SSE’S PROTECTIVE SKIN

But, we know what spaceships are supposed to look like, and our Ship doesn’t seem to fit the pattern. It’s just that the familiar outer protective cover or skin, like that of an airplane or a human-made spaceship, doesn’t seem to be there.   Still, we and all living things are, and have been, comfortably living on Spaceship Earth for thousands and thousands of years as it “rockets” through space.

It’s hard to believe, but our spaceship was created and designed so that it doesn’t need an outer, protective, pressure-ensuring skin.  SSE actually has invisible “walls” and “ceilings,” too!  The walls occur where our deserts meet our fertile river valleys, the ceilings where the troposphere meets the stratosphere.  Together, these marvelous, invisible partitions and SSE’s invisible outer skin allow us to have completely unrestricted access to each area of the ship and to the sun, the stars, the universe and as much space beyond as we can or care to explore.  How’s that for being a positively  magnificent—magical—design?

Strange as it may seem, while we are currently trying to develop artificial atmospheres for space stations, we are casually—many times deliberately—destroying ours here on the Main Deck. This operating and maintenance manual/handbook was written to address this problem.

GRAVITY

SSE’s does not need an outer skin or cover because gravity holds us and all of nature, wildlife, land and water to the Main Deck.  It also causes or creates a number of other marvelous things.

SSE’S ENERGY

The surface light of SSE and all of her energy is, and has been, perpetually provided by the sun.  The Ship, as you will see, has been cleverly designed with both long-term and short-term methods of storing this energy.

 SSE’S LAND/OCEANS/AIR

SSE has areas of land, oceans, and air.

The air above the Main Deck is really another kind of ocean, which is filled with air rather than water.  The water oceans cover roughly 73% of SSE’s Main Deck; the land covers 27%.  The air ocean—as we all know—covers the entire Main Deck.  Both of these oceans are vitally important and have been seriously damaged through human pollution/contamination/devastation (p/c/d).

The ocean of air is the one in which we walk, run, play, and live.  It is part of the ecosphere (Appendix IV—Specifications) and is inside SSE’s self-contained Sealed Box.  This layer is composed of roughly 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and several other gases including ozone. From there on out into space, beyond the boundaries of the Sealed Box, this combination changes drastically.

The first layer immediately above SSE’s surface, the troposphere (Appendix IV), is the most critical.  It extends for 16 kilometers (10 miles) and includes all of SSE’s systems, 75% of SSE’s atmosphere and some spectacular phenomena such as the aurora borealis, aurora australis, or northern and southern lights, fantastic cloud formations, wind, rain, rocket and airline flights, the flights of eagles, humming birds and—kites!

FOOD

All of us are sustained by the sun’s energy which provides for all of  the growth of plants, animals and birds on SSE’s land, in its waters and air.  Uses of the land, water and air, in nature, are naturally balanced…at this time!

On land a fine layer of ground, made up of varying combinations of clay, sand, and silt with humus (recycled organic matter nature usually adds for nourishment) averages only a mere 15 centimeters —6 inches, in depth on most parts of the Main Deck.  Almost all green land vegetation grows in this ground.  Clever, amazing, but scary when you think of the soil erosion we are casually—carelessly—causing or allowing to take place.

SSE’S PROTECTIVE SHIELDS

Like every other well-designed spaceship, SSE has protective shields that are made possible by gravity.  One of SSE’s two important protective shields is the protective friction/oxidation shield, which shields us against the many objects from outer space traveling toward, or drawn toward, the Ship.  This gravitational shield causes most of these objects—meteors and dangerous asteroids—to be completely oxidized (burned up) before they can damage the main deck and us.  The other shield is a magnetic one that protects the Main Deck and us from harmful radiations.

AND, FINALLY, SPEED…AND MORE SPEED

Most of us love the exciting feeling of SPEED.  It’s the exhilarating feeling of complete freedom that is created by the rush of the wind against our faces.  Dogs feel it too.  They crave it and fight to put their heads out of an open window of a moving car or truck.  For them, with the ability to detect scents up to1,000 times greater than we can, the wind also carries thousands of intriguing smells which we don’t even know exist.

Let’s review the unbelievable approximate speeds of our home, Spaceship Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSE                    SOLAR SYSTEM              OUR GALAXY                    ALL GALAXIES EXPANDING OUT WARD WITH THE UNIVERSE

Our spaceship rotates on its axis like a giant navigational gyroscope keeping us on true course.  It rotates on its axis, which over time oscillates, or slightly wiggles, at 1,000 miles per hour (mph).  While doing this, it also rotates around our sun once every year at 480,000 mph.  While all of this movement is occurring our sun and the solar system are rotating with the Orion spiral arm around the center of our galaxy at 48,100 mph.  Finally all of the galaxies are, in turn, traveling on their predetermined course out into the universe, or deep outer space, at approximately 1,208,000 mph or until, possibly, it all completely reverses its direction!  It boggles the mind!

SOURCE:  U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) in response to a specific request.  All of the above speeds are recorded using “local standards of rest” (as if nothing else is moving).

Not only will a spinning GYROSCOPE, like a child’s toy top, balance on the bottom of its axis without falling, but it also firmly holds its axis  and everything attached to in in an upright position.  More on this later.

While all of this dynamic action and these supersonic speeds are taking place, we SSE officers, crew members (Chapter 6), and passengers are totally unaware and unaffected by it.  Although SSE  travels in the near vacuum of space, its Main Deck is cleverly designed so that we don’t feel any of the violent winds we think would be produced in SSE’s atmosphere due at least in part to its turning on its axis.   The speed of our wind is called wind flow velocity, and it is practically nonexistent due to the friction caused by the uneven, rough surfaces of the mountains and forests of the Main Deck.  This effect tends to calm the air for many miles above SSE’s surface.