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A Home Beyond Earth
October 5th, 2016
Is there a need to get off the planet and set up shop elsewhere in space? I think so. To keep advancing in technology and the evolution of industry, space is the next and only progression. There are also those who hold that an extinction event on Earth is inevitable and that if we don’t go deeper into space we’re just sitting around waiting to die. My feeling is the the more mature we are in the space age the better the chance of avoiding an extinction event. An example would be using the gravity of a spaceship to change the course of an asteroid. Colonizing other planets and moons alleviates human’s populating problem as well.
Humans are a red hot mess when it comes to war, the threat of self annihilation, global warming, so on and so forth. Should we really be dragging all of our extra baggage deeper into space? Where just babies in the space age and we’re surrounded in debris and space junk. We still haven’t learned to clean up after ourselves. What do our neighbors think? Do Other Kinds Of Aliens Exist? Yes, I do believe we have neighbors just waiting to to see what it is exactly that we’re going to do. To see if we’ll be an asset or a liability. If you think we’re the only sophisticated beings in the Universe that’s OK too. As things are we are a liability but that won’t always be true. All the space programs themselves have us being more civil toward each other, uniting us in a common goal. We recycle now and there’s agencies like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) policing our pollution. We just have to keep progressing socially and civilly as we advance technologically and we have to apply those advances to keeping it tidy.
I have some pretty crazy ideas on how we could be doing things differently. I think we could be using all that radioactive debris from junked satellites and even making more of it on purpose to bias a planet’s surface and atmosphere. Grind them into dust and spread it all over the already highly radioactive planet we hope to inhabit. Human vibes and emotions are greatly underestimated. They’re powerful and would only gain in that power by more learned Emotional Control and exuberance. Amp up love and desire tone down HATE and dismay. The Human Element streamed trough satellites and every day contact, to a lesser extent can actually bias the The Environment to the human advantage and eventually help us make an atmosphere more suited to human livability. OK, that’s my bit of craziness. It wouldn’t hurt to try and we’d be cleaning up the Earth’s atmosphere in the process.
What NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is doing is prepping for its mission to Mars by the mid 2030’s. It’s a three phase plan the first being Earth Reliant then Proving Ground and onto Earth Independent. The Journey to Mars Overview speaks briefly about each phase. In Proving Ground an asteroid is actually captured put into the moon’s orbit where samples will later be taken by the Orion. I do hope you’ll check out the overview. It’s quite exciting.
Even more exciting to the point of scary is SpaceX’s very ambitious plan to start colonizing Mars by the hundreds by 2022 or 2024. I think everyone is pulling for Elon Musk the founder and CEO of SpaceX. Still, with a battle cry of you have to be “prepared to die” to be among the first candidates for their mission to colonize Mars it seems as though SpaceX doesn’t have the same dedication to safety as other space agencies. How Crazy Is Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars? Even the skeptics seem to want him to succeed. A NASA representative was quoted as saying, “NASA applauds all those who want to take the next giant leap and advance the journey to Mars. We are very pleased that the global community is working to meet the challenges of a sustainable human presence on Mars.” Elon Musk provides new details to his ‘mind blowing’ mission to Mars. He believes his only reason for existing is to achieve interplanetary space travel in our lifetime, relatively speaking. He proposes doing it at a cost of $200,000 a ticket.
SpaceX’s system is ITS (Interplanetary Transport System). The rockets are 400 feet tall and 39 feet wide but can they get the system to fly correctly?
There have been mishaps in the past. SpaceX Figured Out Why Its Expensive Rocket Exploded and there was another explosion of the CRS-7 shortly after lift off the previous year. I think SpaceX has to establish some consistent success in space flight to achieve the colonization of Mars. ITS is dependent on reusable rockets which is unheard of. NASA and I’m sure others reuse engines but not whole rockets. A running string of successes like the in the following video and I’ll certainly be on the Musk bandwagon.
We’re not just looking to Mars. We’re investigating moons and other planet’s life sustaining potential. This chart shows all 10 of the likeliest ocean worlds in space and where there’s water there may be life. As long as that life is primitive enough we could learn to share without totally taking. We don’t have a good track record with each other. Hubble may have caught jets of water squirting out of a potentially habitable moon. It’s so exciting to think of generations to follow living and working in space. The only thing that’s missing is Occupational Parenting; an economy that ensures all humans will stay the focus not just Earth’s resources over Mar’s resources or vice versa. Such a scheme really could go towards dividing humans into a more pronounced (haves) and (have nots) scenario.
Whether you think we should be exploring the outer reaches or whether you think we should just sit our asses right here at home we still need a stable, healthy, and long lasting economy. Occupational Parenting ensures that our specie will endure as long as it possibly can and steers us away from the dangers that open up when only the wealthy can fly away. It’s an economy that keeps us on level ground while inspiring us to blast off. Until next time, keep your homes well.
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