Precursor Engineering

Cross stimulus Cross stimulus is suggested as a whole-economic (as opposed to macro-economic) moneteray policy tool.  It crosses the boundaries of nation state that are typically associated with macro-economic tools to allow confidence in one nation state to stimulate economic growth and infrastructure spending in a second nation state at little or no cost to the first nation state. Monetary policy line items Cash - a numeric value that is a legacy of the requirement to deliver physical tokens such as gold, coin or paper in order to facilitate transactions. Liabilities as gilts - contractual government debt that promises to repay coupons and principal at some fixed rate, time and end date (where perpetuals are not considered.) Sovereign self-issued debt contracts as assets - previously created debt contracts that contain within them a promised receipt of future coupon and principal payments. Created by the central bank itself. Other entity (e.g. corporate) debt co...

Quantative bursting - a monetary policy tool Quantative bursting is suggested as a new monetary policy tool to address the issues that Quantative easing has created in the market.  Namely macro-economic stress on the ability to wield macro-economic tools. Issues with quantative easing A quantative easing policy that used printed money to 'buy-in' debt obligations from the market into an asset account of the central bank created both a change in the cash asset of the central bank and a new line item of owned debt assets. In many cases the debt assets were obligations from the state itself to pay back coupons and initial capital.  These debt assets were created at some point in the past when cash was bought from the market by the issuance of national debt. Monetary policy line items (post QE) Cash - a numeric value that is a legacy of the requirement to deliver physical tokens such as gold, coin or paper in order to facilitate transactions. Liabilities as gilts - co...

Money Supply Funded Universal Basic Income A specific sender-economy / recipient-economy money supply funded Universal Basic Income is suggested as a macro-economic global tool. It is structured in the following form: A quantitative-easing based increase in money supply in a sender-economy, such as the UK.  This is decoupled from the debt-oriented promise to reduce money supply in the future after local economic expansion.  (This removes the risk of stagnation that is created by the delivery to the market of long-dated economy-expansion-assuming debt instruments).  In effect a 'static' money supply increase. A fixed-term structured delivery of UBI to individuals in a recipient-economy, such as Uganda.  This can be e.g. a ten-year histogram of six equal weighted chunks of money followed by a reduction towards the end of the term.  Such a structure allows weaning-off of a recipient-economy from dependence on the UBI income.  A long-term allows the boos...

Nearstar water drop Nearstar water drop is a project to deliver one metric tonne of glacial water to Nearstar (the star system also known as Alpha Centauri (circa. 2018) and including the Sol-like star Alpha Centauri A (circa 2018) and the red dwarf Alpha Centauri C (circa 2018)) within seven years.  To enter the Nearstar system by 2025-09-01. Phases - Production of one metric tonne of glacial ice, or retrieval of one metric tonne of glacial ice - Transport of payload to orbit from Earth surface - Transitioning to water of the payload - Packaging of the payload to retain unfrozen status and conglomerate for transit to Nearstar - Trajector calculation for insertion into Nearstar system - Selection of insertion point - between two Sol-like stars currently suggested - Acceleratory push to Nearstar - Observation Notes - As Nearstar is only 4.24 light yearsfrom Sol, A transit at 70% speed of light will arrive in approximately 6.06 years. - (?check this) At 1 g accelera...

A Freeist Economy Principles - Open borders to all - in and out - Free as the preferred model of value and benefit exchange    - Where practicable for the giver - Capitalistic interface to other economic models such as capitalism, communism, socialism    - I.e. money can be made when trading benefit with members of those economic models - Alignment of interests    - Promotion of a focus on the future    - Capital pools, e.g. high net worth, not seen negatively    - Universal basic taxation as a taxation model       - Exponential accelerator to tax larger capital pools at a larger rate       - Continued economic engagement and value creation fostered       - Wealth hoarding and sitting penalised    - Universal basic income as distribution mechanism       - Flat rate across population    - Wealth and capital pools focused on ult...

The shattered diet A method of weight loss that has the following features: Easy to remember Easy to implement Easy to start Easy to re-start Immediate weight loss impact Lack of feeling of hunger Ability to adapt to individual nutritional needs Ability to adapt to available food resources Decouples from using hydration as a weight loss mechanism Can work in tandem with other lifestyle choices Gym / exercise / physical regieme Socialising, e.g. going out and eating at restaurants, having cake. ---

Long duration human space flight Long duration human space flight is a project to work out methods, issues, solutions and related to facilitate human expansion though the galaxy, universe and potentially beyond. Issues Nutrition Cold Possible solutions Frozen outer layer of epidermis and fat as a protection against cold. Requirement Fine control over human physical condition E.g. human nutrition solutions such as weight-gain and weight-loss, fat-gain and fat-loss, muscle-gain and muscle-loss Incompatible tech E.g. technology and cable upgrades mid-flight, inability to connect legacy devices to new systems.  Inc. things like language if on-flight evolution occurs. (c.f. Children of Time) Approaches Weight loss E.g. use existing shattered diet mechanism - SJH - write this up. --- Precursor references The shattered diet