zeropoint

I like your thinking. We do need to think about cleaning up Earth. It's a workable plan at least, however large. You'd be surprised to know that the powers that be (withouth sounding conspiracy here) don't want too much information on how to do that floating around. It would disturb the eco-currency. One simple example will get you thinking.... We are shown pictures of children in squalor in 3rd world countries without decent water to drink. Hogwash! A simple distilling unit is less expensive than shipping in fresh water. Recycled, boiled water put in a distiller makes fresh clean water. Politics keeps that from happening. If you want other information I have plenty. Did you know you can drink from the ocean and that the oceans have an endless supply of water? We're not talking about drinking salt water. Did you know (even without Tesla) there is a source of free energy from the vacuum? Did you know that solid hydrogen fuel is MUCH less dangerous than gasoline? zeropoint

H-m-m-m.... SOUNDS good but I foresee a lot of problems. Not that there aren't a lot of problems with the current space program already! Okay, we would need to transports all the materials to the building spot, no? I assume those materials would come from Earth, no? The magnitude of it all would require many trips from Earth to space with these materials. Can we use an overunity device to supply the energy we would need to power everything? The COP of this device would need to be pretty high. We're talking about tapping into zero point here. This would give us the CONSTANT supply of energy we need, possibly coupled with solar cells. Also, how many plants would be needed to supply enough oxygen for 500 people? Are we using hydroponics or soil? Either way, we need a supply of nutrients for the plants. They can't survive on just water; we'd need a CONSTANT supply of plant food. Are we eating plants too? Oh, my! Now we need twice as many or more plants. What about us carnivores? Perhaps we are all adopting a raw vegan diet? As for waste by-products, I think maybe we could siphon them off into a separate containing station for a while. Of course, we could recycle SOME by-products. Bath water and other sources of water that aren't too gross might be re-used on plants before it is recycled for use again. We could build a water distiller. I know how to do that. Perhaps the whole geo-dome could be fitted with a system that allows water to evaporate and come back down again, directed to strageticaly placed containers. (This would be our version of rain.) With a COP on the zero point power source (from the vacuum) we could sustain the operation of the city. The thing I can't figure out is how do we sustain the plants without having to mine Earth? Is mining Earth in your plan? Anybody else have any ideas? zeropoint

Get more IQ? Don't bother. I have a very high IQ and belong to high IQ societies and forums. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked up to be. While I wouldn't go so far as to say "ignorance is bliss," I can say that, depending on the circumstances and your surroundings, a high IQ can be a lonely experience or it can be disappointing. My experience on some of the high IQ forums has been very frustrating. So many intelligent people and yet such lack of good scientific debate and discussion! A lot of what I encounter on some of the forums is simply shit-chat. I'd post a serious thread and it would be countered with some silly response or flippant reply and then a quick change of subject to some off-the-wall garbage. What I find is that some of these people are high strung and of the artistic nature, flighty and emotional. Even the ones who are more science oriented seem to be handicapped by their IQs. This is not an indictment of high IQ. There are some very gifted and capable people on some of the forums, but there is just too much weirdness to deal with for me. I'm still posting to them but infrequently. This forum seems much more promising to me. Linda