I'd rather be sleeping... but, whirling brain syndrome this early a.m. (its about 4:30)

A kind of chaotic chain of postulated connections this morning as in: why the 40Th anniversary of Apollo, yet such a low grade effort by our society to return to space for half a lifetime... only now beginning to renew the effort...

Yesterday, read an article about the benefits of cold-soaking aluminum, steel and plastic parts at -300 F, causes the atomic structure to re-arrange resulting in hardening and toughening (when done correctly) the material in question (if this isn't a logical space industry app, I don't know what is...)

And yet, during that 40 years we had no difficulty funding a multitude of wars, open or covert and meddling in the internal affairs of a long list of countries for dubious gains and ideological justifications that appeared plausible in the news of the day, but retroactively seem ludicrous, or ill founded, or just plain dis-honest manipulations by the clique in power at that moment.
The parallels to the current wastes in Afghanistan and Iraq seem a perpetuation of this mentality ( frootloop president hastily starts a war, mostly with the wrong country -it takes on a life of its own and is still going...?!) And if all the Taliban are slaughtered in the next few years, the world will still not be a safe place, for remember - our meddling created the conditions that started the Taliban to begin with...

...And much of this foolishness stems from peoples unwillingness to act with maturity, to quit relying on gods, devils, or doctrine to back up thier decisions, to stand on your own feeble paws and face that its a big hostile universe.

All the burning incense, chanting mantras, or slaughtering various groups is not any kind of answer, and in the end leaves more reasons for seperation and conflict than you started with. As a species we MUST grow up and face the future.