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http://news.yahoo.com/fema-prepared-dead-nasa-satellites-plunge-earth-week-140205718.html Chicken Little Was Right..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44600358/#.TnlEtuyd0Vs China Plays A Role.
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-unveils-plan-buy-rides-astronauts-001135788.html Yo, Taxi!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/20/economic-plan-fallout-shows-difficulty-tackling-deficit-jobs-at-once/ To much by two.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to put thousands back to work. To put thousands of our college graduates to work using the computer and other high tech skills they have invested thousands of dollars into. We have it within our ability to do so.
We have the tools. We have the technology. We have the money. Above all else, we have the desire.
An Epiphanous Moment
While lying in bed watching the early morning news on the local NBC channel, the wife and I saw the story about the satellite crashing to earth this week. Some chunks could be the size of a refrigerator weighing something like 3,000 pounds. Thousands of rocks in the .225 range in size. Sounds like bullets raining down.
They don't know where! What was it they said 1 in 32,000 chance of anybody getting hurt ? Based on the fact the earth is 2/3 water. It'salso1/3 land.Sounds more like a one in three chance to me. A bit of a stretch, call it poetic mischief. My point is it could hit in a major metropolitan area anywhere on the globe. Imagine waking up to the headlines "United States Bombs Hanoi From Space" Yes, yes another alarmist type stretch. Now look, this is not a conspiracy theory, nobody has any intention of bombing anybody from space. That we have been told of. Or that we know of.(couldn't resist).
We got to talking about how many satellites were out there just waiting for their orbits to erode. According to the T.V. there are thousands of them. Worth millions, probably billions of dollars. So let's go get it !
Developing a whole new industry, and creating the need for multiple support industries seems to be more progressive than anything we have heard out of Washington yet.
Clean Up The Environment
You don't really think that bad weather and the way the stars are aligned or where the moon is at is the only thing they have to consider when plotting a flight path in outer space do you?We have placed a man made meteor cloud around our planet. A good portion of that computer humming you hear from the flight navigation team is plotting a path through all of the space junk.
The tools and technology are at our fingertips. The good old sawzall, chop saw and acetylene torch will be replaced with a hand held multifunction laser tool. I'm on the verge of insanity (as usual) trying to imagine all of the new side industries that will develop as well as the endless opportunities to expand into the galaxy.
We have already trained a workforce. One that will eagerly accept the opportunity to use their schooling and their skills employed as space salvagers. Big burly, carpenters, fat- butted plumbers and curly haired electricians aren't going to be needed on this job. What we need are techno cowboys. Engineers, programmers, specialty technicians.
I could sit here all night and compile list after list of the benefits of initiating a space environmental industry. Don't tell me it can't be done for any other reason than political resistance.Take some time, read the links and let your mind wander, What ideas do you see in support industries, do you see any opportunities for things like maybe solar panels for reflected energy?
Regardless of whether you consider this a good idea or not. You should at least admit that it isn't the worst idea in the world. Many of our kids got their educations with the very idea of space exploration and expansion in mind. We have a well educated technically superb group of young people chomping at the bit to have their turn at advancing the sciences of man.
Washington doesn't have the capacity to work on two things at once. Jobs keep getting shoved to the back of the line. As a taxpayer, do you want to see the banks get more stimulus money? The car makers? The unions? We've been down that road and it proved to be a big loss for the average you and me.
I say we should grubstake a new industry for a new world. An industrial revolution of a new dimension to fit the needs of the 21st Century.
A fools dream? A step forward!
Would probably be most successful if privatized.
