Be a Patriot

There's nothing wrong with caring about your country and nation in my view. There is a list of things you can do to be a patriot. 

1) Don't be a litter bug. I believe there is a negative butterfly effect caused when people drop litter on the floor. If someone was a tourist and saw a small pile of rubbish on the floor they could return to their homeland and tell their friends that England is a dirty disorderly place and that would put off other tourists from visiting. The other problem would be rats, you could help to cause outbreaks of a disease and things like that. 

2) Visit Piers from time to time. One thing that makes the Island of Great Britain special is we have a very high concentration of piers for our size. If you go on a day trip to the coast, visit the pier knowing the toll they charge or the money from a cup of tea will go towards maintaining and improving the pier. Have a coffee or Tea sitting on a Pier. 

3) Buy British:  If you can, buy things that are made in Britain. Buy tomatoes that are grown on British farms, buy t-shirts that are made in British factories. 

4) Be Nice: it will cause a ripple of goodness that will spread through the country. You don't have to do favours for people, you can just return a greeting or not have an angry outburst when someone making you feel impatient. 

5) Know our good history. We did bad things in the past but we also did good things that should merit some pride. Some people only want to talk about the bad things Brits did in the past. There are countless  innovations and medical breakthroughs that occurred right here in Britain. The world condems slavery because of Britain and we pioneered democracy. 

Random Thoughts

I was laying down in my bed the other day thinking what is the point of everything, we are here for now then we are gone. I guess the answer is not to think about it because you'll never get the full answer, you'll have to wait until God tells you or you may never get an answer.

There's always some depth to a person, you can lay down and think about life for a little while and ask questions that can never be answered and be alone in your thoughts. In that place you're alone but that's fine. 

I was wondering what trains would be like if I was in control of their design; I especially think about pier trains because they don't need to be fast. I would make the train look very beautiful with thin marquees that detach from the body of the train so it can look as good as new on a regular basis.  

I was looking at the evercade alpha the other day, I think it would be a good idea if it had a riser so it could be played without being set down on a desk or table. Playing computer games is my thing. 

Perapsid

Many people know there was three dinosaur periods or they know there was a dinosaur era, they think of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Sauropods. They think of the mountain sized astroid that toppled the food chain and killed off the dinosaurs. 

I was wondering why people don't know there were beasts that roamed before the dinosaurs, they were called the Permian Synapsids. They were reptiles that had mammal like attributes, they had jaw bones that had mussle fibers that link inside the skull through an opening behind the eye socket, they had squared off heads and were good at controlling their body temperature, some off them had thrills on  their back to help heat up their bodies when they were cold. A lot of them were able to lift their bodies away from the floor so they could run more efficiently. Perhaps they even had four chambered hearts, who knows. 

I think they should abbreviate the name, call them Perapsids (Permian Synapsids). The Perapsids went extinct because many strong volcanoes erupted in tandom for a long time and made it hard for plant life to live, the whole earth turned into a wet dessert. The food chain collapsed and by the end of the Permian period 90% of all species were extinct. 

If the name Perapsid sticks, you read it hear first. 

Pride in England

One thing I proud of in England is our piers, we have many of them, I think just about every significant coastal town in this nation has a pier. They are a labour of love, the salty sea arosole spray from the waves is very corrosive. The coast is very windy and some of them have been restored after burning  down. I think one of the most patriotic things a Brit can do is visit a pier, they usually charge you for going on them and use the money to maintain it and improve it. That is what it is about, seeing how far it can be improved and maintained. 

I visited Southend pier recently, I noticed their new electric pier trains have been set aside because they're considered to be unsafe and they brought back the older diesel powered trains. They're investigating why the trains are faulty. 

I guess sometimes things are so messed up it is easier just to rebuild it from scratch. Sometimes the complexity of a fix can lead to all sorts of problems. 

It would also be nice if there was more stuff do do at the end of the pier, a small amusement park or an arcade or two. 

Epstine Effect

I was wondering earlier if the name Geoffrey would be out of use in 50 years from now, if it were, would people wonder why? They would say it is an old name and nothing else because they have forgotten about the Epstine scandal. I don't think most people would give their new born baby the name Geoffrey these days because Geoffrey Epstein was exposed as a pedophile and child pimp. He used his wealth to buy an island and turned it into a brothel for under aged sex slaves. It was a big disgrace, it is still relevant today because he set himself up as a supreme middle-man and money expert, he would look after rich and famous people's assets and help them to increase their wealth. He was connected to everyone so people would approach him to reach out to other famous people, for example, a music band may want to collaborate with another music band at a concert and they know they can reach them through him. 

Many prestigious people were connected to him, some of them innocently through trade, others may have been involved with his scandals. The test they use is if they cut him off when he was exposed as a pedophile. They Coined the term Epstine files. The authorities want to know what kind of relationship each person had with Geoffrey Epstein, were they innocent aquatences or part of his dirty lifestyle? 

I'm not even sure if I'll still be alive in 50 years time. If I am still alive, I wonder if coin pushers are still around in arcades. They are my favourite toy in those places. This is how they work; you drop coins down a chute, the coin lands on a tray and is pushed into other coins by an oscillating pusher, if your timing is right and with some luck you dislodge some of the coins and they fall into a lower tray. Then a second pusher pushes the dislodged coins into more coins, if they fall then they go down another chute to an exit tray for you to take them or use them again They like to keep little prizes nested on top of the coins on the lower tray.  I like the ones that also give you prize tickets when the coins land in certain places or at random times just for inserting the coins. You can redeem the prize tickets for prizes at the prize counter desk. 

I can already see the it evolving, I see pushers that use balls and things like that. 

The effect of playing a coin pusher is similar to playing Tetris or a puzzle game, you forget about your ego, you forget who you are and what is important to you and you just focus on what you are doing. You go into a blissful trance like state. 

Iron and Lead thought

I learnt not to long ago that when the Earth formed, all the iron sank down deep into the interior of the planet out of our reach. All the iron that is with us on the surface fell down to earth after planets collided and were obliterated. The iron in your blood and on the knife and fork on your table would have come from the core of a planet that was demolished in a collision with another planet. When it fell to earth the surface of the planet had hardened.

 

Everything that has the mass of Iron or more like copper and lead was created or freed in an extremely energetic event. Lead is mostly created when radioactive materials decayed, they slowly decayed until they reached a stable configuration as lead. 

I think of home and my world all the time but it was made possible by big events. 

Dirty thought

I had a dirty thought earlier today, I thought about an alternative way to deal with sewage. It is a thought I often have. In an alternative Alan-world, sewage would flow into evaporation chambers that have a partial vacuum that is low enough to lower the boiling point of water to 10°c. The lower the air pressure is, the lower the boiling point is. The water would just boil away until all the water vapour is pumped out and the sewage is dry. I drew a simplified diagram of what happens. 

The dry sewage would then pour out into an incinerator. The incinerator would burn up all the dry sewage. The heat from the burning dry sewage would power the pump that lowers the air pressure of the evaporation chamber and all the other parts of the area. The ashes of the burnt sewage would then be sent to a sorting area to separate the different grains. Some of the grains would be hard and dense like limestone deposits, others would be soft and soluble like carbon powder. There would even be minerals that are turned to a glass like substance because of the heat from the incinerator. 

The hard and dense grains would be gathered and placed into drones that fly over the coast, they would drop the hard dense ashes in coastal areas that are having problems with sea erosion. The deposits would build up until small islands appear and they would have gardens growing on them. When storms emerge, the little islands take most of the punishment. 

The softer grains would be used to make bricks and roads, they would be mixed with cement to make concrete slabs that can be exported. 

Someone said my ideas are crap once, I think they're onto something.