Ideas...16-6 Space Research

Currently, the provenance of these alien UFO articles is not clear. A detailed study of abductees DNA genome is necessary, before most dissenters can be convinced. There are rumours that a few extraterrestrials are still alive in captivity. So here are a few questions I would like to ask them.

These events with the alien dolls, took place in Mexico City just days after NASA announced the creation of a UAP department which would be transparent to all.....We will see! It may be that at last NASA has truly put its foot in it. The implications of an open UFO, ET reporting system are no doubt obvious to many members of the legal profession, who would be presenting group actions from victims demanding financial compensation, from governments that knew what was going on, but refused repeatedly to warn their citizens and other governments.

These investigations, including forensic accounting, are likely to lead to charges of dereliction of duty, misappropriation of funds, fraud, money laundering, murder, etc. In the USA in particular, successive governments have lied and lied again. They will no doubt continue to do so, until the electorate vote these political parties into history. Right now we have one US president after another who haven't got the guts to sack those involved in US government departments and order an investigation, followed by arrests. it's pitiful. The situation in the UK is little better. Rendelsham 1980 and Dechmont Law Woods, Livingston, Scotland 1979, may have happened, but the statements were either manipulated, still classified, or missing, no matter what the freedom of information act says.

So now you know why governments don't want to admit the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. It opens up a huge can of worms.

Scientific research has been a catalyst for promoting peace and understanding between nations and ethnic groups, here on planet Earth for decades. With the discovery of alien life on our planet, now has come the time to go one step further and lay the foundations for our application to be members of the alien federation that our celestial neighbours must belong to. It is clear to me that to do that, we must reverse engineer alien technology and understand the fundamentals behind it. Such a transparent programme is likely to take over a century. It must be managed by an international civilian organisation. During this period, advances in medical science will also lead to a blending of appearances, reducing our differences further. This greater international cooperation, is likely to achieve the sort of aims promoted on this website. Namely a better world for all, which I think is also what our space faring neighbours also want, above all else.

The thought that we are alone, on this pale blue dot, should impress everyone with the need to ensure the lasting viability of the human race. Unfortunately the time available in which to impress, is rapidly running out.

In addition to numerous Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) already existing in orbit, in 2017 a number of companies announced their intention to launch global internet constellations amounting to thousands of satellites. In 2021 it became a reality with Starlink. I can't imagine any insurance company wanting to provide the necessary cover for Starlink, etc., since it would put other satellites, the ISS and astronauts in grave danger from unintentional impact, not to mention all the radio and optical interference for astronomers. There are thousands of defunct satellites in orbit, also presenting a collision hazard. The solution for new ones is for them to bio-degrade when the kill switch is activated, at end of use. They would dissolve in newly released corrosive substances or burn. The residue would be blasted into space by the solar wind. There's a task there for material's scientists. In addition collisions can come about through impact with UFOs, and exoatmospheric hypersonic airliners being developed by Boeing, Airbus and Reaction Engines. Also, there is no way of knowing what impact all this reflected light will have on the behaviour of other species, such as coral and turtles, that mate or give birth during a full Moon. The effect on animal migration is also unknown. Most of us want free speech and understanding on an international scale, but the establishment of internet mega constellations in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) is not the way to do it. In December 2019 Russia announced the switching on of its own intranet. This is a direct challenge to the WorldWideWeb Consortium. If WWWC doesn't police its internet effectively, then no doubt other nations, sickened by pornography, gay rights, women's rights, fake news, terrorist propaganda and financial fraud, will do likewise. State controlled media will become the norm. The human race will be back where we were in the 1930s. Only a world technocracy can create and maintain a responsible global internet, policed by AI.

Biodegradable satellite technology will emerge from research into medical implants and solutions for the disposal of electronic waste. The hyperlinks listed here are but a few amongst many on the subject. The satellite would have to degrade completely, into a gas, within a self sealing biosphere, before the gas could be released and blown away by the solar wind, thereby ensuring that the residue did not contaminate other satellites. Such a satellite would have to withstand standard vacuum, radiant heat, vibration and anechoic chamber tests. The satellite would biodegrade under the influence of bacteria, fungi, or algae, or degrade by mechanical means due to heat, or chemical reaction. The attitude control system will employ disposable reaction wheels, instead of a hypergolic fueled reaction control system, which is far more difficult to dispose of. The inertial upper stage will probably be an ion engine, because of its low disposable mass, or more likely, a nuclear powered detachable space tug, that can also be used for refueling and repairing satellites. The degradable satellite would therefore be designed for such operations, designed on a modular form to facilitate in orbit repair. The satellite would therefore also be recyclable, subject to modular upgrade, as long as the technology on board was still needed. It is possible that the completed satellite would be dipped into a tank of liquid solvent, activated by electric charge at the moment of disposal. The satellite's electronic components, enclosed in a hermetically sealed chamber, would be dissolved when a liquid or gas was injected into it remotely.

Let us suppose that the Starlink network is completed. It would no doubt have the ability to capture almost all internet traffic. Its competitors would have no choice but to compete with their 12,000 to 42,000 satellite network. Not to award them a licence would be interpreted as a violation of competition law. The world's astronomers fail to take the threat of light pollution from satellites seriously. Eventually, with white streaks across all their telescope images they submit complaints to the International Astronomical Union, but the fact is that like governments and space agencies, they have missed the boat. Just how would the US Space Command be able to track that many satellites, 84,000? And just how do you maintain that number, as the old ones fall out of orbit? By October 2025 two Starlink satellites were falling out of orbit each day, projected to be five per day when the full constellation is in orbit. Can that number of replacements be launched? Since each satellite lasts only five years, can that attrition rate be affordable? In the following scenario one of the Starlink satellites creates a cascade of space debris that takes out the International Space Station. The USG seeks compensation, even though it's to be de-orbited in 2031, but it can't. By now Elon Musk is living on Mars, which he has openly stated he will do, far from USG and international tax law jurisdiction. His funds on Earth cannot be impounded because there aren't any. His companies are paid in cryptocurrencies. The only assets he has are thousands of orbiting satellites the size of a shoe box, all travelling at thousands of kilometres per hour, controlled off Earth from Mars via a network of stealthy TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellites) somewhere in orbit, around the Moon? And by the time USG and the IRS gets its hands on any money, it'll all be in a Martian currency, totally worthless on Earth. Ordinarily this person would be charged with trespass and vandalism, but because he's a billionaire, he gets away with it. Is this justice? Is this sanity? Now who wants to insure, and who in authority wants to sanction, such a venture? They all do, because the Moon and Mars will be the next unrestricted capitalist frontier, the next offshore tax haven for corrupt political parties. These mega companies will really upset the USAF and CIA when they sign trade agreements with aliens. No more likelihood of an interstellar war and all that job security for the military. Books detailing the sex lives of Earth's presidents will really prove popular on many exoplanets in exchange for technology giving 'off worlds' their independence. Only a WT can defeat the unrestricted desires of IT based organisations.

To many people, placing thousands of satellites in Earth orbit, just to satisfy little Jimmy's desire for a fast interactive computer game, is no better than dumping refuse in someone's drive, a crime in the UK known as fly-tipping. When will Elon Musk and all those that have approved his Starlink project be stopped? Why has USG not stopped Starlink? Is it because it also serves another purpose? The only known contracts are with the US Army and US Air Force, to hunt for UFOs? And why has he given his latest child such a stupid name, that it amounts to child cruelty? And why do those in authority look the other way? New Zealand authorities have put their foot down over bizarre names, so why not USG? Does Musk think he's an alien and therefore exempt from standards of human decency? If this billionaire really wants to improve people's quality of life, then he might consider going back to his roots, South Africa, and spending his money there. See also chapter 17...Asteroid, Comet And Space Debris for insurance scenario of this disaster. I also wish to emphasize that when competing land based internet fibre optic cables are laid, such as Facebook's 2Africa 23,000 mile subsea cable, that will encircle the continent, linking sixteen countries at a cost of only one billion dollars, Starlink could become uneconomic and abandoned. What damage will this event cause, and can it be avoided? I wrote this paragraph to emphasize to politicians that events are moving so fast, that soon, even governments could be regarded as an anomaly.

Some 400,000 satellites have been approved for launch globally. This madness must stop. This can only be achieved through global cooperation, not competition, through a world technocracy.

To deorbit existing satellites that are probably tumbling and spinning, requires a tracker satellite fitted with two adjustable RCS (reaction control system) pods controlled by AI. For this next phase the tracker would be fitted with shock absorbing pads, and be of tough construction. The tracker would move to a position a few metres from the target at the axis of tumbling, then flail out flexible gecko arms that would wrap themselves around the target in a few seconds. Once secured to the target, the tracker would extend its two RCS pods in opposite directions along the main axis of the target. Once at the target's extremity, the RCS pods would flail out gecko pads that would latch onto the target. The AI would then operate the RCS pods to stop the spinning and then the tumbling. Once stable the tracker would then deorbit the target. Due to the heavy impacts during the embracing mode, it maybe necessary to have the tracker in two parts, tracker and deorbiter, with the deorbiter module reattaching to the tracker or target at this stage. This is a complicated and risky procedure, which is likely to be used only on large targets. I do not think that any design of deorbiter or vaporiser is likely to ultimately solve this problem, because there are too many targets. Eventually this problem will disable the world's space industry. It is a glowing example of government's not taking their responsibilities seriously.

Protests from astronomers who experience their data being corrupted by satellite trails in their telescope images, have thus far been fruitless. Whilst software exists to remove satellite trails from astronomy images, there is no way of preventing radio emissions from communications satellites jamming the efforts of radio astronomers. If this matter is not corrected, then future radio astronomy will have to be conducted in space, by telescopes built in space. Companies involved in the process of building satellite constellations, or similar, are as follows:

Why you would want to launch so many Starlink satellites when the performance is already acceptable I simply fail to understand. A Starlink satellite fals out of orbit almost every day, as their life span is only five years. There are concerns that reentering satellites and their launchers, are damaging the ozone layer with aluminium oxide, and of course there is the damage to the atmosphere from rocket plumes. The more you launch into low Earth orbit, the more that fall out of orbit, and hence the more expensive it costs to maintain. The PRC has stated that it would like to shoot these satellites down, as would just about every astronomer. The Covid-19 clamp down in the PRC may well be a rouse to limit materials and automotive parts to Tesla, in order to cut off financial support to Starlink. Elon Musk stated in June 2022 that the shortages were costing him billions. Reports are that he has cashed in £40 billion of Tesla shares in twelve months of 2021/22. Time will tell. Meanwhile on December 18th, 2024 the US Space Force reported that a military DMSP-5D2 F14 weather satellite had disintegrated in an 830km orbit. It had been deactivated by NOAA in 2020, but not deorbited. In addition to collisions, satellites can explode due to corrosion or fatigue failure of reaction control system fuel tanks.

Another possible venture is solar power stations in space. HMG's version called CASSIOPeiA consists of one to three PVAs (photo-voltaic arrays) each one mile in diameter. The arrays are helical with layers of optical concentrators and integrated circuits. Mirror The electricity produced would be converted to radio energy and transmitted to a three mile diameter rectifying antenna off shore where the microwaves would be converted back to electricity, each to power two million homes with a total of two giga-Watts. The array would weigh two thousand tonnes, in GEO (geosynchronous Earth orbit), beyond the orbit of satellites, with each costing 10 to 15 billion pounds. There are a number of disadvantages to this project, the most obvious being that by the time the project is completed other renewable sources will be considerably cheaper and easier to utilize. Because of the presence of atomic oxygen and solar winds, the PVA will have to be made from exotic materials, which is expensive. Satellites employ gallium arsenide as opposed to silicon on the roofs of houses. It would be prone to strikes from space debris and micrometeorites. The PVA would have to retain rigidity as it's kept pointing at the Sun, whilst the Earth moves on its axis, requiring a heavy framework necessitating attitude control from the force of photons on large mirrors. And what impact will the Earth's magnetosphere and Van Allen radiation belt have on this beam?

The lifetime will be thirty years. It must not interfere with other satellite and aircraft activity necessitating a beam exclusion zone. I fail to see how this could possibly work as it would require international co-operation from nations, international bodies and satellite operators. Without a guaranteed constant electricity supply, at a fixed price, you are not going to attract customers. The RF receiver would be prone to corrosion from the salt water it floats on. For safety reasons the microwave receiver could not be based upon land, whilst the accuracy of the beam would have to be monitored constantly. An environmental impact study would have to be conducted, in particular the effect of the beam on birds. This facility would necessitate constant maintenance both on Earth and in space. Get the design wrong and you've got big problems, as with the initial PVAs on the Hubble space telescope, which warped and juddered due to solar heating. The use of a cost effective space transportation system would be essential in order to realise this dream, or is it a nightmare? Will this go the same way as the Stonehenge tunnel? Two miles long and costing two billion pounds, just to hide existing road traffic from the eyes of tourists, when all you need is an earthen embankment and trees running parallel to the road. It could go ahead no matter what the cost, no matter how long it takes and no matter how many protest. And it'll glow in space far brighter than any Starlink satellite. A glowing example of British prestige. Oh didn't I mention it, the yanks and commie's are thinking of this too. See the International Electric Company Ltd. hyperlink further on, whilst the PRC has a 2GW design called Omega planned to be operational in 2050. In November 2022 ESA also announced an interest, called Solaris. How this could possibly be cheaper than putting a PVA on your roof, beats me.

ESA's Solaris will be placed in Lunar orbit and possibly used to power ESA's Moon base at the south pole. Its performance and cost will be closely monitored. The PV panels are composed of iron pyrite monograin-layer solar cells manufactured on the Moon, according to BIS' Spaceflight magazine. Consisting of a one square kilometre array, this will be the test article for the full sized version that will be placed at the Legrange position between the Moon and the Earth. Its panels will be manufactured on the Moon from Lunar material, as will the full sized version, which will be manned and used as a tourist venue. Rocket fuel will also be manufactured on the Moon, making the energy produced competitive with that from Earth based power stations.

Bing AI Chat came up with the following details on iron pyrite PVAs:

The amount of energy that can be produced from a photovoltaic (PV) panel in space depends on several factors, such as the type of solar cell, the orientation of the panel, and the distance from the sun. However, in general, solar panels in space can produce more energy than those on Earth, because they receive more sunlight and do not suffer from atmospheric losses or shading effects. One factor that affects the energy production of a PV panel is the solar irradiance, which is the amount of power per unit area received from the sun. On Earth, the solar irradiance varies depending on the location, time of day, season, and weather conditions. The average solar irradiance at the surface of the Earth is about 1000 W/m², but it can be lower or higher depending on these factors. In space, however, the solar irradiance is much higher and more constant. The solar irradiance at the Earth’s orbit is about 1366 W/m², which is about 37% more than the average on Earth2 Moreover, in space, there is no atmosphere to scatter or absorb some of the sunlight, so the solar panels can receive pure and direct sunlight. Additionally, in space, there is no day-night cycle or seasonal variation, so the solar panels can receive sunlight 24 hours a day and all year round, as long as they are not blocked by other objects.

Another factor that affects the energy production of a PV panel is the efficiency of the solar cell, which is the ratio of electrical output to solar input. The efficiency of a solar cell depends on its material, design, and quality. On Earth, most commercial solar panels use silicon-based solar cells, which have an efficiency of about 15-20% In space, however, some satellites and spacecraft use gallium arsenide-based solar cells, which have a higher efficiency of about 34% These solar cells are more expensive and less abundant than silicon-based ones, but they are more suitable for space applications because they can withstand higher temperatures and radiation levels. Based on these factors, we can estimate how much more energy can be produced from a PV panel in space compared to one on Earth. Assuming that both panels have an area of 1 m² and use silicon-based solar cells with an efficiency of 20%, we can calculate their energy output as follows:

On Earth: Energy output = Solar irradiance x Panel area x Solar cell efficiency = 1000 W/m² x 1 m² x 0.2 = 200 W

In space: Energy output = Solar irradiance x Panel area x Solar cell efficiency = 1366 W/m² x 1 m² x 0.2 = 273.2 W

Therefore, the PV panel in space can produce about 36.6% more energy than the one on Earth. However, this is a simplified calculation that does not account for other factors such as losses due to wiring, temperature effects, degradation over time, or tracking systems that can optimize the orientation of the panel. These factors can reduce or increase the actual energy output of both panels.

Some of the factors that could affect the efficacy of iron pyrite monograin-layer solar cells on the Moon are:

The availability and quality of the source materials. Iron and sulfur, which are needed to produce iron pyrite, could be extracted from the lunar regolith, but the process would require energy and equipment that might not be readily available on the Moon. The purity and consistency of the extracted materials could also vary depending on the location and method of mining. The manufacturing process and equipment. The production of iron pyrite monograin-layer solar cells involves growing microcrystals of iron pyrite on a substrate, such as glass or metal, using a chemical vapor deposition technique. This requires precise control of temperature, pressure, gas flow, and crystal growth rate, which might be difficult to achieve on the Moon. The equipment needed for this process would also have to be transported or manufactured on the Moon, which could increase the cost and complexity of the project. The performance and durability of the solar cells. The efficacy of iron pyrite monograin-layer solar cells depends on their ability to convert sunlight into electricity efficiently and reliably. However, iron pyrite is known to suffer from low open-circuit voltage, high recombination losses, and poor stability under illumination, which limits its performance as a solar cell material.

Well that's what Bing AI Chat has to say on the subject. Can't help feeling that I will soon be made redundant, as a webmaster. It definitely wants to rule the world.

In the past ten years the cost of launching a satellite has dropped 90%, the cost of space hardware has dropped 99%. Solar intensity in space on a photovoltaic panel is 1.3 times that than it is on Earth, whilst exposure to sunlight is 24/365 in geostationary orbit. As for the need, by 2050 the UK will require 3 times the electricity it uses now, due to the closure of fossil fuel burning power stations, to meet zero carbon requirements, plus the adoption of electric powered vehicles, industrial and home heating. Old nuclear fission power stations also need replacing. UK electricity consumption is in the region of 294.4 TWh per annum in 2021. In 2022 38.2% of our energy comes from clean sources, including biomass. Wind farms are a popular choice for government and industry because they are efficient, can be costed accurately and can be easily decommissioned once nuclear fusion becomes available. However, they are all potentially vulnerable to Miyake events. Without replacement hardware and software in shielded underground bunkers, there can be no return to normality once this event terminates, assuming it does within a reasonable time scale.

There are four global positioning satnav systems currently in operation. Navstar II is the US contribution, that was commercialized in the 1980s. A more advanced Navstar III satellite was launched in October 2020. Glonass is reputedly costing Russia one third of its budget, whilst Galileo has cost ten billion euros. The contribution from the PRC is called BeiDou, whilst India has a local system. It's now thought that there are 100 million pieces of satellite and space junk orbiting the Earth, each travelling at 17,500 miles per hour. Don't you think its about time we had a world technocracy to restore order, before the $100 billion ISS is taken out? The ISS space shield consists of an outer 2mm thick aluminium, then six layers of nextel and six of kevlar, plus the pressure hull. All designed to withstand the impact of a ball bearing about 4mm diameter. Don't think for one moment that the authorities know what they are doing. You only have to experience the actions of politicians and scientists who relaxed the Covid-19 lockdowns, only to see a second wave created, to realise that authority knows damn all. Their record on materials approval, terrestrial refuse collection and disposal since 1950, and the introduction of plastics and numerous batteries, beggars belief.

You may wonder why these mega constellations are being launched when internet sats already exist in higher orbits. It's all down to latency and satisfying little Jimmy when he plays his interactive video game with his friend Moshe, whose located the other side of the planet. Signals to satellites in LEO take far less time to reach the games server and back than those in MEO. Personally I don't think that a difference of about one second can justify the risks involved. Another reason is that a satellite closer to the ground needs a smaller satellite dish, which is easier to conceal in a police state. As for Space X, it wants revenue in order to finance its plans for colonizing Mars. Now who wants to live in Antarctica? None of you. So why go to Mars? And don't say because it's there, or because we have the technology. One solution to saving people from themselves would be for NASA to provide 'day trips' to Mars using TR-3B technology. With it being so easy to get to, and with the barren unforgiving terrain staring them in the face, who would want to live there?

In a world technocracy and an absence of capitalism, there would be no duplication of effort and no irresponsible ventures, not in space, nor in the lab. The removal of space junk is a political and economic problem not technological. Whilst you're waiting for a technocracy and SPEVs, you might like to pray for a close encounter with a large comet, because that's likely to bring all those satellites down as we pass through its tail. If billionaires want to achieve something truly great, then they should consider boldly going where no man has gone before, and strive for the creation of a world technocracy. Time to act is rapidly running out. We cannot afford to screw up our planet the way we are screwing up Earth orbit. On October 17th, 2020, the Russian Kosmos-2004 defunct satellite and the Chinese ChangZheng spent rocket section passed within 25 metres of each other over Antarctica. The next Miyake event may well create the cascade of space debris the industry fears. So far so good. Having looked at numerous proposals on the internet, it is still my opinion that the only cost effective and quick way to rid Earth orbit of thousands of spent space components is with an inflatable sticky honeycombed space ball, kilometres in diameter, that will collide with these critters, and eventually fall out of orbit. All satellite operators have to do is avoid it. Simple! And will someone please take out Elon Musk's Starlink?

Ideas 16-6 Space Research
Hyperlinks to Space Organisations

Note: Details of most of the referenced organisations listed here can be found on Wikipedia, plus reference addresses are at bottom of the wiki web page, but the index at the bottom usually lists no more than three more related subjects. The references here are therefore the next best thing. Additional information can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The BIS (British Interplanetary Society) is an international organisation for amateurs and professionals. It publishes two monthly magazines, Spaceflight and Journal, the latter for eggheads, and a quarterly mag called Space Chronicle covering the history of aerospace research. The BIS also has a monthly lecture, viewable via the internet for members, and has an extensive space library available to members at its HQ in London, UK.

The National Natural Science Foundation of the PRC has recently published in 2023 a five-year plan on space research, which includes the above. The answer of course is that you don't. It would simply be too expensive, take too long to build, and by the time you've finished it, it's out of date and superfluous to requirements, as technology advances and political leaders change.

The only truly large space projects are:

1 Asteroid mining: If the element with the essential isotope cannot be found on Earth, then it will have to be mined elsewhere, but since it's likely only to be used for military or interstellar purposes, should it be? The Earth has 80 usable elements for spacecraft construction, whilst analysis of alien materials at Stanford University, indicates that aliens use at least 253 isotopes. The human races venture into interstellar space appears therefore to be inevitable. Trans Astra, an American company, appears intent to build solar powered data centres in space and mine asteroids. HMG appears keen to keep up with the technology, but how it can when it can't even make electronic goods for the world's mass market, that would generate tax revenue for such a venture, remains unclear. However, just how do you process metal ores in a gravity free environment? It would be easier to mine meteorites on the Moon, since impact craters indicate location, size/depth and constituents of the meteorite. Although the escape velocity on the Moon is much higher than for an asteroid, there is plenty of real estate upon which to locate photo-voltaics to power the furnaces, to produce alloys and finished products.

2 Orbiting solar power station: Such a structure would microwave electrical energy to the Earth's surface. However, that was before Elon Musk's Starlink constellation threw a spanner in the works, with its thousands of orbiting satellites. On the first interaction it's heated. On the second it's fried. On the third it's turned into something akin to a multiple warhead, about to shred the ISS and its family of solar power stations. And like all these other projects listed here, what do you do with it once it has passed its shelf life? Send it hurtling into the Sun? If nation's won't clean up there own orbiting junk at the present time, then what hope is there that they will behave responsibly decades from now, with their even bigger toys?

3 Tethered space elevator: Again this project to launch payloads into space using a tether hundreds of kilometres long, from the Earth's surface to a space station at GEO, has been scuppered by Starlink. Its satellites would inevitably collide with the tether, wouldn't they?

4 A worldship: This would definitely take centuries to build. It would theoretically house thousands of people on an interstellar voyage. It would generate its own gravity by rotating. Just how you would construct it from millions of pieces at a lagrange point, since Earth orbit is full up, without the parts floating off into deep space is anybodies guess. However if the Chinese want to build it, since most of them will be left on the ground, they should first of all consider the effect of all that rocket exhaust on them.

5 The only large scale project I think is essential is an infra-red telescope array at the poles of the moon, assuming Elon Musk doesn't get there first, with his mining operations. Hundreds of such telescopes are the ultimate answer to finding ET, etc.

6 In the field of planetary exploration I have proposed on my website a mission to Ganymede to determine how its magnetic field, and possibly plasma balls are generated. It's the ultimate in planetary science, but which agency dares to do it?

7 Proposed on the internet (Lawrence Livermore) is a mission to Pluto, where the orbiter beams down power to a rover. Powered by Direct Fusion Drive and possibly HB11 nuclear fusion, it is the type of mission that should be sent to most small bodies in our solar system. Where is the political will in the west to make it so?

8 Whilst the late Ben Rich suggested that the US had the technology to take ET home, he never said they understood the technology (like ESP) and could reproduce it. Whilst the Lockheed skunk works is still struggling to build a viable nuclear fusion power source, the large number of reported crashed alien flying saucers in USAF/CIA hangars suggests that the technology will be anything but reliable soon.

9 In September 2021 Rolls-Royce announced an agreement with the United Kingdom Space Agency to research nuclear power requirements for a Moon base that would include mining operations. This presumably is designed to counter the Chinese announcement, and from what it has gleaned from scientists working on the Russian nuclear propulsion programme. At the same time NASA has announced its intention to go to Mars after a possibly year long manned mission on the Moon. A space race between the west and the east is emerging.

10 In March 2025 the astronomical community revealed that they were considering the possibility that our universe was located within a gigantic black hole. I find that difficult to swallow.

10 The most earth shattering mission however, could well prove to be similar to those seen at Skinwalker Ranch, USA. Investigations by satellites could well lead to the discovery of similar locations. It has occurred to me that these targets could be alien colonies, or colonies of intelligent beings that evolved on Earth long before man. The development of Earth sensing satellites like that by LunaSonde, which can detect and identify elements, could well lead to the detection of alien craft and habitats. We may not be the only species around here seeking solace on another planet. As the world slides towards WWIII, politicians should consider its far reaching implications. The extensive use of nuclear weapons will probably endanger such habitats. Aliens could counter, by seizing control of our AI datacentres and androids, and use them against us, either to enslave or terminate us. ET once gained control of US and USSR ICBM's in their silos, and could no doubt do something similar again. We would no longer be the dominant species on planet Earth, but an endangered one. Atmospheric anomalies in the PRC and volcanic eruptions elsewhere, could be interpreted as a warning. SpaceX’s TR14 mission will launch LunaSonde's San Xavier radarsat in June 2025.

The Chinese Communist Party is hell bent upon creating jobs for its citizens, even if those jobs have to be created abroad, or in space. The creation of a science based civilisation beyond AI dominated capitalism, is the way forward. It is a great shame that governments in the west cannot visualize it also. What we need is a 'world technocracy now' that will divert defence spending into improving the quality of life for everyone through the creation of such a science based culture. It should not however discourage competition between space agencies.

This chapter clearly shows how little the human race knows. The need for a society based upon scientific research is clearly apparent. Whether there is a place for humans in laboratories alongside AI remains to be seen. In the near future the human race will need a purpose, just as artificial intelligence will.