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Turtle — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:14:25 GMT

I ate green beans today,
today I ate green beans.
So if I'm asked what I ate today,
I'll say carrots.
:D

Wow

RedTux — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:07:11 GMT

I gotta say, 1st and foremost, I freaking love this place.

I cannot express the amount of frustration I get in trying to share my ideas with the people I co-habitate with. In example, speaking with my mother, I try to explain the idea behind the illusion of time(as expressed through Special Relitivity), even using the most simple terms I can muster, all I get back is "Well I wouldn't want to go crazy trying to understand it". Likewise, I may be reading at some time or another and, upon finishing some facinating new chapter, attempt to relay the base idea to my girlfriend. Oh, she's very supportive, and does her best not to ruin my excited revelry as I chatter on about Quarks and Leptons, but about three minutes into my banter, I can see her eyes glaze over and her mind speed off to some other realm. I can't blame her, she's a smart girl, just not enough in the same manner as myself. I appreciate her audience none the less. My point here is that I finally have a place I can express my unadulterated excitement of Science! I mean holy crap! The other day I was sitting on the front porch with my roomate(the one person in this entire city who understands and shares my enthusiasm for learning, but whom differs slightly in field of intrest((he's into Chem, and wants to create things no one has seen before, while I am thoroughly engrossed in Cosmology/Particle Physics, and want to discover things not yet understood)), and who I can only stand to talk to for so long), when a passing Semi hauling a MRI trailer labored it's way up the hill leading past our place. I began to think about all the processes involved, all the forces being exerted, in order to pull that monster up the hill. "Hot damn!" I exclamed, "I f-ing love science!" This produced two reactions, the 1st, that of my roommate, was him jumping from his seat, shouting in agreement(he had apparently gone through the same thoughts at the same time as I). The 2nd, however, happens to be the most popular of the two, that being an either puzzled or even slightly alarmed stare, sometimes accompanied by comments ranging from confusion to apprehention(see:You're crazy!).

It is the 2nd reaction I have such a problem with. For a number of years, a question resided at the back of my mind, I observed that, after pouring a glass of soda and dropping a few ice cubes in, on contact with the ice, the soda excitedly began to fizz. Why it was this happened, was a subject I lazily toyed with from time to time. I realized that it was obviously the ice that caused the fizz, so logically it had to involve temperature. What piked my intrest was the actual process, what was going on to cause all the excitement from a decrease in temperature? It was actually something I pondered for an embarrassingly long time(years, ugh), due to me just being lazy. But sooner or later the answer came, as I'm sure many can easily understand, in an exhilarating eureka moment. The answer, I excitedly deduced, was Thermal Expansion/Contraction, namely the contraction part, the carbon dioxide in the soda was being ejected as the particles around it were cooling and thusly squeezing the gas out. I can't possibly describe the rush I got at that point. Which is exactly why I cannot understand such negative reactions to my enthusiasm toward Science & Knowledge.

So with this story, I hope to have communicated the immense amount of excitement, wonder, and just plain good feelings I have for joining this community. And with the warm welcomes I have already recieved, I can't help but to feel positively giddy.

I am absolutely euphoric.

The Other People

Pyrotex — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:07:40 GMT

You may have noticed my interest in Darwin's Theory of Evolution, given the large number of posts I have made on that subject. Probably the largest single source of "rep" I have been given, came from my evolution posts.

Having read soooo many books on that subject, evolution seems utterly obvious to me, even though the details of the theory are as difficult as "rocket science". I used to think that THIS was the reason so many folks thought evolution made no sense at all. If they just had the details explained to them well enough, in small bites, and they saw the inherent logic of it all, they would have an AHA! moment.

Wrong. :( The vast majority of the enemies of evolution do not have AHA! moments. In my mind, I have come to know them as The Other People.

Them as can get evolution, done already got it by the time they were out of high school. The Other People probably never will get it. In fact, they are profoundly committed to never getting it. This has nothing to do with evidence or logic.

The Other People are those who are committed to being "right". This can take many forms, but often it reflects their local culture, their upbringing, the way things ought to be, as taught them by their parents and teachers. Absolute loyalty to the "rightness" of their childhood. They may outgrow being "right" about Santa Claus, but they never seem to outgrow being "right" about anything else they inherited from provincial wisdom.

What makes the Other People problematic is not just their beliefs, but their righteous dismissal of Logic and Reason. Logic and Reason cannot be controlled, or bent, or fashioned into a likeness of one's cherished childhood beliefs. They're dangerous, because they can, theoretically, lead anywhere, even into that dread realm of things your parents warned you against. So, they have surrendered themselves willingly to a counterfeit Logic that always yields the answers passed from parent to child. The sterling proof of their logic is just this: does it always yield the "right" answers?

The Other People are committed to their own "rightness", of defending the beliefs of their parents and grandparents, of their favorite teachers and preachers. It is, from their viewpoint, a moral decision, not a reasonable one. They are determined to preserve their Culture (with a capital C). They are determined to be "right", and "rightness" is defined by the numbers of folks on their side.

They remind me of the New Yorker cartoon showing a number of surgeons around a patient in the operating room. One surgeon is saying, "all those who think the heart has four chambers, raise your hand."

As if the rightness or wrongness of evolution can be settled by a vote.

Is this thing on?

Turtle — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:41:19 GMT

Is this mike hot? Huh? Is this thing on? Don't want to pull a Jessee Jackson. :doh: Pssshhhhtttt....tap-tap-tap...testing....[whisper]if this mike isn't working in 30 seconds I'm gonna twist that pppssshhtht ...off[/whisper] testing 123...psshhhhtttt...

Hold on...darn cialis ain't workin' again....

Slayer of Bad Memes

Pyrotex — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:06:01 GMT

Hello.
Hmm. There's no echo in here.
Okay, this is my first blog entry.
This is also my first blog. Knowing not what to say, I will turn on my brain's random text generator.

This is Nelson Thompson, and I am a polio survivor. I say that because whenever anyone meets me, the first thing they see is the wheelchair. I acquired my first wheelchair at the age of five, due to Polio, which left me with one strong arm, two strong hands, a fully intact sensory nervous sytem and a servicable brain. I have spent the last 55+ years making that strong arm do the work of four limbs -- and making the wheelchair invisible. Yes, it can be done.

I am married to Gwendolyn, the most wonderful woman in the world. We share a small historic home in League City, Texas, with three cats: Harley, Meowski and Buddy Bear.

I have a BS degree in Physics from the University of Alabama. Class of 69, no less. :) I completed my Masters degree in Computer Science at Mississippi State University. But I grew tired of school, and took my first job out there in the "real world" -- with Texas Instruments near Dallas, Texas.

I grew up in a strict, Bible-thumping, fundementalist church in rural Alabama, believing in God and certain that I was destined one day to be a preacher who would lead the masses to righteousness. I made the mistake of reading the entire Bible straight through, several times. Woops. So much for "belief".

Through a bizarre series of unlikely events, I wound up in Houston, Texas, in 1980, working as a programmer on the Space Shuttle Simulators. Most fun I have ever had with my clothes on, no lie.

As a kid, I spent waaay too much time by myself, and so developed a lifelong habit of reading books by the truckload. Starting with Science Fiction and eventually graduating to Astronomy, Cosmology, History, Evolution, Psychology, Cognitive Theory, Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory, Paleontology, and Emergence. I like to cook.

As a kid, I looked around me at the ignorance, political chaos, social madness and lack of curiosity, and knew that one day, some day, I would live in a world of properly educated, intelligent, knowledgable, thoughtful human beings.

Boy, was I ever wrong. So now, I slay bad memes whenever I have the chance.

Arrival

paigetheoracle — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:04:15 GMT

The only way to arrive (be present) is to put the brakes on your life, rather than the accelerator (get out of here/ avoid noticing the details of where you are)

Life is the carrot that leads us forward - death, the stick that drives us reluctantly in the same direction as we try to avoid it.

If life is good we want to to stay and enjoy it - if it is bad we want to run away and abandon it

The difference between nostalgia and just returning to where you once lived, is seeing it anew (what's changed for the best and enjoying it) or noticing what was there and regreting the loss (life moving on).

Memory is concentration. It is focusing on something to create a clear image of it as forgetting is dispersing our attention and failure to be aware of it in the first place, is not focusing upon it at all.

The more interested in something you are, the more accurate you are about it (concentrated upon it, in all its details as boredom/ disinterest leads to general (little attention upon) or no knowledge of.

Sleeping is relaxing back 'into' as wakefulness is tensing back 'out of' (calm and fear/ elation and depression).

On the road again...

maikeru — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:56:49 GMT

I'm leaving on the first of many trips. This one will take me to California to visit relatives. I know I've been away and promised to be here more, but been busy again with 1st block of summer term which I finished. I had joined the UVU dance team, broke up with my ex-girlfriend again, and just about killed myself in the meantime with weird accidents. I have a strange life sometimes... I have the next 8 weeks for vacations, gardening, writing, and programming, so let's see what I can do with the time.

I have had more time to play around with my old terra preta and put different kinds of plants in it. I'm also restarting my garden. I have a bunch of seeds in a humidity chamber, waiting to spring forth after I come back. The old garden is being put to rest, and will probably find its way to the compost pile in the backyard. The earthworms will thank me.

Some new plants I'm trying in home-made terra preta include a banana tree and fig tree. After a week, both of these have responded with vigorous new growth and rapid increases in size. It's almost too bad I didn't have a couple of them to compare side by side in test trials between normal potting soil and terra preta. I may do this after I get back, because I want more greenery around the house.

This is what I have planned for the new herb garden, of course, all planted in terra preta:

- Spearmint and peppermint
- Italian and Greek oreganos
- Lavender
- Italian parsley
- Basils of all sorts
- Chives
- Green onions
- Thyme
- Marjoram

I have also had some really weird ideas for gardening and amusement in my room, to keep me stimulated while I spend hours and hours writing and programming. These include...

1. "Water garden"/"Aquaculture": Creating a relatively self-sustaining ecological system, where I can keep aquarium fish like guppies, goldfish, etc., algae (which will grow anyway), Daphnia ("water fleas," which would be food for the fish and keep the water clean of algae and bacteria), and aquatic plants or floating, potted plants (which keep the water clean too). For some reason, this idea won't leave me alone. I've read about hobbyists and enthusiasts doing aquaculture, water gardens, ponds, and raising fish...and I wondered if I could do it for cheap and actually make this work. I might research this more and run some cost calculations. This appeals to the nature lover and biologist in me. I used to keep "sea monkeys" (brine shrimp) as a kid and have fond memories. This is more complicated.

2. "Mug" gardening. The last couple months, I seem to be receiving a lot of gift mugs and buying cheap mugs from thrift shops. Mugs are about the same size as small pots, usually prettier, and can cost as little two quarters ($0.50 US). A normal plant pot costs me $10-20 US, and my budget has become pretty tight as the US economy slows and gasoline prices burn a hole in my wallet. I'm trying to take pleasure with the simple and small things in life. Maybe I can find the Zen in mug gardening. I want to grow small plants in cheap mugs, and they'll go on my windowsill to bask in the abundant sunlight. I'll fill these up with terra preta too.

Like I mentioned at the beginning of the blog post, I'll be in California for a few weeks. After I get back, I'll rest for a few days and start planning some trips to southern Utah and other Western states. I've gotten the urge to wander and visit far-away places. Hopefully I won't cook in the summer heat, especially in Zion or Bryce Canyon National Parks. I think those get up to 42-43 degrees C in July to August. As I get closer to these trips and plan them, I'll write about them too.

Take care, my friends, and safe travels!

Continued Education - 6/24/2008

TheBigDog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:21 GMT

Well, my leave from school officially ends today as I begin COM 425 - Communications in Organizations. I have enjoyed the break from the weekly deadlines of school and used the spare time to work on other important things in life. My classes are on a five week cycle, and the leave that I took doesn't add up to an even five weeks, so I am now with a totally new group of students. I think that additional change will add some nice variety to the weekly routine. I was really nice having the time off, but it will be even better when I am done.

Back to it!

Bill

An Atheists Message...

LJP07 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:03:28 GMT

Well, this is my first blog here on Hypography, and as a long lasting member of this forum, I thought it suit that I deliver a blog. One thing that comes to mind when writing a blog is an initial thought that overtakes your day or your week and imposes this on paper to the public, and my concerning issue would be Atheism and the existence of a God.

Firstly, the question arises of what is a God? I asked a Priest in Ireland this recently and replied that he did not know, he pondered for several minutes before arriving at this disappointing conclusion. My view was that God was an extrapolation of the senses almost like an "Emotion"...this would be an emotion which people think they gain a sense of comfort from and so if you attack this comfort, it's uncomfortable for them and is my reason why religious people find it difficult to succumb to a debate on the issue. Concluding, Man created God, God didn't create Man.

You also have to look at the vast array of Gods that have existed, whether they be monotheistic or polytheistic. You have the Abrahamic God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims...then Buddha, Sikhism, and the Greek and Roman Gods, you have Egyptian Gods like Osiris ( who also believe in Resurrection, a mimic of Jesus' tale ). With all these Gods in social circulation, you have to raise doubt upon the legitimacy of a superior God. As Richard Dawkins puts it, we're all atheists with regard to fairies, and if anyone questioned whether you had faith in a fairy, they would think you are crazy, the only difference between the fairy and God is that with God, you have millions of followers and it appears normal to have this belief and not-normal to believe otherwise.

Speaking of a superior God, Miracles are apparently performed and shared with the devout. Lourdes in France is a common location. Lets analyze the science of Miracles. There have been recorded 86 Miracles in Lourdes!! Millions visit each year since it was discovered, so the statistical chance of some of them becoming cured by placebo or by chance is very high, plus you never hear of amputated legs or serious disease like this being ever cured, has God got something against amputees?

The Resurrection has to be put into question, the Mayans, Aztecs and Egyptians all replicate the same story of the God being resurrected, this alone diminishes any legitimacy of the story. Many Bishops actually claim that the Virgin Birth Did Not occur, they believe that it is glorified however they do believe in the Resurrection. I find it funny how the Church "Cherry Pick", the parts they want to believe and the parts they don't want to believe. I also asked clergymen "Are all the stories in the Bible true and do you believe in Evolution?", the same response was achieved "No, only some of the stories are true and we do believe in Evolution"...this raised two questions for me:

1. Why are they contradicting the Book of Genesis?

2. Why are they Cherry Picking stories they want to believe and don't want to believe, what merits their decision as true and how do they know they are true?

Another point I agree with leading Atheists is the idea of Labeling Children. For example, it's not really fair to label a child a Christian, Muslim, or Jewish based on the parents because the child is too young to know what is right and wrong to believe in. This is especially a problem if you are unlucky enough to be born into a serious Muslim society where the penalty for apostasy is death or genital mutilation.

So the idea that a God can read your mind, create the Earth in 6 days 6000 years ago, forgive your sins and raise you from the dead puts things into serious questioning as to why people still believe. If it gives people comfort that's all well and good, but that doesn't make the existence of a God in any way True, it simply means you are living a deluded lie for the sake of fear of the harsh reality of life. While understanding the true functioning of the Universe is far my interesting and wonderful than any God ever manufactured by the human mind.

New stuff

freeztar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:33:37 GMT

The wedding is about 5.5 months away...kinda scary and exciting!

So, I'm suffering from insomnia right now and need to vent to relax perhaps...

It's 5:24 AM, where are all the Ozzies? :hihi:
(it should be afternoon for you guys right?) ;)

Anyhow...

Is it enough for one to uphold truth? Should one also give way to cultural morals?
Where do *you* draw that line?

I'm tired...why am I still awake!? Work in 3.5 hours!? :banghead:

who I would Vote for

wddycus — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:37:57 GMT

have been tracking this election from the very first day and most of the time I am a good judge of people. The more I listen to Obama the more I am going to vote for Clinton he sounds like a sob he try and talk over 95% of the people and that I do not like is a President he has to be able to talk to all the people. The way he push his pastor away after all the years he had been going to his church he knows what kind of a person he was he just gave him to the wolfs. I did not like him when he play the race card about when he said all his brother should vote for me because he is black what if Clinton had come out and told all white people should vote for her the news media would have had a field day with that. I have always been for civil rights but I am sorry to say I just cannot trust him not because he is black it is a felling I have. I have been right about all of our President as far back Kennedy you can take this to the Bank. I was so hoping that he would be the one to turn this Country around We have to have a change Bush Has really mess up my Country. Lets Give a women a chance this man has pretty well screw up my country it will probably take a women to clean house

Another day in paradise!

paigetheoracle — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:38:51 GMT

I'm becoming cynical in my old age but that is because I am getting nowhere fast.

I've tried writing blogs before (twice) and I think I'm going to end up doing with this one what I did with the other two - abandoning it out of disinterest because I'm not a diary person and never have been (My personal life is boring but my thoughts are where I live - hence my love of forums and interaction (dialogue, not monologue: I could never have written Hamlets soliloquy for instance).

Anyway before I bore both you and me to death - goodbye!

Establishing goals for mankind

Moontanman — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:07:21 GMT

I think it's time that the human race starts deciding what it wants to accomplish in the future. For far too long goals have been limited to individuals, groups, and rarely entities as large as countries.

Even when these small groups make future plans they are limited to a few years or at most decades. We as a species need to establish just what we want to make happen and point out a time line for this to happen. Some of the things I think the human race needs to do will have to be done in parallel with other things, some are long term and others are short term.

#1. We need to decide exactly how much of the Earth needs to be left wild and untouched. Once we have established a goal for this we can decide how much population control is necessary.

#2. Addressing pollution is a priority, pollution control is at the root of global warming, industrialization, energy production, natural resource exploitation and general standard of living for everyone.

#3. Reduction of the need for and size and scope of the military, weapons, weapon spending, widening the power of the United Nations (especially the need to intervene in natural disasters)

#4. Development of energy other than oil, gas and coal. Oil, Gas, and Coal, often known collectively as "fossil fuel". These resources should have been allocated to industrial feed stock long ago but instead we increasingly rely on them as the center of all our energy needs even though they are limited in both areas where they occur and in amounts. These fuels, especially coal, also release tons of radioactive waste into the air every year.

Solar, wind, wave, and geothermal power are good examples of clean energy but they are limited in where and how much they can supply the necessary energy to maintain and expand our standard of living.

We must embrace nuclear power. Yes I spoke the name of the ultimate evil, NUCLEAR, nuclear power has been both cursed and venerated ever since it was first developed.

The bad thing is that we have suppressed nuclear power to the point that we have failed to allow the advancement of the technology. Even new reactors are more like 1950's technology than anything modern. It's like damning air travel technology because we don't allow anyone to travel in anything but DC3's.

To really use nuclear power widely we need to use new technologies. Modern reactor designs are practically error proof and do not pose a danger to anyone. Really advanced reactor designs not only produce much less waste they produce waste that will become safe in a far shorter period of time than current reactor waste. Even better these new reactor designs actually use what we call nuclear waste as fuel. Even more advanced designs use fuels that cannot be perverted into nuclear bombs!

So a large amount of nuclear power backed up with as much solar, wind, wave and geothermal as possible is where we need to go.

So far these ideas have been short term things we should already be doing or at least starting. The most important goal is to decide whether we as a species intend to expand or to allow ourselves to slide into extinction.

If we wait too long to expand then expansion will be impossible. If we expand then we will be able to both save us and the Earth. So with this in mind lets explore the fate of humanity.

#5. Space exploration, to really justify the exploration of space the exploration must have a reason. The best reason of course is the quest for knowledge, such a quest is always a good thing but seeking knowledge for it's own sake is difficult to justify when people go hungry, the environment is being destroyed and people are suppressed by tyranny.

So another reason must be found or we should concentrate our last resources on bettering the plight of humans everywhere. Luckily for everyone space exploration provides not only knowledge but a source of all the things we need to allow the human race to expand without destroying the Earth in the process. Not only raw materials but the ability to manufacture things we cannot make in a gravity well, things that have the potential to revolutionize our entire civilization.

The resources of space have the potential to be the saving grace of our planet and our species. Exploitation of space resources is the first on our agenda of long term goals of the human race.

#6. Orbiting Space Colonies, to access resources in space it is necessary to have people living in space near the resources we plan to use. Orbiting space colonies are the best and most economical way to do this.

In the bargain we get not only resources but an insurance policy that will protect the human race from extinction by natural disasters we have no control over.

Eventually we can see thousands of space colonies containing billions of people living in conditions few can dream of today. Just as the people of today enjoy wealth that would stagger the kings of old people in space will enjoy similar gains in life style that cannot be supported on the Earth.

#7. Terra Forming other planets, in our solar system the only planet that could be Terra formed with reasonable efficiency would be Mars, it might take thousands of years but mars is the best choice for this idea.

No matter how great life in an orbiting colony is there will always be people who want to live on a planet. There are things we will want to take along that either cannot live in a reasonable sized space colony or need vast oceans to live and I think that taking the life of the Earth with us will be an important part of justifying expanding the human race.

#8. Interstellar colonization, if as many experts and I are correct in that complex life is very rare in the universe then not only will interstellar colonization allow the expansion of the human species this colonization will also allow us to spread the complex life of the earth to other stars and planets.

Since orbiting colony worlds will be the heart of all colonization we do not need planets to spread to the stars. Orbiting debris (asteroids, comets) will be all we need to expand.

Our own solar system will provide us with enough resources to live and expand for thousands if not millions of years so the idea of spreading complex life may well be the motivation and guiding principal of interstellar colonization.

We can spread life as we spread our selves and provide for the possibility of the evolution of other intelligent creatures long after we have passed on to other stars in other distant parts of the galaxy.

Thought for the day

paigetheoracle — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:44:22 GMT

I'm not sure what to say today but in future I want to use this spot to put down my observations on life, for good or ill and that may include stories in the papers, TV or elsewhere that sparks off an idea and I hope you enjoy it as reader(s)!*

*Hell, I know my ideas have always been as popular as a dose of flu but my only role in life seems to be, being a pain in the neck of certainty (my own and others, especially my brother and a cousin who now hates me with avengeance apparently because I took the Mickey out of him for going to Japan totally unprepared (and he's got a Japanese girlfriend!). I was going to go, to teach English, so learnt the language as best as I could and found as much about the culture as possible. He apparently thought they'd all speak English and didn't realize they urinated in the street, ate live octopus etc).

Importance of space colonies

Moontanman — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:25:18 GMT

Developing orbiting space colonies is important for several reasons. first and foremost is the idea of allowing mankind to avoid natural disasters on the Earth of a magnitude large enough to seriously impact the entire ecosystem of the earth.

Humans as a species have already been through the eye of the needle of mass extinction once. Sometime around 75,000 years ago the species Homo sapiens was nearly wiped out by an event so wide spread that somewhere in the neighborhood of only 2000 people survived! It was a very close call, in modern times most people would think the possibility of another disaster big enough to seriously challenge or place on planet Earth is impossible but in reality we are just a very small step away from the same fate as the dinosaurs.

We are fast approaching the possibility of being able to stave off an asteroid or cometary impact. But there are other possibilities we cannot stop or even influence in our favor.

A widespread lava outflow similar to the one that contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs is still a possibility and global warming, either man mad or natural could cause a mass outgassing of methane hydrates from the ocean and tundra areas of the Earth. Such an out gassing was responsible for the largest mass extinction to complex life on record.

Super volcanoes like the one currently under Yellowstone national park http://armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm could destroy most of North America and disrupt the ecosystem of the earth to an extent that would make world wide nuclear war look like a routine event.

Then of course there are man made disasters to contend with. Nuclear war, even a limited exchange by smaller countries could destroy the ozone layer resulting in a massive disruption of th Earths ecosystem. Then there is the possibility of man made or even natural plagues.

Just because none of these things have happened in recorded history doesn't mean they cannot happen again or even soon. Orbiting space colonies would be insurance against the human race disappearing forever.

Then there is the industrial applications of the exploitation of the resources known to exist in space. Stabilizing the Earths Ecosystem would be much easier if we stopped destroying the planet for the resources that allow or civilization to flourish.

Resources that are mined in space or on moons and asteroids are not that difficult to bring to the earth and materials that can be made in space that cannot be made on the earth have the potential to revolutionize our civilization in ways we can only guess at now. Zero Gee bearings, metal foam, super pure crystals, unique alloys. these things are more than valuable enough to justify industrialization of space.

Aneutronic fuels, aneutronic fusion is the only really safe form a nuclear power. The only place to find the helium three that would make this possible is in the regolith of airless space bodies, our own moon contains enough helium three to power or civilization for thousands of years with no radioactive waste at all.

These things are just the tip of the ice berg, no doubt many new and wonderful things Will be found once we start to exploit space and in doing so we will make saving the planet easier and longer lasting.