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UNIVERSAL HOPE

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Colonize the Solar System
Protect Mankind

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Universal HOPE

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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.

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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.

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So, I push on, attempt to bring it all together, collate it, and communicate.  I will raise the flag, and see if anyone salutes.

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Something needs to be done, must be done.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Below is a mess of notes.  Sorry.

Why colonize the solar system?  Doesn't it distract and reduce our resources here on earth?

 

Big Picture 1: 

 

Don't be misled by Zero-Net Sum Theory 

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Do not be confused by Zero-NET-SUM theory which states: more money used in this program means less money in that program.  EDUCATION JUSTIFICATION Just like agriculture is not a zero-net process, the space initiatives generate more product and benefits than are put in. 

 

Space investment is not  Zero-NET sum.  

 

Our space programs have already paid back thousands of times their cost.

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In the long run, Space Programs add to the GDP of the world and increases money available for other programs.

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  • The amount of material sent into space and not returned to Earth is on the scale of the material sent to the dump each week from St Louis Missouri.

  • The amount of fuel used by all of Earth's Space Programs is on the scale of the fuel used each day by the planes landing at O'hare International Airport in Chicago.

  • Every dollar spent on national space development reduces the economic reason to spend money on weapons.

 

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"Life is a Gift, and

In our Uncertain World,

The future is not Guaranteed,

However, if We Work Hard Together,

We have a Chance, and that is Reason for HOPE"

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