Planet Shopping

It's not like I didn't have to go through orientation when I went to test for a job at the nuclear power plant down in Southport, North Carolina. There were safety meeting where they explained that radiation from these elements don't slow down for or even recognize yo' body is standing there. They say humans can ignore that tiny little holes are being machine-gunned through your body at first. Through bone, blood, tissue of every sort. That's what happens when a body is exposed to radiation. If the source of radiation or the human body one or the other isn't removed from each other's presence, it's gonna cook your flesh like you were in a microwave oven, and the stronger the source of radiation is, the faster the flesh will melt off your riddled bones. It's considered an unlovely demise.

That's what I was thinking about yesterday when the radiologist took multiple x-rays from multiple angles of my hands, elbows, shoulders, knees, and hips. Tiny little holes that has to be repaired by an alert immune system. Then I come home, and this morning when I should be recuperating from being shot full of tiny little holes, I imbibed six pills of methotrexate which weakens the immune system. They're trying to kill me so there will be some social security funds left to pay to their generation.

I wanna live to see China start making Beijing the hub of the Asian and European continents. If they're so big and rich they oughta take over the responsibility of being policing the world, and let the American taxpayer start putting his own money into his own pocket, or at least into mine. China can drive to just about anywhere in the world but the Western Hemisphere continents and Australia. Africa is a lot closer to them than to us. Let China settle their petty quarrels. They're right next door to all those Muslim countries. Let China take on al Qaeda and the Taliban. They can drive there from China at less expense. They have billions of people. Just send a hundred million or so to every country that ends in "stan" and that will be the end of that.

If they told a hundred million raving communist Chinese devotees to go to Italy and live off the land there, and they would support them. It wouldn't be long before there wasn't a blade of grass left on the entire peninsula despite the huge piles of human shit steaming on every street corner and oozing off into the Mediterranean on both sides like lava flows. Now, just what the hell could the Italian government or the Pope do about that. They'd run outta bullets and crucifixes first, and probably start holding mass in Mandarin. No blame.

It's a matter of roads. Roads, roads, roads. I predict that it won't be long, relatively, before there is an engineered train track from Beijing to Berlin, with spur tracks going to every capital in Eurasia. Unless some plague rearranges the populations of the Earth, that's the way it's gonna be. It wouldn't surprise me if these sucker drill and hole straight through the center of the Earth and install a big elevator.

China built a supertrain railroad to Lhasa, Tibet. An air-conditioned supertrain that goes straight to the top of the world. They could build a track like that straight to Kabul, and send tens of millions of people to occupy Afghanistan in days without any weapons at all. Just instruct them to go live there, and if they managed to stay five years they'd give the the land they lived on.

It just wouldn't be that hard to believe if you watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing. Their ability to micromanage large numbers of people in events that required great precision astounded me, and that was over television halfway around the world. It wouldn't be much of a challenge to them to build a railway to Kabul that was level from one end to the other.

I'm imagining this huge machine reminiscent of the ones they built to dig the Chunnel between England and France. I don't have a clue what it might have to look like, but it would have these whirling blades that ground through everything in front of it including mountains. Political borders don't work so good if there are huge roads built for people to travel in and out of some place.

I encountered a story somehow about something that happened in South America in one of the countries that straddle the Andes Mountains. There were apparently vast areas of rich farm land on the eastern side of the Andes that was part of the country in question, but was sort of sheltered by the rainforest of the Amazon jungles from the populations of Brasil.

The people who monitor such things found out why that rich land wasn't being farmed, when an American oil company built a high quality graded road to the drilling area to bring supplies in and pump the oil out. Squatters from the more highly populated country of origin flooded this area from the Western side of the Andes to claim some of the land as their own. They just wouldn't take a chance without a good road in and out of that area across the Andes.

I think the world will run out of potable water long before they run out of land to grow food on. Fungi only grow mushrooms to spread their spores because they've eaten themselves out of house and home in the system they become parasites upon. Mushroom clouds associated with the advent of nuclear weapons might metaphorically serve as warnings that we've about eaten what we can from this particular planet. They're trying to find another planet for "life" to eat as fast as they can. It seems obvious to just about anybody that the jig is almost up, and Earth will join the list to follow Atlantis. ;-)