<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks, Rod. A REALLY BIG picture. Judy and I went to a band concert this evening. The local brass band was playing at the band stand. Kids running around, the sun setting, etc.<br><br>One of their selections was 76 trombones, and I found myself trying to remember the words we wrote. My, we are a lot more timid and fearful than "back in the day"!<br><style type="text/css"> <!--
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<h1 class="western">I AM THE ONE
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><i>Tune: 76 Trombones </i></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I am the one set free to
embrace the world, I am the one compelled all to give. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I am the one condemned to
be ever sorrow filled and to die each moment that I live. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I am amazed my life is in
history, I am amazed this world's where I'm bound. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">I am amazed I'm one with
creation s family and in each the mystery is found.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The guardian of the world
for all eternity, living, living, with all who've gone before, </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The director of the world
in all its future, and the key history is waiting for. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The wiseman who can always
know his knowing, standing, standing ever in the fray. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3">The watchman who is always
on the stage in every single age, </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"> and moves a million
mountains every day.</font></p>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="rodrippel@cox.net" ymailto="mailto:rodrippel@cox.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rodrippel@cox.net">Rod Rippel</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 22, 2012 1:59 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="ctmuma@comcast.net" ymailto="mailto:ctmuma@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=ctmuma@comcast.net">Carl Muma</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="marionmuma@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:marionmuma@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=marionmuma@yahoo.com">Marion Muma</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="staley.pitts@cox.net" ymailto="mailto:staley.pitts@cox.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=staley.pitts@cox.net">Bill and
Audrey</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="herb.lawrence@att.net" ymailto="mailto:herb.lawrence@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=herb.lawrence@att.net">Herb Lawrence</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="jarip45@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:jarip45@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jarip45@verizon.net">Jeff Rippel</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="jkbdavis@netzero.com" ymailto="mailto:jkbdavis@netzero.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jkbdavis@netzero.com">jkbdavis@netzero.com</a> </div>
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<div>Hi All: I didn’t have any idea where this was going when I
started. Maybe you can tell me? I don’t think “enjoy” is quite
appropriate. Rod</div>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Speculations…</font></span></i><span style=""></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT:0.5in;MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Rod Rippel</font></span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><u><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Evidence of Sapient Caused
Advanced Planetary Extinctions (E.S.C.A.P.E.)</font></span></u><span style=""></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">I<span style=""> </span>Given enough
time evolution produces random complex life forms and intelligent
consciousness;</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">II<span style=""> </span>In the case
of Earth the time has been 4 <u>+</u> 0.5 billion years out of a total of 13 –
15 billion years since origin of the universe;</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">III<span style=""> </span>Tracking
of observable planetary systems should be initiated to log evidence of sapient
caused destruction of planetary scale, i.e., frequency of novas, changes in
light emission or radiation signals.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">IV<span style=""> </span>Hypothesis
– If populations of sapient beings in other systems follows a similar pattern to
Earth’s <i style="">homo sapiens</i>, then a very
rapid acceleration in population will occur in a very short interval at some
point 3 to 5 billion years out from origin.<span style=""> </span>If the stress on planetary resources
that results is similar to <i style="">homo
sapien’s</i> experience, catastrophic extinctions should begin taking place
throughout the universe during the next cosmic time period.<span style=""> </span>However, it would be highly unlikely
that any two sapient species would evolve at the same rate or develop cultures
and societies at similar rates.<span style=""> </span>We
should expect a rather wide spectrum of evolving towards
ESCAPE.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">V<span style=""> </span>Stresses in
sapient communities (planets) could result in an increased frequency of
Spectacular Cosmic Events (SCE) noticeable from, our planet.<span style=""> </span>This assumes 1) a large number of
sapient occupied systems exist, and 2) a sizable fraction of those systems are
unable to cope with or find solutions to their self-destruction.<span style=""> </span>Violent cosmic events (SCE) have already
been observed throughout the universe.<span style="">
</span>This provides some background from which accelerated events could be
measured until refined measurements can be developed which could differentiate
self-inflicted SCE from otherwise ‘natural’ events.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">VI<span style=""> </span>Possible
reactions by sapient beings to the pending collapse of their planet system could
include violent struggles to control dwindling resources and ultimate resort to
chain reaction forces capable of producing cosmic signals.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">VII<span style=""> </span>At present
on Earth we are seeing overall stress on several levels.<span style=""> </span>Most important are those related to
global warming and the finite supply of water available to a rapidly growing
planet population.<span style=""> </span>Struggles are
already evident over fossil fuels and energy sources which contribute to the
acceleration of climate change and especially to the level of CO2 in the
atmosphere (also a finite resource of the planet).<span style=""> </span>Water will rapidly become more expensive
than fossil fuels.<span style=""> </span>Food shortages
will become a way of life.<span style=""> </span>Air
pollution will accompany global warming hand-in-hand.<span style=""> </span>We will probably arrive at the maximum
number of people that the finite planet can sustain sometime in this century
unless the imperative to control population is obeyed.<span style=""> </span>Even so, the quality of life for a vast
majority will be almost unlivable compared to what even the least advantaged of
today enjoy.<span style=""> </span>The stresses
accompanying the kind of disparity to be experienced in the near to intermediate
future are almost unimaginable.<span style="">
</span>This portends increased levels of terrorism, wars, famine, and violence
for the majority of earth’s population as the powerful attempt to hold on to
their resource access.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">VIII<span style="">
</span>Indicatves:</font></span></p>
<ol style="MARGIN-TOP:0in;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0in;" type="1">
<li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Immediate reduction of CO2 emissions to global sustaining
max.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Global
zero population growth rate.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Planetary fresh water distribution system.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Global
rationing of fossil fuel use.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Alternate energy development.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Planetary polity research.</font></span>
</li><li style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1792936106MsoNormal"><span style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS">Non-automobile culture (walking).</font></span></li></ol>
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