Matthew 1

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Revelation 21:
2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:
“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man,
and He will dwell with them.
They will be His people,
and God Himself will be with them as their God.
4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’
and there will be no more death
or mourning or crying or pain,
for the former things have passed away.”
5 And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
7 The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
9 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
11shining with the glory of God.
14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
22 But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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- From God!
- The dwelling place of God!
- God Himself!
- Their God!
- The One seated on the throne!
- The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End!
- His God!
- The wife of the Lamb!
- From God!
- The glory of God!
- Of the Lamb!
- The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb!
- The glory of God!
- The Lamb!
- The Lamb’s Book of Life!
- As usual, everything is clear!

 

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Revelation 22
1 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.
4 They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
5 There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
6 Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”
7 “Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”
9 But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”
12 “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints.
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- The throne of God and of the Lamb!
- The throne of God and of the Lamb!
- His servants will worship Him!
- His face, and His name will be on their foreheads!
- The Lord God!
- The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets!
- Worship God!
- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End!
- I, Jesus, I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star!
- God!
- God!
- Come, Lord Jesus!
- The grace of the Lord Jesus!
- As usual, we get the duo between Yah.weh and Jesus!
- Everyone plays his part!

 

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1)

Robert Bergh said:

I'm not going to be anything like a hero to a scoundrel like you, that's for sure. You can shut your ass and ignore me. But you're not even that smart, I know a lot more than you. AND what we both know we don't agree on. since you believe in lies that not ONE SINGLE person has proven to date. But what kind of gods does the Bible talk about? The sea god, the sun god. The money god, the weather gods? You must know that. Man has so many different gods, to believe that one of the 10 commandments says you can only have ONE god. The TV gods? So which one of them is yours? Is your god Red or Blue? Or an evil satan? Is this him your god?

 

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2)

- My answer: (an interview with French astrophysicist Francis Rocard on the conquest of Mars)

When will we see manned missions to Mars?

Francis Rocard: The time constant is approximately fifty years, typically between 2050 and 2060. The difficulty compared to an Apollo-type mission is much greater. It takes three days to go to the moon and 200 to go to Mars. Stays can be very long. As we can see in the film "The Martian," the problem is that a month doesn't last 30 days, but 500 days. However, those who have been to the moon didn't stay more than three or four days, so the complexity is much greater. Apollo cost 150 billion, while humans on Mars should cost 500, 600, or even 1 trillion. NASA's budget increased tenfold between Kennedy's 1961 speech and its peak in 1965 to prepare for the Apollo mission. This kind of situation cannot possibly happen again today, and the U.S. Congress would never agree to it. It's necessary to spread out spending over time to develop a manned mission.

 

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3)

"A human-habitable Mars is science fiction."

What resources would be deployed for such a mission?

Francis Rocard: A National Research Council report listed eleven vehicles needed for this mission. NASA is currently developing two. Each will cost $20 to $40 billion and will have a very specific objective. It also requires what the Americans call a "passway," an indirect exploration path between Earth and Mars. It may require going via an asteroid or learning how to build lunar bases, something no one has done yet. However, it will be necessary to learn how to build a Martian base. There are also technological hurdles to overcome. It's quite uncertain. For example, we may be led to develop space nuclear power, which is extremely efficient but also presents risks in terms of pollution of the Earth if the rocket explodes.

 

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4)

Mars habitable by humans: reality or pure fiction?

Francis Rocard: Currently, and for a long time to come, it's science fiction. It's a theoretical subject, not uninteresting, in which eminent American planetary scientists have taken an interest, but these projects would cost trillions, and it would take several centuries to create an effective system. I can't imagine for a second a politician in the White House launching a project spread over a century or two. Thinking that we're going to be able to modify a planet's climate is a sorcerer's apprentice's game. We have to create a greenhouse effect on Mars that isn't breathable for humans. What if a greenhouse gas machine breaks down? Like the film "The Martian," there will just be a slightly longer exploration than for the Moon, but it's not a refuge from which to leave Earth if we experience survival problems.

 

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Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. A prize-winning book offers a reality check
The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances.
But the reality would be dreadful, according to one book that argues that Elon Musk’s intention to settle the red planet within the next 30 years is doomed to failure.
Written by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, “A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?” won the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and was published in November 2023.
The husband-and-wife authors investigate what life would actually be like in the unforgiving environment of the red planet and clear up any misconceptions about what it might involve.
Kelly Weinersmith, a biologist and an adjunct assistant professor at Rice University in Houston, and, Zach Weinersmith, a cartoonist, delve into all sorts of questions that humans would face if we became a multiplanetary species. How would we build space farms to feed everyone? What about giving birth to babies and raising kids? Would settling Mars unleash a new space race?
Initially enthusiastic about the prospect of humans living on Mars, the authors said their research turned them into space settlement skeptics. “Leaving a 2 (degree Celsius) warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump,” they wrote in the book’s introduction.

 

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CNN: Why did you want to write this book?
Kelly Weinersmith: We’re geeks. We were pretty excited about space settlement happening. We had written a book called “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything,” and two of the emerging technologies we talked about in that book were cheaper access to space and asteroid mining. Between those two technologies, we thought, we can either now ship up all the equipment we need to keep humans alive in space, or we can use space resources to build space settlements. So even though people have been saying for decades that this is coming soon, we thought maybe now it finally is coming.
CNN: But that’s not what you concluded after researching and writing the book?
KW: The more we got into it — by year two out of the four-year research process, we were like, OK, there’s a lot of stuff we don’t know that we still need to figure out. And if we do this soon, it could be an ethical catastrophe.

 

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CNN: Can humans settle Mars in the near term?
KW: Musk is saying that in the next 30 years, we’re going to have a million people on Mars. No way that you could scale up to a million people on Mars without something catastrophic happening, either in terms of it turns out we can’t have babies up there, and moms and babies are dying or getting cancer.
If you want to do this, it’s got to be the slow work of generations to build up to a point where we could be self-sustaining on Mars.
It’s such a harsh environment requiring complicated equipment to keep you alive, and I just can’t see that happening on Mars in the near term.

 

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CNN: What is achievable then in our current lifetime?
KW: Lots of research, and that’s exciting, I think. I would love to see, for example, a research station on the moon where we have rodent colonies, and we see how they do when they go through a couple generations. Maybe in our lifetime, we’ll see people land on Mars, do some exploration and come home, that could happen, but I don’t think we’re going to have babies on Mars.

 

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CNN: You highlight reproduction as one of the major challenges. Why’s that?
KW: One of the places we started was biology and medical stuff. That was our first eye-opening moment. I think we had assumed the 50 years of research we had gotten from astronauts in the space stations orbiting Earth had told us everything we needed to know about how humans respond in gravity regimes unlike Earth’s, and how humans respond to space radiation.
But it turns out that the astronauts (there) are protected by the magnetosphere (a protective bubble surrounding Earth’s atmosphere), and we do know that being in free fall, which is essentially like experiencing zero gravity, is predictably bad for bones, for muscles. That microgravity explains why vision tends to degrade over time, and being in space could result in cognitive declines long-term.
The longest stay in space has been less than a year and a half, and astronauts predictably experience something like 1% bone loss in their hips every month. Even if that goes down to just 0.1% every month on Mars (where gravity is 38% of Earth’s surface gravity), you could imagine that being really bad, for example, when labor kicks in and you’ve got to hope that your hips are strong enough to handle it. We were just surprised by how many problems we thought we had a handle on. But it turns out that we have very little relevant data for how adults will do, let alone how having babies would work out.
Zach Weinersmith: There needs to be a lot more research in reproduction, simply because it’s a big, open question. It could be completely benign for all we know — we would be surprised by that, but there should be a lot more research on that. Prima facie, the assumption should be that (babies) are going to have a higher-than-normal rate of abnormalities that have to be dealt with without any of the kind of (medical) care we take for granted on Earth.

 

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CNN: Why is the environment on Mars so hostile?
ZW: The fundamental thing is to understand that humans evolved on Earth, and Mars just lacks a lot of the stuff that we have on Earth. It’s about 40% gravity and we know that humans in microgravity have all sorts of major problems, and what happens at 40% we just don’t know.
The soil is laden in perchlorate, which is known to cause hormone disruption. We actually don’t have a lot of data on prolonged exposure to high levels of this stuff, because why would we? But presumably it’s not great for developing humans.
You have an extremely thin atmosphere. Essentially that means you cannot go outside without a pressure suit. The atmosphere is nevertheless powerful enough to whip up worldwide dust storms and also large, localized ones. There is also this stuff called regolith, which has jagged stone and glass, all that is hurling around, which is bad for equipment, bad for humans. Also, if you’re intending to use solar power, you better have a really good backup system, and you’re going to have to spend a huge amount of time maintaining it.
Also, if you’re anywhere near the surface, you’re exposed to high levels of radiation, because the Martian atmosphere is so thin, and because Mars is only very weakly magnetic, it doesn’t have a very powerful magnetosphere like the Earth has.
KW: Mars, on average, is 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away, which means there is always going to be a communication delay: (at least) three minutes, and sometimes as much as 22 to 24 minutes. So if there is an emergency, you can never make a live call to physicians back on Earth.

 

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CNN: What about space governance?
KW: There are a lot of unknowns there. In 1967, we got the Outer Space Treaty through the United Nations, and that is the main document that governs space. It’s only some 2,000 words long. It’s a very short document, and it specifically was meant to be vague, because the people who wrote it knew that you can’t really predict how the future is going to unfold. Now we’re at the point where things are starting to get cooking in space, but we don’t have clear guidelines for what’s allowed. You’re definitely not allowed to claim sovereignty.

Also, anybody who goes to space is the responsibility of some nation, so Musk would almost certainly be the responsibility of the United States.
Some questions are less clear, like what are you allowed to do with resources in space. You have this lack of clarity about who’s allowed to go where, how long they are allowed to stay there, what they are allowed to do with those resources, you could imagine the space race part two between the United States and China. This time, instead of just going and coming back, which doesn’t prohibit anybody else from doing the same thing, you land and you create a research station in the best part (of Mars or the moon), that means that somebody else can’t use that spot anymore. So we can imagine there being higher stakes this time around, which is a bit concerning, given current geopolitical circumstances between China and the US.

 

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CNN: How would we feed ourselves on Mars?
ZW: Something else that needs a huge amount of research is closed loop ecology. That is, say, how do you have an underground, sealed bubble that is a sort of intensive agricultural area that produces oxygen and other consumables? We don’t really know how to do that.

 

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The Shocking Truth About Why Elon’s Mars Dream Is Doomed To Fail!

“A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith emerges as a masterful deconstruction of humanity’s grandest space ambitions. What began as an optimistic exploration of space colonization transformed into an eye-opening investigation that challenges everything we thought we knew about settling other worlds.

 

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The Scientific Reality Check
The Biological Catastrophe
The human body faces an unprecedented array of challenges on Mars that make survival questionable at best. Low gravity environments wreak havoc on our muscles, bones, and internal organs. Radiation exposure poses an even greater threat, potentially damaging DNA and increasing cancer risks dramatically. The authors delve deep into medical research showing how space affects everything from our eyeballs to our immune systems. Perhaps most disturbing is their examination of human reproduction in space – a fundamental requirement for any true colony that faces obstacles we’ve barely begun to understand.

 

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The Environmental Nightmare
Creating a livable environment on Mars presents challenges that make Earth’s climate crisis look simple. The authors meticulously explain how maintaining breathable air, managing waste, and producing food in a closed system remains largely theoretical. They draw fascinating parallels with Biosphere 2, Earth’s most ambitious attempt at a closed ecosystem, which failed spectacularly despite having ideal conditions compared to Mars.

 

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The Economic House of Cards
The Financial Fantasy
Space enthusiasts often tout asteroid mining and orbital manufacturing as economic drivers for space settlement. The Weinersmiths systematically dismantle these arguments with brutal efficiency. Their analysis reveals how the economics of space resource extraction simply don’t add up – the cost of getting materials back to Earth exceeds their value by orders of magnitude. The authors provide detailed breakdowns of proposed business models, showing how they rely on optimistic assumptions and ignored costs.
The Hidden Expenses
The book excels at uncovering the less obvious costs of Mars colonization. From the psychological support needed for isolated colonists to the massive infrastructure required for basic survival, the authors demonstrate how current cost estimates drastically underestimate the true price tag of Mars settlement.

 

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The Social and Legal Minefield
The Governance Gap
Current space law resembles the Wild West, but with higher stakes. The authors explore fascinating scenarios about how Mars colonies might be governed, highlighting potential conflicts between Earth-based authorities and colonial populations. They raise alarming questions about citizenship, human rights, and the potential for corporate exploitation in space.
The Corporate Conquest
The prospect of company towns on Mars presents unique dangers. The authors paint a disturbing picture of how traditional labor rights could become meaningless when your employer controls your oxygen supply. Their analysis of historical company towns on Earth provides sobering insights into potential future space settlements.

 

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Technical Challenges and Engineering Hurdles
The Infrastructure Challenge
Building a city on Mars isn’t just about rockets and habitats. The authors detail the mind-boggling complexity of creating and maintaining the systems needed for long-term survival. From power generation to waste recycling, each component must work flawlessly for years with minimal outside support. The book explains why redundancy requirements alone make current proposals financially untenable.
The Transportation Trap
Getting to Mars is just the beginning. The authors explore the logistics nightmare of maintaining a constant supply line to Mars, explaining why current transportation technology makes regular resupply missions prohibitively expensive. Their analysis of proposed solutions, from nuclear propulsion to fuel production on Mars, reveals significant technical hurdles that remain unsolved.