Sliding into April
Greetings to you my readers. The few and the many of you. Some want more while others don't. Good thing for them that I don't post everything I write. Actually I post very little of it here, just the late night Ramblings mostly, hence the name of this Blog. One needs to be a bit careful in this say and age of electronic monitoring and snooping. The First amendment has had enough holes drilled into it that it now looks like a sieve. And then there are those who spend all their time seeking out people using certain words. You gotta be careful which words you use, even more than how you use them. But I'm not going on about that today. Maybe another day.
Right now;
I am wondering. Hydrogen is the smallest, the simplest, element. Helium is next but also a lot bigger, heavier, in comparison. Which is why they both provide lift for Balloons and Blimps; Air Ships depending on lift assist for flotation. Because they are the lightest of all the gases, lighter, and smaller too, and they float upwards. The air pressure diminishes as the altitude increases. How much is needed and is more or less better for lift.
I got to pondering what ifs. What if you built an airplane with a large bubble, or empty space, self supporting hard surface, for which carbon fiber is the choice material today, on the top and under the bottom of the craft. Pump all the air out until you have created a vacuum. Then slowly add Hydrogen, or the safer Helium gas. The idea is to assist the lift not produce all of it. The plane would still have engines to push it forward, well it wouldn't be much of a plane if it didn't. This isn't a new idea, but the materials are new and the key to making it feasible. Because if you could reduce the lift required by flight then pushing would be so very much easier. And easier equates to less fuel needed. It would also help if speed was not a factor in the equation. Sell people on the adventure and enjoyment of flying. Not everyone needs to get somewhere as fast as possible. Faster everything is recent change for mankind brought about by the internal combustion engine for ground transportation, and the Jet engines for flying the skies. You only need to be at 30,000 feet if you have jet engines, they work better up there for some reason. But you don't really have the whole experience of flying. Sure you can see a long way but very few details. I love the view from way up high don't get me wrong. I always ask for a window seat and can spend the whole time looking out of it, even if it's at night. Day is better of course but there is still a lot to see at night.
But at say just a mile up [5280 feet] you can see a lot more of what's on the ground. And at 2500' you are twice as close and you see even more detail. You can also see a long ways off in the distance, pretty much anywhere you are above the tallest thing in sight, trees, buildings, hills and such, with mountains excepted. I forget it now but there is a formula to calculate how far you can see, before the horizon becomes a factor, you just can't see over it. Just a couple hundred feet off the ground lets you see a long ways before the horizon kicks in. Of course if the elevations is growing in the direction you're looking that extends the distance you can see, only at the lower altitudes. There are a lot of factors to consider. Like smog, dust, sand, rain, snow, fog, clouds, Jet planes leave a lot of exhaust in the air, massive amounts in fact. I've read more than one report by People that noticed how clear the sky was during the 911 grounding of all aircraft. They wrote that they had never seen the sky that clear, that blue.
I think it would be a real experience to take a long flight at low altitude from coast to coast or even just a few states. This would be better than a train which also lets you see country you can't see from any road. And certainly better than the bus. You could build these huge and incorporate lots of windows. And they could be good windows. You don't need a pressurized cabin. Meaning windows would be like the ones in your average car, easy to see out of. And that's a good thing. You could book tours, sightseeing tours. Line up towns like ships do ports of call. Left off a couple hundred tourists and their money into a small town a few times and week and they'll reap the profits. They can build a nicer town, nicer parks, stylish buildings. The time for plain box stores is over. Buildings need to not only serve function but they should last a very long time and if they are going to then pleasing to the eye is a must.
Besides we should be building for the long term. Bring back building in Stone. Carved ornate stone. Yes it will cost more to construct. But it will be tremendously cheaper over time. Think in hundreds of years. And if they are deigned right any retrofitting along the way will be easy to accomplish.
Just now dawned on me this is April 1, and it's 2010 to boot. Doesn't mean much when you live alone, nobody to pull pranks on or have them pulled on you by someone else.
This new plane idea could spawn a whole new industry. Well not industry, it's basically a tourism thing. But it could be a big business if done right. And it would provide a lot of jobs beyond itself, the ones in the towns of call and destination. You could have large and smaller planes. Two basic divisions, for up to 25 and up to 200. Cruisers and Luxury Liners; both having tourist and first class subdivisions. I wouldn't mix both on the same plane. Better for helping ordinary people to feel special.
Would you spend a dollar to buy back your country? Would you spend a Dollar a week? If we all did just think of what we could accomplish. What if we got a Dollar from every single person in the country once a week for a year. I would also be hoping that those who don't have kids or are rich enough would kick in a few extra, or a lot once in a while to make up for the larger families at the lower end of the economic ladder. Business that make a profit should kick in a few too, big corporations that rake in millions or billions should kick a nice percentage. All the Politicians could really help by just spending 10% less than they take in from all sources.
I would use the money to fund businesses, preferably new ones, aimed at putting everyone back to work. And bring back the worker owned business. If a company is on the rocks or going under. I would consider buying out the owners in favor of the workers. And I think there should be some in or around the bigger cities where the people who can't really hold down a steady job. Hey, there are lots of good and valid reasons why that just is for some people; everyone has their quirks faults and flaws. So why not have a place they could go and put in a days work for pay when they were hungry or just needed some money for what ever. Would probably need to be some sort of manufacturing scenario, products with lots of hands on work. Better yet something that could be either assembly lined or built by one person. We also need to start shifting our focus back on agriculture. 300 plus million people need a lot of food and a lot of clothing. We need to be growing as much of our own as possible. Even more so we can trade with other nations for the things they have. And we can grow a lot of, or all of, the raw materials we need to build many things. Which also means i's time to bring back Hemp, the industrial kind which should never have been included as a drug; IT ISN”T!
That's a whole other longer discussion. Go read Jack Herrer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes if you want to know the whole truth about the history of that plant. It should eventually go down a big fat black mark on this whole country. First and foremost on the brain dead politicians that did it in the first place and next on all the people for letting it happen and for continuing to be ok with it. There are hundreds of product now being made out of that plant. Some right here in this country. We just can't grow our own raw materials. And why not? Because it looks like it's cousin Cannabis Indica Hemp, that one is in the drug family. Has been used by Physicians for thousands of years. Right up until the phobia ridden nut cases in this country were allowed to run free.
Have you seen the United States of Tara? It's one of the Showtime half hour series. At first I thought it was going to be something totally different, history, comedy and travel or something. The States are referred to as Alter states, as in other personalities, she's got a huge personality disorder and several Alters. /And a not so ordinary family on top of all that. It takes a few episodes to get a handle on all that's going on. It has comedy, funny moments, but it also spends a lot of time on the darker side of living like that and with someone that has multiple personalities, and all the other things a family brings to the table. Season two just started, two weeks ago. Anyway I'm enjoying it. John Corbet, AKA Chris of Northern Exposure, is the husband. I got to liking him from the northern exposure reruns. I went to Roslyn one time, the town where it was shot, the only time actually, while it was still on the air. It's just over the mountains, bit more than a hundred miles from here, Didn't go to the Brick, didn't know and it's not the same on the inside anyway. But at that point I had only tried to watch one or two and couldn't get into it at the time, other things going on, no DVR back then, no Satellite or cable either where I was. Sat dishes were huge things and expensive back then. I finally bought one but never got to use it. Frackin' tweakers stole the receiver. I've still got the dish, I call it my big birdbath which is about all it's good for now. I would like to find another receiver some year, hook it up and see what kind of frequencies I could tune into. My own little SETI station maybe. Anyway I always thought it would be kinda interesting to listen to the universe. So, I'm watching the second episode of Season two. Well I'll let you watch it on your own. I always hated people that like to tell you everything, or talk all the way through a show or movie.
Obama is giving another one of his speeches at a North Carolina battery factory.
If they guy didn't lie so much, wasn't a word game player like Slick Wilie I might even like him a little. The big lie that just irks me to no end is the not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Yeah right, now if he had limited that to income tax it might hold. But he didn't he said and keeps saying taxes. And that means any an all taxes. Well there is one group, and they are for the greatest part the poorest of the poor in this country and he signed a TAX increase of from hundreds to thousands of percent. I know because I happen to buy some of the things he jacked the tax on. One item used to cost from 8 or 9 dollars to maybe 15 or 20 tops. Today it costs $70 minimum and the difference is ALL tax. He should either change his way of saying it to reflect the truth, that he has always been just talking about the Income Tax, or stop his lying by never saying it again. Maybe Lying is something Politicians just can't help doing. Personally i think they are more concerned with re-election than anything else. And that once in they spend more time on trying to say things they can point back to in election speeches than actually doing a better job each year. Should not the primary goal of all politicians be to make things better, to refine the system each year, not to do more at greater cost, but to improve the doing of their prime functions. And the prime function of government is protection. But not from every tiny little thing. Their prime purpose is the Protection of the Rights of the Individual, as well as protection of the people in their territory, what geographic area they are responsible for, to protect all individuals from invasion, from harm and damage by others, be those others foreign or domestic.
It's just too bad that we still need any politicians. But we do, we just need to find a better way of picking them out of the group and far better controls over their power and authority. Some of them should be held criminally liable for what they have done while in office. The real tragedy is they all fear being found out for an affair, or just having sex, far more than for any wrong they do in their job. Talk about an imbalance, their sexual escapades doesn't harm anyone outside of their immediate family, mostly just a spouse. But the harm from doing a lousy job touches thousands or millions of people. But they don't know those people. They have have never met nor even seen the greater portion of them and probably never will. They have a small circle of friends relatives and cronies, and could care less about all the rest, except during election years; Of course.
Spring is here and I'm getting excited about the garden again. I was going to do a bit of work on it today. Until an even bigger storm blew in last night. The last one dumped a good 5” of rain on my in a couple of days. This one is supposed to be bigger and badder. That means floods in the same old places. You would think people would learn to stop living in places that always flood. Or at least to build on stilts or something that keeps the buildings high and dry. That's just common sense don't you think?
Ok, I'm gonna post this one.
Keep tuned in because another one will follow eventually.
So, you thought any about my Buy the country back for a Dollar a Week idea?
Right now;
I am wondering. Hydrogen is the smallest, the simplest, element. Helium is next but also a lot bigger, heavier, in comparison. Which is why they both provide lift for Balloons and Blimps; Air Ships depending on lift assist for flotation. Because they are the lightest of all the gases, lighter, and smaller too, and they float upwards. The air pressure diminishes as the altitude increases. How much is needed and is more or less better for lift.
I got to pondering what ifs. What if you built an airplane with a large bubble, or empty space, self supporting hard surface, for which carbon fiber is the choice material today, on the top and under the bottom of the craft. Pump all the air out until you have created a vacuum. Then slowly add Hydrogen, or the safer Helium gas. The idea is to assist the lift not produce all of it. The plane would still have engines to push it forward, well it wouldn't be much of a plane if it didn't. This isn't a new idea, but the materials are new and the key to making it feasible. Because if you could reduce the lift required by flight then pushing would be so very much easier. And easier equates to less fuel needed. It would also help if speed was not a factor in the equation. Sell people on the adventure and enjoyment of flying. Not everyone needs to get somewhere as fast as possible. Faster everything is recent change for mankind brought about by the internal combustion engine for ground transportation, and the Jet engines for flying the skies. You only need to be at 30,000 feet if you have jet engines, they work better up there for some reason. But you don't really have the whole experience of flying. Sure you can see a long way but very few details. I love the view from way up high don't get me wrong. I always ask for a window seat and can spend the whole time looking out of it, even if it's at night. Day is better of course but there is still a lot to see at night.
But at say just a mile up [5280 feet] you can see a lot more of what's on the ground. And at 2500' you are twice as close and you see even more detail. You can also see a long ways off in the distance, pretty much anywhere you are above the tallest thing in sight, trees, buildings, hills and such, with mountains excepted. I forget it now but there is a formula to calculate how far you can see, before the horizon becomes a factor, you just can't see over it. Just a couple hundred feet off the ground lets you see a long ways before the horizon kicks in. Of course if the elevations is growing in the direction you're looking that extends the distance you can see, only at the lower altitudes. There are a lot of factors to consider. Like smog, dust, sand, rain, snow, fog, clouds, Jet planes leave a lot of exhaust in the air, massive amounts in fact. I've read more than one report by People that noticed how clear the sky was during the 911 grounding of all aircraft. They wrote that they had never seen the sky that clear, that blue.
I think it would be a real experience to take a long flight at low altitude from coast to coast or even just a few states. This would be better than a train which also lets you see country you can't see from any road. And certainly better than the bus. You could build these huge and incorporate lots of windows. And they could be good windows. You don't need a pressurized cabin. Meaning windows would be like the ones in your average car, easy to see out of. And that's a good thing. You could book tours, sightseeing tours. Line up towns like ships do ports of call. Left off a couple hundred tourists and their money into a small town a few times and week and they'll reap the profits. They can build a nicer town, nicer parks, stylish buildings. The time for plain box stores is over. Buildings need to not only serve function but they should last a very long time and if they are going to then pleasing to the eye is a must.
Besides we should be building for the long term. Bring back building in Stone. Carved ornate stone. Yes it will cost more to construct. But it will be tremendously cheaper over time. Think in hundreds of years. And if they are deigned right any retrofitting along the way will be easy to accomplish.
Just now dawned on me this is April 1, and it's 2010 to boot. Doesn't mean much when you live alone, nobody to pull pranks on or have them pulled on you by someone else.
This new plane idea could spawn a whole new industry. Well not industry, it's basically a tourism thing. But it could be a big business if done right. And it would provide a lot of jobs beyond itself, the ones in the towns of call and destination. You could have large and smaller planes. Two basic divisions, for up to 25 and up to 200. Cruisers and Luxury Liners; both having tourist and first class subdivisions. I wouldn't mix both on the same plane. Better for helping ordinary people to feel special.
Would you spend a dollar to buy back your country? Would you spend a Dollar a week? If we all did just think of what we could accomplish. What if we got a Dollar from every single person in the country once a week for a year. I would also be hoping that those who don't have kids or are rich enough would kick in a few extra, or a lot once in a while to make up for the larger families at the lower end of the economic ladder. Business that make a profit should kick in a few too, big corporations that rake in millions or billions should kick a nice percentage. All the Politicians could really help by just spending 10% less than they take in from all sources.
I would use the money to fund businesses, preferably new ones, aimed at putting everyone back to work. And bring back the worker owned business. If a company is on the rocks or going under. I would consider buying out the owners in favor of the workers. And I think there should be some in or around the bigger cities where the people who can't really hold down a steady job. Hey, there are lots of good and valid reasons why that just is for some people; everyone has their quirks faults and flaws. So why not have a place they could go and put in a days work for pay when they were hungry or just needed some money for what ever. Would probably need to be some sort of manufacturing scenario, products with lots of hands on work. Better yet something that could be either assembly lined or built by one person. We also need to start shifting our focus back on agriculture. 300 plus million people need a lot of food and a lot of clothing. We need to be growing as much of our own as possible. Even more so we can trade with other nations for the things they have. And we can grow a lot of, or all of, the raw materials we need to build many things. Which also means i's time to bring back Hemp, the industrial kind which should never have been included as a drug; IT ISN”T!
That's a whole other longer discussion. Go read Jack Herrer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes if you want to know the whole truth about the history of that plant. It should eventually go down a big fat black mark on this whole country. First and foremost on the brain dead politicians that did it in the first place and next on all the people for letting it happen and for continuing to be ok with it. There are hundreds of product now being made out of that plant. Some right here in this country. We just can't grow our own raw materials. And why not? Because it looks like it's cousin Cannabis Indica Hemp, that one is in the drug family. Has been used by Physicians for thousands of years. Right up until the phobia ridden nut cases in this country were allowed to run free.
Have you seen the United States of Tara? It's one of the Showtime half hour series. At first I thought it was going to be something totally different, history, comedy and travel or something. The States are referred to as Alter states, as in other personalities, she's got a huge personality disorder and several Alters. /And a not so ordinary family on top of all that. It takes a few episodes to get a handle on all that's going on. It has comedy, funny moments, but it also spends a lot of time on the darker side of living like that and with someone that has multiple personalities, and all the other things a family brings to the table. Season two just started, two weeks ago. Anyway I'm enjoying it. John Corbet, AKA Chris of Northern Exposure, is the husband. I got to liking him from the northern exposure reruns. I went to Roslyn one time, the town where it was shot, the only time actually, while it was still on the air. It's just over the mountains, bit more than a hundred miles from here, Didn't go to the Brick, didn't know and it's not the same on the inside anyway. But at that point I had only tried to watch one or two and couldn't get into it at the time, other things going on, no DVR back then, no Satellite or cable either where I was. Sat dishes were huge things and expensive back then. I finally bought one but never got to use it. Frackin' tweakers stole the receiver. I've still got the dish, I call it my big birdbath which is about all it's good for now. I would like to find another receiver some year, hook it up and see what kind of frequencies I could tune into. My own little SETI station maybe. Anyway I always thought it would be kinda interesting to listen to the universe. So, I'm watching the second episode of Season two. Well I'll let you watch it on your own. I always hated people that like to tell you everything, or talk all the way through a show or movie.
Obama is giving another one of his speeches at a North Carolina battery factory.
If they guy didn't lie so much, wasn't a word game player like Slick Wilie I might even like him a little. The big lie that just irks me to no end is the not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Yeah right, now if he had limited that to income tax it might hold. But he didn't he said and keeps saying taxes. And that means any an all taxes. Well there is one group, and they are for the greatest part the poorest of the poor in this country and he signed a TAX increase of from hundreds to thousands of percent. I know because I happen to buy some of the things he jacked the tax on. One item used to cost from 8 or 9 dollars to maybe 15 or 20 tops. Today it costs $70 minimum and the difference is ALL tax. He should either change his way of saying it to reflect the truth, that he has always been just talking about the Income Tax, or stop his lying by never saying it again. Maybe Lying is something Politicians just can't help doing. Personally i think they are more concerned with re-election than anything else. And that once in they spend more time on trying to say things they can point back to in election speeches than actually doing a better job each year. Should not the primary goal of all politicians be to make things better, to refine the system each year, not to do more at greater cost, but to improve the doing of their prime functions. And the prime function of government is protection. But not from every tiny little thing. Their prime purpose is the Protection of the Rights of the Individual, as well as protection of the people in their territory, what geographic area they are responsible for, to protect all individuals from invasion, from harm and damage by others, be those others foreign or domestic.
It's just too bad that we still need any politicians. But we do, we just need to find a better way of picking them out of the group and far better controls over their power and authority. Some of them should be held criminally liable for what they have done while in office. The real tragedy is they all fear being found out for an affair, or just having sex, far more than for any wrong they do in their job. Talk about an imbalance, their sexual escapades doesn't harm anyone outside of their immediate family, mostly just a spouse. But the harm from doing a lousy job touches thousands or millions of people. But they don't know those people. They have have never met nor even seen the greater portion of them and probably never will. They have a small circle of friends relatives and cronies, and could care less about all the rest, except during election years; Of course.
Spring is here and I'm getting excited about the garden again. I was going to do a bit of work on it today. Until an even bigger storm blew in last night. The last one dumped a good 5” of rain on my in a couple of days. This one is supposed to be bigger and badder. That means floods in the same old places. You would think people would learn to stop living in places that always flood. Or at least to build on stilts or something that keeps the buildings high and dry. That's just common sense don't you think?
Ok, I'm gonna post this one.
Keep tuned in because another one will follow eventually.
So, you thought any about my Buy the country back for a Dollar a Week idea?
Labels: Airplane, Dollar, Hydrogen, Politicians
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