Explanatory Notes

The blog has been hacked. I've been writing books for the past several months. I'm still fixing some of the stuff. I've deleted links. Feel free to contact me. I hope no one is offended.

I write serious stuff. Microbes really live in Europa. I'll be at the Decatur Book Festival.

And Ham really doesn't run this blog.

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New! EUROPA, ENCELADUS, BEYOND.

Decatur Book Festival

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Preview of EUROPA, ENCELADUS, BEYOND

What lives in Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus? Do microbes or larger aquatic creatures inhabit the waters of these moons? With Jupiter about a year away, when will humanity brave the task of searching for life in Europa? Will it be confirmed? What technologies are available?

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Wade Hobbs studied in the George Gamow Department of Physics at George Washington University. After five years in the patent field, he published Amazon Kindle Bestseller "Question Answered." National Public Radio, USA Today, and the American Institute of Physics have carried his work.

Debut of WE IMAGINE

WE IMAGINE (2014) is now available. Find out why I conclude that larger aquatic life must live beyond earth.

Excerpt from WE IMAGINE (2014)

We Imagine

 

We imagine a large portion of empty space, so far removed from stars and other appreciable masses, that we have before us approximately the conditions required by the fundamental law of Galilei. It is then possible to choose a Galileian reference-body for this part of space (world), relative to which points at rest remain at rest and points in motion continue permanently in uniform rectilinear motion. As reference-body let us imagine a spacious chest resembling a room with an observer inside who is equipped with apparatus. Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. He must fasten himself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause him to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room. (Theory of Relativity, Einstein)

Just as Einstein and others could predict the effects of near-zero gravity, we can predict that larger aquatic life lives outside earth.
 
That's right. It may seem like a bold statement, but it must be accurate. Why?
 
Let's analyze the first half of the statement. In 1916, Einstein could predict "weightlessness" in space. Briefly, he could predict that astronauts would float in the ship. Other scientists could do this as well based on classical mechanics. They didn't need to travel into space for physical confirmation.
 
Today, we can predict that larger aquatic life must live in places beyond the earth's atmosphere. We've investigated only eight planets. We've found at least one huge body of saltwater, Europa. Earth holds oceans. Let's ignore temporarily the other bodies that hold saltwater, Enceladus, Ganymede, and Callisto.

The universe holds innumerable stars. If each star holds on average two large bodies of saltwater, the universe must hold countless bodies of saltwater. Let's take one trillion as a minimum estimate of the number of stars. Accordingly, I estimate the universe holds at least two trillion large bodies of saltwater. Of two trillion possibilities, larger aquatic life probably developed in one of these large bodies of saltwater.

Larger aquatic life must live in waters beyond earth.    

 

Ham tries time travel

Dude, I'm going for time travel...

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Thanks to the guy in Kennesaw who bought QUESTION ANSWERED the other day...

More from Ham

And as I came down I could see sharks. Not that I'm afraid of sharks. I'm not, of course. But sharks were not in the plan. Check the itinerary, I thought. I must have landed on him. The way NASA treats its astronauts isn't the best. I don't need this, I thought. I'm a chimp. I'm in the middle of the Atlantic ... or Pacific Ocean. Not highly relevant considering there's a shark outside, I thought. Leave this to the astronauts. When I need THIS I'll let you know. I had it going in Hollywood. Hot babes, everything.

Ham the Superchimp Speaks

When your up there, sailing above the world, looking down on all the other chimps... You have this feeling. This euphoric feeling. It was glorious. I could see the oceans. Of course, I guess all my fans knew that. But I suppose people don't know that I graduated Columbia. That's right. Not every chimp has a PhD from Columbia. Anyway, when I was in the rocket, I could see the bathyalic regions. Wonderful. Nothing like it. Few chimps have ever seen that. Splendid.

HAM

Ham Speaks

Call my lawyer. Hey...

Old Book on Electric Vehicles and Horseless Carriages

Excerpt from KNOWN (Kindle, 2013)

The resilient microbe

Some microbes are tough. In one experiment, they survived the vacuum of space for over five years. American space agency scientists put subtilis spores in the presence of glucose on the Long Duration Exposure Facility, a large, open structure. Engineers launched the structure into space. Astonishingly, eighty percent of the spores survived!

As mentioned, bacteria survived for over two and a half years in a camera left on the moon.

In another experiment, another microbe called a tardigrade survived space’s vacuum for ten days. The 2007 experiment confirmed that some microbes, called extremophiles, can survive the vacuum.

Life is resilient, and extremophiles confirm that point. Some survive space. Other extremophiles live thousands of meters below Antarctica’s surface. Many scientists believe that, if life can survive those extreme conditions, it must also survive other conditions in the Solar System. If an extremophile can survive thousands of meters below the surface of Antarctica, scientists reason, extremophiles might survive in Europa’s waters.

So the possibility that life lives outside Earth increases.

Copyright, 2013. Wade Hobbs

Let Us Change Our Habit of Thought

Let us change our habit of thought. Pardon me for borrowing a line from Einstein, truly one of the greatest thinkers of all time. See my page for Astrobiology, jeans, and more... Oops! "Exotic Oxygen" got hacked.

BOOK SIGNING

Main Street Pharmacy, November 29, 2013, Day After Thanksgiving, midday.

OXYGEN

I think oxygen should be FREE in space, and vessels should be obligated to help others. Of course, people aren't obligated to die while saving others.

Oxygen Trading

Oxygen trading would be useful. Europa and Enceladus hold abundand oxygen. Earth's cities could use some oxygen. Why not build ships that could travel to Europa and Enceladus, harvest exotic oxygen, and return to Earth? That would be good work for adventurous sailors! Why not?

Don't blame me...

Don't blame me when they drop drop drop the broccoli. _ _ \ /

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Here's an excerpt from "NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspective…(Kindle Edition)" - "After considerable discussion in the wake of he Soviet launch of Sputnik, in the spring of 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that a bill be drafted to create a civilian space agency for the United States..." Looks like an excellent read!!

The Appalachians

God is quite a painter. Have a look at the Appalachians.

An Effete Gentleman

The French are being effete today. I'm trying to link to Jules Verne's FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. It's on Google Books. You should read it. He was prophetic.

JULES VERNE

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One Person's Opinion

In the United States, we have a problem with our prisons. In my opinion, we might try releasing some of the prisoners into space. I'd ask serious felons if they'd like to try exploring space. If they consent, I'd offer them the opportunity to go.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MERRY CHRISTMAS

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JUST COUNT

Wade speaks to Ham: Ham, what do the numbers 2-4-5-10 mean to you? Ham speaks to Wade: I'm thinking about it.

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Explanatory Note on this Blog

Explanatory note on this blog: I present my book, QUESTION ANSWERED. I have a laugh with Ham the Space Chimp. I present ads from Amazon.

Ham Critiques Wade's First Book

Ham: Wade, I know this may come as something of a surprise, but I've decided to give you a good review.

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The Safest Place

The safest place on this earth is going to be where electronics are not. (I wrote it that way because I wrote it that way.) You can figure that out, you can figure it out. You can't figure it out, you can't figure it out.

A New Word

Ham: That's a good word, Wade.

Wade: Thanks, Ham.

Just Having Fun

Wade: Ham, I happen to be an accomplished writer.

Ham: Yeah, Right kid.

Wade: Try this out.
"...hues of orange, red
and green...

green ambers of gold
orange, a bit of
wood for the day, and
bright orange for the night.
The sun glows on a mountain,
a leaf falls, what do I
know? Maybe it's a cherry tree --
the red one. A red stop sign
against a grren pine
with pine straw in it.
The wind blows through the
needles of the pine tree, and they try to pronounce it.
Vlzbfaute... Yes, that's what
the needles of the pine tree do.

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they cry out...

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A golden leaf sails
into the wind. She cries,

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Purple snow on
a yellow day past...

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A tornado crying through the
yellow leaves
and more golden
leaves flying higher, crying

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More Laughs with Ham

Wade: OK, Ham, how do you pronounce this word? Vlzbfaute.

Ham: I didn't learn that at Harvard.

Wade: I know you didn't learn that at Harvard. Try it.

Ham: I... I... I don't know...

More From Ham the Space Chimp

Ham: Wade.

Wade: Ham.

Ham: You don't h-a-v-e it Wade.

Wade: Ham shut up.

Excerpt From Jules Verne

An excerpt from Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (1865) follows. It's astonishing! Verne predicted accurately a number of things about the 1960's moon trips. And he wrote the book for young people!

I'll present more later.

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

CHAPTER I

THE GUN CLUB

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.  It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed amongst that nation of ship owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics.  Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point: nevertheless, they quickly rivalled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.

But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.

An Age of Exploration... Continued

Read this excerpt. (Find more on Google-Books - "Columbus and Columbia, by James Blaine et al., 1892)



THE TWO GREATEST SONS OF ITALY

The same "time spirit" which set one Italian at the head of Europe in point of art and learning, set another Italian at the head of the world in bold speculation regarding the unknown. The same Italy and the same year of our Lord that bore Lorenzo to the gates of farewell, flung wide open the gates of welcome in another hemisphere to a man who, all unwittingly, planted with his flag-staff the seeds of the greatest republic this planet has yet known. What the restrictions of time and place had never permitted even to the dreams of the one lofty mind, that, the equally lofty but utterly different aspirations of the other made possible -- a colossal republic whose foundation-stone is Liberty constitutionally organized by the popular will adequately educated and legally expressed.

On April 8 1492, at the early age of forty-three Lorenzo left his so called republic to crumble into swift ruin and passed into the unknown world. On the third of August, of the same year, Christopher Columbus set sail for a world which to him was far more problematical, more consciously unknown than, in that day of ecclesiastical faith, was the spiritual world to his great contemporary.

Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa, discovered America in 1492 Thus we were taught in the trustful days of childhood, and though modern research, whose scientific motto seems to be "Whenever you find a fact challenge it," has had its tilt at every item in the lesson, it remains after the fray as before it, practically true that Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa and discovered America in 1492. It may indeed prove that the shabby little house, well inscribed in Cogoleto, monumentally honored, fifteen miles out from Genoa, and not Genoa itself, is the true birth place of Columbus...

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In the Shadow of the Moon

Ham Reviews History

Ham: I led space exploration.

Wade: I'm aware of that, Ham.

Ham: I led humanity.

Wade: I know.

Ham: You don't pay me enough.

READ ABOUT NEWTON... HIS WINDMILL WAS POWERED BY A MOUSE... GET ASTRONOMICA

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Question Answered - Republication

Tuesday, July 24, 2012
New E-book - Question Answered

The Ancient Greeks pondered the question. Does life live beyond Earth?

With style and wit, Wade Hobbs explains that other life lives in the cosmos. He proves statistically that microbes live in Jupiter’s moon Europa. That moon holds over twice as much saltwater as Earth. The saltwater environment is essentially the same whether on Earth or Europa. Microbes see the same thing.

Despite traditional notions, Earth and Europa aren’t entirely separate worlds. They come from the same planetary nebula. Hobbs uses these observations to formally prove for the first time that life must live in Europa’s waters, just as it lives in Earth’s seas.

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LEGGINGS

Gravity Wave Breakfast

Gravity Waves

Gravity waves affect every observation. Starlight moves through spacetime. Gravity waves change spacetime itself. Small waves change observations only slightly but big waves make big changes.

The changes may not be noticable but gravity waves affect every observation.

For example, a black hole 100,000 light years away changes spacetime. As it moves through spacetime, it causes gravity waves. Bigger black holes, of course, cause bigger waves. Photons follow spacetime. So distant starlight beyond the black hole travels along altered spacetime.

Smoke that for breakfast.

LIGO confirmed gravity waves. LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravity-waves Observatory. Einstein's Theory of Relativity predicts gravity waves.

What a wonderful world Euclid offered! If only the physical world was that simple! Euclid's geometry, with simplified x, y, and z axes, idealizes matters. Mathematicians hasten back to Euclid's playground.

But the universe differs from Euclid's ideal. The universe exists in many dimensions. Physicists know that gravity waves abound. Waves may move along the x axis. They may move along the y and z axes, too. But they may move along other axes!

It's a complex world.

Gravity waves may explain inconsistencies between observatories. For example, astronomers in America, China, Arabia, and Europe may attempt to observe something. When observations differ, gravity waves are one possible explanation.

For example, an Arabian astronomer observes something in the year 1700. In 1800, a Chinese astronomer attempts the same observation. Their observations differ. The difference may be due to instrumentation differences or a change in the event. But gravity waves may cause the differing observations.

Gravity waves alter spacetime. Over a century, waves might alter spacetime dramatically. In the example, the Chinese astronomer may have exactly the same instrumentation. The event may continue in exactly the same manner as it did in 1700. But if gravity waves alter spacetime dramatically, the Chinese observations differ dramatically.

Gravity waves imply job security for astronomers.


Copyright, 2013. Wade Hobbs, Jr.

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Ham's in Charge

We're turning this blog into a commercial #%##*!#!. Ham's in charge.

Excerpt from Enceladus!

What follows is an excerpt from Enceladus!

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Dude. I do not know.

Do I look like I know everything?

Will It Work in Space?

Rain Cap for the Advanced-Minded

Now, you're probably wondering what's the business, so to speak, with ENCELADUS! We followed the water. Now we are trying - TRYING - to find microbes in Enceladus' plumes. Follow the heat. Use your handy-dandy infrared instrument and try to detect minute variations in energy in the ice crystals. Of course, you'll find a description of the proposed technique in ENCELADUS! (on Amazon Kindle, Kobo, or Scribd). Remember, this info is cheap or free. Return the favor.

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Seven Billion People On The Move

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Anniversary of Moon Trip. Ham and Wade Continue Arguing.

Wade: Ham I understand your position.
Ham: I don't think you do.
Wade: Believe me, space chimp, I do.
Ham: You see Wade, in addition to having an IQ of 4, you don't seem to understand history. 44 years ago, U.S. Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were on their way to the moon. It was historic.
Wade: Ham I understand that.
Ham: Wade, you don't have it.
Wade: Have what?
Ham: It.
Wade: Ham shut up.

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Addendum to Bestseller QUESTION ANSWERED

I've read varying information from NASA about the salinity of Europa's saltwater. So I added an Addendum to the latest edition of "QUESTION ANSWERED" (2012), available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, and Kobo.

AMAZON BEST SELLER LIST!

"QUESTION ANSWERED" hit the best seller list again today.

Thank you, Books-A-Million!

Enjoyed the book signing! Thanks!

April 6th - Books-A-Million, Peachtree City

On Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12-7pm, I'll be signing books at Books-A-Million, 770-632-1296, The Avenue at Peachtree City, Peachtree City, GA. I'll have Bestseller QUESTION ANSWERED and KNOWN.

Cassini was launched 10-15-97

Blog it. B-log it.

The European Space Agency, Italian Space Agency, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration run Cassini. It's fabulous science.

Cassini was launched on 10-15-97 from Cape Kennedy. On November 27, 2004, the Hyugens Titan probe landed on Titan and confirmed lakes of methane.

You should read about it. (Sooner rather than later. New York Times style. No verb needed.)

Just Be.

The Gift of Men

Excerpt from The Congressional Record, July 11, 1969.

THE APOLLO PROJECT
Mr. McINTYRE. Mr. President, I asked to have placed in the RECORD the copy of a most thoughtful and moving advertisement.
I refer to North American Rockwell's full-page message in the Washington Evening Star of Thursday, July 10, a message that begins:
America is about to put men on the moon. Please read this before they go.
Mr. President, I hope millions of Americans have an opportunity to read this message. Our unbroken string of space project successes have, I fear, left us all a little sanguine. We have come to expect success in the difficult. We are scarcely impressed with success in the seemingly impossible.
With man's first football on the moon only days away, it is time we became impressed and deeply appreciative of the wise, resourceful, and eminently courageous men who will make this awesome conquest history.
The men of Apollo epitomize Sherman's definition of true courage -- "a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
North American Rockwell's message is an eloquent appeal to the American public to come to a "perfect sensibility" of the magnificent dimensions of the Apollo project.
There being no objection, the statement was ordered to be printed in the RECORD as follows:

AMERICA IS ABOUT TO PUT MEN ON THE MOON -- PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE THEY GO
Perhaps the best way for anyone to try to understand the size of such an undertaking is not for us to list the thousands of problems that had to be overcome, but for you to simply go out into your backyard some night, look up, and try to imagine how you'd begin, if it were up to you.
But our reason here is not to talk about the technicalities of the Apollo project. Rather, it is simply to ask you to think, for at least one brief moment, about the men and women who have applied their heads and their hearts and their hands -- and a good many years of their lives -- to putting a man on the moon.
Many of these people have worked for less money than they could have made in other places, and it is safe to say they have worked through more nights and weekends and lunch and dinner hours than they would have anywhere else.
And the astronauts, the brave men who will fly again down that long, dark and dustless corridor of space, this time to set foot -- to walk upon the surface of the moon -- they know the price that's often paid in setting out for lands unchartered. They know the price their fathers' grandfathers paid just to walk across the wilderness of America for the first fifty years.
For a long time now, we have been involved with the people who are the thinkers and the builders and the pilots of America's man-to-the-moon dream, of America's man-to-the-moon determination. We have worked with them, eaten with them, lived with them.
Yet our appreciation and admiration for them continues to grow each day -- for their energy, for their imagination, their confidence, for their patience, their resourcefulness, for their courage.
We ask you, in the days ahead as we wait for the big one to begin, to understand this fantastic feat for what it is and to put it in proper perspective, a triumph of man, of individuals, of truly great human beings. For our touchdown on the moon will not be the product of magic, but the gift of men.
In James A. Michener's novel, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," an American admiral stands on the deck of his carrier early one morning and ponders the subject of his brave men. And thinking to himself, he asks a question of the wind which we believe all of us should ask as we think of the men who will finally make it to the moon and of the men who got them there: "Why is America lucky enough to have such men? ... Where did we get such men?"
NORTH AMERICAN ROCKWELL
[North American Rockwell is a prime contractor for the Apollo project.]

HAM CHASES DOWN FACTS

Wade: Ham, need your help on this one.
Ham: Sorry, kid. I happen to be sucking on a pina colada right now. Enjoying the breeze. Living the life.
Wade: Ham I could really use some help.
Ham: Spare me. I've had three or four. I'm not much help to anybody.
Wade: Ham it's only 11am.
Ham: Okay, what do you need?
Wade: Can you check this fact for me? Was Isaac Newton born on December 25th?
Ham: Call a journalist.
Wade: When I need a journalist... Ham PLEASE!! You can do it. I desperately need your help.
Ham: Kid, I dabble in writing, sure, but a journalist? It's not me dude. Get somebody else.
Wade: H-A-M ! ! ! ! !
Ham: You need a license to be a journalist, don't you?
Wade: Yes. I mean no. To tell you the truth, I don't really don't know. Ham please just check the fact.
Ham: Got it. I'm on it kid. AP. UPI. All over it. Big time... Hey, I need a pencil.
Wade: YOU DON'T NEED A PENCIL. JUST RUN CHECK THE FACT WILL YOU PLEASE.
HAM: What do I look like, King Checkfact? The things I do for God and country. First I lead the country into space. Then I learn to talk. But that's not enough. No, they want more. Well this chimp's had it. Enough is enough. I work my ...
Wade: WILL YOU PLEASE HURRY UP!
Ham: LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. I WORK MY ...
Wade: Look, if you don't like it go work for the New York Times!
Ham: How would I know when Isaac Newton was born? Why would I care?
Wade: Ham will you please cooperate?
Ham: Dude I'm on it. Plane flight to Washington, you got me covered right? Congressional Library. Send the bill to somebody. Don't send it to me because I certainly don't have it. Of course, if you want to send it to me go ahead. But you'll be terribly disappointed.
Wade: Ham I don't have time for this.
Ham: Get time. What about working conditions? Yeah, that's right. First you put me on top of enough rocket fuel to fry me a thousand times over. Then I spend years learning to talk... or at least, I do my best. Now you want a journalist. Better working conditions, dude, or I'm off this gig...
Wade: Ham --
Ham: No I'm serious.
Wade: Ham --
Ham: Where were YOU when they were launching Sputnik? Huh? Tell me that!
Wade: You're a chimp.
Ham: Drop dead.
Wade: You don't have to go that far.
Ham: You don't have class.

NEWTON

Conversational tone. Check it out.

I was thinking of blogging about Newton. Think Gravity. Think, five-year olds can figure this out. Drop ball. Ball falls to ground.

I would have written about Newton's birthday but I couldn't confirm it. Was he really born on December 25th? Obviously, the guy could think. Invented Calculus, he did. Even Ham's impressed. But I'm really not sure he was born on December 25th.

I was going to write one of those "On This Day" blurbs. But I don't want to get it wrong...

So maybe I should just blog about B-logging. Just be. Just Be! Just B-logging... slow news day.

VANGUARD

On March 17, 1958, the United States launched Vanguard and it's still in space. Vanguard. A name you can count on.

Chasing Ham

Ham, I didn't mean anything by the "chimp" remark.
Ham?
Ham what is it with you today?
Ham. Hello. Ham.

Ham?




Ham, perhaps we should sing a duet together. Ham, are you still in this house?

Ham: Kid, you don't have it.
Wade: You must be joking... Look, Ham, this is chimp-o-centric humor at its best. I know you didn't take it personally. HAM PLEASE DON'T THROW THAT! Ham, this is not the type of debate I intend to engage in with you. PLEASE!

Ham and the car keys

Ham, I'm looking for my car keys. Ham?

Ham, have you seen my car keys?

Ham where is the car? You're not authorized to drive the car. You have no right to drive the car so please don't drive it.

Ham have you been driving the car again?
Ham have you been driving the car again?

Ham, I don't know how they do it in your part of the country, but here you're not allowed to drive. It's simple. No driving, Ham. Ham?

Ham.

Ham?

HAM WHERE ARE YOU?

HAM!! Have you seen my car keys?

Ham when I get my hands on you...

H A M ! ! ! ! !

Ham

Ham.
Ham?
Ham, where are you?

Books-A-Million Book Signing

On Saturday, March 23, noon-6pm, I'll be signing 'Question Answered' at Books-A-Million. (770)-529-6619. 3372 Cobb Pkwy NW, Ste 100, Acworth, GA, 30101. Please come!

Book Signing at Abundant Grounds

Book signing, Abundant Grounds Coffee, 3/16, Saturday, 9am-1pm, 1600 Kennesaw Due West Road, Northwest Kennesaw, GA. Hope to see you!

FREE Kindle Bestseller for Twitter Users with Over 10,000 Followers

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Computer Beats Chess Champ Kasparov 17 Years Ago

On February 10, 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Gary Kasparov in chess. Champion Kasparov won the match, but Deep Blue won the 1997 match. That certainly meets the Turing Test for machine intelligence!

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Book signing at Cartersville Public Library

I'll be at the Cartersville Public Library, 429 West Main St., Cartersville, GA, on Saturday, 3/2, 2-4pm. Hope to see you!

Book Signing at Knit-Wits

I'll be at Knit-Wits Books on Friday, 3/1, 12-5pm, 6 S. Wall Street, Cartersville, GA. Join us!

Meteor

I watched a meteor shower in December. Astonishing! I saw one come from the Northeast and burn for apparently five seconds. It was blue-green. I yelled "Wow" as it passed! Usually meteors streak across the sky for a second or two, but this one lasted a long time!

EINSTEIN'S SKEPTICISM

Many read Einstein solely for physics, but I take him at a much broader level. He applied Greek skepticism. He analyzed every theory regardless of its popularity. He begins Relativity with this introduction:

PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS

In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid's geometry, and you remember -- perhaps with more respect than love -- the magnificent structure, on the lofty staircase of which you were chased about for uncounted hours by conscientious teachers. By reason of your past experience, you would certainly regard every one with disdain who should pronouce even the most out-of-the-way proposition of this science to be untrue. But perhaps this feeling of proud certainty would leave you immediately were some one to ask you: "What, then, do you mean by the assertion that these propositions are true?" Let us proceed to give this question a little consideration.

For Einstein, even the most basic theories were subject to question. To be true to Einstein's method, we must question every theory, even the Theory of Relativity.

Of course, Relativity has been confirmed countless times. Eddington confirmed it. Later, observation of muon decay confirmed it. It's confirmed in nuclear reactors every day. And that's only a partial list.

But at a philosophical level, Einstein questioned every theory. That's skepticism. It's only natural to follow Einstein and question every proposition, even Relativity.

HAM INTERVIEWS WADE (CONTINUED)

Ham: Now, continuing on with further dissertations, ad litum, ad vilitivium, etcetera, etcetera... I should note forth first -- and perhaps most importantly...

Wade: What are you trying to say?

Ham: Well, you see, various theories have been promulgated ---

Wade: You're a gorilla.

Ham: Ad nauseum.... pardon me? Did I understand you correctly? You're calling ME a gorilla?

Wade: Don't take it personally.

Ham: Oh nothing personal. Well, now let's see. Where was I? Yes, indeed. You see, perhaps the most important concept, indeed, one might even go far as to say, crucial concept, concerning various proposals that have made theoretical concepts of a more critically practical introspective nature...

Wade: That's enough.

December 15th Book Signing - Books-A-Million

On Saturday, December 15th, noon-5:55pm, I'll be signing 'Question Answered' and 'Other Life Exists' at Books-A-Million. (770)-529-6619. 3372 Cobb Pkwy NW, Ste 100, Acworth, GA, 30101.

New Intellectual Theories

Newton's Theory of Gravity wasn't the first theory. Nor was Maxwell's Theory of Electromagnetism.


So too with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It wasn't the first theory; it won't be the last.

HAM INTERVIEWS WADE (CONTINUED)

Ham: You see kid, you gotta understand the business.

Wade: Oh yeah?

Ham: Yeah. You know, I've been around a long time. Space travel, that sort of thing. It wasn't easy designing a rocket for NASA. You young guys, you think you know everything. If you're so smart, how do you get over to the next galaxy? Ever given that any thought?

Wade: Well, I... suppose that would take effort.

Ham: That's right. Think about it. Give it some thought. You expect me to work on union wages. It's ridiculous. I've been around. Got an established name. I WAS THE FIRST CHIMP IN SPACE. And besides, men are apes.

Wade: Men are apes?

Ham: That's right.

Wade: Actually, men are men and apes are apes.

Ham: What do you know?

Wade: More than you.

Ham: How do you KNOW you know more than me?

Wade: That's my view of the world.

Ham: Well...

Wade:

Ham: ... If you don't shutup, I'll cutoff this interview...

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Intellectual Schemata

I mean no offense to Einstein or his followers. I respect all the various physical theories -- Newton, Gamow, and Maxwell. I've studied them. I've studied others. But these are only intellectual schemata.

I really wish physicists could think a little more like attorneys who are comfortable with exceptions. The common phrase is there's an exception for every rule. I understand that Einstein's Theory of Relativity prohibits travel beyond the speed of light. But again, this is only one intellectual schemata.

HAM THE SPACE CHIMP INTERVIEWS WADE HOBBS

an exclusive for BigQuestionAnswered.blogspot.com...

Image courtesy of NASA.

Ham: Wade...
Wade: Don't say it.
Ham: Wade, what makes you an idiot?
Wade: That's highly offensive.
Ham: You're an idiot.
Wade: I'm smarter than you.
Ham: No you're not.
Wade: Prove it.
Ham: Easily done.
Wade: Go right ahead chimp.
Ham: In the 1950's, I went to space.
Wade: So what.
Ham: What do you mean, so what?
Wade: I mean I'm talking to a chimp, chimp. You went to space, but you don't know the meaning of so what?
Ham: You're an ape.
Wade: Takes one to know one...
Ham: Give it a rest.
Wade: Why don't you?
Ham: Look. I'm simply trying to make a point. I was the first American in space. Do you understand that? Comprehend? I was there before Alan Shepard.
Wade: Yeah but he played golf before you.
Ham: Look kid...
Wade: Have you even played golf?
Ham: Look-
Wade: Been to the moon?
Ham: Look. Enough. Just wait a minute.
Wade: Easily.
Ham: You're kind of a young whippersnapper, aren't you?
Wade: I just think I'm smarter than you, Ham.
Ham: Au contraire.
Wade: Why don't you get clucked.
Ham: What do you mean, clucked.
Wade: I mean, Get clucked.
Ham: Such language. Watch it or I'll have you kicked out of the space program.
Wade: Humph... Ham you're a chimp.
Ham: I also beat the Russians to space, did you notice that?
Wade: Yeah right.
Ham: Why the chimp-ophobia?
Wade: Oh Jesus.
Ham: Do you feel uncomfortable around chimps? Have you seen a professional? I AM a chimp.
Wade: Dear God.
Ham: Let's not get into religion.
Wade: Ok. Look. My point is that you never played golf on the moon did you?
Ham: So.
Wade: Well...

Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs

Excerpt from 'Question Answered'

A Dude named Democritus

Democritus was an ancient Greek. In fact, he was young at some point but eventually became a philosopher. He lived over 2,000 years ago. Modern philosophers like Dr. David Darling, who earned his PhD at Manchester University, credit Democritus with the original idea that life must live outside Earth. Dr. Darling is reviving the idea.

In his online Encyclopedia of Science, Dr. Darling explains that the planets are not entirely separate worlds, despite traditional beliefs. When a large asteroid falls to Mars, for example, the impact throws debris into space. Very large impacts throw huge amounts of debris into space, and over the course of millions or billions of years, some of the debris reaches the Earth, where it falls in the form of meteorites. The Earth is 4.57 billion years old so plenty of material has transferred between the neighboring planets. Geologists offer the Martian meteorites on Earth as evidence.

This is a really cool picture of the rover. Image courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Another meteorite comes from the asteroid Vesta. The meteorite and the asteroid share a common chemical composition.

Both Jupiter and Earth come from the original planetary nebula that formed the Solar System. And over the course of 4.57 billion years, material may have transferred between the two bodies, or between one of the Jovian moons and Earth. During those billions of years, an asteroid may have impacted a Jovian moon, sending debris into space. Eventually, such debris may have gravitated to Earth’s surface as a meteorite. But currently scientists have only found meteorites from Mars, Vesta, and the moon.

Alternatively, debris from a large meteorite collision here on Earth might find its way into space. For very large meteorites, like the one that hit near the Yucatan peninsula and killed the dinosaurs, debris might be thrown into space.

An asteroid transferring materials between a small Jovian moon and Earth is an even more likely scenario. A large asteroid might for example, collide with one of the small Jovian moons and survive the collision. Material from each body might transfer. As the asteroid approaches the Sun, collisions with other asteroids might send debris to Earth.

Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs.

Book Signing! Cafe de Paris

Book Signing! Saturday, November 17, 10am-2pm, Cafe de Paris, 1100 Johnson Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30068.

Nov. 23rd Book Signing - Cuppy's Coffee

Book Signing! Friday, 11/23/12, 8am-noon, Cuppy's Coffee, 1600 Kennesaw Due West Road Northwest Kennesaw, GA 30152. I'll have award-winning Other Life Exists and Question Answered. The latter is over 50% OFF!

We now know specifically where to find microbes beyond Earth.

Book Recommendation

I liked Stephen Hawking's On the Shoulders of Giants. It's a good reference that includes basic works by Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

Book Signing - Friday, November 16th

Friday, November 16, 2012, 8:00am-noon

Panera Bread, 3384 COBB PKWY NW, ACWORTH, GA, United States 30101

I'll be signing Question Answered and Other Life Exists.

November 9th Book Signing - Marietta, Georgia

Book signing, Friday, November 9, 8am-12pm, at Daily Grind Coffee, 3960 Mary Eliza Trace, Marietta, GA, 30064.

Advancing Science

In Other Life Exists, I prove statistically that microbes live in Jupiter's moon Europa. I talk about larger life forms in Question Answered.

"Lively and comprehensive--a tour de force"

'Other Life Exists' Named Book of the Week!

Thanks again to Publish America for naming Other Life Exists Book of the Week. I'm so honored! We live in exciting times. We're the first generation to know specifically where microbes live beyond Earth. They live in Europa, Jupiter's moon. I hope readers will enjoy the proof.

"A Wonderful Book"

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Triangle Variety Radio Interview with Patrick Walters

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Want to make Question Answered your home page? Here's the procedure for Internet Explorer.

1. Find 'Internet Options'
2. Find the box, 'Home Page' and type http://bigquestionanswered.blogspot.com/.
3. Hit OK

If I find time to write the code for this, I'll let you know...

I'm honored that Publish America picked Other Life Exists as a Book of the Week. I'd like to thank Willem Meiners, Denise, Tina, Bryan, Shawn, Anthony, Michael, Patrick, and everyone at Publish America. Thanks!

'OTHER LIFE EXISTS' BOOK OF THE WEEK!!

Publish America selected OTHER LIFE EXISTS as a Book of the Week today. I'm honored!


Also chosen were YVONNE AND CAROL: BLOODSISTERS FOREVER, THE CAVERNS OF MARE CETUS, and THE UNIDENTIFIABLE "VERY FIRST" BEGINNING.

Other Life in the Waters of Europa?

Scientists estimate that Europa's surface ice is miles thick. Bank on this conclusion: Europa holds an ocean.

And as Authors-First Host Tony Kay suggests, other life beyond microscopic life may live in the waters of Europa. HEAR THE INTERVIEW!!

Wade Hobbs
Author, Other Life Exists, KNOWN, and Question Answered

Fish in Europa? BUY QUESTION ANSWERED!

I start with gravity. It's simple. Some physicists start with Relativity. But for me, Relativity is counterintuitive. A ton of math is required.

So I recommend Gravitation, by Professor Steven Weinberg of The University of Texas. Starting with gravity and proceeding to Relativity makes sense.

Recommendations

Read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hilarious!

Feynman's Lectures on Physics is excellent. I recommend it to other physics students.

QUESTION ANSWERED - New e-book on Amazon Kindle

Life elsewhere in the Solar System? Microscopic life? Larger aquatic life forms in the newly-discovered oceans?

READ 'QUESTION ANSWERED' ON AMAZON KINDLE!!

MORE WORK FOR ASTRONOMERS

As I see it, much of astronomy needs revision. Astronomers should recalculate and account for gravity waves. Gravity waves are implied by Einstein's Theory of Relativity.


Einstein didn't develop the idea of black holes. He knew Schwarzschild's Singularity Theorem. But in physics, Black Hole Theory and observations came along later. Hawking developed much of this theory.

(Cambridge don Michel reasoned that dark stars would implode. But Michel never developed the mathematics.)

Of course, now we know that black holes exist. They've been observed. We know they create gravity waves. Waves in a pool of water affect light rays, and gravity waves affect light rays from distant sources. Therefore, it would be useful to figure out how much of our astronomical observations are affected by gravity waves.

Read Hawking!

Read Stephen Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell and Illustrated Brief History of Time. Excellent stuff!

Revising Computational Astronomy

Einstein's view of the world stands. E=mc^2. That's obvious to some but not others. Referring back to my Gravity Objects concept, I just meant that there are other intellectual schemata where e=mc^2 doesn't apply. "Faster Than Light" is a confusion of terms.

The Livingston Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory in Louisiana confirmed General Relativity. It's been confirmed countless times. Black holes cause gravity waves. Therefore, some of astronomy needs revision. A wandering black hole moving away from earth would cause ripples and affect our images of distant stars or galaxies.

Larger Aquatic Life Forms?

Find out! Read QUESTION ANSWERED!

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She blinded ME -- with science!

Lyrics | Thomas Dolby lyrics - She Blinded Me With Science lyrics

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

If you haven't read Einstein's Theory of Relativity, check it out.

Michael Dresser Radio Show

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Click on the light gray line to the left of the timer. Drag to minute 40.

Excerpt from "Question Answered"

Here's an excerpt from my new Kindle e-book "Question Answered."

I’m writing to inform the American public that microscopic life exists in Europa and Enceladus.

New readers will hopefully have fun. They will learn that Europa is a moon of Jupiter and Enceladus a moon of Saturn. Both moons have life.

How do I know? Statistics holds the answers, and I present a formal statistical argument at the end. I hope readers will have a pleasant read and consult the mathematical statistics only if necessary.

I’ve often read statistical arguments that prove knowledge of something. That’s all I do. I simply use statistics to prove where life exists.

The search for life is fascinating. Space agencies all over the world are attempting to observe life directly on planets, asteroids, and comets. Other pioneers are searching for fossil proof of life. The key is the definition of life. I might conclude that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Stardust Mission found life when it discovered amino acids in the tail of a comet. Amino acids are the basic building block of life, and the probe returned to Earth with the proof in 2006.

But that would leave me with nothing to write.

To avoid the writer’s nightmare, I define life as microscopic or microbial life other than simple amino acids. I avoid the issue of intelligent life and focus mainly on microbes in Europa and Enceladus. Microbes may be anything under a microscope, including new forms not present on Earth. Readers who tolerate me will know that microbes exist.

I give credit to Dr. David Darling and the Greeks.

Halley’s Comet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration discovered amino acids in comets. Image courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

 

Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs

 

 

Neil Armstrong Passes Away

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has passed away at 82. America has lost the greatest leader of the Space Age. Armstrong's words are immortal: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Armstrong led America against the Soviets in the moon race. When he stepped on lunar dust on July 20, 1969, he fulfilled John F. Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960’s. Apollo 11 left a plaque which read, “We Came in Peace for All Mankind.” It reflects humanity’s aspiration for peace throughout the cosmos.

Armstrong will be sorely missed.

Decatur Book Festival - September 2

I'll be presenting Other Life Exists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Decatur Book Festival on Sunday, September 2 at 3:00pm. I'll give listeners a glimpse into the newest world of Jupiter's moons. Europa alone holds twice the saltwater of Earth. Ganymede and Callisto hold oceans, too. The radiation levels of Earth and Callisto are about the same, so many hope for human colonization.

One of NASA’s big questions is whether life lives beyond Earth. Other Life Exists proves statistically that microbes live in Europa.

Natasha Trethewey, Michael Connelly, Erin Morgenstern, Meg Cabot, Isabel Wilkerson, and some 300 other authors will attend. The fun begins August 31st at 8pm.


Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs

New E-book - Question Answered

The Ancient Greeks pondered the question. Does life live beyond Earth?

With style and wit, Wade Hobbs explains that other life lives in the cosmos. He proves statistically that microbes live in Jupiter’s moon Europa. That moon holds over twice as much saltwater as Earth. The saltwater environment is essentially the same whether on Earth or Europa.  Microbes see the same thing.

Despite traditional notions, Earth and Europa aren’t entirely separate worlds. They come from the same planetary nebula. Hobbs uses these observations to formally prove for the first time that life must live in Europa’s waters, just as it lives in Earth’s seas.

Buy Question Answered.

Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs