MooPig Community Chest Department :: "A Community Garden"

Folks, we need Planet Saver Tactics...
Mixed Martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 13, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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In 1979 a magazine called Mother Earth News published extensively about self-sufficiency on a five acre plot. It was my mantra. But five acres in those days in Chicago ... well, even back then that would have cost about $900,000 just for the land, and that is very conservative.

Any type of wetland conservation idea is needed now. We over-build into our natural water ways, until we start to experience floods and mud-slides. Architecture that is designed to augment the natural ways of things on planet earth should be "built" as designed. Community gardens would be included in the land development master plans. If it were not for "bottom-line" developers, we might have such places in our communities.

Most good ideas that would make the earth a less hostile environment are "deep six'd" in the final financial analysis, land has to be paid for. Watershed imbalance today is confounding communities all over the world.

The article we include today says to invite all people who are interested in community gardening, is the first step to:

10 Steps to Starting a Community Garden | American Community Garden Association: "The following steps are adapted from the American Community Garden Association’s guidelines for launching a successful community garden in your neighborhood."
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https://communitygarden.org/resources/10-steps-to-starting-a-community-garden/
file:///D:/mendemo/dcd/001/001-008-01.htm
http://www.designrulz.com/architecture/2011/12/8-suggestions-for-spectacular-roof-gardens/

MooPig Prophecy Department :: "Dr Who Predicts another Development"

Cruising Hotels, Bedrooms in the Sky
Mixed martial articles by Pat Darnell  |  June 6, 2014  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] "...This time around the mammoth cruise ship struck fire and not ice and the passengers are a sordid bunch including robotic golden angels armed with killer boomerang-like-halos, and a dwarf named Bannakaffalatta – a cyborg Zocci who strangely resembles Darth Maul (December 21, 2011. By Ricky da Conceição) ..."


Amazing Helicopter Hotel Open Up in UAE...! | Just Another Blog:

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Another Doctor Who image of the future has come to be in the United Arab Emirates. This day three years ago, First Helicopter Hotel in the world, [was] inaugurated in UAE. First trip was take off Dubai Airport on June 6, 2011. ( June 11, 2011. LINK)

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http://watsyourblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/amazing-helicopter-hotel-open-up-in-uae.html
http://www.soundonsight.org/25-days-of-christmas-doctor-who-voyage-of-the-damned/

MooPig Astronomy Department :: "Kepler Spacecraft"

NASA, we have a Lot of Data
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 18, 2013  |  Bryan TX

While astrophysicists continue to mine the data provided by Kepler Space Craft, the craft hit a snag. One of its "wheels" quit turning. So the Kepler is frozen in one position, but not before Astronomers could report staggering numbers.

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Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy - NYTimes.com: "Astronomers reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, based on a new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. One out of every five sun-like stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold — where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water, according to a herculean three-year calculation based on data from the Kepler spacecraft by Erik Petigura, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/cosmic-census-finds-billions-of-planets-that-could-be-like-earth.html?_r=1&
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/science/space/new-plan-for-a-disabled-kepler.html?hpw&rref=science&_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/earth-like-habitable-planets-kepler-space-video_n_4214758.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html#.Uos_5MSUTx4
http://media4.obspm.fr/exoplanets/pages_projets/futur-spatiaux-exopl.html
http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/seek-strange-worlds-kepler-space-telescope/

Space: SETI: The Drake Equation --the Number of Communicating ET's

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 15, 2012 | Bryan TX

Space: SETI: The Drake Equation:
Description:
The Drake Equation was developed by Frank Drake in 1961 as a way to focus on the factors which determine how many intelligent, communicating civilizations there are in our galaxy. The Drake Equation is:

N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

N* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

• Question: How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy?
• Answer: Current estimates are 100 billion.

fp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them

• Question: What percentage of stars have planetary systems?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.

ne is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life

• Question: For each star that does have a planetary system, how many planets are capable of sustaining life?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 1 to 5.

fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves

• Question: On what percentage of the planets that are capable of sustaining life does life actually evolve?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 100% (where life can evolve it will) down to close to 0%.

fi is the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves

• Question: On the planets where life does evolve, what percentage evolves intelligent life?
• Answer: Estimates range from 100% (intelligence is such a survival advantage that it will certainly evolve) down to near 0%.

fc is the fraction of fi that communicate

• Question: What percentage of intelligent races have the means and the desire to communicate?
• Answer: 10% to 20%

fL is fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live

• Question: For each civilization that does communicate, for what fraction of the planet's life does the civilization survive?
• Answer: This is the toughest of the questions. If we take Earth as an example, the expected lifetime of our Sun and the Earth is roughly 10 billion years. So far we've been communicating with radio waves for less than 100 years. How long will our civilization survive? Will we destroy ourselves in a few years like some predict or will we overcome our problems and survive for millennia? If we were destroyed tomorrow the answer to this question would be 1/100,000,000th. If we survive for 10,000 years the answer will be 1/1,000,000th.

When all of these variables are multiplied together when come up with: N, the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy.

The real value of the Drake Equation is not in the answer itself, but the questions that are prompted when attempting to come up with an answer. Obviously there is a tremendous amount of guess work involved when filling in the variables. As we learn more from astronomy, biology, and other sciences, we'll be able to better estimate the answers to the above questions. Many of these questions will be addressed in depth in future issues of Enigma.
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Frank Drake :: In 1963 Drake took a short-lived position at the Jet Propulsion Lab and later that year he took a position at Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. Two years later he accepted the directorship of the Cornell run Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Drake and his family returned to Cornell in 1968.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30609189#.TxPGn28S2Pw
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/seti/drake_equation.html

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