FOLLOWING
THE MONKEY-PATH
the
alien wars
We
travel through a cosmic shooting-gallery. Earth is constantly under
threat. Satellites and space-telescopes are scanning the space around
us, for possible threatening meteorites, comets or meteorshowers.
Impact on Earth of an asteroid causes local devastation, not
worldwide. Why, because asteroids, like so many space-objects, are
hollow, not massive rock.
In
recent years space-debris is becoming a problem. The rockets,
satellites, spy-platforms and space-systems run out of energy and
start deteriorating. Slowly they fall towards their point of origin.
Earth.
American
Army-personell function as retrieval-units on a global scale. First
visible active at Roswell (1947), from then on everywhere (Aztec,
Kecksburg, Mexico, even Russia).
Why
is retrieval so important, every major army in the world has units
for this purpose. Shortly after World War 2, Nazi-technology was
confiscated, scientists and technicians (all Nazi-Party members, some
SS) were arrested and deported.
Some
to Russia, some to Britain, but most went to the United States. This
was project Paperclip. The more than 1000 Germans were put to work on
several (secret) projects. They got the possibility to perfect the
rockets, cruise-missiles, weapons and technology, they had no time to
finish, because of the deffeat of Nazi-Germany.
Oberth
and von Braun made it possible to go to the Moon, oh so they say.
Never
mind. We live in a cosmic shooting-gallery. But it is not an asteroid
or a meteor I am worried about, it is the shooting-gallery around me.
Enough ammunition so to see. Everybody keeps on emptying their
machine-guns at stones and debris, firing your weapon in the sky is
for fun and out of excitement.
The
same random-violence has become a global phenomenon.
The
chance of running into trouble has been much lower in the past. But
higher as well. Just remember World War 1 and 2.
Number
3 is knocking at the door. Don't open.
Be
Peace.
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