We are not alone in this universe!
Let me propose a hypothesis “That we are not alone in this universe”.
That set in the formation of a forum of journalists, scientists and citizenry to investigate and prove or disprove the stated claims.
The result is various people with different academic credentials take up the challenge to validate their own positioning and reasoning.
From scientists to engineers to journalist get
involved in unraveling the mystery.
For the citizenry it is a mystery.
It’s highly unlikely we’re alone in the universe, NASA experts are saying and we may be close to finding alien life.
In fact, it may happen in the next two decades.
NASA held a panel discussion at the agency’s Washington headquarters where space experts talked about the search for Earth-like planets that host life.
Based on recent advancements in space telescope technology, scientists estimated that in the coming decades we’ll confirm suspicions that we’re not alone.
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe,” NASA astronomer states.Roswell incident with putative alien visitation is 70 years old. We have to wait another 20 years. The Total is 90 years for discovery. In other words we have to wait for another guy like Paul Heller to emerge in his/her death bed dying disposition.
Won't we?
I want the truth right now not when "ordained in a coffin" like Egyptian Tutukarman.
Monday, August 15, 2016
Be yourself!
Be yourself!
Why do I say “Do
not hunt aliens.”
For the simple
reason, they will reciprocate.
If you hunt aliens,
they hunt you down with much vigour they can muster.
Ignore them and get
on with your own self.
This is why I hate
these guys/girls who say and claim, they have open up an avenue for
communication with a cosmic order or channel.
There are two of my
own reasons for the aversion.
One reason is, over
90% of them are human tricksters and suckers.
The rest 10%, if you
consider them genuine, they are already sucked up to the alien
influences, God knows for what reason, most likely selfish, I believe.
Protect yourself
from outside influences what ever they may be, and enjoy yourself to
the utmost bliss not hindered by living or dead souls.
That is where
“Moment Meditation” will inspire you to a higher mental order of
yourself.
You do not have to
share (in true sense one cannot) this experience with anybody
including yourself (it is transient and temporary) but enjoy the
discovery and enlightenment.
Imagine one can read
the mind of another (God may be).
See the chaos it
creates.
There over 7 billion
chaos to conquer.
Would you ever try
this in real life.
It is utter madness.
Be yourself, this
moment and the next that not yet come.
Do not look back
over the past even if one can remember.
Memory is a
temporary store anyway.
Postscript;
I poem and a verse on MM elsewhere in the same blog post.
Do not Hunt Aliens
Do not Hunt Aliens
This is a dream and
nobody should take this piece seriously (regarding aliens).
Let me make a brief
note on dreams.
Sleep and dreams are
essential for reinvigorating the working of the wakeful mind.
Dreams are specially
useful for those having thought block when writing something trivial
as a blog piece or a story.
Lot of dreams we
never remember.
If you want to
remember you have to jot them down immediately.
Dreams does not
create memory tracks and I believe they actually erase the excessive
neural connections used in wakeful states.
I had a bit of a
physical day.
Ended up watching a
bizarre futuristic science fiction film.
It felt awful and
the story did not have any message except total confusion.
I could not figure
out what the creator wanted me to grasp.
Perhaps nothing but
confusion.
Alien Dream
Getting back to my
dream, I cannot remember the beginning.
I was in a strange
place with unfamiliar people.
I was on doing some
boring work.
I asked for a cup of
tea.
The one who made me
the cup of tea was a stranger.
He appeared be one of
my helping hands and a mischief.
He made me a awful
tea.
It was cold and
watery.
I asked him why it
is cold.
He immediately said
I thought you love iced tea.
I did not have ice
so made it cold.
This strange alien fellow
is reading my mind I thought.
Next thing I
remember was, I had to negotiate a deep water crossing.
It was risky and
needed a long rope and the distant end looked like a cliff.
The plan was for me
to descend down to the edge (how it was secured onto the distant end
was a mystery) and return after a brief examination.
I wend down, came
close to the end of the cliff but it appeared to be very tall roof
built on the rock with something like a monastery below.
The idea was for me
to cross over and return after little peep.
My helpers were
holding onto the other end to pull me back in an emergency.
This was like a
military drill that I had to do to prove my credentials.
I swung across and
strangely somebody like a monk greeted me.
I asked this is the
end.
He said no and it is the sliver line or the silver rope.
Instructions were
for me to follow him.
He climbed up along
narrow corridors with various huts on either side which looked liked
small cubicles made for individual meditators.
I will cut the story
down here.
He was leaving
behind signs and wooden planks across and finally came to a muddy but
dark pit.
He put planks across
and walked on them swiftly and for me, I was walking fearfully to my
own grave.
Then he finally
disappeared into the watery grave.
I had no option left
but to jump to the pit to stop him.
I did so but there
were many other un-earhly beings and luckily for me one of them saved
me from the watery grave.
I would try to
interpret this in an alien point of view.
The strange guy was
an alien from a distant planet.
He could change his
appearance form a helping hand to a guide to a monk.
He was leading me to
a certain disaster.
He had no remorse.
He had no smile but
seemed to me controlling my actions.
Who saved me, I do
not know.
I think it was my
dog who followed my scent.
I actually over
slept by 3 hours and if not for this dream I would be still sleeping
and no story for you.
What to take home.
1. Do not go hunting
aliens.
2. Do not watch
nasty films before going to sleep.
3. Practice
Momentary Moment Meditation (3M) when your mind goes crazy.
4. Sleep well.
5, Read your
favorite novel before you drop to sleep.
6, Do not trust
aliens if you happen to meet any.
7. They will steal
your dreams (aliens cannot dream like us)
8. The worst they will abduct you for flimsy examinations,which you will have no memory!
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Unique Qualities of the Planet Earth
Unique Qualities of
the Planet Earth
Earth is a
extraordinarily unique planet.
1. The fact that it
supports life is unique.
2. Its biodiversity
is unbelievably diverse, in spite of it is much younger planetary age.
3. Its amount and
quality of water (sea and terrestrial lakes) is almost boundless.
4. It has atmosphere
containing gases that support life.
5. It has a magnetic
fields.
6. It has abundance
of metals (except 115 and 116).
7. It has seasons.
8. Its spin around
the sun is congenial to life systems.
9. Volcanoes keep on
adding substances to its surface.
10. Its center is
molten.
11.It is a living
planet.
It is unusual for
all other exo-planets in the universe to reproduce its unique
qualities.
These are probably
the reasons why there is visitation by ET on regular basis.
Why USA (UK its
allay is aiding and abetting) is keeping these visitations TOP Secret
from its subjects (Action of the Secret Service) is a million dollar question.
Why Russia is not
exposing this cover up is another mind boggling matter.
Canada has taken a
bold step.
The Vatican should
wake up and take the lid out before it is too late.
Inspiration or conspiracy?
Inspiration or conspiracy?
I believed the knowledge of religion, science, politics and philosophy would lead us (particularly me) to inspiration.
Is it?
Is it true?
To be precise, it is on the contrary.
It actually led me to start a book (pathetic though) on conspiracies of the last century.
Not inspirational by any stretch of imagination.
We are led on wrong garden path over a century.
We are not making amends.
We are on course of the same morbid path.
This is why I postulated that we do not have credible guys/girls on this planet to lead the way.
We need aliens help, ideally humanoids but not reptilians with hidden agenda!
Let me dissect the basic premise of each of the above disciplines.
Religion (especially Vatican) is leading us on the wrong path.
Scientists are conspiring (not me).
Philosophy is overtaken by science and virtually a dead species.
Politics, democracy and referendums are polarizing people on opposite poles.
All the above are meant to be educational stuff.
No consensus emerging by trying to integrate the above disciplines.
So they go on a short vacation / vocation on a meditation course.
They return after an individual bliss of some sort but go back to their base prejudices instantaneously.
I believe trying to meditate and expecting inspiration to "come of" to you by default is a fundamental fallacy.
If one does not have inspiration to begin with one would not achieve anything substantial by meditating.
The reason for me writing this is there is a breed of pseudo-scientists and paranormal entities coming as suckers.
They come as "mediums" and "channels" and spread the very old conspiracies again and again.
Thinking to think on correct channels (Professor De Bono's approach) is what we need.
In Buddhist Meditation detachment of all these themes are encouraged!
How, I do not know.
The latest conspiracy is "Intelligent Design".
They are coming as bogus alien visitors ( masquerading as new Gods).
In the meantime, the prudent aliens are still pondering "Is it worth visiting these lowly earthly beings."
I believed the knowledge of religion, science, politics and philosophy would lead us (particularly me) to inspiration.
Is it?
Is it true?
To be precise, it is on the contrary.
It actually led me to start a book (pathetic though) on conspiracies of the last century.
Not inspirational by any stretch of imagination.
We are led on wrong garden path over a century.
We are not making amends.
We are on course of the same morbid path.
This is why I postulated that we do not have credible guys/girls on this planet to lead the way.
We need aliens help, ideally humanoids but not reptilians with hidden agenda!
Let me dissect the basic premise of each of the above disciplines.
Religion (especially Vatican) is leading us on the wrong path.
Scientists are conspiring (not me).
Philosophy is overtaken by science and virtually a dead species.
Politics, democracy and referendums are polarizing people on opposite poles.
All the above are meant to be educational stuff.
No consensus emerging by trying to integrate the above disciplines.
So they go on a short vacation / vocation on a meditation course.
They return after an individual bliss of some sort but go back to their base prejudices instantaneously.
I believe trying to meditate and expecting inspiration to "come of" to you by default is a fundamental fallacy.
If one does not have inspiration to begin with one would not achieve anything substantial by meditating.
The reason for me writing this is there is a breed of pseudo-scientists and paranormal entities coming as suckers.
They come as "mediums" and "channels" and spread the very old conspiracies again and again.
Thinking to think on correct channels (Professor De Bono's approach) is what we need.
In Buddhist Meditation detachment of all these themes are encouraged!
How, I do not know.
The latest conspiracy is "Intelligent Design".
They are coming as bogus alien visitors ( masquerading as new Gods).
In the meantime, the prudent aliens are still pondering "Is it worth visiting these lowly earthly beings."
Thursday, August 11, 2016
History Repeats
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History Repeats
On Feb. 14, 1979, less than one month after the shah of Iran’s exile, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by Iranian militants.
Within hours, it was returned to U.S. hands. Now on notice that our diplomats were stationed on a vulnerable outpost in a sea of anti-Americanism, the Carter administration considered, but rejected, closing the embassy. In October, President Carter permitted the shah – despised by Iranians and the regime that replaced his – to enter the United States. Days later, Iranians climbed the embassy gates again, took the Americans there hostage and demanded the shah’s return, beginning a 444-day crisis.
There are no do-overs in history, but there are lessons.
The 1979 hostage crisis should have taught us the importance of proactively responding to obvious threats and removing vulnerable targets — a lesson that should be applied now if there are U.S. nuclear weapons based in Turkey.
On Feb. 14, 1979, less than one month after the shah of Iran’s exile, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by Iranian militants.
Within hours, it was returned to U.S. hands. Now on notice that our diplomats were stationed on a vulnerable outpost in a sea of anti-Americanism, the Carter administration considered, but rejected, closing the embassy. In October, President Carter permitted the shah – despised by Iranians and the regime that replaced his – to enter the United States. Days later, Iranians climbed the embassy gates again, took the Americans there hostage and demanded the shah’s return, beginning a 444-day crisis.
There are no do-overs in history, but there are lessons. The 1979 hostage crisis should have taught us the importance of proactively responding to obvious threats and removing vulnerable targets — a lesson that should be applied now if there are U.S. nuclear weapons based in Turkey.
After a faction within the Turkish military tried to overthrow the Turkish government last month, one of the many arrested for his alleged role in the attempted coup was a commanding officer at the Incirlik Air Base. That base — according to numerous media reports — is a major NATO installation hosting one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in Europe.
What if the Turkish base commander at Incirlik had ordered his troops surrounding the perimeter of the base to turn their guns on the U.S. soldiers that reportedly guard U.S. nuclear storage bunkers there?
What if anti-American Turkish protesters, believing the U.S. was behind the coup plot and that it was harboring the coup’s leader (ominously reminiscent of how Iranians felt about America and the shah 37 years ago) decided to march on Incirlik chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans (as has actually happened) and taken over the base?
Leaving aside the coup, what if Islamic State were to attack Incirlik?
In March, the Pentagon reportedly ordered military families out of southern Turkey, primarily from Incirlik, due to terrorism-related security concerns.
While we’ve avoided disaster so far, we have ample evidence that the security of U.S. nuclear weapons stored in Turkey can change literally overnight.
Now fully aware of the dangers, the Obama administration should remove any remaining nuclear weapons from Turkey – and the next president should remove all U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe.
We are in for a long stretch of political uncertainty in Turkey, exacerbated by growing anti-Americanism.
Granted, as one American analyst has pointed out, any U.S. nuclear weapons stored in Turkey “would be defended by ferociously well-trained and well-equipped American troops.
Maintaining control of the weapons would be the top priority if seizure was ever threatened, with all of America’s military power put to the task.”
Well, if that’s the case being made to President Obama, he should ask:
Why would I or any American president take that risk?
We are in for a long stretch of political uncertainty in Turkey, exacerbated by growing anti-Americanism.
Any U.S. nuclear weapons stored there are more likely to complicate than to improve the domestic political currents in play. The U.S. will (and should) remain a strong ally and friend of Turkey, and Turkey will (and should) remain in NATO.
It is shared interests, not nuclear sharing, that will keep us together.
Nuclear deterrence does not require the U.S. to store nuclear bombs in Turkey, or elsewhere in Europe.
The U.S. has long-range “strategic” nuclear weapons to ward off hostile powers and guarantee the security of all NATO allies.
But since the end of the Cold War, most military leaders believe that our short-range “tactical” nuclear weapons based in Europe have virtually no utility, for the simple reason that no U.S. president is likely to use them.
Some may argue that we should not remove nuclear weapons from Turkey because we don’t want to signal lack of confidence in Turkey’s stability; or that we need tactical weapons throughout Europe because we need to bolster NATO members who are worried about Russia.
Now weigh those arguments against the fact that storing tactical nuclear weapons in Turkey and in other NATO nations comes with the increasing risk of vulnerability to an evolving and more deadly terrorist threat, or to domestic unrest. In the wake of an incident at a nuclear storage site — for which the U.S. would be held accountable and suffer long-term consequences with allies — it would be difficult to explain that vulnerable targets were left in place due to a perceived need to reassure our allies.
As was the case in 1979, the warning bells are ringing.
Steve Andreasen was the director for defense policy and arms control on the White House National Security Council staff from 1993 to 2001. He is a consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
After a faction within the Turkish military tried to overthrow the Turkish government last month, one of the many arrested for his alleged role in the attempted coup was a commanding officer at the Incirlik Air Base.
That base — according to numerous media reports — is a major NATO installation hosting one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in Europe.
What if the Turkish base commander at Incirlik had ordered his troops surrounding the perimeter of the base to turn their guns on the U.S. soldiers that reportedly guard U.S. nuclear storage bunkers there?
What if anti-American Turkish protesters, believing the U.S. was behind the coup plot and that it was harboring the coup’s leader (ominously reminiscent of how Iranians felt about America and the shah 37 years ago) decided to march on Incirlik chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans (as has actually happened) and taken over the base?
Leaving aside the coup, what if Islamic State were to attack Incirlik? In March, the Pentagon reportedly ordered military families out of southern Turkey, primarily from Incirlik, due to terrorism-related security concerns.
While we’ve avoided disaster so far, we have ample evidence that the security of U.S. nuclear weapons stored in Turkey can change literally overnight. Now fully aware of the dangers, the Obama administration should remove any remaining nuclear weapons from Turkey – and the next president should remove all U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe.
We are in for a long stretch of political uncertainty in Turkey, exacerbated by growing anti-Americanism.
Granted, as one American analyst has pointed out, any U.S. nuclear weapons stored in Turkey “would be defended by ferociously well-trained and well-equipped American troops. Maintaining control of the weapons would be the top priority if seizure was ever threatened, with all of America’s military power put to the task.” Well, if that’s the case being made to President Obama, he should ask:
Why would I or any American president take that risk?
We are in for a long stretch of political uncertainty in Turkey, exacerbated by growing anti-Americanism.
Any U.S. nuclear weapons stored there are more likely to complicate than to improve the domestic political currents in play.
The U.S. will (and should) remain a strong ally and friend of Turkey, and Turkey will (and should) remain in NATO.
It is shared interests, not nuclear sharing, that will keep us together.
Nuclear deterrence does not require the U.S. to store nuclear bombs in Turkey, or elsewhere in Europe.
The U.S. has long-range “strategic” nuclear weapons to ward off hostile powers and guarantee the security of all NATO allies. But since the end of the Cold War, most military leaders believe that our short-range “tactical” nuclear weapons based in Europe have virtually no utility, for the simple reason that no U.S. president is likely to use them.
Some may argue that we should not remove nuclear weapons from Turkey because we don’t want to signal lack of confidence in Turkey’s stability; or that we need tactical weapons throughout Europe because we need to bolster NATO members who are worried about Russia.
Now weigh those arguments against the fact that storing tactical nuclear weapons in Turkey and in other NATO nations comes with the increasing risk of vulnerability to an evolving and more deadly terrorist threat, or to domestic unrest. In the wake of an incident at a nuclear storage site — for which the U.S. would be held accountable and suffer long-term consequences with allies — it would be difficult to explain that vulnerable targets were left in place due to a perceived need to reassure our allies.
As was the case in 1979, the warning bells are ringing.
Steve Andreasen was the director for defense policy and arms control on the White House National Security Council staff from 1993 to 2001. He is a consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the University of Minnesota.
How can we solve climate change?
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Ryan
Cooper
How can we solve climate change?
One option is obvious, if a bit strange: If dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the problem, then we could always suck it back out.
If you think that sounds tricky, congratulations, you're correct. However, scientists are increasingly relying on just this idea to construct workable future scenarios where global warming does not spin out of control. And the reason is that governments around the world have not been remotely equal to the task of keeping overall warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the level at which climate change becomes unacceptably risky according to the international Paris climate accords.
As a result, scientists crunching the numbers on how humanity might achieve this goal are increasingly leaning on outlandish assumptions about pulling billions of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The math checks out — but the science is not guaranteed to work, and it would be a lot easier to just implement proper climate policy right now.
Here's the basic shape of climate change. In order to stay below 2 degrees, humanity can emit a sum total of roughly 1 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide for all time. Emissions in 2014 were about 32 billion tonnes. We're headed towards that limit at high speed — so to stay below it (without pulling anything out of the air) humanity must cut its emissions very fast, very soon.
Now, world emissions may have actually declined slightly in 2015 — an encouraging sign, but a temporary one. Renewable energy has been advancing fast, but it's massive structural change and economic chaos in China alone that is responsible for the decline, not any sort of worldwide systematic attack on use of fossil fuels. What's more, developing countries — particularly India — are projected to emit a lot more as their economies grow. As I noted two years ago, even if 2014 were to be a permanent emissions peak, staying under 2 degrees would require a crash course of decarbonization never seen in history outside of economic collapse.
So the only escape hatch is to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. In a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Brian O'Neill, and Claudia Tibaldi examined what it would take to achieve the targets contained in the Paris climate accords — and most of their plausible future scenarios involve a years-long period of immense carbon dioxide removal. One plausible scenario for this involves biofuels (which would grow by pulling carbon out of the air, like any plant), and then sequestering the emissions far underground after the fuel is burned.
Staying under 2 degrees can happen if we get to net zero emissions on a fairly moderate course by 2085, for example — but it would require a long-term effort taking some 26 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year.
This sort of thinking is becoming more and more common as climate policy remains woefully insufficient. A pseudonymous scientist notes:
What I think is interesting is that negative emissions and temperature overshoots seem to now [be] becoming part of the narrative. One obvious reason for this is that we’re on the verge of leaving it too late to achieve these targets without them. We could still do so, but it would probably require drastic emissions reductions starting now... [And Then There's PhysiHow can we solve climate change? One option is obvious, if a bit strange: If dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the problem, then we could always suck it back out.If you think that sounds tricky, congratulations, you're correct. However, scientists are increasingly relying on just this idea to construct workable future scenarios where global warming does not spin out of control. And the reason is that governments around the world have not been remotely equal to the task of keeping overall warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the level at which climate change becomes unacceptably risky according to the international Paris climate accords.
As a result, scientists crunching the numbers on how humanity might achieve this goal are increasingly leaning on outlandish assumptions about pulling billions of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The math checks out — but the science is not guaranteed to work, and it would be a lot easier to just implement proper climate policy right now.
Here's the basic shape of climate change. In order to stay below 2 degrees, humanity can emit a sum total of roughly 1 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide for all time. Emissions in 2014 were about 32 billion tonnes. We're headed towards that limit at high speed — so to stay below it (without pulling anything out of the air) humanity must cut its emissions very fast, very soon.
Now, world emissions may have actually declined slightly in 2015 — an encouraging sign, but a temporary one. Renewable energy has been advancing fast, but it's massive structural change and economic chaos in China alone that is responsible for the decline, not any sort of worldwide systematic attack on use of fossil fuels. What's more, developing countries — particularly India — are projected to emit a lot more as their economies grow. As I noted two years ago, even if 2014 were to be a permanent emissions peak, staying under 2 degrees would require a crash course of decarbonization never seen in history outside of economic collapse.
So the only escape hatch is to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. In a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Brian O'Neill, and Claudia Tibaldi examined what it would take to achieve the targets contained in the Paris climate accords — and most of their plausible future scenarios involve a years-long period of immense carbon dioxide removal. One plausible scenario for this involves biofuels (which would grow by pulling carbon out of the air, like any plant), and then sequestering the emissions far underground after the fuel is burned.
Staying under 2 degrees can happen if we get to net zero emissions on a fairly moderate course by 2085, for example — but it would require a long-term effort taking some 26 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year.
This sort of thinking is becoming more and more common as climate policy remains woefully insufficient. A pseudonymous scientist notes:
What I think is interesting is that negative emissions and temperature overshoots seem to now [be] becoming part of the narrative. One obvious reason for this is that we’re on the verge of leaving it too late to achieve these targets without them. We could still do so, but it would probably require drastic emissions reductions starting now... [And Then There's Physics]If we procrastinate much longer, it's going to be nearly impossible to stay under that 2 degree limit. Meanwhile, climate change itself marches on.
The last year has shattered temperature records across the globe, and seen multiple disasters of the sort predicted by climate models.
The most powerful El Niño ever recorded has caused the worst recorded instance of coral bleaching, particularly hammering Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Maldives. Roads are buckling across Alaska as permafrost melts. Record heat in Siberia led to an anthrax outbreak among humans and reindeer.
The politics of climate change always seem tough. But it should be noted that it will be vastly easier to head the problem off now than it will be to fix it after we've let it fester for another couple decades. Carbon dioxide emissions are the product of several gigantic industries today. Creating a brand new industry to reverse the damage of other massive industries will be a terrifically expensive logistical nightmare.
And there's also no guarantee that it will work on the scale required! Technologies to scrub carbon from the atmosphere are still in the early development stage. Historically, human ingenuity has solved such problems — but there's no guarantee it will happen, especially if it needs to be done very fast. It's completely possible we'll run into unsolvable technical bottlenecks, and be forced to rely on hugely risky Hail Mary geoengineering efforts like partially blotting out the sun with sulfur dioxide.
Don't think of technology predictions 70 years out as a promise. Acting to prevent climate change as soon as possible is always going to be the smart move.
If we procrastinate much longer, it's going to be nearly impossible to stay under that 2 degree limit. Meanwhile, climate change itself marches on. The last year has shattered temperature records across the globe, and seen multiple disasters of the sort predicted by climate models. The most powerful El Niño ever recorded has caused the worst recorded instance of coral bleaching, particularly hammering Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Maldives. Roads are buckling across Alaska as permafrost melts. Record heat in Siberia led to an anthrax outbreak among humans and reindeer.
The politics of climate change always seem tough. But it should be noted that it will be vastly easier to head the problem off now than it will be to fix it after we've let it fester for another couple decades. Carbon dioxide emissions are the product of several gigantic industries today. Creating a brand new industry to reverse the damage of other massive industries will be a terrifically expensive logistical nightmare.
And there's also no guarantee that it will work on the scale required! Technologies to scrub carbon from the atmosphere are still in the early development stage. Historically, human ingenuity has solved such problems — but there's no guarantee it will happen, especially if it needs to be done very fast. It's completely possible we'll run into unsolvable technical bottlenecks, and be forced to rely on hugely risky Hail Mary geoengineering efforts like partially blotting out the sun with sulfur dioxide.
Don't think of technology predictions 70 years out as a promise. Acting to prevent climate change as soon as possible is always going to be the smart move.
Planet and Plans
Planet
and Plans
I
have written an enormous amount of scientific stuff (not
proclamations but predictions) over the past 15 years, it is prudent
to summarize few facts without figures.
Figures
can be manipulated or changed or doctored by American and British
scientific forums but facts emerging are worrisome.
1.
Global warming is happening alarmingly fast and it cannot be
reversed.
2.
The scientists knew this from early sixties but under pressure by
“fossil fuel lobby” and BP reality was kept under their iron thumb.
3.
The agreement on “fossil fuel protocol" was deliberately delayed by USA.
4.
Sixth mass extinction is well underway.
5.
Strangely aliens (strictly humanoids) have visited us to warn on
other issues but Americans suppressed the information for 70 years.
6.
The Vatican was preview to most of this information and kept it in
their archives for posterity.
7.
I am not sure what was the status of Israel (proxy) on all these
issues but their priority was water.
This
is written with alien visitation in mind and I try to make prediction
not so outrageous.
In
spite of many planets in the universe humanoids are very few.
Their
(humanoid) evolution goes into billion of years but earth is the
youngest of all.
Why?
I
do not know but my observations (not scientific by any means) are a
forerunner for future investigations with the help of alien
technology.
Earth
is the only planet with abundance of water in the whole universe.
The
abundance of biodiversity (not god's creation by the way) is not seen
anywhere in the whole universe.
That
the my crunch point of view.
We
are polluting of our water resources including the ocean.
All
industrial countries are dumping their waste from faeces to lead to
mercury to nuclear waste to the ocean.
In
time to come biodiversity (including fish) in the ocean will
disappear.
Eating
sea fish will be poisonous.
Nuclear
industry with few more accidents will tip the balance of nature.
The
sixth extinction is man made catastrophe.
The
seventh extinction is man made but final.
The
five or so humanoid who are trying to contact us want to help us come
out of this crisis.
But
we are not ready for galactic brotherhood or corporation due to
bizarre religions.
The
cosmic rules prevent from worthwhile dialogue unless we lift our
mental agility (one may cal lit spiritual ability).
My
biggest and the real fear is aliens who are not humanoids are with the
American Scientists to spoil the soup.
That
is why they are keeping Roswell incident under cover.
These
aliens want us to destroy ourselves, so that they reap benefit and
occupy the earth as their new territory.
The
Americans got it wrong.
I
hope Russia and President Putin would fill the vacuum.
Russians does not believe in any religions.
China is not ready and woken up lately.
Obama
or next Us President cannot since, the evangelists won't let it
happen.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Rarity of Humanoids
Rarity of Humanoids
Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is
extraordinarily rare.
The assumption here is there are
only 5 types of humanoids in only five planets.
Below is a reproduction of various types of beings in the universe or galaxies
The Thirty-one
Planes of Existence
Scattered throughout the suttas are references to as many as
thirty-one distinct "planes" or "realms" of
existence into which beings can be reborn during their long
wandering through samsara. These range from the extraordinarily
grim and painful hell realms all the way up to the most exquisitely
refined and blissful heaven realms. Existence in every realm is
temporary; in Buddhist cosmology there is no eternal heaven or
hell. Beings are born into a particular realm according to their
past kamma. When they pass away, they take rebirth once again
elsewhere according to the quality of their kamma: wholesome
actions bring about a favorable rebirth, while unwholesome actions
lead to an unfavorable one.
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
1. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka).
Consists of four realms that are
accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless
jhanas.
2. The Fine-Material World
(rupa-loka).
Consists of sixteen realms whose
inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees
of mental pleasure. These realms are accessible to those who have
attained at least some level of jhana and who have thereby managed
to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill will. They are said to
possess extremely refined bodies of pure light. The highest of these
realms, the Pure Abodes, are accessible only to those who have
attained to "non-returning," the third stage of Awakening.
The Fine-Material World and the Immaterial World together constitute
the "heavens" (sagga).
3. The Sensuous World (kama-loka).
Consists of eleven realms in which experience — both pleasurable and not — is dominated by the five senses. Seven of these realms are favorable destinations, and include our own human realm as well as several realms occupied by devas.
The lowest realms are the four "bad" destinations, which include the animal and hell realms.
I. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)
Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here(31) Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva)
(30) Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva)
(29) Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva)
(28) Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva)
The inhabitants of these realms are possessed entirely of mind.
Having no physical body, they are unable to hear Dhamma teachings.
II. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)
(27) Peerless devas (akanittha deva) These are the five Pure Abodes (suddhavasa), which are accessible only to non-returners (anagami) and arahants. Beings who become non-returners in other planes are reborn here, where they attain arahantship.
Among its inhabitants is Brahma
Sahampati, who begs the Buddha to teach Dhamma to the world (
(26) Clear-sighted devas (sudassi
deva)(25) Beautiful devas (sudassa deva)
(24) Untroubled devas (atappa deva)
(23) Devas not Falling Away (aviha deva)
(22) Unconscious beings (asaññasatta)
Only body is present; no mind.
(21) Very Fruitful devas (vehapphala deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(20) Devas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva)
(19) Devas of Unbounded Glory (appamanasubha deva)
(18) Devas of Limited Glory (parittasubha deva)
(17) Devas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva)
(16) Devas of Unbounded Radiance (appamanabha deva)
(15) Devas of Limited Radiance (parittabha deva)
(14) Great Brahmas (Maha brahma)
One of this realm's most famous inhabitants is the Great Brahma, a deity whose delusion leads him to regard himself as the all-powerful, all-seeing creator of the universe
(13) Ministers of Brahma (brahma-purohita deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(12) Retinue of Brahma (brahma-parisajja deva)
III. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)
Happy Destinations (sugati)
(11) Devas Wielding Power over the Creation of Others (paranimmita-vasavatti deva)These devas enjoy sense pleasures created by others for them.
Mara, the personification of delusion and desire, lives here.
(10) Devas Delighting in Creation (nimmanarati deva)
These devas delight in the sense objects of their own creation.
(9) Contented devas (tusita deva)
A realm of pure delight and gaiety.
Bodhisattas abide here prior to their final human birth.
This is where the bodhisatta Maitreya (Metteya), the next Buddha, is said to dwell.
(8) Yama devas (yama deva)
These devas live in the air, free of all difficulties.
(7) The Thirty-three Gods (tavatimsa deva)
Sakka, a devotee of the Buddha, presides over this realm.
Many devas dwelling here live in mansions in the air.
(6) Devas of the Four Great Kings (catumaharajika deva)
Home of the gandhabbas, the celestial musicians, and the yakkhas, tree spirits of varying degrees of ethical purity. The latter are analogous to the goblins, trolls, and fairies of Western fairy tales.
(5) Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is
extraordinarily rare.
It is also extraordinarily precious,
as its unique balance of pleasure and pain facilitates the
development of virtue and wisdom to the degree necessary to set one
free from the entire cycle of rebirths.
The development of virtue and wisdom
The attainment of stream-entry
(sotapatti) guarantees that all future rebirths will be in the
human or higher realms.
States of Deprivation (apaya)
(4) Asuras (asura)The demons — "titans" — that dwell here are engaged in relentless conflict with each other.
(3) Hungry Shades/Ghosts (peta loka)
Ghosts and unhappy spirits wander hopelessly about this realm, searching in vain for sensual fulfillment.
(2) Animals (tiracchana yoni)
This realm includes all the non-human forms of life that are visible to us under ordinary circumstances: animals, insects, fish, birds, worms, etc.
(1) Hell (niraya)
These are realms of unimaginable suffering and anguish.
Should not be confused with the eternal hell found in other religious traditions, since one's time here is — as it is in every realm — temporary.
In Buddhist cosmology, the
heaven realms are blissful abodes whose present inhabitants (the
devas) gained rebirth there through the power of their past
meritorious actions. Like all beings still caught in samsara,
however, these deities eventually succumb to aging, illness, and
death, and must eventually take rebirth in other realms —
pleasant or otherwise — according to the quality and strength of
their past kamma. The devas are not always especially
knowledgeable or spiritually mature — in fact many are quite
intoxicated by their sensual indulgences — and none are
considered worthy of veneration or worship.
Nevertheless, the devas and their happy realms stand as important reminders to us both of the happy benefits that ensue from the performance of skillful and meritorious deeds and, finally, of the ultimate shortcomings of sensuality.
Nevertheless, the devas and their happy realms stand as important reminders to us both of the happy benefits that ensue from the performance of skillful and meritorious deeds and, finally, of the ultimate shortcomings of sensuality.
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