By Late Nite Leroy

Walmart Economy Enters Space Race

10/4/2004   (#103)
  
 Spaceship One Launches for X-Prize as viewed from 75 miles away

At approximately 7:56 AM local time Monday October 4, SpaceshipOne fired its engine and flew to over 368,000 feet and claimed the long sought X-Prize award of $10,000,000. Headed by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites, in Mojave, California and backed by billionaires Paul Allen of Microsoft and Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic fame, an estimated $20 million of investor capital earned the $10 million reward.  Lest that sound somewhat unprofitable, remember no R&D venture yields a profit on it's prototype, but, setting the premise for repeated accomplishment, yields untold profits in future sales.

Several paradigms were crossed simultaneous with this accomplishment. But if we don't acknowledge them and act on them, our mindless masses will go back to watching the endless fluff offered on mindless TV.

Since ancient times, man has controlled other men with various forms of slavery. But repeatedly down through history, God sends a Moses or Lincoln to free the slaves. Even New Testament prophets and later Martin Luthers to free men held captive by doctrine twisted and misapplied from scripture itself.  Only a few years after Lincoln stopped black slavery, John D. Rockefeller devised a new slavery to his form of energy.  Leap frogging his enormous capital generation, in stepped the central banker slave owners to entrap the population at large. Flooding the economy with newly printed money until the prescribed time in 1929, they then yanked money from the economy making countless millions unable to make mortgage payments to the bankers. My grandfather's farm was stolen this way.  Likewise, the Federal Reserve's high interest, easy money economic set up of Paul Volker in the 80's followed by Reagan's naive "tight money" policy in the early 80's stole my home.  Paul Volker went on years later to get involved in international economics and blackmailed Switzerland into leaving the gold standard and using the printed magic of paper currency.

The "blank check" philosophy of government allows tremendous capital to pour into projects politically desirable at the time.  Never mind the inflation caused by this, it creates nice homes for those on the dole.  I think the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles and other nice neighborhoods in Houston and Florida were built by the US space program.  Many are very nice homes. Especially those lived in by managers.  I have routinely met old timers who were making over 80 thousand dollars a year, in the 60's.  No wonder Los Angeles is the swimming pool capitol of the country. That was more than 10 times the national average wage at the time. I do not regret their fortune.  I am happy for them.  But it set a precedent to follow for years to come.  Government had no concern for showing a profit on anything. Get it done at any cost became the mantra.  This bled into the military creating amazing, yet outrageously expensive weapons. Jump to 2004 and who is winning in Iraq?  $80,000 Hummers are vaporized with thousand dollar (or less) road side bombs.  Laser guided missiles do usually hit the precise target, but a bomb is a bomb.  Our US media says little about any young kids who happened to be standing outside, and lose their lives along with the alleged terrorists inside.  About 12,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed by our bombs.  I don't have a number of how many were children or how many are maimed for life from our explosives or indiscriminate use of depleted uranium. But our own soldiers are coming back with burning urine and having children with missing appendages and other birth deformities.  The soldiers were there for only about a year.  What will happen to those who live in the country permanently?

A wise guideline from manufacturing is "perfect it before you mass produce it."  But the premise established by NASA is spend whatever you have to to make one item work, then go on to something completely different and spend more. Thus they consume the massive R&D cost of everything, but never mass produce what did get accomplished. This is a Federal Reserve mentality.  This is not the frugal ingenuity that got Spaceship One into space.  Conversely, bureaucrat mentality is what kept it from space for so many years.  NASA shops at Neiman Marcus.  Scaled Composites scavenges junk yards.  It gets the job done. Yet another issue now arises.  Penny pinching frugalness gets the job done and makes the miser rich, but what good does it do to help the community?  The Walton family are some of the wealthiest in the world.  But what is the average wage of any Walmart worker?  I dare say, they are not building 5 bedroom ranch homes with swimming pools where ever they set up shop. Now look at defense industry wages today.  Union technician wages have slipped over the years, but anyone fortunate enough to have a degree in a specific field the defense industry may need, easily commands wages of $2,000 to $3,000 a week.  Why? Because there is plenty of money to print for the government politicians.  But when private industry wants to enter a high tech field, how can they afford wages like that?  They can't.  This is why America and the world have been enslaved to oil for over a century.  The skilled engineers who could have set us free 70 years ago were busy building bombs, not applying technologies Tesla proved only a few years after Lincoln died.

But who is smart enough to do such a thing?  A Yale graduate who couldn't manage this country destroyed 2 sovereign governments and claims he's surprised when his quick war still continues a year after his expensive bombs went off, changing terrain, but not changing hearts.  Yet a Harvard drop out managed to build Microsoft into the world's largest software company and made several friends billionaires in the process.  Burt Rutan's test pilot who was the first to go into space was a high school drop out, yet set the precedent for private industry to enter space.  Innovation is not taught, people are born with it. Moses was not a good public speaker, yet God used him to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage. Years of training in Pharaoh's court only sent him into the desert to heard sheep.

TV continues to dumb down the populace with celebrity fluff. Yielding more "Valley girls & guys" who swarm to the tattoo parlors and body piercers.  Most likely paying with plastic money and no comprehension of where it came from or how they got to use it.  Destined to be enslaved to central bankers for the rest of their lives.  But a rare crack in the system has revealed itself.  Space is now available to the civilian.  Yes, Rutan's Spaceship One is barbaric inside as far as creature comforts, but not much more cramped than the last coach seat I flew on.  He certainly cut corners I would not have were I in his shoes, yet the job got accomplished. I confess that judging him now would be as cruel as judging Bill Gates' Disk Operating System 1.0 (DOS). But the Discovery Channel documentary on Burt Rutan (Black Sky) did look over the shoulder on Burt's Apple computer and showed he has plans for an elaborate and well equiped space ship, equivalent to Gate's Windows XP.  Just give him time.

Even greater news than civilian entry into space are the energy breakthroughs soon to become available.  Perendov has perfected a permanent magnet motor and is going into production in Germany. An American inventor is expecting to have something similar available by mid next year.  Three companies and several garage inventors I know of personally have perfected the advanced electrolysis technique patented by several individuals after 1970, but led to their immediate disappearance. That technique would allow internal combustion engines to run on water, yes water, no gasoline or hydrocarbon based fuel.  Regardless of whether the techniques were stolen, hidden or suppressed back then, too many know how to do it now.  The cat's out of the bag and no black-op thug is going to stop it. I list known companies making public claims at my commercial energy page: http://www.commutefaster.com/Energy.html 

Bill Gates found a crack in the system and made profitable work for thousands.  They built nice neighborhoods in the process, without relying on politicians to have the money printed.  Let's hope Scaled Composites brings more profitable industry to Mojave than the mid-desert gas refill stop or old jetliner graveyard that Mojave currently is.  Making rocket scientists accept Walmart wages does not build neighborhoods with big homes, and is not a formula for respectable success.  But neither is taking high wages from the American taxpayer who has no choice in it distribution.

Satan made a statement via a horrible pun on 911.  Remember 10 / 4 as another pun, but a good one.  911 was the telephone standard number to dial for an emergency.  If the telecommunications industry is to be referenced, 10-4 is the 2 way radio standard that means "transmission complete."  Burt Rutan's brother was the CNN CO-host covering the 10/4 flight and commented that there were plenty of demons that could have caused problems on the X-Prize winning flight, but they were probably all up watching Mt. St. Helens explode today.  Perhaps the volcano distracted Satan today, opening a window through which our enslaved economy can escape.

10/4, transmission complete.  Do you copy?

--LateNiteLeroy

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