Do we have a Midas Mulligan here yet?
I'm ready to set up shop, but I'm not going to do so until I know where we are going to do so. If we had a Midas Mulligan or even a real estate tycoon from which we could buy land, then I don't think it would take long for a community to grow once it nucleated.
There was a mountain community up near the Tennessee/Kentucky border that went upside down financially before advertising on Rush Limbaugh about a year ago, for example.
There was a mountain community up near the Tennessee/Kentucky border that went upside down financially before advertising on Rush Limbaugh about a year ago, for example.
I identified four plot elements that fell under the heading of "science fiction." They were:
1. The electrostatic motor John Galt invented in his last days at the Twentieth Century Motor Company, and used to good effect to build a power plant for the Gulch and a mini-power plant for his garret apartment in New York.
2. Rearden Metal, which I described as a substitutional alloy of iron and copper, with carbon thrown in for hardness.
3. Project Xylophone. I discovered a project, at Leeds University in Scotland, for producing a beam of coherent sound. The inventors saw this as the basis of a new, ever-faster computer. I recognized it as the basis for a sonicator of devastating power--exactly what the Xylophone was supposed to be.
4. The "refractor ray screen." I saw it as a mirage in the sky. Obviously you found an improvement on that.
By the way: hiding this vast camp in nearly circular valley would be essential. That would defeat cellular telephones. Now: how do you jam a satellite telephone? Or are satphones still viable? Seems to me they are not anymore.
As for materials, we might need a Ragnar's help in procurement. I can put in a small scale metals, ceramics, and polymers manufacturing capability, but getting the materials could be an issue depending on our location. I would need to procure a few pieces of equipment on EBay before the exit. I know what I would need for that. That part isn't a huge concern for me.
Project Xylophone isn't particularly necessary. I do have the ability to do very small scale sonication for making nanomaterials. Fortunately all the stuff that I would have to take to do chemicals and materials R&D & production is MINE. Some of what I have isn't mine, but that doesn't need to come with us.
As for computers, everybody brings a laptop and gets it sanitized to not leave an electronic trace when communicating with the outside world. I need serious help here. I do have a few routers and a lot of computers we could take, but how to communicate wirelessly when in a remote location, I don't have that figured out yet and would appreciate help here.
The old satellite phones have been disabled. I am not aware, but I am sure that the military has replaced them with something better.
When I mentioned the invisibility cloak, there are two groups working on such a concept, but this is research, not something ready for deployment yet.
Ragnar might consider building such a coherent-sound weapon. But he got along just fine without one, using some kind of long-range naval gun.
I encourage you to read this "chapter" I wrote on a possible electrostatic motor. Turns out someone's been working on one. It is simple in concept, but difficult to implement. It would take a true engineering genius like John Galt to figure out how to make it practical.
http://www.conservapedia.com/John_Galt#T...
(BTW: in the modern "Man in the Iron Mask" movie, Athos the Musketeer, I believe, says, "I'm a genius, not an engineer." In France, that reads "Je suis genie, pas ingenieur." It's a pun--because the word for "engineering" as a discipline is "genie," the same word they use for the English concept of "genius."
AS3 without ProjectX would not be AS3. ProjectX is absolutely critical. If I had anything to say about casting, I would have recommended to keep Armin Shimerman (Quark from Star Trek Deep Space Nine) as Floyd Ferris. He was perfect for that diabolical role and was probably the best actor in AS1.
Here's my take on Project X.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Project_X
Note: I actually cut out a disk, held it on a map of the Midwest, and worked out the logical center of the circle of influence for Project X: Dunkertown, Iowa. That is my candidate for Harmony City.
I actually "shrugged" when I was 19 and I decided to "Go Galt" in Argentina in 2010, after moving to Buenos Aires in 2006.
The decision to move to Argentina in 2006 was not predicated on anything that was happening in the USA at that time. The decision to "Go Galt" in Argentina was based entirely on what has happened in the USA since 2008.
The most important "material" here is fertile earth.
I you click on my user name and see the topics I have submitted you will know more about me simply by reading the titles.
You can also "see" where my "head was at" (aka mindset) six months before I shrugged by reading what I wrote in this post:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/6a...
http://www.worldissues360.com/index.php/...
This article was published three yeas ago, before the start of BHO's second term and his vow to act when the Congress doesn't.
This was my studio when the IRS began hassling me and I decided it was time to shrug and went on strike. I locked the door and moved the equipment home and now I only make pieces for me and as gifts to special friends. I went from producing 15,000 pieces a year to now making a few hundred.
Not to long ago I made a 68 piece set of dishes and servers for a friend in Reno NV. It was carried to them by their parents (my next door neighbor). The entire order if I was selling it would have been around $3000, but I made it for them for the cost of production - and the IRS got $0.00.
I will not work at any productive job that will result in ANY tax dollars going to support a government that's become oppressive to the people. Under BO, this is as close to living under 10-289 as I ever thought we would be.
I'm on strike.
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This all happened as I was rereading how Reardon received notice of his accounts being frozen and sudden taxes being owed - on money that was not his.
In the end they admitted that I truly did not owe money, that my tax payments actually exceeded the amount I owed, but no refund would be made - that one made me laugh. If I'd owed them $10 they would have hounded me to the grave.
I forgot to add that the whole ordeal took over a year to finally clear up. I can't express just how miserable we were during this period. It took the joy out of our lives.
I remember several calls by Libertarians to take over New Hampshire or Delaware by moving there en mass and taking over the political system. I also recall some suggestions for the same in small Central American countries. None has ever come to pass.
I have sometimes imagined Galt's Gulch would come in the form of an island a la Thomas Perry's novel "Island". An interesting read, a guy scuttles a couple of old ships on a sandbar that's only above water at low tide out in an unclaimed area in the Caribbean. Voila, he created his own country, or a potential Galt's Gulch.
Lasersaber- Atmospheric energy devices, Crystal Batteries, Pulse Motors, Magnetic Motors & Capacitor driven machines,
The Art of Weapons- 14 yr. old Aussie boy Plastic Slingshots from molten plastics, Crude aluminum smelter, Sand casting molds, Annealing old files to make knives.
Adafruit Industries- Raspberry Pi DIY micro computer & plug modules,
Coil Guns- DIY electromagnetic rail guns,
Gauss Guns- electromagnetic rail guns; this is where are next John Galts are.
All this material is available from Ebay and other websites.
Electrostatics will provide not only power but also a Cloaking Field. From Adafruit out of New York you can purchase components to build an almost palm size computer for under a hundred dollars. Build your own batteries composed of molten crystal salts, copper pipe and magnesium rod.
there are steel products like Rearden Metal already on the market. Soon 3D Printers will be able to use spools of same said metal wire to create useful products. I plan to build some crystal batteries in a few months using a different organic mineral salts. Will definitely build the Strawberry Pi computer once I familiarize myself with the manual I downloaded from the internet.
Please go to Youtube and watch these videos they'll blow your mind.
"You are hereby notified that Colorado tract of land #183498676938475983671-39048-80729874, a.k.a. "the Valley", has been declared a protected ecosystem. In order to facilitate said protection, ownership records have been transferred to the Federal government by Executive Declaration of Taking under case "US Government v. #183498676938475983671-39048-80729874". The former deed holder of said "Valley" may sue in Federal court at his own expense for compensation in accordance with his fully protected rights under the Constitution. Said "Valley", having always belonged to all mankind, is further declared in accordance with the Antiquities Act of 1906 and therefore progressive and good to be a National Monument by presidential decree. Said Valley is designated as a US Forest Service Roadless Area in anticipation of Congressional designation under the Federal Wilderness Act of 1964. All mining, road building, motorized vehicles, airplanes descending through ray screens and other human artifacts are hereby prohibited. Into the indefinite future, said Valley is to remain 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' This area of wilderness is further defined under the Act as 'an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which ... generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable'. Said Wilderness is therefore to be entered by primitive hiking only. Furthermore, the bank formerly belonging to former Valley deed holder, one Midas Mulligan, has been bailed out of private control under agreement voluntarily signed by said former deed holder due to recently discovered transgressions of Federal banking regulations. Said banker, having causing risk to the American people, is pronounced to have agreed to remain silent, which agreement is fully in accordance with full recognition of Constitutional First Amendment rights."