO light drive for spaceships.
There is NO way to warp space and time.
There is NO group of humans on this planet today that could live together for the time required to go this nearest of distance.

547,198 years in reality terms and Jesus was a bit over 2000 years ago? DUH!

Look at the mess we have made of mankind so far in the last few centuries that we have become CIVILIZED. What you and I do for each other and from here on out might one day, thousands of years in the future. allow those we leave behind to be able to even attempt to go into space.

Going to Mars right now would take us 18 months for a fly by and 2 1/2 years if we stop for a few days. How do you feed and provide food for the group to even go this NEAR. Stop and think what is out there in the future for mankind. Stop and think how and when we can start learning to get along with one another her on earth before we even leave this gift from God that we are on. We might not be alone in this universe but looking at the times required to venture out, mankind has a lot of work to do and preserving of the limited resources we have to do anything close to what is dreamed up in Hollywood.

Along with your studies and hope for a family in you future, give being a friend to your fellow man a try.

God speed.

“Lust”, “Gluttony”, “Greed”, “Sloth”, “Wrath”, “Envy”, and “Pride”. The seven words that have a piece of all mankind described within. For me one word, Greed, has risen to the pinnacle amongst the seven to encompass all our failures and within the meaning of this word is driving all of us down the path to hell.

From Wikipedia:

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Greed (Latin, avaritia), also known as avarice or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to the acquisition of wealth in particular. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was “a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.” In Dante’s Purgatory, the penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts. “Avarice” is more of a blanket term that can describe many other examples of greedy behavior. These include disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, or treason,[citation needed] especially for personal gain, for example through bribery . Scavenging[citation needed] and hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery, especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions that may be inspired by greed. Such misdeeds can include simony, where one profits from soliciting goods within the actual confines of a church.

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Here described from its historical reference from the side of religion, you can move religion aside and see the failure of man as it applies to all that is going on around the world and in particular the failures in our own country. By the definition above think of our nations thirst for oil, the waste of resources that we are all guilty of in our over the top excesses of everything we “can buy”. The banks and their policies, and this ever present need to go to war. Go to war to change nations to our version of greed.

The market for drugs that we turn a blind eye towards in stopping. Greed by suppliers to send their poison to the users here. The users here that will prostitute themselves, their wifes, daughters and even their own mothers for their greed of consumption. You reading this that use drugs, even on a small scale, are feeding the problem.

The greed of the business that feed the illegal slave trade that brings the poor into this country and the greed that keeps the slave traders in business in the providing countries. I throw foreign governments and their weak policies at home to make the problem even worse. GREED.

Our arrogant demand for more and more products at less and less cost, ignoring the sweatshops in other counties that produce these products for us. Out of sight, out of mind.

This is an ongoing rant for me. Feel free to chime in or feel free to tell me to take it somewhere else.

Today 9-11-2009 is another stroke on the bell that still rings in my head from eight years ago today. Growing up hearing stories of WWII and then Korea. In my teen years joining the Navy a few months after the Cuban missile crisis then duty during the Viet Nam conflict. My life was tired of mans war on his fellow man. Then came September 11, 2001 and the methods of “civilized” war changed forever.

What little honor for battle that man had for duking it out nation to nation was upended by the senseless murder unleashed by a group of nuts following a crazy man pursuing his own mis-guided view of his “honor”.

And we jumped into his sewer with both feet to pursue this rat. Our own radical fringe decided the time was right to go after others that had spanked “our” honor via world opinion when we still cared what we looked like to the rest of the world. We chipped up a mosaic of GHB before we secured the banks, museums or weapons stores (first things first) and here we are today September 11, 2009 still in this sewer created by men and their sense of honor.

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Note: Excerpt:
Alexander Chancellor
Saturday April 26, 2003
The Guardian

Professor McGuire Gibson, an American expert on Mesopotamian archaeology, pointed out that American soldiers had been made available to chip away an insulting mural of Bush in Baghdad’s al-Rashid hotel. None, however, could be spared to protect the treasures in the National Museum while they were being looted up the road at the same time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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The people that died eight years ago left thousands of families behind with questions of why this happened. Since then ten of thousands of families, including my own, have left spilled blood for this misguided cause, that I wish someone now could put a handle on what created the mess we are in. Yes we were attacked in the most cowardly fashion by one sicko and his followers. How does that event translate to the mess our leaders have created out of what I feel they saw as an opportunity to go out more broadly around the world to get oil and money than chase down the one man responsible.

I guess even today I would take a bullet for this nation for the right reasons. Up through Viet Nam we had an enemy that was outlined for us. Now it seems the world has turned against us as we pursue this undefined ghost.

Tell me and correct me … please.

Israel. My nephew. Killed 4-1-2006 by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq during his second tour there.

After reviewing this with some of the old timers I know, this is the conclusion. If Diogenes was to walk the halls of congress with his lamp looking for one honest man he would be SOL. The Pit of Greed that is Washington DC corrupts all.