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Elaine of ZIA

Space Migration Is Our Only Salvation

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About Me:
In short, I love electronic music, outer space and mixed martial arts.
I was raised by two loving math professors and am grateful. For some reason I became obsessed with space in 1992 and it stuck with me all these years. I'm the Mars Projects Manager for the Space Frontier Foundation and have volunteered for many years for the National Space Society . Ironically, I have way more connections in the space industry than I do in the music business. The fact that I'm an experimental electronic musician probably explains why I don't have many "connections". Breaking down the walls of conformity is not a recipe for a major record deal. * * * I train at Southwest Mixed Martial Arts in Tempe. I loooove it. I appreciate how fighters in general put mind over matter. They are professional athletes displaying very technical skills. Jiu Jitsu exercises the mind as much as the body! * * * I'm always searching inward and outward. Usually that means reading about physics and philosophy and pondering. It's possible that the answers are contained in the universe itself. But if something beyond our realm created the universe, then how better to get closer to our "creator" than to learn about the universe? If we do have a superior being watching over us who doesn't appreciate our self motivation and curiosity, then I am no follower of theirs. (I don't believe in a creator - it's just food for thought for those of you who do.) If you actually read this far, thanks for reading. You must be crazy.
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In 2003 I was commissioned by the NASA Haughton-Mars Project to film a pop music video in the Canadian High Arctic (75 degrees North) to promote the idea of humans living on Mars. I froze my tail off, but have never had so much fun in my life! Mars has a 24 hour day/night cycle which plants would appreciate, and recently discovered water/ice. It wouldn't be easy by any stretch, but we could live there someday.Number Sine Live - February 2007

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My Interests

Electronic music, outer space, human space travel, the origin of the universe, quantum physics, special relativity, string theory, chaos theory and fractals , electronics , extropianism , history, the future, mixed martial arts , longevity, extra dirty bombay saphire martinis.

My 16 year old Princess Baloney:
Make Baloney Picture of the Day your default website and she will bring a smile to you every day! www.BaloneyPOTD.com

Math is cool.

I'd like to meet:

I'd Like to Meet: The creator of our creator.

Music:

Influences: in the 80's - Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Siouxsie Sioux, Blondie, Berlin, Sinead, Aimee Mann, New Order, Dead Kennedy's, Descendents. In the 90s - Front Line Assembly, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Bjork, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, Autechre.

What I listen to now: I pretty much love all 70's music from The Bee Gees to The Doors. I also seek out fresh electronic music. NOT techno though. I really, honestly don't like most techno. The glowstick era was just after my time. ;-)

Junior Boys
Alcoholiday
Peachcake
Superdrive
Metakinetic
Spoo
Cacheflowe
piiiq
Asteroid Power Up!
awesome microtonal music!
M:::E*~:::)))(((:::~
U-clic
TheOneSpy
Terminal11
vybbtuan
Beats In Space (internet radio)
cliqhop idm (internet radio)

Movies:

Plan 9 From Outer Space
2001: A Space Odyssey (EYE CANDY)
Fifth Element (EAR CANDY)
Stargate
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Liquid Sky
Xanadu
Barbarella
Fargo
Fight Club
anything with Steve Buscemi or Ed Norton
Napoleon Dynamite
Office Space
Little Miss Sunshine
Team America!

Television:

Stargate SG-1
Reno 911
South Park
Family Guy
Nip Tuck
UFC / Pride
Phoenix Suns basketball

Books:

CHAOS
by James Gleik (my new favorite book)
The Mind of God
by Paul Davies (math section at Borders)
Physics and Philosophy
by Werner Heisenberg (physics/philosophy)
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene (physics/philosophy)
The 12th Planet
by Zecharia Sitchin (ancient astronauts)
Earth
by David Brin (sci fi)
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
by Carl Sagan (physics/philosophy)
Cosmogenesis
by David Layzer (physics/philosophy)

Heroes:

My folks, Billy Idol, Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1, Steve Nash ... it takes all kinds.

My favorite fighters/comedians:

Mayhem

Forrest

Tanner

Rogan

My Blog

the joy of youtubing

I've discovered it!www.youtube.com/miselaineeousBaloney is in every video! meow..:D
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:16:00 PST

Remembering Kevin Last VDay..

I don't mean to be a downer.. but I want to remember Kevin Schlemers on this day. I spent last Valentines Day with him, and he passed away not long after that. We had great fun.. made some good memori...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:06:00 PST

My Mars Movie (written in September, 2001)

I keep finding crazy stuff, lookin through old files. I wrote this outline for a Mars Movie back in 2001 - September, no less.. just before 9-11. I guess it's ironic since one of the (many) things tha...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:44:00 PST

The Story of Creation - 1997

I wrote this TEN years ago.. just found it again! It hints at chaos theory.The universe began as something beyond the range of our experience, and perhaps beyond the range of our mathematical imaginat...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:16:00 PST

Letter to Bill Clinton - 1996

I was looking on some CDRs for an old file from 1993 and found this! lol.From: Elaine Walker-Mullen (12/6/96) To: Mr PresidentPut Humans Back in the Space Race Dear Mr. President,I am a 28 year old wh...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:46:00 PST

Free Will

A good friend on the East Coast told me about a book called On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (creator of the Palm Pilot and Treo smart phone) and said that I should read it. Just a few days later I got...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:11:00 PST

Brains

I know this is silly cuz brains don't really work this way.. but there's probably SOMETHING to it. As a musician and artist who only reads non-fiction science books, I was curious to see if I was "lef...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:15:00 PST

Beating Death..

Although I completely understand the cycle of life and death, the second half is just not my thing. So.... along with many other people who wish they were born in the year 3000...I'm signing up for Al...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:39:00 PST

My 9-11 ashes launched into space from my hometown!

On September 11, 2001 ashes rained down on Park Slope Brooklyn, like snow, a mile and a half directly downwind of ground zero. I scooped a few grams off of my car windshield wiper in hopes of getting ...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Wed, 02 May 2007 03:15:00 PST

Kevin Charles Schemers (1979-2007) R.I.P.

Oh Kevin.. I will never forget your boyish face. What a handsome devil. I will always miss our wrestling matches, bumping into furniture and hurting ourselves and annoying the roommates.. whichever ho...
Posted by Elaine of ZIA on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:30:00 PST