Bringing Life to the Universe, Bringing the Universe to Life
UNIVERSAL HOPE
More of VESTA - the books
Colonize the Solar System
Protect Mankind
"Part of the Roadmap to create the enthusiasm for support of the effort to colonize the solar system is a set of possible and achievable futures distributed as youth books, hard science fiction, movies, and gaming. All will be supported by actual launches to asteroid sites within the Solar System."
Vesta - Coming of Age
Vesta - Wunderland
Vesta - War and Peace
Vesta is one of the largest asteroids in Solar System and suitable for occupation. We have visited it once already and it makes an interesting and compelling location to propose colonization to our youth and future generations. It is the primary site for the books.
However, long duration travel must be made safe for the human body, therefore:
The BOLO YoYo Habitat
A A shape changing structure to accomplish the following:
- Create a sustainable Earth normal gravity human habitat in a zero-gravity space environment
- Reduce the obligation for a logistic effort that is as for now impossible to achieve required by a torus structure
- Allow interplanetary travel and other log duration occupation of space by simulating gravity with centrifugal force
- Allow scaling (increasing capacity) of structure as materials/funding/logistics allow (more paired spacecraft can be added)
1 - While compact in YoYo mode, achieve orbit velocity
2 - Habitable spacecraft (some, or all, but in pairs) using thrusters, spool out to desired distance
3 - In concert, using thrusters, slowly “dance: around the center core “YoYo”,
increasing spin to desired outward rotation speed and acceleration
4 - When approaching destination, spool in to and dock all habitats against center core YoYo, then in concert, decelerate
(requires interactive rocket systems, additional supplies left in core at zero gravity, low atmosphere) (cannot access core during spin, must spin down)
Universal HOPE
website under development
To whom might be reading this: Thank you for inquiring this far, the website is still being developed. As of March 2019 the outline of the thesis has been published, there remains thousands of pages of notes recording the justifications for the statements and claims made in the outline. They represent my life's work.
There is a significant amount of hubris contained in the overarching concept of this thesis; "We HOPE to save Mankind." . . .
But, although this is true, I do not believe I have encountered any human culture capable of taking us into the future, they are all flawed in some regard. And although I have some small adolescent bravado, I do not think I am a buffoon, a dangerous combination of arrogance and ignorance.
So, I push on, attempt to bring it all together, collate it, and communicate. I will raise the flag, and see if anyone salutes.
Something needs to be done, must be done.
These further pages of justification are incomplete, a mishmash that will, time allowing, be organized into a comprehensive, concise, even perhaps, eloquent transmission of ideas and solutions.
After the pebble is dropped, and the initial ripples reaching the shores of concerned people, the whole thesis will be deposited in one of the disciplinary repositories subject to the jury of the most august and informed bodies of wisdom, you.
Can it be done? In my lifetime, Hyman Rickover and Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, by their personal energies, have changed the world. Let's give it a try.
Below is a mess of notes. Sorry.
Air tight membrane supported by
scaffolding ten miles above
the surface of the asteroid,
covered by 3,000 feet of
rubble rip-rap rock for
protection and to
offset the pressure
below
This creates a
livable atmosphere
ten miles thick above
the surface of the asteroid
Original rock body
60 miles in diameter
In addition to Vesta, there is a location within the asteroid belt, called Wunderland in the books, based upon an actual pair called Antiope, which in the books are turned into Airoids.
"What is an Airoid you say?"
Outline: The Antiope “Airoid” Project to invigorate the next generation.
There exist two asteroids in the belt with exciting potential:
A double pair called 90 Antiope
They are about 60 miles each in diameter and about eighty miles apart
They present an exhilarating opportunity for terra-forming into a colony habitat by the creation of an “Airoid” surface.
This will create a habitat with about ten thousand square miles of surface (ten times the size of the State of Rhode Island), 100,000 cubic miles of accessible volume (about ten to twenty thousand times the total volume of all buildings in USA), and an atmosphere ten miles deep. Because of the low gravitational gradient, the entire atmosphere would be essentially Earth’s sea level.
People would weigh less than a pound and be able to fly with the most rudimentary of wings. Advances in genetic engineering could create dragons and winged horses. A magic wonderland could be created. A video game based upon this location would have enormous real variations and possibilities.
Exploring true asteroids with this incredible potential would anchor the enthusiasm of the next generation. Their energies would be further focused with movies and video games based upon the reality of the Antiope Pair and colonization of the solar system.
An Airoid is created by erecting a scaffolding ten miles above the surface of the asteroid, and covering with mylar, sealing it in, similar to a Dyson sphere.
The outer surface is layered by rock rubble call rip-rap, and the weight of the rip-rap is offset by pressure of the air within the sphere, which is increased during construction as the thickness of the rip-rap increased .
This solves the major failure mode of catastrophic rupture from space junk of the previously suggested O’Neill structures. The rubble thickness would end up between two and three kilometers in thickness, and could take and mitigate the shock and energies of most space rocks.