I am an Earth absolutist. Elon Musk of SpaceX is building starships to travel into space to carry intelligent life to Mars and beyond, with the goal of establishing human colonies there. However there is only one starship capable of interstellar travel. And it has been on an interstellar flight, towards the star Vega, since it was built, about 6000 years ago. It is still functioning quite well even though the crew and passengers have run amok many times disregarding the Creator’s operating instructions.
The critically important life-support system has a self-repairing mode and involves self-sustaining production of the needed sustenance for the occupants. The latter is derived from their own work on board, provided they follow the Creator’s instructions. Up until 2020 the crew were routinely being refreshed with new recruits. But the powerful elites, the officer class, which controls the ship, went insane and started to kill off the paying passengers as well as a lot of the crew. The executive officers have given instructions to reduce production of food for the passengers, believing that that will fix the problems they perceive with the starship’s life-support system. In reality they have reduced themselves to asylum inmates, with the insane idea that the passengers will live off bug-meal in darkened cabins.
Even though the starship was built with an enormous internal fuel supply (perhaps for millions of years of operation) in the form of liquefied and solidified hydrocarbons as well as nuclear fuel to keep the starship life support system fully functioning, the necessity of a massive external power source is needed to maintain temperature inside the starship, while it is hurtling through the cold vacuum of space.
The external power source is called the sun. It is a massive thermonuclear engine attached to starship Earth by a very long tether. The tether is achieved through a gravitational coupling and inertial forces due to the large mass of the engine. This is a very important design feature.
Here is an approximately correct animation of the flightpath shown with the starship firmly attached to the main thermonuclear engine.
Technically, the plane of orbit, called the ecliptic, is tilted at 60 degrees to the direction of travel as shown below and not 90 degrees as it appears in the above video. Yet the animated video is still quite accurate.
The relative sizes of the starship Earth to the external engine, the sun, and their distance of separation are critical.
The diameter of Earth is about 12,740 km or about 8,000 miles. The diameter of the sun is about 1,390,000 km or about 863,000 miles. You could fit 109 earths across the sun’s diameter. See Earth starship’s size relative to the sun in the image below. Earth starship’s diameter is 0.0093 of the sun’s diameter. The volume of Earth is 8.2 x 10-7 or about 1 millionth of the sun’s volume. The sun’s mass is equal to approximately 2×1030 kg. That is 99.86% of the mass of all bodies in the solar system. The starship Earth’s mass is 332,946 times smaller than the sun’s.
Starship Earth is travelling through the heavens being controlled by this enormous power supply — the sun. Its position in space is controlled as they both co-revolve around their common centre, which is somewhere below the surface of the sun. Control is also over the temperature of the starship, stabilised through the production of gases in the atmosphere, primarily water vapour, and to a much lesser extent carbon dioxide and methane.
The distance between the sun and Earth is 150 million km or about 93 million miles. If you lined up 10,000 starship Earths, side to side, they would cover that distance. Our starship is tethered to the massive thermonuclear engine at that distance. But so are other stabilizing bodies farther out from Earth. All by design, designed to endure for billions of years.
Even at this enormous distance we can calculate the total energy output from the sun-engine and determine how much Earth receives. Read the following (my bold emphases added).
The so-called solar constant, the amount of sunlight that falls onto a square meter at the same distance from the Sun as the Earth is, is about 1,370 watts per square meter, which is the same as 1,370 megawatts per square kilometer.
The radius of the Earth is about 6,370 kilometers.
The radius of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is about 150 million kilometers.
The surface of a sphere, with the same radius as the Earth’s orbit, is calculated using the standard formula (four pi times radius squared), to be about 283 quadrillion (1015) square kilometers. Further multiplying by 1,370 megawatts gives 387 quintillion (1018) megawatts. That is the total output of the Sun.
The cross-sectional area of the earth is just the area of a circle with the same radius as the Earth’s: about 127 million square kilometers. Multiplying by 1,370 gives about 175 billion megawatts. This is the amount of sunlight intercepted by the Earth. The rest goes elsewhere… some would be intercepted by other planets, but most escapes into interstellar space.
The amount intercepted by the Earth is, therefore, roughly one part in 2.2 billion compared to the total output of the Sun.
Now in terms of nuclear weapons… The yield of these weapons is usually measured in “TNT equivalent”, i.e., kilotons/megatons/etc. One megaton is 4.184 quadrillion joules or 4.184 billion megajoules. And one watt, which was the unit of power we used for the Sun, is just one joule per second. Dividing 175 billion megawatts (175 billion megajoules per second) by 4.184 billion megajoules per megaton yields about 42 megatons. So every second, the Earth receives the equivalent energy of 42 megatons of TNT from the Sun.
As to the total output of the Sun, that’s about 93 billion megatons of TNT equivalent per second.
The starship Earth is bathed in only half a billionth of the total radiation output from the sun-engine yet that is 175 billion megawatts of power. A billion megawatts is a quadrillion watts or 1,000,000,000,000,000 watts, written as 1015 watts.
This tells you where all energy actually comes from. It dwarfs all other sources like gas, oil, coal, solar panels or windmills. All of those sources of power are miniscule compared to the power of the sun.
How is it that many of the starship officers and passengers are so deluded to believe that by controlling their own carbon dioxide and methane emissions they can affect the global temperature? The power source of the sun is so enormous compared to any tiny savings of power you might achieve by changing the light bulbs in your cabin or using solar panels or silly windmills for your local electricity.
Starship Earth Seen from the Moon
Here is a picture of starship Earth as seen from the moon. The Earth being full of beauty and life is contrasted here with the lifeless surface of the moon.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured this breathtaking image of Earth as it was orbiting the Moon. This is a composite image from a series of pictures taken October 12, 2015, when the spacecraft was approximately 134 km above the lunar crater, Compton. The image was created by using the high-resolution black-and-white Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) and lower-resolution color imaging Wide Angle Camera (WAC). These two cameras used together allowed scientists to put a clear and colorful image together of the Earthrise on the Moon.
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
The LRO spacecraft has been orbiting the moon since 2009. In its first year it completed detailed mapping of the lunar surface with a stereoscopic high resolution 3D camera. It has observed just about every feature on the lunar surface including the old Apollo landing sites.
This image taken by LRO in 2010 depicts the tracks that Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin made 39 years earlier while driving their lunar rover. The Moon has no atmosphere, and thus no wind or rain to sweep footprints or tire tracks away.
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Apollo astronauts’ tire tracks still visible on the lunar surface 39 years later is evidence of no erosion (wind or rain) since there is no atmosphere. No atmosphere and little water means no life.
However, the moon has important functions for the Earth, inter alia to stabilise its orbit, create tides which are essential for sea life, provide a night light, and mark off the months and seasons.
Our starship Earth has all the features necessary to support life. It is the only spacecraft to ever come in contact with any living organisms. It is the only body on which we find intelligent life. The reason for this is design. That design includes water, oxygen, carbon dioxide and minerals, which produces food via the process of photosynthesis powered by sunlight. But the lunatic officer class are now trying to destroy that as fast as they can. They want to block the life giving light from the sun. Insane!
Starship Earth Seen from Saturn
Cassini was the fourth space to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The Huygens module travelled with Cassini until its separation on December 25, 2004; Huygens landed by parachute on the moon Titan on January 14, 2005. This part of the mission was to look for signs of life on Titan. That is the same goal for which many other probes were sent out into the solar system. No life was ever found!
The above picture shows what Earth looks like (indicated by the small arrow) from a distance over 1 billion kilometres, the Saturn-Earth distance. If nothing else this should tell you how important this starship is. There are no others.
Life has only ever been found on one celestial body, and that is on starship Earth. This is by design of the Creator of the universe. Life is not the product of random chance. It is the product of the Intelligent Mind of the only true God and Creator of all things. Let’s not screw this up!
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2 responses to “Starship Earth”
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
“I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
“I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.”
— William Shatner, actor
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A really good and learned article. It’s possible that the more insane recommendations of ungodly utopians like ‘bug burgers’ etc will just be abandoned by them when they realize that virtually no one is going to jump at those options. There’s a harmony that exists quite easily between politicians and scientists until things get difficult and pragmatism eventually takes over.
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