To the New Year

Shine on! O marvel in the sky.
You and I shall have a say
To light the far flung stars
A Universe away
So shine on you newly minted
Force of our slightly better
Vision in the spectrum
Of the first light so far away
The imagination trembles
To receive such news of time
Gone by such a long long
Time ago...Mirror of my mind.
Tutor of my rhyme.

Advances in Technology are Natural

This morning, I came across this excellent hypothesis. Importantly, the history of human usage of available resources in one mode of technology recapitulates this biospheric evolutionary forcing vector. Resolving the false claim that humanity is "unnatural."

The principle really goes back to the process of the creation of a physical plenum. After all availability of states in a phase of work in the biosphere are used, a crisis of depletion of resources, in this case iron, evolution finds a pathway to diversify. It solves a problem. 

In this sense, evolution exhibits a primitive sort of willfulness by changing in the face of the pressure of continued existence. Right now, we are in the throes of combatting a virus that is displaying precisely that very same principle. 

Yet again, we confront the unique property of human consciously willful creative discovery that requires our civilization to advance to the next resource base of thermonuclear fusion energy. And as I have been emphasizing the equally transformative development of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fusion plasma torch for redefining our available resources. 

U.K. ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY/CULHAM CENTRE FOR FUSION ENERGY/EUROFUSION

Left or Right Pill

Some folks from either the left or right are Hobbesians that believe that the nature of humans always is toward war & evil & therefore must be curbed for the "good" of maintaining social order by removing legal "permissions" to continue their existence. They are convinced that their side is "enlightened," but they sometimes violently disagree on what constitutes the "good." It really is the Jonathan Swift tale of the Lilliputian wars over which is the correct end of the egg to crack on... Will it be the fundamentalists or the conservationists? 

Greeting the New Year

Every time we lift our eyes heavenward
With new eyes that never a soul
Has peered ere now across the universe
We celebrate a new eclipse of powers
So gently aligned with our destiny
To be forever in the stars yet not begun
Unleashed and still unbowed for evermore.

Comet Leonard Before Star Cluster M3
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett