Beam Goodspaceguy Up to Spaceship Congress

June 30, 2008

Elect Goodspaceguy Nelson to Congress. (Note: recently a video-making humorist has appeared who also is using the name Goodspaceguy.)

A message from Goodspaceguy Nelson, a candidate for US Representative to Congress from the 7th Congressional District of Washington State.

Some Solutions and Programs of Goodspaceguy:

Goodspaceguy likes to refer to our Earth as Spaceship Earth, a spaceship built by the science and by the technology of Mother Nature. (God?)

Let's solve world problems from the viewpoint that we are the crew and passengers of Spaceship Earth.

Some centuries have greatness in them. In about the last hundred years, we Earthlings developed cars, radios, airplanes, movies, television, and computers. We moved from the Horse and Buggy Age into the Automobile Age and into the Airplane Age and into the Computer Age and into the baby stage of the Space Age. Now a great goal for this new 21st Century is to start the Age of Orbital Space Colonization! We have already spent the necessary money for orbital space colonization, but unfortunately our leaders were not educated in orbital space colonization and so wasted billions and billions of dollars of space money and resources. Goodspaceguy wants to redirect our space dollars into orbital space colonization.

About 400 million years ago, life from the seas of Earth came up and colonized the land of Earth.
Now, the colonization of orbital space by life from Earth is of similar significance.

Goodspaceguy worries about nuclear war and the coming of the next killer asteroid and therefore wants us to spread life from Earth out into our solar system as quickly as possible. Instead of bringing most of the material up from Earth for the colonization, Goodspaceguy wants us to use a lot of material from the near Earth asteroids and comets to help build the coming orbital space colonies. Let's follow the low-cost path to the Fantastic Future.

Goodspaceguy Nelson has studied economics and many of the methods for raising the living standard and improving the quality-of-life.

So that we can live longer and healthier, Goodspaceguy Nelson wants more people working in medical research, rejuvenation research, and longevity research. Let's continue the great advances of the Twentieth Century into our new Twenty-first Century.

Some Earthlings have been suffering from the misery caused by the human population explosion. The population explosion is the cause of many problems on Spaceship Earth (such as overcrowding in some nations and starvation and genocide and the wiping out of wild habitats and their creatures.)

Also, the population explosion has helped drive up the price of gas and has been helping to increase the illegal immigration into the Seattle area.

Spaceship Earth now has to support more than three people for every one person she supported a hundred years ago, and the population on Spaceship Earth continues to grow and grow. The growing overpopulation problems will probably grow worse. More people might notice.

Brain storming: Would head taxes on Spaceship Earth be a much more pleasant partial solution to overpopulation than the old, cruel methods of population control, such as starvation, disease, murder, and war? To stop and reverse the population explosion, should birth permits be sold to slow the number of people coming onto Spaceship Earth?

Starting with the homeless, let us make life better through employment for all people who can be coaxed into the work force. We should increase employment in the private sector, and we should make government the back-up employer of "helpers" who apply for minimum wage employment. Our government should back its minimum wage with jobs for helpers. "Helpers would assist in all areas of government.

The employment of all willing people should help reduce crime and should help raise our living standard. Idleness promotes crime and poverty, but work produces the skills and knowledge and goods and services that make up our living standard.

Unemployment is a tremendous waste! Labor builds the living standard.


Because some workers want more leisure, government should lead by creating part-time employment programs, such as three day and four day work-week options.


To glorify the Seattle area, we should try to make it easier to grow the movie-making industry in the Seattle area by cooperating with moviemakers.


To reduce traffic congestion on Spaceship Earth, let us abolish government restrictions on the height of buildings so that we can live closer to where we want to be and walk more, and let's become more ecologically friendly by making it easier and less costly to build high-rise condominiums and apartments. Let us build better sky-dwellings than the people of Vancouver Canada have built. Let us increase the housing supply to slow the upward movement of rents.


To increase the quality of life and reduce the stress level, let us ask government to increase free and easy parking. If you pay a lot of gas tax, you deserve more free parking. Parking should be considered part of the road system.


Let us make it easier for people to obtain knowledge by increasing the open hours of libraries and by increasing the use of colleges, which are underutilized in the evenings and on the weekends. Let us also promote part-time work and part-time study.


To lower the cost of medical care, let us allow more people to work and compete in medical care. Also, let our helpers help. Prices are often shaped by wages.



Goodspaceguy Nelson received his Master of Science Degree from the University of Minnesota. Goodspaceguy previously studied for 3 years at Stockholm University in Sweden, having already earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Germany and his high school diploma in Washington State.


Goodspaceguy Nelson is a non-smoker, non-drinker, non-drug user, but as a believer in individual freedom and free will and upward evolution, Goodspaceguy believes that each individual should decide whether or not to engage in habits which are thought to be harmful to oneself. Taxpayers, through their governments, should not incur the wasteful cost of interfering. Goodspaceguy is pro-choice on almost everything.


Goodspaceguy Nelson is able to read several foreign languages and recommends that the principles of economics be taught in our elementary schools and that English be made the governmental language of the federal government and of Washington State.

Because the state of Maryland donated the land of Washington D.C. to the federal government, Goodspaceguy Nelson wants the people of Washington D.C. to vote in federal elections through the state of Maryland. For federal elections, the land of Washington D.C. should again become part of the state of Maryland.

Goodspaceguy Nelson would like beautiful Puerto Rico to become the 51st state.

Goodspaceguy is an astronomer, an economist, an investor, an owner, and an admirer of stars in the sky and in the movies. Goodspaceguy wants more stars in the Seattle area.


Please, help raise the living standard by supporting the small spending candidates and keeping your campaign contributions under $25. Thank you.

Elect Goodspaceguy Nelson, 10219 Ninth Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98168

(Normally, the voters vote for the big spenders of the people's money and ignore the small spenders, such as Goodspaceguy. Then after electing the big spenders, some of the voters complain about the tax burden that their elected officials force them to carry.)

Contact Info: Email: goodspaceguy@yahoo.com or telephone 206-390-0373

To learn more about Goodspaceguy's solutions and programs, please google or yahoo or internet the name Goodspaceguy Nelson or visit his two blogs:

http://colonizespace.blogspot.com/ (This blog concerns improving our Spaceship Earth.)

http://colonizeorbitalspace.blogspot.com/ (This blog concerns Orbital Space Colonization.)

Life in the Colony: Space Sonja and Monorails

Revised: July 26,2008
(Note: I, Goodspaceguy Nelson, wrote this fragment-of-fiction because of an email sent to me by Lyle Zapato of the web site http://zapatopi.net/ )

Life in One of the Earth Orbiting Space Colonies: SPACE SONJA and MONORAILS
By Goodspaceguy

Sonja, high in orbit above the Earth and building her career and wearing a pink dress and matching lipstick, floated quickly into the Central Conversation Room of the Boeing Blue District of the Earth orbiting space colony.

Music followed her. Air propelled, computerized, robotic entertainment equipment on a tow line floated in after her. Sonja glanced at the wall size, digital view screen depicting the large blue and white Earth rotating below.

While her computerized equipment set itself up, Sonja smiled at councilors Dave Duwamish and Goodspaceguy. She said, “Davie dear, I received your communicator call while I was having my very, very effective, rejuvenation treatment, and I’m feeling great, and I want to know what you think?” She twirled in zero gravity for him.

Looking at Sonja’s healthy, young appearance, councilor Dave said, “It is amazing what our advancement in rejuvenation technology has achieved. We who can afford it are regaining our youth.”

Staring at joyous Sonja, Goodspaceguy said, “You are beautiful!”

Dave said, “Sonja, this romantic dork is Goodspaceguy, our newly elected councilor. He is an economist and an investor. We are hoping for a lot from his recommendations and his votes for improving our colony, and I have called you here in celebration of his joining our team.”

Sonja handed a computerized card to Goodspaceguy, “Your staring at me is very noticeable, and I want you to know that I do private songs and dances, but no sex … you understand that I am a state approved, professional tease and actress, and I want to keep my license. I specialize in singing the songs of Cher and imitating her spirit. Cher is my inspiration. I am a great singer and imitative entertainer, and I am willing to accept you as one of my clients.”

“Thank you" Goodspaceguy said. "Are there any political issues you have been thinking about?”

To prove that she had been reading, Sonja asked, “When our Boeing orbiting space colony becomes really, really huge, do you think that our descendants … of both we, the current space colonists, and of the new colonists still to be sent up by Boeing and Microsoft and the other space companies of King County … I mean, do you think they will build space monorails or will they continue to float and glide themselves and their equipment through the zero gravity of space, as we do now?”

Councilor Dave Duwamish answered, “My precious, but high-priced Sonja, I think that our descendants will continue to develop our abundant solar power and manufacturing capability and will experiment with monorails, but to make economic sense, monorails require a lot and lot of people in a really small area.”

Goodspaceguy added, “To be profitable, monorails require a huge number of people who use them regularly and around the clock.”

“Isn’t that what we are building here in this colony?” Sonja asked, as she floated about between councilors Dave Duwamish and Goodspaceguy.

“Sonja might be right,” Dave admitted. “Sonja described what we are building.”

Goodspaceguy said, “Down on Earth, I found the expensive subway under Montreal both exciting and depressing, but I found the expensive monorail of Vancouver Canada uplifting.”

“Unfortunately, down on Earth,” Dave Duwamish said, “American cities are usually of such low population density that there is not a high enough concentration of people to enable the users to pay for the publicly owned transit systems. Privatization and competition might be solutions.”

Goodspaceguy agreed, “Since the government has promoted urban sprawl by way of hight restrictions on buildings, the transit users have been spread out over a huge area of low population density. Therefore the government transit systems turn out to be real money losers. The tax payers end up paying for the loss. To lessen the burden on the tax payers, I wanted the people to build beautiful, high density communities filled with sky homes … better than in Vancouver Canada. I wanted to abolish building height restrictions and high permit fees. I wanted to make it easy to build sky-high condominiums and apartment building. I wanted to decrease housing costs by increasing the supply of housing in the air. To get rid of rush hours, I also wanted to build 24 hour, never-stop, go-go cities in King County.”

“You’re so technologically modern,” said Space Sonja.

Goodspaceguy responded, “True, but up here in the high sky of orbital space, our descendants should exercise their muscles for a long time by walking a lot in the gravity corridors to balance out the time they spend playing, floating, and gliding around in zero gravity.”

Her entertainment equipment having set itself up, Sonja then performed her song and dance and wardrobe change imitation of Cher. Upon completion of her songs, she gave goodby hugs and went on to her next tease call.

Having been hugged by Space Sonja (known throughout the colony) Dave Duwamish and Goodspaceguy went walking for exercise in the connecting corridors among the sky homes. They walked about in the Gravity One Level of the exercise corridors of the Earth orbiting Boeing Assembly Colony.

"So, Goodspaceguy, what did you think of Sonja?"

"I felt like we were really spending time with Cher. I like actors and actresses who imitate great people, and Sonja might be an actress to start the movie making industry up here in orbital space. A poem about Sonja and space monorails just popped into my mind."

As Dave and Goodspaceguy walked the gravity one corridors for exercise, Goodspaceguy composed this poem:

Title:
Monorails, Like Sonja, Can Be Fun!
by Goodspaceguy

Bodaciously beautiful call girls
Are expensively fun like monorails,
But Sonja finds that many would-be riders
Are without sufficient money pails!

The would-be-riders ask, “Oh, who will
Pay for our fun and frenzied riding times?”
Look to the sleeping tax payers. Their pockets
Are filled with dollars and dimes.”

Some taxpayers shout, “Please, please stop.
Our dollars and dimes will not be enough!
Let us avoid frenzied transit monorails,
Paying for transit trips will be too tough.”

Let us build more homes up in our sky,
And continue to walk under our Sun.
We want sky homes near our work, but we agree
That monorails, like Sonja, would be fun!

Bodaciously beautiful call girls
Are expensively fun like monorails,
But Sonja finds that many would-be riders
Are without sufficient money pails!


Dave Duwamish said, “I don’t think Sonja is going to like your poem.”
“But, Dave, I suspected that Sonja would like a poem about her.”
“Yes, but Sonja won’t like this one.”
“Well,” Goodspaceguy agreed, “I admit that the connotations is wrong, so I had better change the poem, but this first version is all I have at this time. Writing good poems is not easy.”

We Should Spin the International Space Station

We Should Spin the International Space Station
by Goodspaceguy
Saturday, September 23, 2006
(This is my message # 24. I have also put more than 20 messages on my other blog at
http://colonizespace.blogspot.com/ )

* We human beings need gravity to maintain a strong bone structure, therefore we should simulate gravity in the International Space Station and in future additional space stations and in future double space ships.

* To simulate gravity, we should slowly spin our International Space Station ... slowly at first. Spinning the space station slowly would allow us to begin experimenting with the provision of different levels of synthetic gravity in our space station.

* We would learn how to build better space stations. We would learn how to re-arrange the different components of the growing, never-finished space stations. We would learn which components need to be strengthened or built stronger in the first place.

* We should start with a slow spin in which we simulate zero gravity near the center of spin and simulated gradually increasing gravity further and further out from the center of spin. For example, at first, we might simulate Lunar gravity in the outer areas of connected habitats of our space station. Then, as we are successful, we should add on additional, connected habitats further out from the center of spin to simulate Martian gravity. Then, as we are successful with simulated Martian gravity, we should add additional, connected habitats even further out from the center of spin to simulate Earth gravity.

* As we connect additional habitats, further and further out from the center of spin of the space station, we should gradually also add to and strengthen the supporting structure of connecting, elevating shafts and stairways, and hallways, and spacelocks that holds the growing space station together.

* The weaker habitats can be kept near the zero-gravity-level center-of-spin, and the stronger habitats can be placed further out from the center-of-spin in the greater gravity circumferences.

* We ca ... to be continued

We Lost Another Space Truck From Orbit

We Lost Another Space Truck From Orbit
by Goodspaceguy
Friday, September 22, 2006
(This is my message #23. I have also put more than twenty messages on my other blog at
http://colonizespace.blogspot.com )

* On Thursday, September 21, 2006, orbital space colonization suffered another blow. The powers-that-be, opposed to orbital space colonization, on purpose, brought the space truck Atlantis down from orbit. They wasted the tax payers' money by bring Atlantis back down to Earth!

* It cost the tax payers a huge amount of money to put the Space shuttle Atlantis up in orbit around the Earth. Instead of Atlantis, they could have put up a really well made space habitat, larger than the Space Shuttle Atlantis. But instead, they put up Atlantis at great expense, and then made the additional mistake of bringing it down again. What a waste!

* Because of the huge cost, people should not go into space for only short periods of time (twelve days in this case.)

* Competition in the private enterprise sector of our economy should be used to create inexpensive return-to-Earth methods for people such as a small braking rocket and ballon or glider or parachute system ... a return system that brings down as little as possible. At over ten thousand dollars a pound to get stuff into orbit, we should want to keep as much trash as possible in orbit for recycling and reuse. Trash and other stuff in orbit is really valuable. We should not continue to destroy it.

* The powers-that-be could have left Space Shuttle Atlantis up in orbit and sold it to private owners. Such a sale by NASA would have significantly advanced orbital space colonization. Atlantis, left in orbit and sold into private ownership, could have been used as a privately owned, orbital space truck, and it could also have been used as a privately owned, orbital space habitat.

* Now we taxpayers have spent the money, but we have neither a space truck nor an additional space habitat in orbit. Our space dollars have been wasted. We could have made some real progress in orbital, space colonization by keeping Atlantis in orbit.

* The space shuttle is the most expensive method we use to put things into orbit. The space shuttle is the most expensive method we use to bring people and things back down again. It is stupid to do things by the more expensive methods. It is wiser to seek and follow the less expensive paths to achievement.

* We should not be bringing things down from orbit. Things are more valuable in orbit.

* We should be keeping people in orbit much longer.

* It was a big, big mistake to shut down our heavy lift Saturn V Rocket System and go to the inferior, expensive space shuttle.

* The powers-that- be continue to violate the principle that whatever is put up into orbit, should stay in orbit.

* The Space Shuttle Atlantis should be modified and put and left in orbit.
* The Space Shuttle Discouvery should be modified and put and left in orbit.
* The Space Shuttle Endeavour should be modified and put and left in orbit.

Principles of Space Colonization

Friday, August 25, 2006 (My message number 22. I also have put more than 20 messages on my other blog "Our Spaceship Earth" http://colonizespace.blogspot.com )

Principles of Space Colonization by Goodspaceguy, a candidate for the United States Senate

* What goes into orbit should stay in orbit.
* A space station is never finished. It can always be added to, made larger, and improved.
* Recycle everything. Advance the technology of recycling.
* Women are needed in the orbiting space colonies.
* Join the individual space habitats together to start a growing space station and then a growing space colony.
* Many space habitats and space stations and orbital space colonies should be spun at a comfortable speed to create an illusion of gravity at a graduation of levels from zero gravity to lunar gravity to Martian gravity to Earth gravity.
* Surround the space habitats with one or more outer layers of enclosing outer habitats to hold layers of water and layers of air for protection from radiation in space. (Picture giant jars within even larger, enclosing jars.)
* Surround the outer space habitats with giant netting for storage and for the prevention of drifting away on space floats.
* Cover the outer hulls of space habits with hooks and handholds.
* At the highest bids, NASA should sell its space habitats to private, corporate, and institutional owners, and use the money proceeds to help finance the launch of more space habitats.
* NASA should use the power of competitive, free enterprise.
* Establish local democracy and the rule of law and order and incentive and protection of private property in the growing space stations and colonies.
* Transform the abundant solar power into electrical power and steam power.
* Mine the near Earth asteroids.
* Mine the near Earth comets.
* Use the laws that protect competitive, free enterprise.
* Use the laws that protect the individual space colonist.

(I plan on adding more principles later.)

I, Michael Goodspaceguy Nelson, am a candidate for the US Senate

Saturday, August 19, 2006 (This is my message #21 on my blog "Colonize Orbital Space." As of this date, I also have posted over 20 messages on my other blog "Our Spaceship Earth." )

On Monday, July 24, 2006, I, Goodspaceguy Nelson, filed as a candidate from Washington State for the United States Senate.

I have two blogs:
http://colonizespace.blogspot.com (This first blog deals with improving Our Spaceship Earth)
http://colonizeorbitalspace.blogspot.com (This second blog deals with getting Earthlings into the coming Orbital Space Colonies before the arrival of the next killer asteroid.)

* I want the orbital space colonization that should have started after President Kennedy and President Johnson got us to the Moon in 1969.
* After establishment of space habitats, I want the privitazation of many of the habitats in the orbital space colonies in order to minimize the huge waste of money found in our current system.
* I want many of the government launched habitats to be sold to the highest bidders: such as to farmers and to other individuals, and to businesses such as movie studios and hotels, and to educational organizations such as universities that want to research and teach people how to live in orbital space. (It's really not that difficult! We are doing it now in the International Space Station, but I know how to do it much better.)
* I want employment for everyone on our Spaceship Earth who is willing to work. We should be balancing the economy with the steady work required to feed, clothe, house, educate, entertain, and raise up all the interested people on our Spaceship Earth.
* Using the head tax and education, I want to stop the population explosion that is causing so many problems on our Spaceship Earth.
* I want us to spread the concept that we on Spaceship Earth are all of the human family that came out of our home continent of Africa long ago, that we are all related, that we are family.
* I want us to spread the concept that our ancestors established cradles of civilization around our Spaceship Earth, and now it is time to expand from the cradle of our Spaceship Earth out into the new high civilization that we and our descendants will build throughout the orbital space of our Solar System.
* I want us to promote world peace using the concept that in this nuclear age, Spaceship Earth has become too, too small for war. We need to spread the rule of law and order around our Spaceship Earth.
* Instead of sending our soldiers, it is better to send our exports to pay for our imports. It does not make sense to bomb our suppliers. It does not make sense to bomb our customers. It does make sense to encourage the development of the local rule of law and order through the local police and courts around our Spaceship Earth.
* The passengers and crews on Spaceship Earth need to learn how to operate their local democracies by trying and trying and trying.
* I want us to defend the freedom and the property and the incentive of each individual so that each individual can become like royalty in the administration of his or her own life and can more easily build to his or her own potential.

Leave The American Space Shuttles in Space!

Leave the American Space Shuttles in Space! (My message # 20 on this blog. I also have written more than 20 messages on my other blog "Our Spaceship Earth"
http://colonizespace.blogspot.com )
July 19, 2006 by Goodspaceguy

* The Fleet of American Space Shuttles was and is a bad idea, a wasteful idea, an injury to the American tax payers, especially when space colonization should be the objective.

* Principle: Because it is so expensive to put material into orbit, whatever makes it into orbit, should stay in orbit.

* It cost a lot of tax payer money to put an American Space Shuttle into orbit. The payload of a launching rocket system pushing things up into orbital space should be considered to be whatever makes it into orbit. The Space Shuttle is therefore the payload and should stay in orbital space. It does not make sense to spend so much money to put Space Shuttles into orbit and then turn around and bring them down to Earth. We then have so little to show for the money spent. For the colonization of our solar system, we need many space crafts in orbit.

* For example, in orbit, the space shuttles could have been sold to the highest bidders. Some of the new owners might have used them for providing transportation between the Earth and the orbit of the Moon. Perhaps an owner, might even had tried going to the orbit of Mars and the moons of Mars.

* Other new owners of space shuttles in orbit might simply have used them as habitats from which to experiment with living and working in orbit.

* NASA's research should be concentrating on learning how people can live well and work well in orbital space. (I and some other people already have some good ideas in this area. Some people think NASA is brain dead.)

* It was wrong to bring our space shuttles and other material down from orbit. If we had joined the spacecrafts and and other items together with docking spheres and nets and connectors, we would already be a great space colonizing civilization with several spinning outposts in our solar system.

* Again (and this is important) each space shuttle launch could instead have been a launch of a space habitat. We would have so much more to show for the money we have already spent.

* If we had launched space habitats instead of space shuttles, we would be so much further ahead of where we are now. We would already have much experience with beginning orbital colonization around the Earth, around the Moon, and around the moons of Mars.

* In the 49 years of the Space Age that Nikita Khrushchev began when he led the backward Soviet Union in launching Sputnik in 1957, we have accomplished so little of our potential in space colonization. We have thrown away so, so many possible space habitats by abandonning our successful heavy lift rocket for the wasteful Space Shuttle. Our leaders simply did not and apparantly do not understand space colonization.

*Progress through knowledge, Michael Goodspaceguy Nelson, candidate US Senate