Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic EvolutionSM
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Roger J. Wendell
(aka ZeekZilch)
Maidenhead Grid Locator DM79
Green Mountain, Colorado
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(Photo permission Chip Hedgcock)
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"The tapestry that science weaves in describing the evolution of our universe is far richer and far more fascinating than any revelatory images or imaginative stories that humans have concocted. Nature comes up with surprises that far exceed those that the human imagination can generate." - Lawrence M. Krauss in his book, A Universe From Nothing, p. xvi |
Purpose:
I know, you may have come to this page for a thousand other reasons than the fate of Earth and the eradication of Marxism. Maybe you're interested in Morse code or appropriate technology (yes, I have some pages devoted to those, too...), or you love travel and mountaineering (I've done a lot of that, as well), or you've searched for me on the web because I've made a business proposal, applied for a position/contract at your company, or you've read one of my articles, or heard me on the radio.
Whatever the reason I'm really glad you're here - even if you don't agree with me politically, philosophically, or even spiritually - it's important that we be able to communicate and have a free flow of information without threat of intimidation or worse (and, yes, I've received "worse" - up to and including death threats for the simple ideas and suggestions I've authored in various publications or on the Internet).
So, even though this site has well over 200 pages (and that's not counting the hundreds of pages I've authored on other sites!), covering all kinds of topics (including sciences like Biology, Evolution, and Cosmology that I love so much...), I want to make it clear that my lifelong passion has been the protection and preservation of our precious little planet and the wonderful array and diversity of life that it harbours. Yes, my family, friends, freedom, liberty, country, job, and other aspects of regular life are extremely important to me, but the planet, ultimately, deserves our greatest care and consideration.
In the secular long run, for that huge stretch of time that will continue after our deaths, there is nothing more important than this planet and the other creatures that inhabit it with us. Face it, no matter our technological prowess or spiritual certainty, this planet is all we know - there's no religious consensus on an alternative existence or afterlife, and science has confirmed that human-beings will never leave the solar system, ever.* Each of us has been born on this planet, and with the exception of a few astronauts, each of us will perish here. There is nothing else - this is our home.
My concern is not just with the destruction brought about by consumptive Asians, North Americans and Europeans, but by most of humankind all over the planet as well. I've traveled all the continents and can assure you that none of the aforementioned peoples have "cornered the market" on habitat destruction and abuse - from China and India, to Antarctica and Japan, human impact on the natural world has been devastating - entire species and bioregions have been decimated by our greed, arrogance, and indifference.
Oh, and let's be clear, although Capitalism has contributed to losses in the natural world, Marxism and communism have damaged a lot more - including the quality of life for humans as well.
As such, I hope my little website, or occasional magazine articles and radio programs, can raise awareness, thwart totalitarianism, save some habitat, or rescue a species on the brink of extinction. I know - you may have come here to read one of my rants against the airlines or the concentration of wealth throughout society - that's fine. Just remember that my goal is to save some of the natural world - other creatures and systems have an intrinsic value of their own, and a right to be here regardless their "utility" or economic worth to humans. And, it doesn't matter our political system, religious views, or economic philosophy, we have no right to halt, slow, or degrade the biological rhythms and relationships that started a few thousand million years before our own appearance just a couple geologic seconds ago. We have no right to wantonly destroy the beautiful, mysterious array of life that also calls this place home. We do not have that right.
- Roger J. Wendell
Summer Solstice, 2012
Golden, Colorado
*Voyager 1 reached the heliopause at about the time of my posting - but there were no humans onboard...
Links to some (but not all!) of my other pages:
Some important history:
Neda Agha Soltan
- 47-year-old anti-Putin activist Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny died in a Russian prison, in the arctic, on February 16, 2024.
- 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli E. Babbitt shot and killed by Washington DC Capitol Police while protesting on January 6, 2021.
- 34-year-old Dr. Li Wenliang was punished by Chinese communists for trying to warn the people of Wuhan about COVID-19. Dr. Wenliang then died from the disease on February 7, 2020.
- 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed by an illegal alien in San Francisco in July, 2015
- 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed during the Tehran protests of June, 2009
- 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in March, 2003 (I interviewed her parents 5 monhts later...)
- 22-year-old Laken Riley killed by an illegal alien while jogging around the University of Georgia campus on February 22, 2024
- Tiananmen Square Masacre, June 1989, China. (It's estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 innocent people were killed by the Chinese communists during the masacre)
- USS Liberty attacked by Israel in June, 1967.
Some fun stuff:
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Quarter Change Stuff I change every quarter!
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Quote Quiz:
Which famous person said this?
"I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required."
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Quote of the Quarter:
"I would say my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces-with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now... It seems to me that every time we manage to establish one freedom, they take another away. Maybe two."
- Robert A. Heinlein
Real Bumper Stickers:
Did You Know?
"The Deep Space Network - or DSN - is NASA's international array of giant radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, plus a few that orbit Earth. The DSN also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of the solar system and the larger universe.
"The DSN is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which also operates many of the agency's interplanetary robotic space missions.
"The DSN consists of three facilities spaced equidistant from each other - approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude - around the world. These sites are at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. The strategic placement of these sites permits constant communication with spacecraft as our planet rotates - before a distant spacecraft sinks below the horizon at one DSN site, another site can pick up the signal and carry on communicating.."
source: NASA, "What is the Deep Space Network?" by Heather Monaghan, March 30, 2020
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