Mars - - Why Not?

Today I wasn't asked for my password. Sixty Minutes re-showed their Going to Mars by 2030 segment again. While I was still in elementry school I knew about the over-population on earth and figured naturally that at some future date mankind would spread out to "New Frontiers" just as they had done in the past as a natural course of events. There of course was that cartoon series Space Explorers that stated there would be a mission to Mars in 1978 and at the time (in 1958) this seemed like a perfectly reasonable date to me. When I was in fifth grade, Jack Kennedy made his speech about putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth before this decade was out. How sad that a fifth grader watching Sixty Minutes last night would not realize the dream of going to Mars untill he was in his thirties, if we even kept that timetable. We know how a President Mc Cain fears timetables. I believe it's been since that broadcast that the latest space rover has determined that in all likelyhood there is life potential on Mars because of the content of the soil. We know there is water on Mars that we could make use of, and now we knew we would have soil to grow crops. So it seems to me that human colonization on Mars is "doable". As one person put it it may be less importantl whether there was PAST life on Mars. The important thing is whether there is FUTURE life on Mars. They are already test firing rockets, and they have those exercise equitment thingies in action. We are at last headed in the right direction. But Richard Nixon is to blame for scuttling future exploration of the Moon by destroying all the Saturn rockets. This to me is one of the crimes of the 20th. century. Back in those days we were spending four percent of our GNP on space exploration. Today we have "the space program on food stamps". We are spending on sixth of one percent, or something- on space exploration. The ammount the average citizen pays per day on space is fifteen cents, the price of a couple breath mints. We as a people need to get our head out of our ass and decide that space is indeed important. It's pointed out that man can do in a few minutes what it takes one of these robotic devices a whole day to do.

Of course there seems to be some sort of massive Fear of the Future, at least where Jesus Christ is concerned. He never wants to talk about it on his radio program. Yesterday I tuned in for part of one call where Jesus was in an extended monolog with a caller, for which I don't know the original question. If I had to guess I'd say it had something to do with a young woman calling in to acertain when she was going to encounter Romance in her life. Jesus talked about ripening fruit and how you have to wait for just the right moment when the taste is the sweetest. Indeed this crock of shit Jesus was dishing out has already been responded to in my recent blog postings. I would just like to pose three questions for Jesus to think about. If you're starving in the desert about to die, and you come accross a pear of pomegranet tree in the desert- - are you going to take one bite of the fruit and then say "This fruit isn't ripened to perfection. I think I'll wait a week". You don't have a week. Also- - we know from the news lately that Death's hand does not hesitate to strike when and where it will. There are thousands of lives snuffed out in the death of so many Wars. None of those people, often innocent children, had the luxury of their lives coming into full "ripeness to perfection". They never got to do all that stuff Neil Young talks about like getting a drivers license or falling in love. My third question is "Suppose it really isn't God at all who is scutteling your plans but there are a bunch of obstructing jerks around you who are saying "It's not us; it's God". So what's the down side till "Waiting till hell freezes over" so to speak? What is hell in a sense Did "Freeze Over"? There was a thing on KCET ch. 28.4 in which this gigantic ice dam was formed around Missula, Montana about twenty thousand years ago near the close of the ice age. This ice dammed up a river and it formed Lake Missula, which apparently was huge. It was as bit as lake Erie and lake Onterio combined. But the day came when all this water rampaged accross the land and it ended up in this "Badlands" area in Washington State, in a region I never knew about. There are sharp canyons and crags, and giant boulders thrown all about in willy nilly fashion. There are mysterious ripples in the ground which normally are seen in connection with oceans. This "Disaster" occurred not once, but perhaps fifteen or twenty times, separated by intervals of perhaps several hundred years.

As you know in Lyndon Johnson's voting rights speech of 1965 he says "Too many negroes are greeted with the news that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the man in charge is not there". So it is with God answering prayers. We've all heard about the urgency of NOW. As a young person I listened to the sermons of Harry Green who was always talking about how "Now is all you have". This incredible ameoba like pace at which our government moves today on things like space exploration is amazing. This idea that the Iraq War has to go on forever is a strange one. It's been going on for five & a half years, way longer than World War II. My problem is that Obama is playing in the enemies ball park but not calling the war Evil. If you see the war as Evil, and it always has been, this changes your perception as to how and when we should get out. If you have a gambling addiction, if someone says you should walk away now, it isn't relivant whether you are winning. It isn't revivant whether you are losing. The point is to quit doing it. I don't see why we can't adopt this mind-set for looking at the Iraq War.

I was going to tall this blog posting "Peace Love and Understanding". Death's hand has struck that Universalist Church in Knoxville. Apparently the guy is just mentally deranged. I would at this time like to allay some fears to say there is no connection between the demon "Asmodeus" and wiccans or witchcraft, even though some of the material about Asmodeus comes from a fifteenth century German wiccan publication. One thing Asmodeus is known for is "keeping Secrets". I don't find anything unique in this. I have secrets that I'm not telling. A stock line of Jim Cooper is "There is power in secrets". As to Greg Laurie's son dying in a car crash- - this is the work of the Cassiopians, or more notibly the Crestorians, who also brought you the January 1994 earthquake, and also Robert Plant's car crash in summer 1975. These people often strike angrily and don't particularly care about "collateral damage" and often miss their target. We did not list Def Lepord among the Aries "Mu" rock groups because they hadn't given up all their "foreign entanglements", if you know what I mean. Craig Laurie apparently wasn't saved by Chuck but by Lonnie Frisbee in Newport Beach. I never had any problem with Craig Laurie, as I did most other Calvary pastors. Pete Richards said that "Lonnie Frisbee", who converted Craig, was "off, somehow". I later learned Frisbee was gay and that he died in 1993. Now we are hearing about a possible "gay" connection with that Nashbille church. There were some who said that God caused the Northridge earthquake in 1994 because he was disgusted with all of the Pornography filmed there. The Federation informed me that the source behind the earthquake was no friend to Born Again Christianity. In case you are wondering I learned several weeks ago that "Crestorian" was indeed the right name, and that they revered an indivual named "Crestus". But I don't know anything specific about "Crestus".