This is my hand-powered Fusion Reactor. It’s a simple device which combines deuterium and tritium and fuses them into helium, and thus naturally, releases a stray neutron.

38 gears later, you’ve got all the power you want, cheap as ocean water.

The large red gear is unmounted, held in place by it’s neighbor gears, which are referred to as Planetary Gears. The red gear is actually a Disc Gear in a Planetary Gear System, but here it has planets on the inside and outside, holding it in place. If the two white pieces in front of the red gear are popped off, the gear can be freely removed.

The little box in the corner holds a bottle of 3in1 oil which helps the gears spin much nicer.

Prometheus Device Up Close (Video)

These are some of the drawings I’ve done recently which combine architectural symbolism with geometric and organic themes.

I knowingly follow in the footsteps of M.C. Escher, I think he would like them.

The human mind comes to recognize architecture, as a human derived force, quickly and thoroughly. Therefore, architecture as a symbol becomes very potent – even in rough abstract – it carries with it large connotations.

The Citric Acid Cycle is one of the most important metabolic pathways in biochemistry.

The Citric Acid Cycle is present in all aerobic organisms, that is, all life on Earth which uses Oxygen to break down food for energy. In a sense, it is the chemical nexus of the lungs and stomach, the point at which the air we breath is used to break down the food we eat.

It is being demonstrated by scientists, for whom I have the utmost respect, that the Citric Acid Cycle and other evolutionarily ancient metabolic pathways are fundamental in understanding the origins of life. Additionally, these insights give us excellent clues where to look for life elsewhere in the universe, and how we might recognize that life when we find it.

If you are interested in the subject of abiogenesis, the process whereby life emerges from non-life, three scientists come immediately to mind whose work you might want to look at:

Robert Hazen
Michael Russel
Jack Szostak

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Meditation on the Citric Acid Cycle
Pencil
~30 x 40 in

Ah. The spark of life.

The more we learn about the universe, the clearer the picture becomes. The universe, our gargantuan galaxy an impossibly small fraction of it, is likely completely littered with life.

There are at least 2 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone.

The ingredients must be assembled, conditions must be conducive, but the emergence of life likely requires little else, save but time. The vast web of living complexity we see on Earth likely requires a place… like Earth. Life must have many varying environments and thresholds to spread into, compete over, and evolve with. Once complexity has arisen, Intelligence can, as it has on Earth, emerge in the blink of the cosmic eye.

Life itself is likely ubiquitous. Emerging from natural processes and forces which catalyze organic molecules, which are themselves, thoroughly ubiquitous in this universe of ours. Just a little push and a billion years away.

Spectacularly, all across the globe we see dramatic examples of the power of authority being challenged by individuals, groups, countries, even continents. It’s unclear what this means, or where this goes, but it is a hallmark of the times in which we are living. It is revolutionary in its manner, new to human experience, brought on by technological communication – this ability of people to organize and be heard above clamoring market exchanges and roaring gunfire is changing what civilization means.