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"Earth should field four radar systems in geostationary orbit, and preferably at least a couple large ones in the Lagrangian points , to keep track of everything in orbits below, in other words between the radar and Earth's atmosphere." - Marcin R. Kubik Radar in space will not be limited or disturbed by Earth's atmosphere, so less powerful systems can be used, than ground based ones and all of Earth's LEO can be put under space traffic control. This will be necessary as more public and private entities start to enter orbits on regular bases without placing permanent craft in LEO. Most satellites  do not change position or accelerate, many things do: 1. Missiles 2. Debris 3. Satellites 4. Spacecraft 5. Derelicts 6. Incoming asteroids 7. Alien spacecraft 8. High weather balloons 9. Lost humans in space suits These should all be things that are kept track of. Objects' direction of flight and velocity should be determined and live feed through a ...

Historically, the US military and scientific community has shown a great disregard for the possibility of destroying the planet in the pursuit of new technology. The United States was a superpower with a preemptive nuclear strike posture, and much of its 1960's cultural output revolved around visionary space faring Star Trek series were a host of scenarios of dealing with interstellar problems were neatly packaged into entertaining plot lines. I recall that one of the assessments for a particle physics experiments that was conducted before the US gov't decided to go through with it was 20,000,000:1 that the Earth's surface will be destroyed and rendered uninhabitable. Risk assessment on technologies that humans develop cannot simply consider the value of the planet and the human species itself as a potential loss, because as man develops technologies that can present existential dangers to other worlds in the Solar System and beyond, combined with the historical track rec...

Laser communication relays in space have been demonstrated by NASA , and already been deployed by China and EU in laser satellite relays . Solar sails powered by lasers are being developed for humanity's first interstellar mission. I thought to myself, just now I did, that if all those ideas I pitched worked out... why not use laser communication systems here on Earth as well... and do one better... why not use lasers for wireless power transmission?! The Tesla towers for free wireless power transmission proved dangerous and not profitable, because it would be difficult to keep track of who is receiving the load. Not so with laser powered transmissions which can serve as a communications system. As long as the communication system is connected to customer or receiver, one can keep exact track of how long that transmission has lasted and determine the amount of energy transferred. I did pitch laser towers for China as weapons systems for air defenses , but it appears that ...

It appears that Egypt has implemented all of my recommendations, including the Mistral purchase . Egypt has swiftly built the New Suez canal which is going to profit the country for decades to come. Egypt has invested in solar power to become energy self sufficient. Egypt had build fish farms. Egypt has started to reclaim the desert. What Egypt should also do, besides desert reclamation projects, is change its entire weather system to mitigate climate change by increasing its cloud cover, improve air quality with more rain and increase its agricultural output to levels that maintain the population's needs and allow for exports to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria which are challenged by long term droughts and desertification. To this end, I propose making the  Qattara Depression into a FRESHWATER lake. A canal should be built from the Mediterranean and the water that goes through it, should be desalinated . The techniques used for desalination should be powered by solar en...

To be free in a world, everyone in the world must be free, if not, then one must act persistently to ensure that everyone is free, or else none of us are. - Anonymous  I just went to see the movie " Bohemian Rhapsody " the final part of which had the Live Aid concert remembered as one of the biggest of all time . Below is a Wikipedia exert describing the event: "Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as the Soviet Un...

World's top oil and gas producers are United States , Russia and Saudi Arabia . Their fossil fuel oligarchs want high prices. All three states artificially and intentionally disturb oil markets to raise prices through war , sanctions , terrorism , invasions *, financial fraud , subsidies , fighting climate change science , election meddling , propaganda , authoritarianism , assassinations , inhibiting implementation of electricity based transport including electric cars , and OPEC conspiracies to control oil prices and production. By July 2015 WTI Crude oil prices rose and have reached around $90, which corresponded to Russo-American partition of Ukraine and subsequent War in Donbas. As the Paris Climate agreement was reached from which Americans ostensibly withdrew , prices started to drop. Europe and Iran successfully negotiated and put into force a nuclear deal with allowed Iran to put its hydrocarbons resources back on the markets. Total CEO was killed in Russia un...

I think the title of this blog entery says it all. There needs to be a Eurasian standard for hyperloop or whatever my vacuum tube magnetic levitation transportation system (VT-MLTS) ends up to be known as (I call it " kolej próżniowa " in Polish or vacuum train, Musk whom I solicited to write the white paper for me, calls it Hyperloop), "Just as there exists a standard cargo container size that allows commercial ships and trucks to move cargo containers around, so should the commercial cargo vacuum tube magnetic levitation transportation system be standardized across all of European Union, Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN and China." - Marcin Kubik I thought about the cargo hyperloop some more and clearly if such a transportation system's tube is near vacuum, the cargo containers can simply sit on sleds, much as they are now moved around in Chinese and European ports, on driver-less robotic vehicles that slide under them without any cabin at all. Magnetic le...