Zipping Zeppelins

Wasps are busy in the warm autumn air this afternoon.  How much organic material do I share with them?

A colleague of mine snuck out from the depths of the Vatican copies of the original secret writings of St. Francis of Assisi and passed them on to me.

Many others have provided me copies of similar writings stored in South America, Asia and Africa.

Why?

Not by request - not specifically, anyway.


They all want me to finish the first of the untranslatable universally-coded epics to give to alien/extraterrestrial beings when our species finally makes contact.

We're family, you and I.

If I can't explain to the weeping fig the purpose of tears or fears, then the epic is too obscure for any beings.

I think I've complicated the writing.

I posed to my cadre of computer programmers the question, "What is a universal code?"

Well, you know the answer, of course:  "States of energy."

I've looked at tree rings, decomposing rock patterns, sunlight shifts and other changing states of energy.

Pattern-matching, perhaps?

How do I anticipate the types of patterns to communicate with?

It's easy to attract wasps, hornets and birds to my house because I know the ingredients they need to perpetuate life - trees, water, seeds, cellulose, and other organic life enhancers.

A toxin to one lifeform is an essential ingredient to another.

Do we say a universal code would be the universal toxin(s)?  We communicate by coming to terms with what kills all of us, assuming we have no essential ingredients for life in common (other than the fact they're states of energy)?  What if we encountered an organised collection of states of energy that is unaffected by gravity?

With answer in hand, I conduct experiments, either through thought alone or analysis of empirical evidence, to see if I can arrive at the answer from multiple directions.

I thank the redbud seed pod, turkey buzzard and wasps for their assistance.  Also, Josh at Apollo Cafe, Brigitte at Walmart, and Little Paul's BBQ for their service.

For those who can't afford a rocketship shot into space, would a balloon ride up to 17 miles suffice to give them the view that proves how small our planet really is?

Wealth is barter power but so is deeper understanding of why we get wealthy and what we can do with it for the sake of our species.