Month: September 2022

THE MONEY MOTIVE. "The smallest Earth-crossing asteroid 3554 Amun ... is a mile-wide (2 km) lump of iron, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and other metals; it contains 30 times as much metal as Humans have mined throughout history, although it is only the smallest of dozens of known metallic asteroids and worth perhaps US$ 20 trillion." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization View in LinkedIn

SPACE FOR POWER AND WEALTH. "Those that colonize space will control vast lands, enormous amounts of electrical power, and nearly unlimited material resources. The societies that develop these resources will create wealth beyond our wildest imagination and wield power -- hopefully for good rather than for ill." http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Basics/wwwwh.h View in LinkedIn

SPACE AS INSURANCE FOR MANKIND. "In the long run a single-planet species will not survive ... If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, we must ultimately populate other planets. " (Michael D. Griffin, 2005 NASA Administrator). https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Space_colonization.html View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE SPACE HABITATION. "Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have long believed that humans will one day colonize the universe." Other level-headed scientists entertain the possibility of panspermia, life originating from another planet. http://lnkd.in/dbbJ_Ax View in LinkedIn

MADE IN SPACE INC. "Starting next year, and in partnership with NASA, this Silicon Valley-based company—founded by serial entrepreneurs Aaron Kemmer, Jason Dunn, and Mike Chen—will begin using 3D printing to make objects aboard the International Space Station." http://lnkd.in/dxsGCMs View in LinkedIn

MOTIVES FOR COLONIZATION are so compelling: immense wealth, power over vast domains, insurance for humankind, and military dominion; all the motivation that humankind needs to get out of bed in the morning. This is an unstoppable driver for an immense undertaking. There that can be no doubt it will be undertaken. View in LinkedIn

STEPHEN HAWKING "predicted that the human race would become extinct within the next thousand years, unless colonies could be established in space ... mankind faces two options: Either we colonize space within the next two hundred years and build residential units on other planets or we will face the prospect of long-term extinction." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization View in LinkedIn

CARL SAGAN. "Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring ... for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds." http://www.spacequotes.com/ View in LinkedIn

SPACE EVOLUTION. "Humans are taking the reigns of their evolutionary path and embarking on this journey to their future. We are the first creatures on Earth to evolve the capability of forcing changes to our physiology to adapt to the environment, rather than the environment forcing change upon us."" " http://lnkd.in/dZebQX5 View in LinkedIn

SUSPENDED ANIMATION TRAVEL. "Because there is no technology available for achieving fast interstellar space travel, proponents of interstellar space colonization have proposed several alternatives. The three most important ones are: generation ships, sleeper ships and embryo space colonization." http://lnkd.in/dBaf3yz View in LinkedIn