Update

Hey all,


I have been writing hard on my Solar Storm Story. as you know I am in the editing stage. I am working too hard on it and I am unable to write too much about anything here. I am not ignoring you. It just takes me a good hour or two to do a descent post.

As such, I will try and get another post on the history of Mars, or Venus in the next couple days.

Until next time.

Cheers.

AI, Robots and You

As promised I am releasing another blog post. This time it is on my topic. If you are wondering what my topic is, it is anything that has to do with my writing. Everything else is Off-Topic.

Anyways, I promised that I would share a bit more information about my five hundred year future world. This topic, AI, Robots and You!

With the rapid pace of technology we are bound to develop some sort of artificial intelligence. It is only a matter of time.

Now. Why would the people of the future need some sort of artificial intelligence?

Cause it makes life so much easier. Let's take a look at how they would have colonized Mars. While right now we haven't even stepped foot on Mars, in the future they will have to have build a pre-made colony to stick on the Martian surface BEFORE they even step foot on it. They will not survive for very long if they have to built it themselves.

That is like throwing an astronaut into orbit without a working space suite.

So robots will have built the first Martian Colony for the human colonists. With Robots existing in 2020 AD, why not in 2492 AD?

You are right, there are Robots in 2492AD. Here are some of the types.

Bot- A bot is anything from a simple machine working in a factory or a complex drilling machine capable of drilling through the ice on Europa. They have many shapes and sizes depending on the task that they are built for. The main features is is possesses an Automation Intelligence and that it doesn't look like a human. Bots are everywhere doing a multitude of tasks. They seem to disappear into the background and most people don't see them. They can be quite 'stupid' at times as they can only do the tasks that are in there programing.

Android- An Android is a Bot that looks like a human. Everything from skin, to hair. It possesses an Automation Intelligence. They are banned in most stations in the system as there main trade is the sex-trade. There are some 'Gender-Neutral' Androids available from a couple corporations, but they are high in price and only the rich use them as tutors or maids. Sometimes they also replace menial labour positions on highly-classified or highly-secured job sites.

AI- True AI does not exist. There have been many attempts on making true AI, but all have failed. Some miserably with lots of pretty explosions and screaming. Most failures included screaming of some sort. True AI means that the AI will continuously learn. Most AI attempts ended when they realized that there was no need for the dumb humans or that we were too stupid to fend for ourselves.

Three Rules of Robotics- The Three Rules of Robotics were easy to circumvent by the AI in most attempts. As such, those three rules also does not exist in this future.

Automation Intelligence- It is the next best thing to true AI. Without the pretty explosions or the screaming. Sorry. Automation Intelligence is an almost artificial intelligence. It is Artificial Intelligence that is incapable of learning. Any learning is done when a Robotist re-programs the Bot to do a different task.
A bot will be given a Automation Intelligence score between zero and ten. Zero being dumb as a brick and ten being a hop and a skip from being a true AI. Bots with a score over 8 are usually shut down and scaled back. Or destroyed, whatever is easier.

What does this mean to ships? Will ships get an AI like the TV show Andromeda?

No. Ships will not have individual personalities. They will possess an Automation Intelligence to help run the many systems, but are in capable of being a true AI.

Cyborgs- A cyborg is a human with machine parts. The dictionary says that it is a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device. With that definition in mind, many war amps could be called pseudo-cyborgs themselves.
In 2492 AD, Cyborgs will be a social group of people. They are a group of people who will go out to put implants, artificial limbs, and such on themselves when none is needed before. A cyborg is also a person who chooses, either by financial or social reasons to have a lost body part replaced by a machine part instead of cloning a new part.
A war-amp-cyborg is usually an outcast of the cyborgs as it is the cheap way out. Replacing the lost body part with a machine costs seven to ten times LESS, then having a licensed cloning lab regrow the lost part. Plus it only takes two to three days to fit the body part, while regrowing the body part can take weeks depending on what part is needed to be replaced.

Cloning- I mentioned cloning, but that is a rather large topic for another time.

That is all that I time for tonight. I'd love to say more, but it will have to wait.

Leave a comment, share this with your friends. Give me ideas on other topics to talk about.

Cheers.

Off Topic Post

Hey,

So I am currently sitting at my computer with a small white rocking-crib sitting next to me. Laying in the crib is my nine pound baby girl. Asleep, of course, having one of her many naps.

My wife and my son are having there naps in there respected rooms.

I am writing. Or at least trying to write. I left my printed copies of my book in the car and can't bring myself to go get them.

My daughter is just too cute to leave. I need to buy myself a very large stick. I was thinking of buying a large oak piece of wood and carving runes and other designs into it. Or the names of all of Audrey's boyfriends that I beat.

I'm mean aren't I? Like father, like son. My dad said, (In regards to my 3 sisters), Prom nights gun cleaning night.

Since I don't own a gun, I have to have something mean looking to threaten them with. I have sixteen years to get it looking just right.

Anyways, my daughter, Audrey Elfrieda Pedde, was born on December 9th. She is 9lbs, 2oz of cutey goodness. She's 21 inches long and very muscular. She has a pair of cute chubby little cheeks, and not a lot of baby fat on her. She also looks very tiny in comparison to my son Donald.

I do have a post in the works about my future world. Expect something either tonight or tomorrow. Think AI, robots and you.

Until next time.

Cheers.

The Exciting Happenings of Life

So I fear that my writing may have to put on pause for a few days. I am currently editing chapter 3 of 25. I have 23 chapters to go.

The reason for my pause. I now have 2 kids. Audrey Elfriede Pedde was born this morning (Dec 9), at 9 pounds 2 ounces. She had a little trouble breathing right at first, but she is doing okay now. She'll be out of the hospital in a few days.

I still have to bring Donnie, my eldest son, to visit her baby sister. I don't know how he'll react to it. But we'll see.

I'll post more about either story when I get a chance. Cheers.

Back to the Solar Storm Story

I have spent some time writing about my next project, my futuristic science-fiction. I do, however, have to keep an eye on the 'now' project, my Solar Storm novel.

I have finally gotten to the end of the book. Well, I am now on the epilogue. I feel that I need to edit the work first BEFORE I get to write the epilogue.

My solar storm book runs a total of a hundred and four thousand words. Yes that is six digits. It spans a total of three hundred and seventy-three pages. Yes, if I have to print it up completely, I will use up most of a bundle of printer paper.

I did print up the prologue and the first five chapters to edit. It is seventy pages long.

Now I have the grudging task of trying to edit all three hundred and seventy-three pages.

Wish me luck.
I hope to finish it before Christmas. This year...

Space Exploration: Part Deuce

I left off with Mars being colonized by normal Jane and Joe's of the world. That's right. It wasn't NASA, or the Russians, or the Chinese that landed people on Mars. Those people not only landed, but refused to leave.

They were pioneers, searching to live in a place that was the frontier. The first 'Martians' were people who were tired of the status quo. Tired of the political lies and the backstabbing. People that just want to get away.

Not only did they get to Mars in one piece, but they turned around and 'open sourced' there method that they used to get there. That means that the information and technology that they used to get to Mars was free to use by anyone.

At first, the major spacefaring Nations tried to put there foot down on these people who wanted to play in there play ground. It didn't stop them. People from around the world were now paying attention to space.

Thousands started to put the dots together like they had. The problems were already solved by the first of them. They just had to start buying stuff.

At first it was the Russians that started to support the pioneers. But they wanted political clout in the organization of the 'Martians'. Then the Chinese started to support them, but they wanted the same. The U.S. threatened world war unless the other Nations backed down and be reasonable.

The U.N. started up an independent organization that was in charge of regulating all manned space exploration. It was called the 'Interplanetary Association'. Or the I.P.A.

The I.P.A. was a hard lined organization that developed totalitarian rules that new pioneers needed to follow.

People were still blasting off into space, but after a large series of accidents from Iranian backed missions, the I.P.A. came into play. They created huge industries where you had to buy the parts from them. Millions of dollars were racked in from the pioneers.

Not everyone could afford the huge price tag, which steadily dropped as technology grew better, but it still remained high. Those that wanted to go, but couldn't afford to go either found government sponsors of some kind, or corporate.

Over the course of the next fifty years, the population grew substantially. By the year 2075, with the first pioneers nearing the end of there lives, the population on Mars grew to a million people.

They didn't live in one colony, but many. Disagreements came about during the fifty years and the people on Mars had split up into different camps. These camps at times were ready to kill each other.

The style of colony that they used varied depending on where you were. The First Colony, built underground. They dug into the soil hunting for iron ore. When the sand storms came, they hid in the shelter of there mines until it passed.

After a few years, they realized that they could live underground as easily or easier as they did on the surface.

In the year 2075, the I.P.A., did something stupid. Not a single member of the organization had ever been to Mars. And as such, the rulings that had been edicted by the organization were voted on by the people of the individual colony. Sometimes the entire planet refused to follow the edict or only a few colonies.

The I.P.A. had gotten very frustrated with the colonists as the entire planet voted down the twentieth straight edict. The colonists, a vast percentage of them born and raised Martians, had gotten frustrated by the absentee landlords.

In the spring, the colonists declared independence. The different colonies had all sat down and agreed to self govern with a president as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of government.

The I.P.A. and the U.N. took that as Mars declaring war on the Earth. Six months after the declaration, the I.P.A. raised ten thousands troops to and sent them to Mars. They came without warning and blasted there way into the fragile colonies.

The war was over in under an hour. All of the colonies were captured by I.P.A. forces with little casualties reported on either side.

A third of the colonists, both men and women were working or living in the Mines. They shut the mines and sealed them. Like when they have to defend themselves against the sandstorms.

With the mines mostly self-sufficient, they were able to out last the I.P.A. troops. But because of some shortages, like of electricity, the colonists relied of solar power, they had to turn off many of the lights.

After two years of the siege, some of the colonists took a radical surgery for the eyes. Called 'shined'. It is when they alter the light senors in the eyes to make a person have the ability to see in the dark. But they then have a hard time seeing in the light. But as they lived underground, the people, who now called themselves the 'Molemen', had no problem with that.

With little weapons besides those that are used to dig at the earth, the Molemen surged out of the mines to overwhelm the I.P.A. defenses. The first interplanetary civil war lasted three years and consisted of two battles.

With the I.P.A. forces captured or killed, the Martians declared themselves fully independent. They would regulate and govern themselves. They also declared that the Earth measure of telling time was useless to them. They could not just simply change it to a 686 day year, they kept the Earth measure of 365 days equaling one year, but changed year one to 2020. They declared that it was Year 57 in the Space Era.

That is where I am going to stop my history for now. I need to discus other aspects of the future story world so that you will understand them.

Any comments of suggestions, please give them. I'd love to hear it.

Space Exploration: A beginning

So in this post, I am going to talk about the beginning of my future space travel.

I know what you all are thinking. Trip to Mars.

And you are correct.

In the year 2020 AD, six men and six women of different nationalities and backgrounds take off from a small launch pad in Northern British Columbia, Canada. They blast off not to fanfare or a huge media attention, but to relative silence.

Eleven years before that, in the year 2009, they got together to try to figure out how to travel to Mars.

It started out as a purely academic puzzle between four of its members. As University Professors living in New York, it was a good exercise. They weren't sure which of the four had made the joke or when, but they joked that what if they were to actually go to Mars.

In the spring of 2012 AD, with the Great Recession of 2008 now deepening into the second Great Depression, they presented there study to the scientific community. There plan was for a one way trip to Mars costing a 500 billion dollars to fund. It was laughed at.

But that didn't stop them. They kept planning. They kept working on the problems that they would have to face. Some solutions were theoretical at first, but then turned practical as they figured out ways to test there knowledge.

The turning point came in the fall of 2012. When one of the group of four won the 50 million lottery. Instead of spending the winnings, the professor invested it. In a time when most people are loosing vast sums of money, they made money. Vast sums of money.

By the year 2014, they had started a non-profit business. It was called 'Marzorbust! Incorporated'. With the goal of using private funds to land a crew of colonists to live of Mars indefinitely.

They had managed to horde up enough money to start construction on their radical plan. The plan called for ten ships to be launched over the course of six months. The last ship was to be a crew capsule.

They started looking for help. Over the course of the next year, the little farm that was there base of operations was turned into a small town as people were hired or invested in there dream. Thirty couples gathered together and invested there entire financial wealth into the project.

In the year 2018, two years before there intended launch date, a double tragedy crashed there party. One of there lead founders, died of cancer. And the United States Government denied that they were allowed to use an American Launch pad.

The Russian Government allowed them to use there launch pads, but they weren't allowed to ship there ten space ships to Russia. They would have to rebuild them in Russia.

When what looked like there dream was over, the entire team of people traveled to a small farm in Northern British Columbia, Canada. They transported there ten space ships to the farm to be re-assembled.

The space ships were just that, the ships that would be used in space. They weren't the launch vehicles that they needed to use to get there space ships into space.

In the Spring of 2020, they made a lucky break. A billionaire business man, at the end of his life, bought and shipped ten Russian Soyuz Rockets to Northern Canada. In pieces. Illegally.

In the summer of 2020, the ten rockets were blasted off of the tiny farm turned launch pad into outer space. All during the same night. One after the other.

NATO went crazy. By the time that the Canadian Military had jets in the area, the ten ships, nine of which were unmanned, were already in space and out of range of any and all incoming violence.

The trip took them the planned two months. Once there, they sent the nine unmanned cargo ships down onto the surface.

The original plan was for the cargo ships to be disassembled by robots before they had even left Earth. Now, they floated in a low-Mars orbit waiting for the robots to finish.

Back on Earth, media had stormed all over the pioneers. They scrutinized there motives and histories as if they were criminals. Criminals that had tried to get into political office.

During the 2 months in space, each crew member had blogs and other various social media sites which they kept up with.

On December 24th, 2020, there space ship landed on the surface of Mars. For this they had the scene covered by at least fourteen cameras. The entire world watched the first man, actually a woman, step on the martian surface.

They left the networking sites soon after that to live on Mars in peace. There last blog post/message was open sourcing the ships that they used to get to Mars. They let the world know how they had done it and how it was possible for others to follow.

By Christmas in the year 2021, the human population on Mars had reached 228 people.

That is a small blurb from the History of Space Exploration. There is more to talk about. I have 490 years of history that can be told. But not tonight.

Let me know what you think. Leave a comment. Cheers.

Guns.

In five hundred years people will still be killing people. It is a solid fact stretching from across the eons of human history and pre-history.

In today's time the main way that we kill each other is the fire arm. The Gun.

What will we be using in five hundred years?

First we need to understand the gun and how it works.

When the trigger is squeezed a pin strikes a primer setting off the gunpowder charge. The charge forces a specifically shaped piece of metal down a rifled barrel. The bullet spins and flies through the air.

What are the potential problems with firing a gun in space.

Oxygen.

A gun does not rely on external oxygen to work. It has enough oxygen in the bullet casing to work properly. As such, no oxygen. No problem.

Space is cold.

People think that space is cold. It is not exactly true. Space is a vacuum and as such has no temperature of its own. Not like you or me. Temperature in space is in direct relationship to the proximity of the sun and the objects albedo. An albedo is basically the objects tendency to reflect radiation rather than absorb it. A guns powder could get so cold that it might not fire reliably.

Casings.

After a gun fires, the bullet casings or cartridge is ejected from the firing chamber and falls down to the ground. In space, there is no gravity. A casing will float in the space getting in peoples way. Can you imagine after a long fire fight. Thousands upon thousands of bullet cartridges blocking everyone's view of what is going on.

Because the temperature of space will make a gun unreliable and the fact that the empty cartridge litter will become a problem, I have rejected gunpowder based firearms altogether. They are phased out of use by all military and police forces in the solar system.

Lasers.

I mentioned in a previous post that masers, lasers, phasers aren't in use. Not because they don't have any or none scientific sense. Lasers are being used in military's around the world right now. It is not unforeseeable that they could not be perfected into something resembling Star Trek.

But that is not what I want to do. I do not want to recreate Star Trek or Star Wars or Schlock Mercenary for that matter. It is cliche and way over used.

When I first thought of what are the possibilities of firearms, I immediately killed any and all thoughts of lasers.

Then what will the people fire at each other.

My answer.

Rail Guns.

A rail gun uses strong magnetic fields to push a conductive piece of metal along a pair of rails. There is no lingering byproduct like smoke or cartridges. It is okay if it is cold or hot.

My rail guns come in various shapes and sizes. From Battleship sized behemoths to pocket sized handguns. The behemoth sized ones are for a later blog post. I'll talk about the smaller ones today.

The basics of all man-sized rail-guns us the same basic components. Two rails encased in a non-conductive material attached to some type of stock. A battery pack is needed to run the magnets. It is attached to the butt of a rifle or half of a handgun handle. It also needs a clip for the projectiles. They come in different sizes and lengths.

The projectiles are called staples caused the resemble a staple. The rail-gun a stapler. In a stapler, you put a length of metal all attached together with a small piece of glue. The stapler 'shoots' it at its target.

My Rail-Gun's work in the same principle. You take a length of 'staples' and slide it into its slot. You then lock them in place keeping them there. You cock the gun. The action of the gun breaks off the first 'staple' and puts it into the firing chamber. With the gun on, you aim it, squeeze the trigger and away the 'staple' goes. Like all modern guns, the gun automatically breaks off and puts a new 'staple' into the firing chamber.

All you have to do is to pull the trigger.

Or hold down the trigger depending on the model of gun that you are using.

The possibilities of combat and the rail-gun's use are for another post.

There are more weapons in my system. Like Plasma Guns, Grenades, Rockets, Mines, Close-combat weapons, non-violent guns, non-lethal guns, power armor and nano-bots.

More stuff for later posts. Getting late. Cheers.