[SRI] "Expand or die!" by Adriano V. Autino, a paper published by James Blodgett on Global Risk Reduction, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa Ltd.
EXPAND OR DIE
a paper by Adriano V. Autino, published by James Blodgett on Global Risk Reduction, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa Ltd.
(Excerpt) Since the very beginning, as written in SRI's Space Renaissance Manifesto1, we agreed, together with the world space community at large, that there is only one way to mitigate the global risk of premature extinction for our civilization: to become a space-faring civilization, establishing and settling other celestial bodies and artificial infrastructures, as Gerard K. O'Neill excellently designed 50 years ago.
Such an evolutionary step is essential, in order to stop keeping all of our eggs in one basket. We all know this.
The global crisis of Coronavirus is showing clearly that almost eight billion humans can't continue their development, if they remain confined inside the boundaries of our mother planet. Furthermore, remaining confined on the bottom of Earth's gravitational well makes civilization weak and dramatically exposed to a large number of threats, both endogenous and exogenous. An abstract from the Space Renaissance Manifesto, written in 2009, can be seen in Figure 1. Points d) and e) illustrate the dangerous possibility of both superbugs (pandemics) and bacteriologic warfare in a globalized world. That world has become too small and narrow for the free and democratic development of 8 billion people. And, of course, we are still facing environmental decay, although Coronavirus recently stole the show from climate change and the plague of pollution.
Figure 2 illustrates the Space Transport Vehicle and Space Habitats Requirements
The contents of the paper:
- Humanity Needs to Stop Keeping All of Our Eggs in One Basket
- A 50 Year Delay in the Kick-Off of Civilization's Expansion into Space
- The Birth of Commercial Space: How Far Are We from Geo-Lunar Space Industrialization?
- Space Travelers Shouldn't Be Astronauts
- The Damages to Human Health Caused by Long Unprotected Stays in Space
- The Challenges We Shall Overcome, to Kick-Off Civilian Space Development
- Expansion into Space Grows as an Expanding Sphere Centered on Earth
Download the full pdf paper here: http://www.global-risk-sig.org/pub.htm
or here: https://spacerenaissance.space/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EROSM72K.pdf
As Astra!
Adriano