The Price of Civilization, Technology, & Progress
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Introduction
 | 0.1 - To Forge Ahead Full Steam without Thinking is Stupid and Suicidal |
CHAPTER 1 - What are Civilization, Culture, Technology, and Progress
| 1.1 - Technology is complexity. High intellegence. Awe inspiring. |
| 1.2 - Culture Vs. Technology | 1.2.1 - Culture is decidedly different than technology, in that a society can be highly progressed in one while not in the other. | 1.2.1.1 - Culture and Technology are in Many Ways Even Mutually Exclusive |
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| 1.2.2 - Todays Western Civilization is increasing in technology, but loosing culture. | 1.2.2.1 - Parents no longer raise their own children, and neither does anyone else. | 1.2.2.1.1 - Parents Work |
| 1.2.2.1.2 - Discipline in Modern Schools is Unheard Of |
| 1.2.2.1.3 - Grand Parents and Extended Relatives No longer Live with the Family. |
| 1.2.2.1.4 - Elders are Not Respected |
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| 1.2.2.2 - Elders are not respected. |
| 1.2.2.3 - Knowledge and Learning are not respected. | 1.2.2.3.1 - Mockery of Intellegence in Media and in Life | 1.2.2.3.1.1 - Mockery of Intellegence by Adults |
| 1.2.2.3.1.2 - Mockery of Intellegence by Kids |
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| 1.2.2.3.2 - School Meals |
| 1.2.2.3.3 - Teacher Compensation and Pay | 1.2.2.3.3.1 - Teacher Recognition Throughout Society as being as Important as a Doctor or Lawyer |
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| 1.2.2.4 - Bulk Representation of Arts in the Modern-Day are Trash - Worthless Dribble from Dabblers | ( P1 ) Masters take a lifetime to train. However, modern artists expect to learn their skill in a flash, with no work. This common plight of the current day yields few individuals willing to put the time, work, and effort into learning true skill. |
| 1.2.2.4.1 - 'Modern' Art - Today's Painters don't have the Skill to Produce what Past Masters have | ( P2 ) Instead they throw paint at a canvas. Or draw shapes or mangles of color and call it 'interpretive' or 'modern'. |
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| 1.2.2.4.2 - Today's Music Talent is but a Shadow of Past Centuries | 1.2.2.4.2.1 - Look at Past Masters like Paganini, Heifitz, Yehirdi with no Contemporary Competition |
| 1.2.2.4.2.2 - Jazz |
| 1.2.2.4.2.3 - Trance & Club Music | 1.2.2.4.2.3.1 - Disco Biscuits - Each song is but one, short melody played 100 times. |
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| 1.2.2.4.3 - Writing, Speaking, and Vocabulary | 1.2.2.4.3.1 - Newspapers are written below high-school levels. |
| 1.2.2.4.3.2 - A Comparison of Modern Books to 100 Year Old Books Reveals a Reduced Vocabulary, and a General Dumbing Down of the Average Man | 1.2.2.4.3.2.1 - People do not Read as Much as They Did in the Past |
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CHAPTER 2 - Origional Sin - Adoption of Technology
| ( P3 ) All of the popular explanations for what the Creation Story could be alluding to point to Technology in some form. Possibilities to the referenced origional sin include: eating meat, farming (agriculture vs. hunter/gather), entheogen use |
| ( P4 ) The !Kung live in the Kalahari Deser of southern Africa and have no agriculture and very little technology. They hunt and gather yet exhibit no violence amongst themselves. The !Kung way of life proves that without the plow, men would not have the sword. *(R1) |
| 2.1 - Leaving our Hunter / Gatherer Heritage Forever |
| 2.2 - Example: The Grass Eating Primate |
Chapter References:
* R1 - The Lucifer Principle : P 27
CHAPTER 3 - Measures of Civilization, Technology, and Progress
| 3.1 - Human Domestication | 3.1.1 - Domestication vs Wild |
| 3.1.2 - Some Measures of Wildness |
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| 3.2 - Communication | 3.2.1 - Facial Expressions/Body Language -> Sign Language -> Verbal Language -> Story Telling -> Picture Writing -> Alphabet Writing -> Electronic Communication: Broadcast and Archival Storage |
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| 3.3 - Goods / Products | 3.3.1 - Availabilty of |
| 3.3.2 - Diversity of |
| 3.3.3 - Quality of |
| 3.3.4 - Complexity Of |
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| 3.4 - Arts | 3.4.1 - Music, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, |
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| 3.5 - Social Resources | 3.5.1 - Pedophiles and Sexual Predators Public Registery |
| 3.5.2 - Soup Kitchens and Homeless Centers |
| 3.5.3 - Free/Cheap Medical Clinics |
| 3.5.4 - Abused Womens' Resources |
| 3.5.5 - Pregnancy Resources |
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| 3.6 - Civil Rights |
| 3.7 - Social Equality | 3.7.1 - Class and Caste Systems |
| 3.7.2 - Voting |
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| 3.8 - Personal Freedom |
| 3.9 - Complexity of Technology |
| 3.10 - Food | 3.10.1 - Seasonal vs. Available Year Round | 3.10.1.1 - Even if Price is Higher Out-of-Season, Almost Any Food is Today Available Year-Round | 3.10.1.1.1 - Food Preservation Technologies | 3.10.1.1.1.1 - Salt, Spices, & Dry Curing |
| 3.10.1.1.1.2 - Canning |
| 3.10.1.1.1.3 - Flash Freezing |
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| 3.10.2 - Utensils |
| 3.10.3 - Cookware | 3.10.3.1 - Fire |
| 3.10.3.2 - Coal Fire |
| 3.10.3.3 - Gas Fire |
| 3.10.3.4 - Electric Infrared e.g. Toasters |
| 3.10.3.5 - Electric Microwave Radiation |
| 3.10.3.6 - Direct Matter Replication | ( P5 ) Granted, having future cookware actually conjure up your dinner is a step beyond current cookware which simply cooks food, a food replicator would take the place of cookware and is in the same line of technological progress. |
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| 3.11 - Attitude to the Human Body and Form | 3.11.1 - Clothing Styles |
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| 3.12 - Measures of Moral Level of Society | 3.12.1 - Level of Policing | 3.12.1.1 - Self - Each Individual Holds Themselves Accountable |
| 3.12.1.2 - Everyone - A society where each person monitors and watches every other one. E.g. the Amish or other strict religous or otherwise close-knit community such as tribal life. |
| 3.12.1.3 - Special Class of People - Police |
| 3.12.1.4 - Special Class for the Special Class - Cause even the enforcers can't be trusted. |
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| 3.13 - Computer Technology | ( P6 ) First generation computers were owned and used by large companies. Second generation computers were smaller and able to be purchased and run by individuals. The third generation of computers is turning computer processing power into a metered utility service with pay only for usage. The final generation will yeild computer prococessing power so sheap and plentyfull that it will be free and everywhere. |
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CHAPTER 4 - Speed of Advancement and Progress
| 4.1 - The Earth's Global Rate of Human Technological Advancement has been Exponential to Date. | ( P7 ) Stone age was 100,000 years
Settlement are about 10,000 years
Modern Renaissance was about 1,000 years
Industrial Age was 300 years
Computer Age was about 50 years
Biology Cracked the Human Genome in 15? years |
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| 4.2 - The Singularity | 4.2.1 - Accelerated Growth Rates of Information Accumulation | ( P8 ) 2 Types of Knowledge: Experimental Facts and Inferrences/Deductions. Experimental facts are being accumulated faster because of improving techniques. Deducions and interrelated correlations increase exponentially in relation to the experimental facts that will interrelate. |
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| 4.2.2 - The Spread of Super-AI-Consciousness Throughout the Universe at Light-Speed |
| 4.2.3 - 2012 | ( P9 ) 2012 is the year of the Galactic Allignment. The Earth's tilt precesses through a 26,000 year wobble and in 2012 the winter solstice sun will rise in line with the center of our galexy. The date was predicted by the Aztecs. *(R2) |
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| 4.2.4 - The Borg |
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| 4.3 - Consumption Always Rises to Meet Resource Availablity | 4.3.1 - CPU speed & Memory Size Vs. Software Bloat |
| 4.3.2 - $ Income and Spending - Poor Lottery Winners Soon Become Poor Again |
| 4.3.3 - Never Satisfied |
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| 4.4 - Technologically Displaced Jobs | 4.4.1 - Older people can not afford to go back to school for a decade only to be minimally employable and that for only a short time span. |
| ( P10 ) As the rate of technological progress increases, there will come a point where people trained to work in the older technology will not be able even learn the required skills of the new technology and will not be employable in it. |
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| 4.5 - Technologically Outdated Equiptment | 4.5.1 - Technological Leaps in each cycle are getting greater such that there is greater incompatability between systems or parts sooner. | 4.5.1.1 - Horses were used for thousands of years & the same harness would have worked at any stage.
Tractors have been used for a hundred years but designs change majorly every decade.
Genetic crop engineering has been around for decades but the computers and genetic analasys equipment that run it change completely every few years.. |
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| 4.5.2 - New way of life or new technology often obliterates the possibility of returning to the old way. | 4.5.2.1 - e.g. The Earth can no longer feed all inhabitants w/o use of artificial fertalizers. | ( P11 ) This means individual organic farming by every human alive today is impossible, let alone a hunter/gatherer subsistance. Meanin, we can't go back because we now rely on industrial farming technology. |
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| 4.5.2.2 - E.g. Most humans today in the industrialized world require eyeware to see properly. | ( P12 ) Without vision correction technolgies many people would be handicaped cripples. This means these people rely on this technology for their very life and could NOT survive in the same capacity without it. These afflicted folks and their children can NOT turn back. |
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| 4.5.2.3 - E.g. A growing number of human babies are requiring ceasearians. | ( P13 ) While some or much increase in the number of cesearians performed in the industrialized world can be attributed to the medical profession overzealously sticking their dirty fingers where they do not belong but where they can charge highly, it is a fact that the percentage of human births that require it is indeed increasing. Those so affected now rely on andvanced medical technology for sexual reproduction. |
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| 4.6 - Increasing Gap Between Have and Have-Not's | 4.6.1 - High Advancement Speed Selectively Benefits the Young that Can Change & Learn and the Rich that can Afford Upgrades | 4.6.1.1 - Young that Can Change & Learn | 4.6.1.1.1 - Developmental Periods |
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| 4.6.1.2 - The Affluent that can Afford Upgrades | 4.6.1.2.1 - Education, Books, now Computers and Internet Access, emerging Computer-cell-phone, Someday Implants |
| 4.6.1.2.2 - Upgrades in Technology often cost order of magnitude more when they first come out compared to the last generation of technology. | 4.6.1.2.2.1 - Rate of Turnover Increases / Time between Generations Decreasing |
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| 4.6.1.3 - The Undifferentiated and Unspecialized | ( P14 ) Normally a losing position in a fixed environment as others will be adapted for it, however as they are not specially adapted they are not at an evolutionary dead end, if conditions make their adaptation not only not beneficial but even a liability. |
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| 4.6.1.4 - Fewer Jobs in a High-Tech World than a Human-based Manufacturing one | ( P15 ) As work becomes more intellectual and cutting edge, only the very few top humans in any one field will be able to contibute subtantially to it, thereby making most people un-essential and cheap. |
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| 4.6.2 - High Technology Medical Treatment is Available, but Only to Select Few |
| 4.6.3 - Super-computer Technology Exists but those that can Afford it are Few |
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Chapter References:
* R2 - 2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl : (Introduction; Part 4, Ch 1, P 190)
CHAPTER 5 - Explination of The Increasing Rate of Technological Advancement
| 5.1 - The theory of 'Next Possible Space' | 5.1.1 - Larger sets have more possible permutations among the member elements. |
| 5.1.2 - Higher Levels Implicitly Require Established Foundations | 5.1.2.1 - Space/Time/Energy -> Matter -> Atoms -> Molecules -> Proteans -> Living Organisms -> Self-Awareness -> Conscious thought |
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| 5.2 - Rate Of Cycles of Advancement Increasingly Short in Time with Greater in Advancements |
| 5.3 - Cost of Duplication of Inventions | 5.3.1 - Making Items by hand -> Making Machines that make Items -> Items being 'digital' and trivial to 'copy' and disceminate -> biologics are also trivial as they self-replicate -> Nano-technologies are anticipated to be just as self-replicatable. | 5.3.1.1 - Cost of Re-Inventing the Wheel |
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| 5.3.2 - The Easiest has Already been Done. Only Leaps Remain. Overtime, Leaps required will Increase in Size. | 5.3.2.1 - Effect: It is harder for an individual to make an advancement. Greater Resources than one person can gather are required. |
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CHAPTER 6 - Spiralitic Cycles of Discovery & Loss
| 6.1 - Obvious Next Steps in Technological Advancements | 6.1.1 - Enables Some Predictions | 6.1.1.1 - Next Possible Space |
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| 6.1.2 - Parallel Advancements | 6.1.2.1 - The Same Physical Laws of Constraint will often have Disparate Approaches Result in Analagous yet Different Solutions | ( P16 ) Wales are mammals that had legs but begin exposed to the same constraint laws of hydrodynamics as fish, they now have a similar form (a similar Technological solution to the problem). |
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| 6.1.2.2 - Fire Use Discovered World-wide Almost Simultaneously |
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| 6.1.3 - Research, Discovery, & Testing |
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| 6.2 - Religous & Cultural Supression of Technology |
| 6.3 - Lost Technology | 6.3.1 - Construction of Megaliths | ( P17 ) Pyramids of Egypt and Central America, Easter Island, Stonehenge, and a multitude of underwarer and land based structures and monuments. |
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| 6.3.2 - Damascus Steel |
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| 6.4 - Times and Incidents of Loss | 6.4.1 - War, Disease, Famine, Natural Disaster |
| 6.4.2 - Burning of the Library of Alexandrea |
| 6.4.3 - Witch-Hunts and Book Burnings |
| 6.4.4 - Loss of the only Master who has not yet Passed on his Knowledge and Skill | 6.4.4.1 - Gregor Mendel - Genetics, Inheritance, Traits |
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CHAPTER 7 - Master Artists' Groups Non-Disclosure of Technology
| 7.1 - Re-Inventing the Wheel | 7.1.1 - The Cost of ... |
| 7.1.2 - Technology Disclosure and the Public Good vs. Private Interests |
| 7.1.3 - The Patent System Today |
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| 7.2 - Masons | 7.2.1 - Encoding of Information in their Works |
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| 7.3 - Pythagoras & Pythagoreans |
| 7.4 - Esoteric Christianity |
| 7.5 - Rosicrucianism |
| 7.6 - Glass Blowing |
| 7.7 - Metallurgy |
| 7.8 - Private Sector Businesses/Companies/Corporations |
| 7.9 - Modern Day Governments | 7.9.1 - Nuclear Technology |
| 7.9.2 - Biotechnology | 7.9.2.1 - Bacterial |
| 7.9.2.2 - Viral |
| 7.9.2.3 - Fungal |
| 7.9.2.4 - Plant |
| 7.9.2.5 - Animal | 7.9.2.5.1 - Insect | 7.9.2.5.1.1 - Food Crop Devastation Possible |
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| 7.9.3 - Nano Technology | 7.9.3.1 - Self Replication | 7.9.3.1.1 - Grey Goo |
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| 7.9.4 - Weather - Prediction & Modification | 7.9.4.1 - China and the 2008 Olympics - No Rain? |
| 7.9.4.2 - US Farming Rain Seeders |
| 7.9.4.3 - Contrails |
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| 7.9.5 - Fluid Dynamics | 7.9.5.1 - Boats, Subs, Torpedos, even air is a fluid, so also Rockets, Missles, Artillery, Planes, Helicopters, Ground Vehicles, etc. |
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| 7.9.6 - Waves | 7.9.6.1 - Radar |
| 7.9.6.2 - Under-Water Sonar | 7.9.6.2.1 - It's important enough to use to validate killing dolphins and wales in droves, amongst other marine life. |
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| 7.9.6.3 - VLF Waves |
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| 7.9.7 - Super-Conductor Technology |
| 7.9.8 - Magnetic Technology | 7.9.8.1 - MagLev Transportation |
| 7.9.8.2 - Magnetic Eater-Craft Propulsion, propellerless boats |
| 7.9.8.3 - Planetary and Solar Magnetic Fields |
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| 7.9.9 - Satallite and Earth Based Sensor Data |
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CHAPTER 8 - Effects on the Psychological Development of Humans
| 8.1 - TV, Movies, Games | 8.1.1 - Sex & Violence |
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| 8.2 - Parents work instead of raising moral children. |
| 8.3 - Schools Getting Worse |
| 8.4 - Earlier Puberty | 8.4.1 - Hormones in Food |
| 8.4.2 - Food Prevelance and Childhood Obesity Lowering Age of Puberty | ( P18 ) Body weight or body fat content seems to exert an effect on puberty since girls that are more obese reach puberty earlier. |
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CHAPTER 9 - Effects on the Evolution or Development of Humans
| 9.1 - Civilization allows for Weaker Individuals to Survive |
| 9.2 - Less Individual and Societal Integrity |
| 9.3 - Reduction of Personal and Human Dignity | 9.3.1 - Controlled Substances |
| 9.3.2 - Life-Support, Elder Home Care, Suicide Conrol Obsession |
| 9.3.3 - Drug Laws & Punishments |
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| 9.4 - Depression | 9.4.1 - Loss of Free Time (relaxation) |
| 9.4.2 - Loss of Meaning to Life |
| 9.4.3 - Life is no Longer a Struggle. |
| 9.4.4 - Humans have become Domesticated Animals |
| 9.4.5 - Loss of Importance of Individuals in the World | 9.4.5.1 - An Increasing Percent of Companies Lay-Off, Fire, or Let-Go Long-Time, Often Life-Long Employes |
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| 9.5 - Hormones in Food | 9.5.1 - Growth Hormones in Milk |
| 9.5.2 - Estrogen in Milk |
| 9.5.3 - Estrogen in Soy Products |
| 9.5.4 - Yellow #5 and Testicular Shrinking |
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| 9.6 - 'Naked Ape' Behaviour |
CHAPTER 10 - Reliance and Dependence on Technology (Inherited High-Culture)
| 10.1 - Environmental Factors Experienced Evolutionaririly will become Necessities of Life |
| 10.2 - Eye Glasses |
| 10.3 - Home Remedies / Old Folk Cures | 10.3.1 - Foxglove / Digitalis for heart conditions |
| 10.3.2 - Ergot - Ergovine used for stop hemorages during childbirth. |
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| 10.4 - Medical Practices | 10.4.1 - C-Section Births |
| 10.4.2 - Premature Births |
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| 10.5 - Cultural or Regional Diets | 10.5.1 - Honey Bee | 10.5.1.1 - Pollenation |
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| 10.5.2 - Tea |
| 10.5.3 - Fish |
| 10.5.4 - Meat |
| 10.5.5 - Milk |
| 10.5.6 - Greens |
| 10.5.7 - Berries |
| 10.5.8 - Nuts |
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CHAPTER 11 - Civilization requires specialization in skills.
| 11.1 - The more advanced the civilization, the higher the degree of specialization required because one person can no longer know all of even a sub-area of a subject. | 11.1.1 - Individuals must find Niches to Occupy | 11.1.1.1 - Niches themselves Keep Dividing, becoming more Numberous and each Smaller, Tighter |
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| 11.2 - Schools, Trade Schools, Aprenticeship, Residency |
CHAPTER 12 - Out Sourcing
| 12.1 - Of Parts, Services, Processes, & People |
| 12.2 - Dangers Of | 12.2.1 - Just-in-Time Delvery of Goods, Parts, Food, Fuel, Medical Supplies, etc. |
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CHAPTER 13 - Reliance on Parts rather than Raw Supplies as your input materials
CHAPTER 14 - The Need for Lower Classes of Menial Workers
| 14.1 - Entertainment required for 'off' hours. |
CHAPTER 15 - Resources - Use, Allocation,
CHAPTER 16 - Denser & Larger Populations Incite Epedimics
CHAPTER 17 - Larger Territories and More Diverse Collections of Cultures are Harder To Maintain control of
CHAPTER 18 - Increased Travel to Foreign Lands Introduces Foreign Pathogens, Parasites, Predators, and even simply Invasive Species.
| 18.1 - Ship Ballast Tanks transport marine life between oceans. |
| 18.2 - Water and Air Freight from Foreign Lands Brings Creatures With it |
| 18.3 - Humans in Transit act as Disease Transport and Mobile Infection Points |
| 18.4 - Food from Foreign Lands Migrates Also their Parasites and any Vagabond Organisms on Them |
CHAPTER 19 - The Dangers of Being Big
| 19.1 - More Noticible |
| 19.2 - Bigger = More Loot for Successful Plunderers |
CHAPTER 20 - Loss of Spiritural or Inner Life
| 20.1 - Science vs. God & Church |
CHAPTER 21 - Lack of Familiarity with Neighbors
| 21.1 - More People |
| 21.2 - Faster Passed Life |
| 21.3 - Less Sence of Community / More Ego & Individualism |
CHAPTER 22 - The Threat of Super Artificial Intellegence
| 22.1 - E.g. the Borg |
CHAPTER 23 - Reliance on Non-Local Resources and Foreign-Produced Goods
| 23.1 - Blackmail, Trade Imbalances, Supply Lines Can be Cut |
CHAPTER 24 - The Technological Abstainers
| 24.1 - The Poor, The Down-Trodden, The Old, The Eldery, The Naturalists, The Persecuted Minorities |
| 24.2 - The Mennonites | 24.2.1 - The Amish |
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| 24.3 - Tribal People |
| 24.4 - Modern Day Live-off-the-Land'ers |
CHAPTER 25 - The Technological Embracers
| 25.1 - Youth |
| 25.2 - Japan |
| 25.3 - Taiwan |
CHAPTER 26 - The Double-Edged Sword of Any Technology
| 26.1 - Control is Important - Prevention is more valuable than Cure |
CHAPTER 27 - Control of the use of Technology to do Harm or Wrong
| 27.1 - Security | 27.1.1 - Through Obfuscation |
| 27.1.2 - Social Engineering |
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CHAPTER 28 - Plannetary Effects of Technology
| 28.1 - Climate |
| 28.2 - Geographic Terrain Type | 28.2.1 - Creation of Deserts | 28.2.1.1 - Clear-Cut Farming |
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| 28.2.2 - Roads, Cities, and Actual Fences and Walls Block Land Animals from Travel and therefor Interferes with or Stops Migration, Food Browsing, Mate Seeking, etc. | ( P19 ) We are creating individual pockets of animal populations that can no longer intermix geographically or genetically. |
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| 28.3 - Environmental Polution |
| 28.4 - Environmental Destruction | 28.4.1 - Deforestation - Logging, Timbering |
| 28.4.2 - Mining | 28.4.2.1 - Open Pit Mining |
| 28.4.2.2 - Underground Mining |
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| 28.5 - Effects of Humans of Prey Animals |
CHAPTER 29 - War - The Presence of Multiple Civilizations of the Approximate Same Level at the Same Time
CHAPTER 30 - The Dangers of Uncharted High-Technology Exploration
| 30.1 - More Complex Systems are More Vulnerable to Chaos and So More Susceptable to Collapse or Failure. The damage done by a failure of a system will also be directly correlated to the complexity of the system as more important systems are always the more complex. |
| 30.2 - Nano-Technological Environmental Nightmares |
| 30.3 - Chemical Environmental Nightmares |
| 30.4 - Biological Environmental Nightmares | 30.4.1 - Un-Stopable, Self-Replicating, Rogue Proteans - Prion Diseases | ( P20 ) A prion is thought to be an infectious agent that is comprised entirely of a propagated, mis-folded protein. The mis-folded form of the prion protein has been implicated in a number of diseases in a variety of mammals. All hypothesized prion diseases affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue, and all are currently untreatable and are always fatal.
In general usage, prion refers to the theoretical unit of infection. Scientifically speaking, PrPC refers to the endogenous prion protein, which is found in a multitude of tissues, while PrPSC refers to the misfolded form of PrPC, and is responsible for the formation of amyloid plaques that lead to neurodegeneration.
Prions are hypothesized to infect and propagate by refolding abnormally into a structure which is able to convert normal molecules of the protein into the abnormally structured form. All known prions induce the formation of an amyloid fold, in which the protein polymerises into an aggregate consisting of tightly packed beta sheets. This altered structure is extremely stable and accumulates in infected tissue, causing tissue damage and cell death. This stability means that prions are resistant to denaturation by chemical and physical agents, making disposal and containment of these particles difficult.
Proteins showing prion-type behavior are also found in some fungi and this has been quite important in helping to understand mammalian prions. However, fungal prions do not appear to cause disease in their hosts and may even confer an evolutionary advantage through a form of protein-based inheritance.
The word prion is a compound word derived from the initial letters of the words proteinaceous and infectious, with -on added by analogy to the word virion. |
| 30.4.1.1 - Prions are Heat-Resistant. | ( P21 ) Autoclaving medical equipment such as dental tools will not destroy infections prions on them. |
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| 30.4.1.2 - Modern Mechanical Meat-Separation (from bone) Methods Increase the Amount of Infectious Prion-Containing Nervous Tissue in Food |
| 30.4.1.3 - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | ( P22 ) The prion that is believed to cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob exhibits at least two stable conformations. One, the native state, is water-soluble and present in healthy cells. As of 2007, its biological function is presumably in transmembrane transport or signaling. The other conformational state is very poorly water-soluble and readily forms protein aggregates.
People can also acquire CJD genetically through a mutation of the gene that codes for the prion protein (PRNP). This only occurs in 5-10% of all CJD cases.
The CJD prion is dangerous because it promotes refolding of native proteins into the diseased state (Step 1: UNFOLDING of alpha-helices; Step 2: REFOLDING to beta-pleated sheets.). The number of misfolded protein molecules will increase exponentially,[citation needed] and the process leads to a large quantity of insoluble prions in affected cells. This mass of misfolded proteins disrupts cell function and causes cell death. Mutations in the gene for the prion protein can cause a misfolding of the dominantly alpha helical regions into beta pleated sheets. This change in conformation disables the ability of the protein to undergo digestion. Once the prion is transmitted, the defective proteins invade the brain and are produced in a self-sustaining feedback loop, causing exponential spread of the prion, leading to death within a few months, although a few patients have lived as long as two years. |
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| 30.4.1.4 - Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) |
| 30.4.1.5 - fatal familial insomnia (FFI) |
| 30.4.1.6 - Kuru |
| 30.4.1.7 - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) in cattle |
| 30.4.1.8 - Chronic Wasting disease (CWD) in elk and deer |
| 30.4.1.9 - Scrapie in sheep |
| 30.4.1.10 - Alpers' syndrome | ( P23 ) Alpers' syndrome in infants is also thought to be a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by a prion. |
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| 30.5 - Anyone Drilling a Hole can Sink the Whole Boat Now | ( P24 ) With Armies of Old, only a large civilization could conquer the world, but they coudd not destroy it. With nuclear weapons, only well funded groups could construct an City-Killer; and only Civilizations could construct World-Killers. With biotechnology, a single, well-trained person could purposfully or accidentally create a World-Killer. |
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| 30.6 - Technological Disasters Caused by Rush-to-Market | 30.6.1 - Lead | 30.6.1.1 - Middle-Ages Makeup (white powder) |
| 30.6.1.2 - Lead Water Pipes |
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| 30.6.2 - DDT | 30.6.2.1 - DDT builds-up in the food chain. Birds are therefore acutely affected. Their egg shells are thinned by DDT to the point that birds can not reproduce successfully. |
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| 30.6.3 - Corn with Pestacide Genes - StarLink™ | ( P25 ) StarLink™ is a corn variety that has been genetically modified to contain an insecticidal protein derived from a naturally occurring bacterium (Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.). The EPA approved this gene-spliced corn in 1998 only for use as animal feed and set a zero-tolerance level for its use in human food based on the fact that this particular Bt protein does not break down easily in the human digestive system, is heat resistant, and could prove allergenic.
Countless human corn products started to test positive for StarLink's™ insecticidal protein. Some of the contamination was due to StarLink™ corn mixing with normal corn in corn processing, storage facilities, and transportaion means; however, the contamination was also due to pollen from StarLink™ corn fertalizing other types of corn plants in different fields, likely on different farms.
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| 30.6.4 - Africanized Honey Bee |
| 30.6.5 - Gypsy Moth Catapillar |
| 30.6.6 - Asbestos or Vaccines |
| 30.6.7 - Thalidomide - Limbless Children in trade for Comfort from Nausia | ( P26 ) Thalidomide was sold from 1957 to 1961 in almost 50 countries under at least 40 names chiefly prescribed to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and as an aid to help them sleep. Before its release, inadequate tests were performed to assess the drug's safety, with catastrophic results for the children of women who had taken thalidomide during their pregnancies. Birth defects from Thalidomide include severely deformed or missing limbs. World-wide, there were 6,000 thalidomide births. |
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| 30.6.8 - Super-Strong and Super-Small Magenets in Kids Toys |
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| 30.7 - Information Legacy | 30.7.1 - We are Loosing the Ability to Pass on Information to Future Generations | ( P27 ) Story tellers that knew epic-poems that went back thousands of years.
Clay tablets with written information that last.
Paper books that decay, ozidize, and rot.
Electronic Mediums that break down. Plastics decay. Metal rusts. Formats become obsolete quickly.
The internet changes daily, and while some sites archive portions of it, most often the past content is lost with each update/change/addition/deletion.
Even communication has gone from written letters, to archived email, to flighty IM's.
What is next? No storage, all on-demand?
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CHAPTER 31 - Changes Must be made Now to Effect a Difference Later
| 31.1 - Nudging of an Asteroid Changes it's Course |
| 31.2 - The Broadest Changes to a System Can Only be Initiated in the Beginning | ( P28 ) Look at the diversity of life. All branching was done in the beginning before there was specialization which leads to dead ends. |
| 31.2.1 - Even all of life's basic biology was set once in the VERY beginning and has not changed since. | 31.2.1.1 - DNA & RNA | 31.2.1.1.1 - Amino Acid Encoding |
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| 31.2.1.2 - ATP - The Energy of Life |
| 31.2.1.3 - Handedness of Sugar |
| 31.2.1.4 - Common Embryology |
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CHAPTER 32 - Galactic Civilization Levels
| 32.1 - Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. It was first proposed in 1964 by the Soviet Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet, Type II of its solar system, and Type III of its galaxy. |
CHAPTER 33 - Unique Problems of Civilizations
| 33.1 - Food | 33.1.1 - Seperation from our Food - in Space and in Knowlede |
| 33.1.2 - Poor Diets | 33.1.2.1 - Soils Stripped of Nutrients |
| 33.1.2.2 - Diets Filled with Sugars and Fats |
| 33.1.2.3 - There were some Pigs acting Crazy, but were cured with a Nutritional Suppliment |
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| 33.2 - Housing |
| 33.3 - Medical Care |
| 33.4 - Utilities - Water, Electricity, Gas & Fuel, Phone, Food, Meds |
| 33.5 - Information Dissemination |
| 33.6 - Employment | 33.6.1 - Job Creation | 33.6.1.1 - More Education Required. Longer and more Specialized. |
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| 33.6.2 - Alternative for the Un-Employable | 33.6.2.1 - Crime Will Result If Nothing is Society Does to Help to Un-Employable |
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| 33.7 - Monitary Exchange Systems | 33.7.1 - Debt, Indebtedness |
| 33.7.2 - Inflation, Recessions, & Valuation |
| 33.7.3 - Taxation | 33.7.3.1 - Collection |
| 33.7.3.2 - Scaled Fairly |
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| 33.7.4 - Gold Backed Vs. Fiat Currency |
| 33.7.5 - Bank Runs |
| 33.7.6 - Risk of Electronic Loss of Money, Electronic Money offers Less Transparecy to it's owners as it is intangible. |
| 33.7.7 - Risk of Electronic Hacking Theft, Identity Theft, Password Breach, etc. |
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| 33.8 - Placation of the Masses | 33.8.1 - Mob Uprisings / Civil Unrest |
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| 33.9 - Corruption Exists in All Organizations |
| 33.10 - Common Group Problems & Their Solutions in Other Organims | 33.10.1 - Most Animals, unless in dire straits, will only kill to eat the young, slow, or old. They thereby unknowingly leave the choice prime prey specimins to reproduce and repopulate. |
| 33.10.2 - Bees |
| 33.10.3 - Ants |
| 33.10.4 - Gorillas |
| 33.10.5 - Chimpansees |
| 33.10.6 - Canines / Wolves |
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| 33.11 - His Story - History is ALWAYS the Story Told by the Victor |
| 33.12 - Jails / Penetentairies / Insane Asylums | 33.12.1 - Criminal Training |
| 33.12.2 - Criminal Hardening |
| 33.12.3 - Lowers IQ |
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| 33.13 - Violence & Crime | 33.13.1 - Shootings - Work, School, Mall |
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| 33.14 - Security |
| 33.15 - The Poor, Indigent, Disabled, Dumb |
| 33.16 - The Sick & Diseased |
| 33.17 - Garbage, Trash, Refuse |
| 33.18 - The Military Machine - All Machines Want to Run, It is their Nature | 33.18.1 - Existence Alone is Danger | 33.18.1.1 - 'Fail-Safe' |
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| 33.19 - Care of and Services for the Elderly |
| 33.20 - Care of and Services for Children | 33.20.1 - Work Laws |
| 33.20.2 - Manditory Free Schooling (indoctrination masquerading as schooling) | ( P29 ) The Quality and Reality of Free Schooling is that it Could be Good, but as Implemented is a Horendous Crime on the Humans within it's Clutches. |
| ( P30 ) Throwing white bread directly into the toilet is of more nutritional value than eating it, becasue at least you will still be hungry and will eat anything else. Modern public schooling is like white bread, of no developmental value, it would be better if it did not exist so that something better could take it's place in children's days during the time it currently warehouses future minimum-wage worker drones and teaches them to sit still, do as they are commanded, following instructions of their masters, etc. |
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| 33.21 - Continuation or Perpetuation - No Civilization on Earth to Date has Not Fallen (living young examples excluded). |
| 33.22 - Possible Acts of God against Civilazation | 33.22.1 - Past Extinction Periods |
| 33.22.2 - Asteroid or Meteor World-Killers |
| 33.22.3 - Extreme Volcanic and Seismic Activity |
| 33.22.4 - Ice Ages |
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CHAPTER 34 - Technology as the Death of Past Civilizations of Earth
| 34.1 - Rome - Lead & Silt | 34.1.1 - Lead Water Pipes |
| 34.1.2 - Silt Clogging Ports |
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CHAPTER 35 - How To Handle It All - Solutions for a Future
| 35.1 - Science Knowledge over Political Opinion or Push in Questions of Fact |
| 35.2 - Civilization must be led by a randomly selected large pannel of scientists who are picked from a pre-approved group based on merit and testing, rather than by one politician. | 35.2.1 - Examples | 35.2.1.1 - Roman Triumvirate (of 3 men) |
| 35.2.1.2 - Tribal Councils of Elders |
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| 35.2.2 - Even the word Politics is now dirty |
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| 35.3 - Universal Acceptance of the Importance of Public Good over Private Interests | 35.3.1 - No more Lobbies & special interests. No more addendums to or combining of legislation. |
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| 35.4 - Increased Redundancy in Physical Infrastructure | 35.4.1 - Transportation: Roads, Bridges, Rail, Tunnels, etc.
Medical: Care/Treatment Facilites, Trained Personel, Stockpiles of Supplies, Vaccine Production Facilites, Disease Analysis Centers
Energy: ... |
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| 35.5 - Long Term (100 Generation) Planetary Goals | 35.5.1 - Long-Term Projects | 35.5.1.1 - Reforestation |
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| 35.6 - Safeguards on New Technology | 35.6.1 - Chemical, Nano, Bio, Weather, Nuclear, or Physics | 35.6.1.1 - Prions - Self-Replicating Biologics, possible a Protein misfolded |
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| 35.7 - Open Public Access to all Knowledge and Technology | 35.7.1 - Massive Increase in Public Sponsored Research |
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| 35.8 - Pannel, Council, or Court to Accept and Hear Public Complaints about Specific Technological Concerns |
CHAPTER 36 - Next Technological Leaps
CHAPTER 37 - Immediate, Earth Specific Issues
| 37.1 - Climate Change | 37.1.1 - Climate Change can be Sudden and Dramatic - The Last Ice Age Set-in in only 10 Years. |
| 37.1.2 - Climate Change can be Irreversable | 37.1.2.1 - Russian Scientist's Calculation of Runaway Snowball Earth Thresh-holds |
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| 37.1.3 - CO2 Levels | 37.1.3.1 - We Need to Develop Solar-Powered, Self-Replicatiing CO2 Atmospheric Scrubbers - Oh, wait.. Trees!! | 37.1.3.1.1 - Taiga |
| 37.1.3.1.2 - Rain Forest |
| 37.1.3.1.3 - Ocean |
| 37.1.3.1.4 - How can we Increase the Amount of Plant Life in the Biosphere? | 37.1.3.1.4.1 - Nutrient Availability | 37.1.3.1.4.1.1 - Water |
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| 37.1.3.2 - CO2 levels are rising not only in the Earth's atmosphere, but also in the oceans. | 37.1.3.2.1 - Disolved CO2 increases water's PH; it becomes an acid. | 37.1.3.2.1.1 - Coral, world-wide is dying. | ( P31 ) Do coral take C out of the ocean in making coral? if so then their stopping of their removal of carbon will only magnigy the carbon build-up. Coral is calciferous (Calcium containing) and Calcite does contain carbon. |
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| 37.1.3.3 - Removing CO2 from the Carbon-Cycle at Large | 37.1.3.3.1 - Harvesting of Ocean Alge/Seaweed Blooms, Pond Scum | ( P32 ) Modern fertalizing practices are causing many lakes and ponds to explode in alge, scum, or weed growth. These blooms could be harvested and the carbon prevented from re-enterign the earth's carbon cylce by their normal decay. |
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| 37.1.3.3.2 - Creating Carbonates and other Carbon Compounds | 37.1.3.3.2.1 - Idealy, the creation of a compound to store C or CO2 be exothermic, not endothermic. |
| 37.1.3.3.2.2 - Calcite - Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaC03). | 37.1.3.3.2.2.1 - Carbonates | ( P33 ) Limestone - Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate: CaCO3). The solubility of limestone in water and weak acid solutions leads to important phenomena. Regions overlying limestone bedrock tend to have fewer visible groundwater sources (ponds and streams), as surface water easily drains downward through cracks in the limestone. While draining, water slowly (over thousands or millions of years) enlarges these cracks; dissolving the calcium-carbonate and carrying it away in solution. Most well-known natural cave systems are through limestone bedrock. Limestone makes up about 10% of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks. Calcite can be either dissolved by groundwater or precipitated by groundwater, depending on several factors including the water temperature, pH, and dissolved ion concentrations. Calcite exhibits an unusual characteristic called retrograde solubility in which it becomes less soluble in water as the temperature increases. When conditions are right for precipitation, calcite forms mineral coatings that cement the existing rock grains together or it can fill fractures. |
| ( P34 ) Dolostone - In old U.S.G.S. publications it was referred to as magnesian limestone. Most dolostone formed as a magnesium replacement of limestone or lime mud prior to lithification. It is resistant to erosion and can either contain bedded layers or be unbedded. It is less soluble than limestone in weakly acidic groundwater, but it can still develop solution features over time. |
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| 37.1.3.3.2.2.2 - CaOH added to CO2 =? |
| 37.1.3.3.2.2.3 - Calcium hydroxide, traditionally called slaked lime, hydrated lime, slack lime or pickling lime, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2.
A water solution of Calcium hydroxide turns milky if carbon dioxide is passed through, due to precipitation of calcium carbonate. |
| 37.1.3.3.2.2.4 - Calcium carbonate - CaCO3 - Limestone, Chalk, Calcite |
| 37.1.3.3.2.2.5 - Manganese carbonate - MnCO3 |
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| 37.1.3.3.2.3 - Carbon disulfide (CS2) |
| 37.1.3.3.2.4 - Cyanide (CN–) |
| 37.1.3.3.2.5 - nitride cyanogen molecule ((CN)2), similar to diatomic halides |
| 37.1.3.3.2.6 - Malate |
| 37.1.3.3.2.7 - Malic Acid |
| ( P35 ) With reactive metals, such as tungsten, carbon forms either carbides (C4– , or acetylides (C22– to form alloys with high melting points. These anions are also associated with methane and acetylene, both very weak acids. With an electronegativity of 2.5, carbon prefers to form covalent bonds. A few carbides are covalent lattices, like carborundum (SiC), which resembles diamond. |
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| 37.1.4 - Rising Temperatures | 37.1.4.1 - Dangers of | 37.1.4.1.1 - Methane in Peat Bogs |
| 37.1.4.1.2 - Environmental Change Means Changes in Available Territories for Species | 37.1.4.1.2.1 - West Coast US Squid Invasion |
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| 37.1.4.2 - Solutions for | 37.1.4.2.1 - Space Sun-Shade |
| 37.1.4.2.2 - Increasing Earth's Reflectivity | 37.1.4.2.2.1 - Cloud Cover |
| 37.1.4.2.2.2 - Snow Cover |
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| 37.1.5 - Slowing of the Ocean Conveyor Belts - Global Thermal Ocean Currents |
| 37.1.6 - Rising Sea Levels | 37.1.6.1 - Sea Walls |
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| 37.1.7 - Increasing Number and Severity of Large Storms |
| 37.1.8 - Normal Earth Climate Cycles | 37.1.8.1 - Earth's Tilt and 26,000 Year Wobble Period | 37.1.8.1.1 - Ice Ages |
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| 37.2 - Energy Needs | 37.2.1 - Solar |
| 37.2.2 - Nuclear | 37.2.2.1 - Fission | 37.2.2.1.1 - Hazardous Waste Disposal |
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| 37.2.2.2 - Fusion | 37.2.2.2.1 - Solar Fusion |
| 37.2.2.2.2 - Laboratory Fusion | 37.2.2.2.2.1 - Lasers & Magnetic Confinement |
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| 37.2.2.2.3 - Cold Fusion | 37.2.2.2.3.1 - US DOE Report of Cold Fusion |
| 37.2.2.2.3.2 - Possibility of New Electro-Nuclear Chemistry |
| 37.2.2.2.3.3 - Possibly Normal Fusion Rather Than Some New Electro-Chemical Process | 37.2.2.2.3.3.1 - Electrode Pitting (huge explosions within) |
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| 37.3 - Fresh Water Needs | 37.3.1 - Desalination |
| 37.3.2 - Floridation Investigation |
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| 37.4 - Possibility of Global Annihalation via Nukes, Bio-weapons, EMPs, etc. | 37.4.1 - Nukes - Disarm and improve interception systems for global use on rogue states. |
| 37.4.2 - Vaccine production capacity. Distributed network of hundreds of global labs needed for immediate vaccine production ramp-ups. Need research into better production methods. |
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| 37.5 - Increasing Antibiotic Resistance | 37.5.1 - Overuse, Misuse, Abuse | 37.5.1.1 - Human weaknesses accumulating, must pay up some time! |
| 37.5.1.2 - Hospitals and Old Age Homes |
| 37.5.1.3 - Farming Industry | 37.5.1.3.1 - Livestock Fecal Waste Sewage Lakes = Microbe Breeding Grounds |
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| 37.6 - Mold | 37.6.1 - Mold Spores |
| 37.6.2 - Natures Own Grey Goo |
| 37.6.3 - Mold in Buildings & Homes |
| 37.6.4 - Space Station |
| 37.6.5 - Mold on Humans | 37.6.5.1 - Athletes Foot |
| 37.6.5.2 - Thrush |
| 37.6.5.3 - Yeast Infection |
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| 37.7 - Reduction in Global Genetic Bio-Diversity of Food Stock |
| 37.8 - Mono-Cultures |
| 37.9 - Massive Global Extinction of Many Species |
| 37.10 - Terrorism | 37.10.1 - Increasing World Poverty - People with No Hope, Nothing to Loose, & Everything to Gain | 37.10.1.1 - To NOT expect humans to push back with terrorism when they are pushed to the brinks that they are is pure ignorance. Worsening world conditions can only bring more and larger retaliations from the down-trodden. | ( P36 ) Any animal will push back to the point of it's own demise if pushed. This is a natural and normal reaction of life, to deny it's presence and existance is not possible. |
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| 37.11 - Garbage Dumps / Trash Production Rates | 37.11.1 - Dangers Of | 37.11.1.1 - Spreading of Mold Spores | 37.11.1.1.1 - Garbage Dums are Evolutionary Playgrounds for Evolution of Mold | ( P37 ) Like fecal-containment-ponds for livestock breed super bacteria by exposing them to a growth-medium broth that contains the very same antibiotics that they need to devise a way to work around, garbage dumps offer mold and other microbes almost unlimited food and unlimited possibilities for sex with other dissimilar microbes. |
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| 37.11.1.1.2 - Home/House Mold Problems |
| 37.11.1.1.3 - Mir Space Station's Mold Problem |
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| 37.11.1.2 - Toxic Fumes of Volatiles | 37.11.1.2.1 - The Stink is Volitile, Airborn Molecules of Rot and Peutrifaction |
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| 37.11.1.3 - Leeching into Ground Water Table |
| 37.11.1.4 - Future Ecological Time-Bomb |
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| 37.11.2 - Plasma Component-Seperation of Garbage/Refuse | 37.11.2.1 - Current State of | 37.11.2.1.1 - Trash becomes Glass Slurry + Hydo-Carbons |
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| 37.11.3 - Component-Separation Methods | 37.11.3.1 - Iron & Nickel are Magnetic Attractors |
| 37.11.3.2 - Alluminum is Dia-Magnetically Repellable |
| 37.11.3.3 - Methods for Extracting other Metals from Glass Slag | 37.11.3.3.1 - Acid Dissolution |
| 37.11.3.3.2 - Electrolosis |
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| 37.11.3.4 - Hydro-Carbons and other Volitials Can be Temperature Selectively Evaporated |
| 37.11.3.5 - Frequency Adjustable Laser to Selectively Excite Remaining Components by Atomic Resonance Frequency | 37.11.3.5.1 - Initially Designed to Separate Uranium Isotopes |
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| 37.11.3.6 - Centrifugal Separation |
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| 37.12 - Pollenating Honey Bee Population Decline | 37.12.1 - Artificial Insemination |
| 37.12.2 - Reduced Genetic Diversity |
| 37.12.3 - The Industrialization of the Honey Bee Industry |
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CHAPTER 38 - The Breakdown - Planning
| 38.1 - Individual Planning and Steps | 38.1.1 - Home Emergency Supply Kits |
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| 38.2 - Immediate Short-Term | 38.2.1 - Food | 38.2.1.1 - Production |
| 38.2.1.2 - Delivery |
| 38.2.1.3 - Distrobution |
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| 38.2.2 - Utility Upkeep & Repair | 38.2.2.1 - Water |
| 38.2.2.2 - Sewer |
| 38.2.2.3 - Electricity |
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| 38.2.3 - Fuel |
| 38.2.4 - Communication | 38.2.4.1 - Of Needs and Supplyability for various Services/Abilities and Supplies/Equiptment |
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| 38.3 - Longer Term | 38.3.1 - Fuel |
| 38.3.2 - Fertalizer |
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Reference Sources
1: 2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pinchbeck, Daniel - ISBN:978-1-58542-592-1
2: The Lucifer Principle, Bloom, Howard - ISBN:0-87113-664-3
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