Theology for Scientists in 15 minutes

Will there be a singularity? Look at Jungian personality functions to answer the question (as well as cultural theory). Computers can do Reason, can do Intuition (which is group reason or group emotion - either knowing it or growing it). A computer can certainly know values and can expertly do sensory - although it cannot experience sensuality. Computers cannot have a limbic system. It won't say no based on its own need for pleasure or authenticity. We won't let it - nor can we build it. We can certainly simulate human tantrums, but it is not a good idea to do so.

Then there is the concept of uploading your consciousness. If it were possible, the reality is that you would then know how it feels to be a computer. Sounds like Hell to me. Again, no limbic system.

Scientists need to quit conflating what the Church says with the will of the ultimate reality - which, according to people who have had NDEs - is where free will is. We do not live free will, however. Events are negotiated before your life. How we react to them and treat others as part of the deal is what we can control. Einstein believed in the God of Spinoza. Jesus and Bill W. would agree. 

To know why this is, taking a theology course is needed to be a well rounded scientists, because as I wrote earlier, the rest of the galactic civilization does not care about our technology - they care whether we keep having societal tantrums. Until we stop (and atheists can be as tribal as anyone else), we are stuck on the planet. Again, people who have had NDEs and ask about ETs are told that advanced civilizations have made their peace with the God question. Human consciousness is eternal. We don't need to go to Mars to preserve it.

The Universal Clock

See below. Where do you think we are on the clock?

There's Another Universe. This Is Why.

The Great Attractor is the center of the Universe. An infinite number of universes would require an infinite amount of energy with every movement of every quark. There may be a big bang going out and then a contraction toward the great attractor. The background is simply the edge that reflects in. At some point, the great attractor was the great repeller from which everything expanded from. The multiverse is science fiction - like time travel. 

This is philosophy, not science. It is only provable when the peak of the journey from the great attractor became a journey toward it. When we know when the shift over occurred, we can predict the end. Or we can add the inflation rejected time to the attractor plus the time since the Bing Bang divided by two.

At what point does Sag A swallow the entire galaxy. Assume expansion will eventually be rejected - what comes first, a swallowed Milky Way or reaching the great attractor?

How could deflation be proven? Do an estimate as to whether the Great Attractor has shifted as it eats Laniakea. 

Starship, Falcon and the Moon

Quit landing Starships and stage 2 of Falcon. Instead, leave them in orbit to be converted to living space. Build an orbit Kilo Bay/Star Factory to trick out modules to go to the Moon and Mars - either for orbit or landing at future bases. Include habitat modules so that Martians and Loonies can work and settle. Reactors ends the need to avoid Lunar Night. Most importantly, make the next mission be about seeing if gravity can be simulated with spinning modules - either Falcon stage 2s or inflatables. Test subjects need to be instructed not to gut-it-out. We need honest enough tests to station families in orbit. 

Test a catapult on the Lunar surface for both free return to Earth and to go to Mars. This will allow us to use the Moon as the factory site, rather than having folks hang out in orbit. Use Dragon to move people - it is just the right size and proven to be safe. Nothing less precious need be landed. If organs are to be grown, have the transplant surgery happen in orbit. Even if you die, you get one heck of a ride to get to surgery.

On Starship, put a bank of Merlin engines on board - with steering - rather than reinventing the wheel. This process can go really fast if we want it to - as long as we quit trying to figure out how to land modules that never should be landed.