Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[ChemEngrMBA]

The anthropic principle elevates our existence to the highest level of importance in the entire cosmos.   It implies that we are the goal of the universe's existence; it leads to the conclusion that the universe has no meaning without us and that points to a purposeful creator.
And this in and of itself, is a clear indication that the universe exists for our sake.  - Dr. Zainab

Atheism is so senseless.
All of my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. - Isaac Newton

[ChemEngrMBA]

Gentlemen, let me address you on a very important subject, which should cause ladies to smile and nod.

I thank the Lord daily, several times in fact, for bringing me across the country to meet and marry my angel, with whom I celebrated a Golden Anniversary.

I was kind, but not kind enough.  I was loving, but not loving enough.  Don't be stupid, like I was.  Be the best boyfriend your lady could ask for, and then be the best husband.  Women are wonderful, loving and kind.  Men fill prisons.
You will look back on your finest deeds with pride and joy.  You will look back on your selfish mistakes and shake your head...WHY?

Compliment and help others, every day.  It rewards in both directions.

[MeganC]

Compliment and help others, every day.  It rewards in both directions.

Compliments cost us nothing yet are often valued more than money. But for some reason we are often stingier with our compliments than we are with our money.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Passive-Aggressive Back-Handed Compliments are a dark art ...

"For a moron, you're not so dumb."

"Great job! ... for someone with no talent."

[ChemEngrMBA]

The pervasive anti-religious bigotry of public schools and colleges extends to America’s libraries as well.  When I learned of The Irrational Atheist by Vox Day, I went to my local library to check it out.  They did not have it, nor did any library anywhere in America except for the Library of Congress, which loaned it to me.

 What a searing indictment on the religious bigotry of our librarians who are well stocked with books by atheists ridiculing America’s Christian heritage and birthright..

“… ideas which divide one group of human beings from another, only to unite them in slaughter, generally have their roots in religion.’ – Sam Harris, page 98  The Irrational Atheist, by Vox Day

(The three-volume compendium, Encyclopedia of Wars… categorizes only 6.98 percent of the 1,763 wars chronicled as religious wars.) – page 104, 105 [Ibid]

[ChemEngrMBA]

Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies is a phrase I created for my book to describe wonders surrounding every person on earth.  We take them for granted just because they are there and most people don't realize their brilliant creation.

The formula for starch is  ( C₆H₁₀O₅)n
Cellulose has this same formula but in a straight chain, without coiling or branching.

This is the structure of cellulose, drawn such that there is a carbon atom at every pair of lines intersecting at an angle, and each carbon atom is saturated with a sufficient number of hydrogen atoms to form four bonds. 
Parenthesis indicates a repeating link of this long-term chain.


The formula for glucose is   C₆H₁₂O₆ .

Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose where n can range from a few thousand to a hundred thousand.

The formula for sucrose, common sugar, is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ .

These complex compounds are all carbohydrates, meaning composed of carbon (dioxide) and water - free in our atmosphere.

What can you make from water and air?  Plants make the food that sustains almost every living creature - food that recycles itself, at no charge, using sunlight, also at no charge to us.  Give thanks to the Brilliant Creator daily for His many Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies, made possible only by complex combinations of very different things and processes.

[Bigun]

Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies is a phrase I created for my book to describe wonders surrounding every person on earth.  We take them for granted just because they are there and most people don't realize their brilliant creation.

The formula for starch is  ( C₆H₁₀O₅)n
Cellulose has this same formula but in a straight chain, without coiling or branching.

This is the structure of cellulose, drawn such that there is a carbon atom at every pair of lines intersecting at an angle, and each carbon atom is saturated with a sufficient number of hydrogen atoms to form four bonds. 
Parenthesis indicates a repeating link of this long-term chain.


The formula for glucose is   C₆H₁₂O₆ .

Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose where n can range from a few thousand to a hundred thousand.

The formula for sucrose, common sugar, is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ .

These complex compounds are all carbohydrates, meaning composed of carbon (dioxide) and water - free in our atmosphere.

What can you make from water and air?  Plants make the food that sustains almost every living creature - food that recycles itself, at no charge, using sunlight, also at no charge to us.  Give thanks to the Brilliant Creator daily for His many Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies, made possible only by complex combinations of very different things and processes.

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

The most beautiful, emotion filled song you will hear in months:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUGCwuyQZk&t=5s

[ChemEngrMBA]

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ---Samuel Adams

[ChemEngrMBA]

You have often heard the phrase, "Air holds more water when.."  Nonsense.

The vapor pressure of water is independent of the amount of air as seen in this graph. Standard air pressure is 760 Torr (mm of mercury) which equals 14.7 psi.

The vapor pressure of water at 25 degrees is 23.8 Torr with zero air, or with normal atmospheric pressure.

Water don't care about air!

Water is one of many Brilliant Creations.  There are many reasons why.  My book explores a few of them.  Unfortunately I did not research this point and add it.  (Graph from chatgpt.com)



Approximately 1,000 views per day during the past week.  Thank you, my Friends.  This is for you.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Civilization and modern life as we know and enjoy them exist only because of the Profound Fortuitous Interdependencies surrounding and enabling us.  One of those is communications.  While ants, bees, and animals of all kinds communicate, they are not remotely in the same category as us humans.  Only we have books, recordings and videos to pass on our limitless discoveries in perpetuity through profoundly deep verbal skills.  Only we use radio waves and fiberoptics to convert and transmit sights, sounds and data anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously.  Our ancestors two thousand, one thousand, even one hundred years ago could not possibly have imagined all the technology and accumulated knowledge we have today.

It stands to reason that we cannot possibly imagine the advanced technology and information awaiting us in our Creator's Realm.  We will telepath with history's greatest and wisest effortlessly, as we do here on a coast-to-coast cell phone call.

[ChemEngrMBA]

“You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.” – Joseph Priestly, chemist, philosopher, theologian

[ChemEngrMBA]

My beloved wife always planned our vacations meticulously. It was her favorite pastime, I do believe, taking vacations in Europe.  So on the Greek island of Santorini, toward sunset, she said, "Let's go down to the rocks and watch the sunset over the lagoon."  Our two daughters, Erin and Teri, were 15 and 10 respectively.  We were alone as we sat on the promontory watching the sun go down except for two American boys, in their twenties, just fifteen feet away from us, talking extremely vulgar language with their girlfriends.

I threw down quickly with the protective determination of a husband and father.  "Either you two will shut that up that foul language or else I will come over there and shut you up!"  One replied, "Why are you listening to us?"
"Well it's pretty hard not to hear you when you're so close.  Now if I have to come over there, I'm going to hurt you."

They shut up.  It was easier for them to back down than for me to, because they were wrong. I was dead serious and ready to take them both on.    More decent people need to stand up and teach lessons that are sorely needed.

[ChemEngrMBA]

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.— Nathaniel Branden, Canadian Psychotherapist

[ChemEngrMBA]

So much for "science"

“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” - Simon Newcomb, 1902   (Astronomer, polymath, and Professor of Mathematics for US Navy, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk.)

[MeganC]

So much for "science"

“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” - Simon Newcomb, 1902   (Astronomer, polymath, and Professor of Mathematics for US Navy, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk.)

I think of this dull, unimaginative tool every time someone insists that man will never reach the stars.

[ChemEngrMBA]

I think of this dull, unimaginative tool every time someone insists that man will never reach the stars.

Humans will never reach even the nearest star, four light years distant.  It took one of our space probes eleven years to leave our solar system.  If we were to speed up by a factor of ten, that would be 1.1 years.  That means it would require about 8,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri, 4.34 light years.  If we speed up by a factor of one hundred, it would take 800 years.  Nobody wants to travel that badly and die en route.  Besides, we do not live on any star.  We live on a planet.  Planets with features like ours are quite rare and unlikely to be found circling the closest stars.

[Cyber Liberty]

If we develop a Tesseract all bets are off....

[MeganC]

Humans will never reach even the nearest star, four light years distant.

And men will never fly.

[MeganC]

If we develop a Tesseract all bets are off....

This. There is an old saying that goes something like this:

If an accomplished scientist or engineer says that something is possible he is probably right.

If an accomplished scientist or engineer says that something is impossible then he will be proven wrong.

The point is not to declare something is impossible because doing so rules out future developments.

In recent decades these declarations have been proven wrong with an amusing amount of regularity.

Example:

The quote "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home" is attributed to Ken Olsen, the founder and president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in 1977.

The walk-back attempt on this also failed to imagine the advent of the "smart home":

While frequently cited as a failure to foresee the personal computer revolution, this quote is often taken out of context. According to later clarifications, Olsen was arguing against the idea of a central, household computer controlling appliances and daily life, rather than objecting to a personal computer for data processing.

The advent of either a faster-than-light propulsion or a Tesseract/hyper space 'jump' may well happen within our lifetimes.

Just a few years ago (anytime prior to November 2022 when Chat GPT launched) discussions about AI were frequently met with mockery and derision along the lines of discussing UFO's.

Ironically, just a few years later both topics have entered the mainstream and AI in particular has become pervasive and commonplace.

 

[MeganC]

If we were to speed up by a factor of ten, that would be 1.1 years.

Voyager 1 travels at 38,210 miles per hour.

38,210¹⁰ is what speeding up by a factor of ten would be and that would be 6,633,922,244,353,631,530,722,098,806,688,562,010,000,000,000 mph, which would far exceed the speed of light which is only 670,616,629 mph.

At 6,633,922,244,353,631,530,722,098,806,688,562,010,000,000,000 mph it would take me less time to get to Alpha Centauri than it did for me to type this message.

[DefiantMassRINO]

R.I.P., Digital Equipment Corporation.

If they sold their Alpha (RISC) processor (acquired by HP) in the back of Computer Shopper magazine, they'd still be in business.  The Windows NT4 install CD has a folder for installation on a system with an Alpha processor, as well for a PowerPC (RISC) processor.

CISC processors (Intel/AMD i386) won the 1990s because they allowed for a decentralized, open ecosystem that could adapt and progress more rapidly than closed RISC processor systems sold by IBM, DEC, Wang, and Sun Microsystems.

'Never' is a word used by those who fear failure.  Innovators don't fear failure, they embrace it.  'Failure' is a boundary to be crossed, a mountain to be climbed, a frontier to explore, and a wilderness to be tamed.

[MeganC]

R.I.P., Digital Equipment Corporation.

If they sold their Alpha (RISC) processor (acquired by HP) in the back of Computer Shopper magazine, they'd still be in business.  The Windows NT4 install CD has a folder for installation on a system with an Alpha processor, as well for a PowerPC (RISC) processor.

CISC processors (Intel/AMD i386) won the 1990s because they allowed for a decentralized, open ecosystem that could adapt and progress more rapidly than closed RISC processor systems sold by IBM, DEC, Wang, and Sun Microsystems.

'Never' is a word used by those who fear failure.  Innovators don't fear failure, they embrace it.  'Failure' is a boundary to be crossed, a mountain to be climbed, a frontier to explore, and a wilderness to be tamed.

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

Voyager 1 travels at 38,210 miles per hour.

38,210¹⁰ is what speeding up by a factor of ten would be and that would be 6,633,922,244,353,631,530,722,098,806,688,562,010,000,000,000 mph, which would far exceed the speed of light which is only 670,616,629 mph.

My Dear Friend, "a factor of 10" is 10 TIMES the number, NOT the number to the TENTH POWER.

It's too far, and humans will not be around long enough to achieve the fantasmagoric stuff you predict.
Getting anywhere is no guarantee of a habitable planet anywhere nearby the star.  And why?  Totally pointless.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The current limits of our imgination, intellect, and technology should not impede future progress by future generations that haven't been born yet.

Otherwise, 'never' becomes an implement of inter-generational tryanny by the current generation against future generations.

Our current ignorance should not shackle future generations.

[MeganC]

The current limits of our imgination, intellect, and technology should not impede future progress by future generations that haven't been born yet.

Otherwise, 'never' becomes an implement of inter-generational tryanny by the current generation against future generations.

Our current ignorance should not shackle future generations.

 

[MeganC]

My Dear Friend, "a factor of 10" is 10 TIMES the number, NOT the number to the TENTH POWER.

It's too far, and humans will not be around long enough to achieve the fantasmagoric stuff you predict.
Getting anywhere is no guarantee of a habitable planet anywhere nearby the star.  And why?  Totally pointless.

You are right about the math. But you are still a little short on imagination.

Myself , I refer to the track record of everyone else who has called something impossible and I realize that just because I don't know how to do something does not mean that it cannot be done.