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In morning wind; the dawn was red
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Upcoming Lunar Spacecraft Missions

Between now and the end of the decade, three unmanned spacecraft, possibly more, will be sent to the Moon. Their findings will be of much use to the First Millennial Foundation.

The Lunar Prospector will be the first launch, scheduled for October 1997. Costing $51 million, this space probe will be the first craft NASA has sent to the Moon in over twenty years*. From a polar orbit, it will compose a detailed map of Luna's surface chemical composition. This mapping is the first step towards extracting lunar resources. It will also measure the Moon's magnetic and gravity fields with exceptional resolution. This map will be useful in the construction and operation of a mass driver. Additionally, if it exists, frozen water in the shadows of craters will be found.

In late 1997, shortly after the Lunar Prospector launch, Japan will fire off their M-5 medium lift rocket topped with the Lunar-A spacecraft. It will follow on the footsteps of Japan's first mission to the Moon, Hiten, in 1990. Lunar-A will orbit the Moon and release three penetrators to its surface. Inside the penetrators will be seismometers for moonquake detection and heat flow instruments. They will expand on measurements made during the Apollo landings. Information sent back from the Lunar-A penetrators will give us a basic idea of the structure and size of the lunar core and mantle. This program is under the control of Japan's ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science).

Shortly before the third millennium begins, two privately owned rovers will be on their way to the Moon. Their owner, LunaCorp, will be sending them on a mission that will break the current mold of space exploration by obtaining the vast majority of funding from the private sector and providing the general public with a chance to directly participate in exploration. After launching sometime in 1999, the rovers will land east of the Apollo 11 landing site. They will then proceed to the site to observe the 30th anniversary of the first human walk on the Moon. Built by Carnegie Mellon University, the rovers will be teleoperated from Earth. Although the main scientific objective LunaCorp has for their first mission is to observe the effects of space on the different craft left on the Moon, the footage taken by the rovers will be useful. We can study it for good landing spots and particular craters that would suit doming-over.

Although we will not be seeing the level of activity of the "Golden Age" of lunar exploration that occurred during the 1960's and early 1970's, the next few years promise to be ones of discovery and serve as stepping stones for the eventual colonization of the Moon.

* The Clementine spacecraft that mapped the Moon's topography in 1994 was from the BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization). The Jupiter-orbiting Galileo and Eros-bound NEAR spacecraft both passed the Moon on their way to primary mission objectives.

-John P. Kavanagh
(KavanaghNY@aol.com)
Lunar Prospector Home Page
LunaCorp Home Page

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In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."

The Miracle of Super Blue Green Algae

I got involved in Cell Tech in 1990 when I heard the company's founder, Daryl Kollman, talk about re-oxygenating Gaia. He spoke of the regeneration process we all personally need to undergo to take on this enormous task of evolution we have in front of us. Daryl talked about leadership and how our own appointed leaders are heading in the wrong direction. He spoke about each one of us being proactive and moving collectively in a more positive direction. Each one of us has a dream locked inside us that the world desperately needs and my dreams got stirred.

Earth and her inhabitants are in a crisis. Without each of us awakening to our true inheritance and essence, we are doomed to destruction. Can we muster the power to meet the challenge?

I read a quote by Rudolph Steiner many years ago that stuck with me. He said that humankind is not more spiritual because we lack the basic vitality to hold the strength of Spirit in our bodies. I thought that explained a lot. For if we could find the strength and the inner power, we could soar!

But where do we find that stamina and time to explore and discover our purpose? How can we strive for the cosmos and take care of all that needs taking care of right here where we stand?

Part of the answer comes in understanding some of the dynamics we're steeped in. Soil erosion, over farming and extensive toxic chemicals drain the very bed of nutrients we need to fuel our plants, and our plants fuel us. The cumulative effects of synthetically and poorly grown foods plus the chemicalization and denaturing of what we eat has created a depletion in our internal fuel supply-just when we need it most. The industrialization of our life-sustaining food supply is very recent and has wreaked havoc on our health. The U.S. Surgeon General warns that 68% of all disease in our country is directly attributable to our diets.

Add to that the ozone hole, overpopulation, deforestation, the need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, and you've got some dire equations needing some attention. We must ensure survival on Earth.

So what is Cell Tech? In my 5 years of collaboration with this phenomenal company, my description keeps expanding. First and foremost, Cell Tech harvests one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet-Super Blue Green Algae (SBGA). This freshwater algae grows wild in one of the last virtually pristine water sources around. This algae feeds on minerals at the bottom of the lake, then dances to the surface to photosynthesize sunlight. It's the original global bio-internet because algae freely exchange genetic information across all waters.

This incredible food contains nearly all the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes and trace elements that the body requires. SBGA is 97% assimilable, unlike synthetic supplements, which give very few of the total necessary elements needed and are only 10-30% usable by the body. Buying vitamins turns out to be a good way to waste your money. And the only reason taking vitamins got popular was because of the lack of vitamins in our food supply. SBGA is whole food with one of the richest sources of chlorophyll, is composed of more than 60% protein, and has most of the nutrients that are missing in our diet!

I've been eating and sharing this algae for over five years and I can tell you that as a food-it delivers. I have personally experienced and witnessed the power of this proper nutrition with thousands of people. Imagine the difference between starved cells and very well satisfied cells. It makes for a nice way to live. The more I eat of this nutritive miracle, the more energized, balanced and calm I feel.

In addition to being the perfect food, to quote from The Millennial Project-"seventy percent of the world's biomass is algae. Together, with other algas, the blue-greens account for as much as 90% of the photosynthetic activity on earth. The algae are both the main source of oxygen in the atmosphere, and the primary regulators of carbon dioxide."

And because I decided to make it my business to feed a starving world good wholesome nutrition, the second most important part of my health got into balance-my finances. Gratefully, Daryl Kollman chose to market this food through networking and I like to connect. I like to help people. I knew a long time ago that my own time was precious and that in order to accomplish my own personal mission, my time would have to be my own. Network marketing can provide financial freedom for a large amount of people. And because my time is freed up I can work on projects like "The 90% solution."

This is a group of like minded financially free friends who are creating educational tools about algae and its myriad uses. We put out a newsletter and are researching how to build algae ponds. I’m happy.

So what's your dream? What would you be doing if you felt energized most of the time and your time was your own? These are the questions we need to start asking ourselves. If you'd like some more information about SBGA, call me at 1 (800) 900-5581. I look forward to hearing from you!

MADALYN SUOZZO
Independent Distributor

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In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."

Book Reviews

He gives a very broad overview of the nature of current thought in the field of paleontology, paying homage to the various interpretations, often conflicting, that have been given for the phylogenies of certain organisms. He also covers some very basic ideas of concern to paleontologists, such as classifcation, cladistics, and the processes that drive evolution.

Vertebrate Paleontology And Evolution is both a technical journal in the finest tradition, and an amateur’s guide to some basic concepts in biology. It can be bought at the American Museum of Natural History in New York for about sixty dollars. It may be available elsewhere, especially in Montreal, where Carroll is the curator of the Redpath Museum at McGill University, and a professor at that university.

Mushrooms Demystified
David Arora
Copyright©1986 by David Arora
Ten Speed Press, P.O. Box 7123, Berkeley, California, 94707.
ISBN: 0-89815-169-4

Well, folks, everything you ever cared to know about mushrooms is here! This book is sure to dispel any misconceptoins that people have about kingdom Fungi, one of the three multi-cellular kingdoms of life (along with Plantae and Animalia).

Arora's knowledge and experience is especially pertinent to California, but the book covers all of the U.S.. Arora is a true expert and enthusiast, and will no doubt excite your interest, and just possibly your palate. With all of the mushrooms out there, there are certainly many not covered in these pages, but, as Arora puts it, the diversity is so great, one can only do one’s best!

Often writing in a conversational tone, Arora imparts his knowledge to the general public in an inimitable fashion. I highly recommend this book, at a mere $29.95 in paperback (it can also be purchased in cloth).

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"Quaking boughs above my head
In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."

Technobabble

The Prize Concept As A Space Travel Development Incentive

Dr. Gaubatz cites the Orteig prize, pursued and won by Charles Lindbergh for his nonstop flight from New York to Paris, as an example of the success of such a prize. He argues that the private sector will be the area where such development finally happens, and that the best way to catalyze such activity is to offer a prize of about ten million dollars to whoever can demonstrate the usefulness of their spacecraft.

He quotes Charles Lindbergh as saying, "The important thing is to start; to lay plan, and then follow it step by step no matter how small or large each one by itself may seem." This quote can apply equally well to the Foundation.

In Preparation for Mars

Work has also been done on rovers that will be crawling across Martian terrain. Theses prototypes are being tested on simulated Martian terrain. In addition, students have created a "driver's license" for JPL engineer Brian Cooper. Washington State Governor Mike Lowry was on hand to witness Cooper pass the driving test that the students designed for him. He passed "with flying colors".

The students are also working on a Lander's License for the Russian Mars '96 landers. The students want to collaborate with a Russian elementary school to present the license to Russian Mars scientist Ruslan Kuzmin of the Vernadsky Institute, Moscow.

On the Net

These discussions have been going on for many months, and checking out the old posts is reccomended before repeating what has been said. There has been talk of summaries for each of the mailing lists, including FAQ's (frequently asked questions).

Among the ideas that have been discussed are alternatives for Bifrost, composition of bubble membranes, supplements to OTEC power, and methods of aquaculture.

There are also lists that concern the political and social aspects of the Foundation (if you don't like controversy, stay away!) All in all these lists have been very good at making both members and nonmembers aware of what others are thinking. The net result has been productive. It keeps people unified in a common cause, and saves us from all having to come up with the same ideas independently.

The FMF homepage is at:
www.millennial.org

Elements

As usual, let's get a few facts straight about this critter. Carbon, represented as C, was known to the ancients. In pure form, it can be found as diamonds and graphite. Recently, Buckminsterfullerines, or "Buckyballs", were made, as a new stable configuration of carbon. This requires a high energy input.

Carbon has a melting point of 3500C and a boiling point of 4827C. Its atomic number is 6, and it has an atomic weight of 12.011. As is the case with all of the extremely abundant elements in living things (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Sulfur, or CHONPS for short), carbon is a light element.

Carbon has a very valuable property-the ability to form very stable bonds with other atoms. As I stated previously, this capacity is what allows carbon to serve as the skeleton of our organic molecules. What I would like to concentrate on in this article, are a particular class of organics, the alkyls.

Alkyls consist of three major groupings: alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes. The difference between these is that alkanes posssess only single bonds between carbon atoms, while alkenes possess double carbon to carbon bonds, and alkynes possess triple carbon to carbon bonds. Otherwise, they are very similar.

What do I mean by all of this? Well, as you may well already know, carbon likes to form four bonds with nearby atoms. It can either form four separate bonds with four separate atoms, or it can form two or three bonds with a single atom, and thus be bonded to fewer different atoms, while maintaining four bonds altogether.

Let us take, by way of example, one of the simplest organic compounds imaginable, methane. Methane is an alkane. It consists, in its entirety, of a single carbon atom, bounded by four hydrogen atoms. Methane is illustrated below:

    H
     I
H-C-H
     I
    H

Methane

Now let us look at ethane. It, like methane, is an alkane (notice how they all end in -ane?). Ethane has two bonded carbons, plus a full complement of hydrogens, to satisfy the four bonds per carbon requirement (hydrogens are less ambitious, being content with only one bond apiece).

  H H	
  l l    
H-C-C-H
  l l
  H H
Ethane

  H H H           H H H H
  l l l     	  l l l l
H-C-C-C-H	H-C-C-C-C-H	
  l l l           l l l l
  H H H           H H H H

 Propane	   Butane

It turns out that, just as there are ethane, propane and butane, there are also ethene, propene, and butene (alkenes), as well as ethyne, propyne, and butyne (alkynes). These are very similar in structure to their alkane counterparts, with the notable exception that they contain multiple bonds between carbon atoms.

Here are what the alkenes look like:

    H               H
    l               l
H-C=C         H-C=C-C-H
  l l           l l l
  H H           H H H

Ethene         Propene


  H H   H  
  l l   l 
H-C-C-C=C-H
  l l l    
  H H H

  Butene

Here, then are the alkynes, derived from the same molecules (a ~ represents a third bond):

                  H
                  l
H-C=C-H     H-C=C-C-H
   ~           ~  l
                  H

Ethyne	         Propyne

  H     H
  l     l 
H-C-C=C-C-H
  l  ~  l
  H     H

Butyne

  H                      H H
  l                      l l
H-C-O-H                H-C-C-O-H
  l                      l l
  H                      H H

Methyl Alcohol      Ethyl Alcohol

Everything that makes us up, from the simplest sugars, to the most complex proteins and DNA strands, relies upon this carbon backbone for their molecular structure. Carbon in strings, rings, ribbons, and other configurations are the true skeletal components upon which life is based.

There is not space enough to give further details, but I suggest checking out your local university bookseller for texts on organic chemistry, if you wish to pursue this matter further. Unfortunately, I can't reccommend any, since I no longer have my undergraduate text on organic chemistry, and I am doing this all from memory! Otherwise, I would go into more detail, with things like esthers (formula: R-O-R), benzene rings and other aromatic compounds, and such as I imperfectly remember.

-Nick Gauthier
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In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."

Cosmic Dreams

Thunderstruck

Capricious Norns, the clouds are torn
Searing rays of Sol
Even as the darkness falls,
The valiant light
Still lingers bright

Clouds aglow, their madness sown
By maidens of the sky
The Thunder God will have his fun!
All bow before
Almighty Thor

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"Quaking boughs above my head
In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."
Forsooth! The very heavens bleed!
In greying light,
The Sun yet fights

Capricious Norns, the clouds are torn
Searing rays of Sol
Even as the darkness falls,
The valiant light
Still lingers bright

Clouds aglow, their madness sown
By maidens of the sky
The Thunder God will have his fun!
All bow before
Almighty Thor

nickg@eideti.com
"Quaking boughs above my head
In morning wind; the dawn was red
I could have stayed at home today
But wisdom comes to those who stray..."

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