January, 2012Dr. Robert R. Brownlee WHERE ARE WE GOING?

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January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

WHERE ARE

WE GOING?

WELL, WHERE

HAVEWE BEEN?

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

126 Years Ago My Grandfathers homesteaded in Kansas

One of them planted this tree

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90 Years Ago My Grandfather and

Father

stopped farming with horses

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

78 Years Ago I loved reading Buck Rogers, 25th Century,

and dreamed what the world might be, and

what I might be

I bought the sub-title

• I was born 500years too soon!

January 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

Therefore, I Thought about space, but never worried about it.

However, my interest was always there

!

Who could have possibly guessed

That I would see men launched into space, and one day would receive

a telephone call from a man in space?

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56 Years Ago, I participated in a nuclear test that has been credited by some for launching a man-hole

cover into Space

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This happened prior

to the Russians launching Sputnik!

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30 Years Ago I became quite

interested in some Soviet Space Experiments

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Here are the results of one of their space launches, as seen from

Finland

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The Question Arose: What are they doing, and can we

understand it?

So we began some space experiments of our own to see

what was up!

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And Noctilucent Clouds became a research

project of ours

These are easily seen from orbit

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Now, to the Main Point!

SPACE

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AVACUUM

HAS SOME REALATTRACTIONS

(It Likes To Be Filled)

IN THE UNIVERSEThere are bits of mass

here and there

Each bit of mass is mostly space

So, the Universe is Mostly Space!

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If we are going to understand the

Universe,

We must understand space

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IS EMPTY SPACE EMPTY?

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NO!

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EVERY VOLUME OF “EMPTY” SPACE

HAS PASSING THROUGH IT

PHOTONS FROM EVERYWHERE!

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

It is Occupied By an Electromagnetic Field

And a Gravitational Field(and dark energy, and maybe strings, or membranes, or

things yet to be named)

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INFORMATION OF ALL KINDS IS THERE

INCLUDING THE HISTORY

OF THE UNIVERSE

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AND THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO GO

INTO SPACE

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EACH VOLUME OF SPACE NEEDS,

(URGENTLY)

A DETECTOR,A DATA PROCESSOR

AND A BRAIN, SOMEWHERE

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WE DO THIS IN A GREAT VARIETY OF

WAYS

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Putting Detectorsin Space is pretty

common nowadays

And data processors come cheap

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WHILE THE BRAIN CAN BE ON EARTH IF WE

CHOOSE

PUTTING A BRAIN IN SPACE IS SPECIAL

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REMEMBERA BRAIN IS

CONNECTED TO DETECTORS, AND IS

ITS OWN DATA PROCESSOR

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SO, PUTTING A BRAIN IN SPACE IS A

GREAT IDEA

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

ButDifficult

and Costly

(THE REAL PROBLEM IS TOILETS!)

Brains come with bodies

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January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

Let’s Take A Short Look At Launching Six

Men Into Space On November 23, 2002

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One of them is a long-time friend and colleague

DON PETTIT

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Endeavor on its way to the launch pad

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Any Time of

Day, It Is Beautiful

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Don always seems to be at the right place

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ISS as seen Dec 3, 2002

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As Seen Nowadays

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SOMETIMES, BRAINS CAN BE

ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE

and sometimes not

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And Don in space can Report On Many

Things He dreams up experiments!

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

The Solar System has dozens of

places to visit with profit

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The Moon

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Mars

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IO, a Jupiter Moon

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Comets are frequent, and

need attention!

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A Strong Argument Can Be Made That Intelligent Life is

Rare, even Exceedingly Rare

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Whereas In Days Of Yore Any Scientific Argument

Giving Man a Special Place Was Manifestly Wrong

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Nowadays, A Different Picture

Is Emerging

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Our Sun is Enormously Stable, Even If It Doesn’t Look It

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The Moon and The

Earth are Truly A

Special Duo

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Jupiter, As Big As A Planet Can Be

Without Becoming A Star, Protects the

Earth

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For Life To Form On

A Planet, It Takes A Very Special Solar System

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And A Lot More Time Than The Sun Is Old!

(This point it Debatable, but It Is My Carefully Considered Conclusion)

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

My Conclusion:

There Is A Lot of Life in Our Galaxy, But We Very Well May Be

Out In Front!

January, 2012 Dr. Robert R. Brownlee

Decades Ago

Los Alamos Developed A Nuclear Rocket

Engine To Go To Mars

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That Is What It Takes To Go To Another Solar

System!

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Dr. Eric Jones (of Los Alamos) Has Concluded That If Man Goes From

Solar System to Solar System Every 20

Generations

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The Entire Galaxy Can Be Colonized In Only 60

Million Years!

(An Eyeblink)

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Whatever One Makes of These Beliefs And Speculations, Aren’t

We Blessed to See Man Embark On His Space

Missions?

Well, we used to be!

Now to see an astronaut launched

We have to go to Kazakhstan

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So, in December, 2011

I went to Kazakhstanto see Mr. Pettit launched

again!

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There, his American guests talked with Don when he was in

quarantine

Watched the Soyuez on its way to the launch site

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Saw it being erected

And Launched!

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It was truly special to see a Soyuz Missile up close

Don will be in the ISS until May, 2012.

We’ll add information as necessary.

.

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So Americans are going into space

Is America?

No, we are only watching

We can watch Russia, the Europeans, the Japanese, and the Chinese

They have plansto go to the moon

• We do not.

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