Blue Sky Limousine

I was thinking that there are a bunch of rich people out there who could possibly make a difference by giving most of their funds to efficient, useful causes and organizations.

But then I imagined a negative version of the scenario. Negative and perhaps common sense.

Say Angelina Jolie decides to be good to mankind, and give away everything she owns, all her millions of dollars, in an effort to start and spread a campaign under which every rich person does the same.

This isn’t just giving money to people who’ll waste it. It’s the systematic reorganization of monetary funds in a way that will hopefully benefit all of us. The groups that are working to solve problems and producing results will get the most funding.

So Jolie becomes poor, in the hopes that other rich people will help like she did.

But they don’t. They don’t believe it will work, and in thinking that way, cause her program to fail. She becomes a regular person, and people treat her rudely.

Bleak. I could go into more detail, but I get the feeling that doing so would serve no purpose other than painting a poorer picture of humanity.

Or would it be accurate?

No, I have faith in people. We can work together, it just takes certain circumstances.

It just occurred to me that if you are moving really fast, it would be a terrific benefit to be able to somehow avoid crashes. This could be accomplished by some kind of phase shift, where when you move quickly, you do so on an alternate plane of reality. So you can see where you are and where you’re going, but if you “hit” a mountain, you won’t die. You’ll simply slide right through it.

If UFOs have accomplished this, it might explain why they’re difficult to track down.

If individual entities have done this, it could explain why ghosts seem to be fading in and out, or seem half-present.

Perhaps the government has phase shifting in place on various craft and with various people, and they explain all the recent ufo and ghost phenomena. Time travel could be used to explain all the other ones… Either that or aliens who’ve been using this technology for a long while.

Wow… that was out there.

I’ve heard and read in numerous places that if you eat your biggest meal in the morning, your second biggest meal for lunch, and your smallest meal for dinner, things will be better for you somehow.

I also read that in some part of the world, people who live to be in their 100’s have a light dinnertime meal.

From a short-term practical standpoint, I think eating like that prevents your body from having to process food at night, when you’re less active. I think during this time, you’d store more of it as fat, and burn off less. So eating a ton at night would seem to promote unnecessary weight gain, which itself can lead to a number of other problems.

Breakfast, here I come!

One of my favorite scenes is of the guys sitting out in the desert practically worshiping the aliens, who aren’t there, and singing the tune that we hear again at the end of the film.

Something just occurred to me. I’ve never thought this before, but it seems to make sense. At the end of the film, one keyboard/computer expert communicates with the mother ship by matching the musical tones and sequences.

All those guys in the desert were able to do that, as they showed by repeating the simplest part of the song. So what if for those guys, their adventure had already taken place? What if the alien ship played its music to them, and they answered?

Now that I think about it, I’ll bet the ship either didn’t seek a more complicated answer like it did at the end. Or if it did while still in the desert, it didn’t get it. Why? Because it waited until later to exchange previous humans for modern ones (if I remember correctly).

Wow, this is interesting to think about…

In a certain frame of mind.

I was wondering about the really rich guys high up in the food chain with million/billion dollar stakes in the Oil industry.

I realized that if you’re living in a selfish mindset, then it makes perfect sense to extend the reign of oil and pollution as long as possible.

Similarly, it makes sense to slice and dice the rain forests for whatever profit they’re worth.

What about the world? Isn’t there the risk of doing damage?

Yes, but someone high up is probably wealthy enough to pay for the creation of their own little world. Pay for irrigation, air conditioning, generators… Who cares about everyone else? Let them go sit in the air conditioned movie theaters.

Like I said, the selfish mindset seems to justify those types of actions.

But what doesn’t make sense to me is why all the wealthy people don’t become philanthropists. I thought it was a generally consistent part of human nature that once you reach a certain level of success, you can stop worrying about yourself, and start helping others.

For some people, you don’t even need to have money to operate that way…

I think I saw something somewhere about a new piece of technology that breaks the mold of its predecessors and moves from a somewhat flat, 2-D design to a 3-D one. I think it might have been a computer processor. If I’m right, this should be awesome.

I think the deal is that the old ones were like a square. The new one is like a cube. That’s like a ton of squares, all folded on top of each other, and interlaced to a major extent. If that is the case, then I’ll bet CPU speeds could take a massive shift, and increase by at least a factor of 5.

But what do I know? I only saw this thing mentioned once, I don’t remember where, and I could have the completely wrong idea about it.

But the possibility is just too cool to ignore…

It’s neat to think about getting a few bucks from the government. If you look at it one way, it’s like, “Free money! I’m going to spend it right away and do my part.” But if you are really afraid that economic turmoil will make things tight where you are, then you might do just the opposite, and save it.

What if the government giving away all that money will do exactly the wrong thing, and instead of stimulating the economy, starve it? What if everybody keeps their rebate in a safe place, and there ends up being less currency available than before?

Well, I guess with supply and demand, the value of the dollar could increase somewhat… But we’d probably just end up printing more. Hmm….

I used to think it was, but it isn’t.

Some people still try to argue it is.

Here’s why I don’t think nuclear power is clean: it produces toxic waste.

There. Simple, right? Sure, we store it away, hide it, save it for a rainy day, but that toxic sludge builds up and builds up. Just like greenhouse gas emissions build up.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology will produce water vapor. That’s it. That’s truly clean.

I remember hearing a few years ago that at the height of the Dot Com frenzy, people were becoming millionaires overnight left and right. The basic idea was that a lot of people were getting rich really fast. So where does that leave the rest of us?

I guess you could look at it and say the market was self-correcting, and that because of the Dot Com Crash, things eventually normalized. But what if there are still more rich people than usual? What if for some reason there are more wealthy people than ever before, and through no efforts on their part they’ve somehow changed the rules of the game?

What if having too many rich people means that there isn’t enough money left over for a solid economy?

…Nah…I don’t buy it…

There was an episode of “Seven Days” (time travel show from 1998-2001, I think) in which a neutron bomb was tested and produced a chain reaction that carried the organic devastation over the entire world. So ever living creature on the face of the planet was killed. Luckily, our heroes were underground at the time…

What I’m wondering is if there’s some kind of chain reaction that would spread worldwide, moving through matter, and eliminating radioactive properties. If this could be achieved, someone could disarm all nuclear weapons, right? Without radioactive material, a nuke can’t explode… I think…