Lazy X Ranch

For a feeling of unity with the universe we try to quantify experiences in astral units on absolute scales.

For temperature we use Kelvin, which is not degreed like Fahrenheit or Celsius, but designated as K, where a nice comfortable temperature is 300 K, freezing is 273 K, and at 0 K, hydrogen solidifies. The temperature of open outer space is 4.5 K.

Time is not a dimension of reality (Therefore the fabulous concept of time travel is an impossibility.).

Marking time by the period of earth's solar orbit, beginning at the big bang, the current estimate of the universe's age is 13,730,000,000 on the low side and 13,810,000,000 on the high.

The era of the evolution of human physical form: ~300,000 years, and intelligence: ~50,000, can be added to the median for a sum of 13,770,350,000 which is within the estimated range. Likewise, the current cultural chronologue: 2026, based on the years since birth of Jesus (which had to be adjusted for an error of three years), can be added so as to not needlessly change what we're all familiar with.

We write the current year, in full, as: 

013770 3520 26. 

The three blocks of digits correspond to the eras of astral, humanistic, and personal events (which, a lifetime rarely exceeding 99 years, seldom needs to roll over into a third digit) respectively. The leading zero is there for the eons to come, before universal expansion reaches its zenith then reverses until everything is compressed and another big bang occurs.

"Where they create a desert, they call it peace." (Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant) — Tacitus, Roman historian, writing of Caledonia (Scotland) in 98 AD  (013770 3500 98).

The opening up of a tract in the Kramer country in Southern California is of especial interest just now. When the railway from Barstow to Mojave was built, the Southern Pacific was supposed to have crossed a region that would never be reclaimed, and whose only inhabitants would be a few disconsolate railway agents, section foremen and men who worked upon the line. That was in 1883. Today, in 1914, not only has a change of opinion come about in regard to this region, but there are material physical evidences on every hand that those early day opinions are relegated to the junk pile of the past. The Kramer Valley proposition stands today as follows:

The land is of known productive quality: the climatic conditions are favorable for the growth of pears, apples, almonds, olives and alfalfa; there is an abundance of cheap electric power immediately available for pumping and every other purpose.

The Southern Pacific has placed on the market its lands in the valley at prices ranging from $3 to $10 an acre. Here is a chance for the homeseeker, the land hungry. For a payment of one dollar an acre on the highest priced land one may enter into full possession and, with intelligence, industry and perseverance, success is practically assured. — The Bulletin, issued by the Southern Pacific Company Bureau of News, San Francisco, Cal., Volume II, Number 11, page 4, June 15, 1914 (013770 3519 14).

The Lazy X Ranch serves as a landmark for aviators. Test pilots, flying advanced aircraft out of nearby Edwards Air Force Base and the Mojave Air and Space Port, can often be seen changing direction in the sky above us, as when the largest plane ever built, the Stratolaunch carrier aircraft flew right over the Lazy X then headed south, on its first flight, April 13, 2019 (013770 3520 19).