A view of christmas’s past present & future.

I blogged about the The MSSC Desalination Summit in Las Vegas back in January. One of the points made there was that the future is changing.

The nose is wagging the tale. What does the nose know?

Water officials have some of the longest government planning cycles.

To have a successful 21st century you need not just cheap plentiful energy but also cheap plentiful water. The 20th century solution to cheap water was to dam up water,keep it from flowing to the ocean–and distribute it. I believe the 21st century solution to water will be just the reverse. Move cheap desalinized water 1000 miles inland from the ocean. Cheap energy efficient pipes will need to be invented first. I blog about it here.

Unlike Magellan, Cortez, Pizarro, Ponce de Leon whose fabled stories of the new world returned to europe as faint echos–myths really– of the new reality they experienced–today we have pictures of Mars right on our computers. This is not science fiction. This is not fable. This is not myth.

Having trouble believing men landed on the moon in 1969–try this.

There is water in the form of ice on Mars.

Images Suggest Water Once Covered Mars
Examining Mars

Stereo pictures of Mars looks like parts of the US Southwest–or many other desert parts of the world–from above.

I am trying to think about the pictures from Mars that show water as ice in the desert and how this should be relevant to water officials today. This is very hard to do. I keep flashing on the 1970′s dune trilogy for no good reason. One thing it shows is that government space planning cycles are starting to move further into the future than government water planning cycles. I think that this has profound meaning. As I have mentioned before. We are at the very early stages of the divergence of space history and earth history. Slowly the world is coming to and end in a human historical sense. That is the edge of human history will move to the stars.

Its nice to look at the stars but what if the stars looked back at you.

This happens, in fact– all the time.

There are limitations to the use of the word myth to describe ultimate reality because it is a man centered term.