Gearing Up For Mars

Every major news source has stories on the planet Mars and the journey there. Not only are there government projects involved, but at least two private companies Spacex, and Virgin Galactic would like to get involved. One company Spacex promises a Mars round trip ticket for 1/2 a million dollars. In San Francisco a modest house or condo is more than a million dollars. Any yokel could take out a second loan on their house and book a round trip to the planet Mars.  What would a layman do while visiting Mars. I could see a column forming for a highly popular news story: Top Ten Things To Do On Your Round Trip to Mars.

The question of: Life On Mars, is no longer relevant. As custodians of our solar system, what should we do upon reaching Mars? The first thing on my mind is: How would sound propagate on the surface of Mars – a mostly nitrogen based thin atmosphere? So  you plug in you Fender Twin – Mars version, and plug in the Stratocastor. What would the first music chord played on Mars be? In The Silmarillion (Tolkein) Tolkein states that the Universe was created with music chords.

Some one on a Virgin Galactic flight to Mars would play Starman by David Bowie. Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. The possibilities are endless.

Current and future Mars trips take shape – Technology & science – Space – msnbc.com

Chris Bertram a former Presidential Appointee to the U.S. Treasury

Chris Bertram’s PAC

The agenda of the PAC changes from time to time. Based in California, the political issues of concern are addressed.

Issues of concern are:

Space Exploration:

Terraforming Mars

Terraforming Venus

Responsible use of Science and Technology

Public and Private Schools

Lotto Software

SAN FRANCISCO

by Chris Bertram

Good luck. This is version 1.

Software that plays the lotto with random number has been developed. Works on any computer. User must have the Microsoft .NET Framework.

This software was written in Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 in C#

Mega Millions Official Home

San Francisco

by Chris Bertram

I can imagine if the reader is from the south. A truck driver that while sitting eating biscuits and gravy at Denny’s, really, really farts like a truck driver where it rings like a huge bell in echo afterwards. “I ain’t eatin any of that damn tofu…” “I have seen tofu that was pink.” Yet there are numerous people in San Francisco who prefer their meals vegetarian even if they are not while some are strict vegans and won’t even touch a strip of leather such as found in a belt. It is as if vegans had known about Mad Cow’s disease ahead of time. It is a fact that if you visit a blood donor center, visiting England is the same risk as homosexual gay men in bath houses because Europe has a problem with Mad Cow disease right now.

Vegetarian Meal

It is like everyone that you talk to in San Francisco, either in coffee shops or on the train has the same world view and it is different than the right wingers on the radio. Where are the people who think like the right wingers on a.m. radio? One guy turned out was broadcasting from Arizona – not even from the state of California. Then they are rude to people who call in to the radio stations demanding explanations for the show being so out of touch. These shows are so south, and they are talking about politics that people listen because it is like the bizzaro world. The radio shows play little clips of audio that have been carefully cataloged with numbers. They pause for effect, then, roll the clip with a pre determined catalog number, and then launch into some kind of misquote monologue. I can do that easily.

It is the same with vegetarian meals. Everyone seems to get the idea that it is healthy for you and those that do not are like those right wingers on the radio – where are you from? Just like that super burrito can make you gain weight overnight where it will never seem to come off, the vegetarian super burrito can make you lose weight. At least for a little while, eating an all plant based diet until you have to start really minding all of the amino acid groups and where it would start to get complicated in the hypothetical diet switch, could be healthy for you.

Narcissism in the News

Narcissus also known as Cupid. The story of: Narcissus and Psyche; Orpheus and Eurydice; Narcissus and Echo, the two lovers.  Nemesis casts a spell on Narcissus, on behalf of an angry nymph, and he falls in to a reflection pool and perishes unable to return the love of his choice. Who would be in the movie? It would be Greek God looking actors and actresses.

Employers  in the federal, state, and local governments use it – it is often written in police officer qualification statements when they can’t find anything to say. Let the Enlisted take over, or visit a military installation where there are no officers, and it’s like the Butterfly Revolution – low and behold anyone with a degree is disallowed because they feel privileged. The text of any college degree includes the words, “…privileges…”

It’s all they can think of to say, “Narcissistic…”

Yet retake the test and you might get a different score and it might not show up at all – such as on the MMPI. Anthropologists the kings and queens of social science have a disdain for the psychological tests.

Possibly the most misunderstood and misused term in the DSM guide. There are specific criterion that must be met before someone is truly Narcissistic. However due to all of the complicated circumstances, and adoption in the pop culture as jargon that anyone can use – Narcissism has been removed from the current DSM-V guide. There are no more Narcissists.

Yet here we have the haters – hate – claiming everyone on Facebook is a Narcissist. If everyone has a Facebook account then it’s not Narcissism.

Number of Facebook friends linked to narcissism, says study – Tech Talk – CBS News

Mars

SAN FRANCISCO

by Chris Bertram

Going to Mars in a round trip manner will only cost 1/2 a million dollars.

To make a science fiction movie, you could fly to Mars and film it there cheaper than building the set. I think Hollywood should build a studio on Mars, and rent out reality T.V. sets to the cable stations.

Disney lost 200 Million Dollars on John Carter but if they flew to Mars and filmed on location they would have earned more than 100 million profit.

Disney Loses 200 Million

Studio execs, in order to save money for the already planned Mars fantasy movie shows would build those western style false front stage sets on Mars like they used to build in the desert. When they aren’t filming spaghetti westerns on the sets, there would be soap opera shows using the sets as reality series. Then we would have the spaghetti westerns on Mars!

Silicon valley would love to set up manufacturing on Mars.

The biggest cost to manufacturing wafers is the vacuum chambers.

On Mars to evacuate a chamber you open a throttle valve to space and evac out harmless nitrogen gas. Wafer manufacturing on Mars! It is cheaper to evac a vacuum chamber on Mars than buy all of the equipment!

Applied Materials should set up a demonstration of wafer manufacturing on Mars and rent out chambers to make disks.

Mars Live Rock Concerts

The Satellite radio station should have live concerts from Mars. Rock stars would fly to Mars to perform live shows. It is cheaper to feed the satellite dish on Mars than the dishes that orbit Earth!

Mars Space Suits Designed

It is the age of the Steampunks going in space flight. We are all going to Mars, let’s go to Mars!

Your ticket to Mars will cost only half a million dollars

Alpha Centauri Mission Video

SAN FRANCISCO

By Chris Bertram

Let’s get down to brass tacks about this. Let’s go to the nearest star system right now. This of course discounts the fact that there may be a brown dwarf in our own solar system with it’s own planets. There are also 50 dwarf planets being cataloged (In our star system). Anyway we can see those on the way out. Throw everything into it now, forget about it, let’s do it now.

A recent Discovery news story talks about doing this.

Discovery News

Katy Perry in Space

What I really want to know is: what will Katy Perry’s space suit look like? Does Victoria Secret make space suits? She could go like Star Trek and have the tunic look. She could be like all Star Wars as a Jedi, or Princess. There will be lot’s of silk involved, yards and yards of it, or very little. What if Katy Perry wears a thong in space? A bunch of guys are going to send her their flight suits to see if she can fit in them I am sure.

Here, Katy Perry is shown at the last Grammys winning several awards and all of our hearts.

I found out that at Virgin Galactic, there are 500 customers lined up to go on a space flight including Katy Perry.

MSNBC Virgin Galactic Space Flights

Foreign National Interest in Mars

SAN FRANCISCO

Despite the U.S. interest in Mars, and successful missions – it looks like other countries recognize the importance more clearly than the U.S. Mars essentially has an atmosphere, and climate that is so similar to Earth’s that it can directly be compared to places on earth.

Some of the breakthrough and speculation may be in the hands of private individuals as apparently open speculation is not allowed in government agencies. It is in speculation and educated guesses that  lead to development out of research.

My Mars Research

The Fate of Mars

Indian Mars Mission Receives Ten-Fold Budget Increase To Rs. 125 Crores

Pole Dancer Wish List Discovered

SAN FRANCISCO

I have uncovered the ever elusive list on a girl’s mind.

Pole Dancer

Pole Dancer Wish List

Mars

The Planet Mars

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University.

The Planet Mars.

Our nearest neighboring planet is Mars. It has captured the imagination ever since humans first realized that planets were different from the stars. The weather is about the same as Artic or Antarctic conditions here on Earth.

Each successful visit to Mars with our technology has only raised more questions. One anomaly that I will use for an example, as there are many, is the one below.

The Anomaly

Mars Rock Appears as Fossil

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University

This image from the panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called “Chocolate Hills,” which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called “Concepción.”

The rover used the tools on its robotic arm to examine the texture and composition of target areas on the rock with and without the dark coating. The rock is about the size of a loaf of bread. Initial analysis was inconclusive about whether the coating on the rock is material that melted during the impact event that dug the crater.

This view is presented in false color, which makes some differences between materials easier to see. It combines three separate images taken through filters admitting wavelengths of 750 nanometers, 530 nanometers and 430 nanometers. Opportunity took the image during the 2,147nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (Feb. 6, 2010).

Anyone can plainly see that something is going on here. Clearly the object is petrified wood, or at the very least something extraordinarily interesting. The petrified wood hypothesis is the lowest on a hit list of red flags. This is like the OMG moment or WTF!

The colored glass filters used on the wavelengths are like the sensitivity of the cones and rods of the human eye. In other words – this is about like the color as you would see it on Mars.

No one says anything. No one does anything. A person should fly there immediately and examine this for archaeological significance, or at the minimum biological determinations.

Terraformation

The Transformation of Mars

Artist’s Conception

What needs to be done is Terraformation. Archea survive in hostile environments. Picture the thermal hot springs at national parks with their different colored bacteria spread out.

Bacteria multiply in minutes and hours. The right kind of bacteria could transform Mars in days literally. Any disturbance of an expedition would likely contaminate Mars and start a chain reaction as it is. If we designed the introduction of organisms we could control the garden and create lots of prime research outposts there. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Chris Bertram