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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF HOW IMAGINATION LED TO WHAT I AM TODAY

First, from the Sunday New York Times:  The Sunday Question:  How long will McCarthy last as speaker?  McCarthy's concession to win the job made it easier for hard-right lawmakers to oust him, so his tenure could be short.  But Democrats looking to cut deals with McCarthy could supply votes to save him if conservatives revolt.

Also, tomorrow night, TCU vs Georgia for the NCAA football championship, and on Tuesday, the release of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare.

I yesterday watched on my local PBS channel, First Contact:  An Alien Encounter, a British program dramatizing what would happen if we encountered an incoming alien signal and/or artifact.  While this Guardian review did not take the effort too seriously, I did agree that it was mostly boring. 
Yet, triggered was my posting of today on this subject, and the subject of the day...imagination.  Oh, here is a list of 655 films featuring extraterrestrials, so my wild dabblings are sometimes popular.

Sunday is a spiritual day for many.  Me?  I like to imagine things.  But I can't say I've always had much imagination.  In fact, I was only an above average student until my junior year of high school, when something inexplicable happened, or maybe delusional is more accurate, and I decided that I wouldn't even bother to apply to the University of Hawaii, and only seek admission to Stanford and Cal Tech.  Incredibly enough, I did get accepted to both and selected Stanford because they offered a lot more money.  Click on this for just one story about how this happened, or another.

Filled with some enthusiasm and confidence after those years, my mind has wandered and wondered at will, and in the mid-1970s I segued into another direction fueled by my imagination to work for the NASA Ames Research Center on a subject dealing with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.  The hope was to extract from the sky The Encyclopedia Galactica providing clues on how humanity can attain world peace, and other useful hints from a civilization a billion years more mature.
Then a few years later, I joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to solve the enigma of laser fusion, as all stars use this process for energy.  In 1979, straight from LLNL, I joined the staff of U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga and helped draft the first bill for hydrogen and OTEC.  Someday, the Hydrogen Society will feature laser fusion and hydrogen-powered aircraft.  The OTEC link led me to the Blue Revolution, where I'm with a group attempting to secure $150 million for the Pacific International Ocean Station, leading we hope to a $150 billion Ocean City to host the 2050 World Ocean Expo.  Watch my recent TEDx talk.

There have been other forays, as best, perhaps, summarized in my MENSA talk of five years ago, where I went into my attempts at World Peace, Geoengineering Solutions for Global Warming, Rainbow Pearls International, Hawaiian Geo-Spas and the Ultimate Ocean Ranch.  My imagination had no boundaries.  
However, you ask, have I accomplished anything?  Well, I'm a Johnny Appleseed planter of ideas, so, someday maybe one or more of the above could bloom into reality.

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