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Earth is doomed, no matter what.  If we are melting from the inside out, it isn’t gonna get better unless we have a population decrease, and the Moon needs to be extended further away from us for a while to stop the “push-pull” of gravity.
The good news is, it won’t happen in our lifetime.  But, everything is speeding up. So I wonder how much hotter will it get, and how long until the Earth’s surface becomes pliable, like warm taffy!?
Gees, no matter what, it’s “doom and gloom” we’re heading for!
Have a good day, I appreciate your thoughts.
If our planet is a zoo for aliens to visit, or a food source for aliens, or a game preserve for alien sportsmen, or maybe some other kind of alien endeavor, then I’d expect them to manage the place better than it’s presently being managed.  Maybe, instead, it’s a psychiatric research facility for the observation and study of behavioral disorders.
The Moon is mysterious.  Why are all of the craters circular?  Why aren’t some of them ovals?  Why do they have approximately convex bottoms that conform to the curvature of the Lunar surface?  Why aren’t they shaped like Meteor Crater, in Arizona?  Why are so many of them not as deep as their diameters would suggest?  Is it possible that the Moon is a manufactured hollow sphere of extremely hard material, covered with some rocks and dirt?

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Smitten With Embarrassment Department
(Seldom Used)
Sam Aurelius Milam III
In a recent telephone conversation, I got into a political rant and made various inflammatory statements.  I try not to do that kind of thing but I was in a frustrated mood and I just ranted for a while.  One of the statements was the suggestion that assassination should be viewed as a legitimate way to remove an elected official from office.  The statement is inconsistent with my beliefs.  I can’t oppose capital punishment and then advocate assassination.  There might be a few exceptions, like the attempt to assassinate Hitler but, in general, assassination is a bad idea.  I don’t advocate it.
If I’d been trying to have a normal conversation, instead of ranting, then I wouldn’t have made any of the statements, all of which I regret, and for which I hereby apologize.  That’s why I’m a writer, not a speaker.  When I write something, I can think about it for a while, and then do some editing before I publish it.  I’m not good at editing my spoken statements.  Sometimes I say things that I don’t mean.
The disconcerting part of this situation, the part that has me really worried, is that the telephone conversation was with a prisoner, and those conversations are recorded.  That makes my statements not just inconsistent with my normal beliefs, but also dangerous.  Given the recent spate of assignation attempts, for example, somebody in the prison system is likely take the statements seriously and pass them on to somebody else.  So, if my newsletter disappears sometime during the next few months, that might be the reason.  Either way, in prison or not, I’m smitten with embarrassment.  If I end up in prison, then I’ll also be smitten with remorse.

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They Seem to Be
Sam Aurelius Milam III
From October of 1996 to October of 2003, I lived on a farm in Idaho.  The farm was located in a portion of the Snake River flood plain.  When the river flooded in 1997, the house was ruined.  I persuaded the owner to have the replacement house elevated about eight or so feet above ground level.  When the local people saw what we were doing, they seemed to think that we were crazy.  They all put their new houses in exactly the same locations as before, right down at ground level.  While we were engaged in that project, the manager of the county planning and zoning commission came out for a visit.  While he was nosing around near where I was working on the foundation, I heard him mutter to himself, “I wish I could get everybody to do it this way.”  Later, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers had a survey team in the area.  The team leader stopped in for a short visit and told the owner that, even if the Palisades Reservoir Dam failed when the reservoir was full, the house would still be above the flood level.
One day, while I was waiting in line at the local convenience store, behind a crusty old farmer, I heard him morosely comment to the cashier that he’d been burning his field the other day and had burned down his house again.  Again?
Lately, I’ve been seeing reports about entire communities being burned to the ground, because of grass or forest fires.  I haven’t seen much of an indication that people are replacing their destroyed houses with fireproof houses.  I’ve also seen reports of entire communities being destroyed by floods.  I haven’t noticed many people elevating their new houses above flood level, like we did at the farm.  Are people really that stupid?

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