I'm talking about another manned moon mission. Total waste of money. Manned spaceflight is stupid. Maybe a larger follow-on to the Hubble telescope would require servicing missions, and that would be reasonable. Space X still looks like a big con to me. Billionaire infantilism.
The heat wave is dead here, but you know how that goes. But for the next week, at least, mild conditions prevail and rain chances will be with us. Yet more work of clearing accomplished yesterday. Progress is being made and the jungle is being tamed.
I expected a blazing hot August but so far it has been quite mild. But that doesn't rule out a blazing hot September, since the weather machine is so thoroughly screwed up by human activity. And never forget that there is nothing at all mysterious about life, because it's carbon chemistry, all the way down and all the way up. Think of a planet like the earth as a kind of natural chemical laboratory-- given a common mix of elements on a planetary surface, and the right temperature regime, probably not uncommon either, you get carbon chemistry gone wild, and the inevitable result is going to be life, and evolution will take charge. That's what happened here, and that's what has happened elsewhere on other planets in other systems, and that is what is happening right now on other planets in other systems, and that is what will be happening on other planets in other systems long after life on earth is dead because conditions on earth have finally and inevitably become hostile to that sort of complex carbon chemistry. Consciousness, subjective experience, is still a mystery, so if you like mysteries and want something mysterious, consider "selfness". There seems to be no real need for that, and so far no one can explain it in any satisfactory way.
UFO/UAP related events are being described as on an "exponential" increase. Von Neuman probes are finally being discussed. But what it all means is not clear at all. Insufficient data. I managed, despite the press of other activities, to do more clearing yesterday. And the morning is clear and cool at 64 F. The crazy people are still out there, but I don't get involved. I hope that I will manage somehow, in the future, to be even more withdrawn and isolated than I already am. Until that day arrives...
Our August ends pleasantly, with below normal highs, cool mornings and rain chances every day. I could ask for nothing better. It's a nice transition.
