Saturday 11th April, the Independent newspaper’s New York correspondent reported that ‘Astronauts who went further into space than any other humans have returned to Earth after a dramatic re-entry and splashdown near San Diego. All four will become instant space celebrities and help humans understand their existence. For two, however, their mission took on a special journey as they became the first Black man and first woman to go to the moon.’
Mmm… From the Logical perspective, this is all very problematic. Where to start? Perhaps in unfolding order, because this is all so very illogical. To return to Earth in a dramatic re-entry, this is merely lucky given how many times the Artemis II ‘mission’ was delayed from serious technical faults. Technical faults in an old Morris Minor were solved by a man in a workshop looking in various drawers for the right screw size, and sorting it there and then. The exciting dramatic re-entry could have been the opposite of a dramatic death. A splashdown from a spacecraft is not fair in the stress caused to fish and whales and seagulls whose brains have remained, and will remain, in Reality.
What is an instant space celebrity? Is that why they went on the mission, to become a celebrity and to have hours of air time describing their emotions as they disappeared behind the Moon, and came round again? Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford (the once heavyweight centre of knowledge for 100s of years) Chris Lintott, told the BBC, “The value of the images coming back from Artemis and its crew is artistic, not scientific.” So is Prof. Lintott changing Departments at the (once) venerable University of Oxford, into Art & Digital Design, and will the artistic images sent back by the crew be nominated for the big art prizes of the world?
This blog holds in great interest the knowledge from the pre-Socratics of Miletus, who knew a very great deal about astronomy a long time before western knowledge thinks it began, and when the humans had their feet on the ground with the eyes looking upwards, and life was not luxurious enough to think human existence was anything other than what it is (and still is, looking from Logic). Which is outwith any human ken (in latitude 55′-56’N talk). In plain English, that means irrelevant to waste time thinking about.
Alas the totalitarian social sciences have got a foot in the spacecraft door and achieved their highest and further ever measurement, now of melanin level in the skin and sex, with melanin given a capital ‘B’. The female was not given a capital ‘W’, nor the two white males (whatever white means), given a capital ‘W’. The social scientists have triumphed. How long before an autistic person is rounded up to go on Artemis III? A person who uses a wheelchair? In the name of inclusion a menopausal woman, to show the white male dominated realms of science have been smashed?
So after all the false starts, the millions and billions spent to get those beautiful artistic images, what is the next step for mankind? Between 1968-1972 the American Apollo mission resulted in 12 astronauts (humans in spacesuits) physically standing on the surface of the Moon, and this is put under knowledge, not art. Artemis III has already been stated to not be contemplating a human actually on the Moon, but Artemis IV is the intended human on the Moon, with the old fashioned can by then kicked so far down the old fashioned road that it never needs to be proved.
What is the next step or steps for mankind? Where are we going (in modern parlance)? What is it all about? Just like the public sector of the ‘UK’ which is so completely uncountable, modern scientific knowledge is following the same course and economy, resources, and ‘individual centred’ both Illogical and completely crazy. Is this the furthest western human behaviour has ever travelled from common sense?
Leave a Reply