| The Cosmic Community of Intelligent Life Cosmic Genealogy Forelaws Science, Technology and Culture "the human brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe." - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), professor of biochemistry at Boston University, USA. (describes that of all intelligent life in the cosmic community of intelligent life). Every 230 million years Earth, its inhabitants and the Sun (our star) orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way is the galactic home of humankind and untold numbers of fellow counterparts - many far more advanced than humankind with respect to cosmic genealogy, climate change, and empathy and compassion for the common good (Universe forelaws, meaning and purpose). Appreciation on Earth of cosmic genealogy - in which from infinity to infinity intelligent life propagates empathy and compassion for the common good - is traceable unarguably to pioneering investigation of organic matter in space conducted in the 1970/80s by astronomers Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) and Chandra Wickramasinghe, giving birth to the science discipline astrobiology merging astronomy and biology - with irreversible geopolitical implications (moving humanity beyond divisiveness of nation-states to united albedo regions and a compassionate/ cooperative global society). Dr. Wickramasinghe, currently, is director of the Center for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. He is author (with 32 co-authors) of the year-long-peer-reviewed article "Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?" (CETC) - published on line 13 March 2018 in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Since 1996 notable progress in astrobiology has been chronicled by Brig Klyce (CETC co-author and author of Cosmic Ancestry) in the website Cosmic Ancestry. A cosmic phenomenon operative in cosmic genealogy - no two star systems with intelligent life are exactly the same in terms of solar radiation - explains intelligent life "races" before amalgamation. "When Jon (Jon Larsen, Project Stardust) first came to me I was dubious. Many people had reported finding cosmic dust in urban areas before, but when they were analysed scientists found that these particles were all industrial in origin." – Matthew Genge, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London. "This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust." - Donald Brownlee, Cosmic Dust Group, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington. "To suppose that Earth is the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd to believe that in an entire field sown with millet, only one grain will grow." - Metrodorus of Chios (Greek Philosopher, Fourth Century BC. ". . . herald a new worldview that I hope will unite the many nations and races of people that inhabit our planet." - Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK. Forelaw science, technology and culture on Earth launch the forelaws party and its cornerstone the democrathon process (TDP). Empathy and compassion for the common good is evident as well in current movements and issues involving and including global sisterhood, fossil fuels and nuclear weapons/energy elimination, veganism, beyond carnism (ending animal cruelty and slaughterhouses), albedoism (climate change), desalination (freshwater from seawater), and cosmic genealogy (explaining intelligent life "races") . . . essential in building and sustaining a compassionate/cooperative global society with total recycling and landfill disappearance (Zero Waste). Addressing climate change centers on planet albedo, i.e. atmosphere and surface reflectivity of solar radiation. Management on Earth of solar radiation involves alteration of human infrastructure, which, among other things, consists of buildings, roads, hempcrete houses, and airport runways - all capable of changing surface color with temperature change. This phenomenon - known as thermochromism - provides opportunities for positive management of solar radiation received on Earth (albedoism) - toward benign and relative stability in weather and climate. In working also with the plant kingdom (every tree and flower a contributor) to achieve optimal albedo in human infrastructure, innovative and creative albedo management paves the way to united albedo regions on Earth, and a compassionate/cooperative global society. Through albedoism and united albedo regions, empathy and compassion for the common good places humankind on a trajectory countering, remediably, droughts, desertification, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning-induced wildland fires, subsidence, and ice ages. The Keith Group at Harvard University, USA, stands out among organizations and associations researching climate change and albedoism. Perilous yet an emergent turning point for humankind, the years 2018-2021 (launching the forelaws party, albedo management, and Webb - and dramatic increase of desalination and industrial hemp production globalwide) become the all-important first step toward a compassionate/cooperative global society on Earth. "Webb (James Webb Space Telescope) will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe . . . " - NASA - to be launched Spring 2019. Empathy and compassion for the common good - part and parcel of naturalist Nature (everything is connected to everything else) - represents a cause, norm and way forward on all planets with intelligent life. On Earth, ending 194 nation-state divisiveness not limited to nationalism, militarism, war (military, cyber and trade), capitalism, environment/climate degradation, nuclear weapons/energy, carnism, and racism . . . in favor of benign and relative stability in weather and climate (albedoism) - and a compassionate/cooperative global society . . . begins with the forelaws party and science and moral commitment to empathy and compassion for the common good - imperative today in relations between United States and North Korea, and in those between Middle East nation-states. "Beyond Carnism seeks to empower concerned citizens and vegan advocates through education and activism, to help create a more compassionate and just world for all beings, human and nonhuman alike." - Melanie Joy, director, Beyond Carnism, author of Beyond Beliefs (2017). "You sat high atop your mom’s shoulder and held a sign that read BUILD A WALL AND MY GENERATION WILL TEAR IT DOWN". - Representative Joe Kennedy, III, US Congressman and former Peace Corps member. Existence of the cosmic community of intelligent life - which includes humankind and its revolutionary new science discipline astrobiology (and complementary Cosmic Ancestry) - eternalizes empathy and compassion for the common good (Universe forelaws, meaning and purpose) . . . settling the question of why the Universe, intelligent life - and existence itself - exist. Highlighting procreation fundamentally and existentially, and motherhood specifically, intelligent life remains a gift with indefinable promise and potential for empathy and compassion for the common good - in the cosmic community of intelligent life. Empathy and Compassion for the Common Good (Universe Forelaws, Meaning and Purpose) More at: Forelaws on Board forelaws_on_board@forelawsonboard.net www.forelawsonboard.net/ . . |