SPACE
Sometimes when you have a problem
you have to step away from the problem in order to solve it. To get distance
and perspective we talk to friends, therapists or pray for guidance, for something outside of our "forest
of thought," for another way of seeing - an insight - a new vision.
Space is that new vision, and by
reaching toward the stars we gain insights into our planet and discover a lot
in the process.
When John F. Kennedy said we would
put a man on the moon in seven years - we did it - we fulfilled our vision!
Space and the Possibilities for the Future
We need space for the following
reasons:
It provides an appropriate channel for our technology, solar energy,
computers, artificial intelligence, robotics, entertainment and education.
Solar power satellites will be collecting solar energy while orbiting
the earth and beaming down that energy to receiving stations around the globe.
A grid of solar power collectors orbiting our earth will provide all the energy
we would ever need for the next five billion years.
Space is infinite - VAST - beyond abundant. Each person on this planet
could have millions of miles of territory and we still wouldn't reach our closest
star - Alpha Centauri.
Space technology has created our modern system of telecomunications and
satellite media services - as well as earth monitoring systems and a continual
flow of new ideas and information.
One could visit space colonies like
a plane trip to a nearby city - less than an hour flight from the mother ship
Earth. There could be an abundance of different colonies for different purposes.
Special interest groups, manufacturing and engineering, learning labs, research
and development, food farming, pharmaceuticals, recreation centers, containment
facilities, spiritual and religious communities, cults and new philosophies.
The Colonization of space is an idea whose time has come - now.
New dimensions in hospitals, hospice
and health care.
For all those humans in a coma,
there is less possibility for tissue break down and pressure sores to develop
in weightless environments. The millions of perfectly healthy and vibrant humans
confined to wheelchairs because of spinal injury, the para and quadriplegics
who would love the experience of floating free -effortlessly. Even as
a place to visit - just for a change -GRAVITY IS A DRAG!
For the education and wonder of our children. The awesome journey of
new worlds - new possibilities - Claiming the cosmos and reaching for the stars.
We are explorers in the "high frontier" (Girard O'Neil).
Space will develop and enrich the concept of global family - our shared
human destiny, abundance and diversity. Our adventures in space will further
assist us in comprehending our universe and inspire our sense of wonder.
For many of us space colonies would
not be our primary residence but we will go for a visit, to see some friends
or just recreation, float around the countryside, witness a new sunrise and
sunset about every hour and peer into the vastness of the galaxy and think,
"I am a part of the Universe." Space cities will have both gravity
(city environments) as well as low-gravity (country environments).
Life in space will totally change
the notion of "work". With abundant energy, we will no longer have
to work to pay the "bills"
The human being will evolve into
a creative, playful, nurturing, brilliant vessel of love and inspiration. Painting,
music, dance, discovery, wonder and jubilation.
Life is for celebration, creation
and sharing in the wonder of it all. The technology to create space colonies
complete with farms, lakes, mountains and streams, cities and towns. Earth-like
gravity and low G (gravity) zones exist here and now. This is not science fiction
- this is here and now.
SPACE - TO REACH OUT TO INFINITY AND CLAIM A
SPACE - TO CREATE
NEW WORLDS
NEW VISIONS
NEW SONGS AND DANCES
Earth is moving around the sun at
62,000 miles per hour. Turning at 1,000 miles per hour at the equator.
The sun is the center of our solar
system moving through the galaxy at over 500,000 miles per hour.
We are already in space. We are
just checking out the neighborhood. I don't think I'll get to our closest neighboring
star, Alpha Centauri in my lifetime, but I'm certain I'll visit the moon.
It's an amazing universe - let's
party!
"Year of modern! Years of unperformed,
your horizon rises - I see it parting away for more august dramas;...
I see tremendous entrances and exits
- I see new combinations Never were such sharp questions asked as this day;
Never was average man, his soul,
more energetic more like a God;...
What whispers are these, oh lands,
running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
Are all nations communing? Is there
going to be but one heart to the globe?"
Walt Whitman
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