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As the space industrial capability level and the skill of productive space utilization advance, the number of people living in space for a major fraction of their life span will grow. These people will develop new preferences as to g-levels and lifestyles no longer necessarily related to terrestrial physical or social conditions. They will "urbanize" their new worlds. Space stations and lunar abodes will become their primary home-Earth a place to visit or perhaps just to "experience" holographically, in the comfort of their gravity environment. The more antiseptic surroundings in space settlements could reduce resistance to diseases of those who live in them from birth. They may find the hygiene of Earth just as hazardous as we would find the hygiene of medieval cities or ancient Rome. Still, some space-born offspring may migrate back. Those who stay will continue to diverge sociopsychologically from the ways of terrestrial mankind, as Americans have diverged from their ancestral countries. They will become the new Homo Extraterrestris who no longer needs Earth, hence does not wish to simulate its environment slavishly.
Their readiness to achieve sociopolitical and resource independence will grow with the psychology of their extraterrestrial motivations and their technological ability to create new worlds in their totality. This will lead to Androcell, not a colony of Earth, but a sovereign, mobile, neocosm. Androcell is the new beginning, while back on Earth open-world conditions move toward a demographic and industrial equilibrium.
The Androcell phase is likely to follow the intermediate phase, exourbanization. Oversimplifying somewhat, one may say that exoindustrialization puts the machines and productive techniques into space; exourbanization introduces the human and biological elements; and extraterrestrialization integrates the two components into complete neocosms.
Each of the three evolutionary phases is justifiable by clearly identifiable prime objectives as well as by their impact in changing the consequence world. Each phase contributes to the capability and motivation to, progress to the subsequent phase. In third phase, we leave the harbor and emerge into the open sea of space, psychologically and socially speaking. Human history henceforth will pulse through many world-arteries that lose themselves beyond the horizons of our perception in the trackless infinity of space and time.
The civilization of the Androcell is truly three-dimensional, not only because the design of Androcell utilizes purposefully all gravity levels between axis and periphery of the rotating systems; but, more important, because living awareness between worlds, and between surfaces and Androcells, plays itself out in three-dimensional space. Through exoindustrialization (production facilities), exourbanization (Astropolis, Selenopolis) and neocosms (Androcells), the human life form may be regarded as returning to the three dimensional origin of all terrestrial life. The two-dimensional existence of Earth's land surface becomes an evolutionary benchmark wedge between the three-dimensionality of the finite oceanic womb from which life rose to the brightness of consciousness and the infinite cosmic womb in which it can rise to a level beyond our understanding.
By the way forgot to point out...
Originally posted by zorgon
The Extraterrestrial Imperative
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Ehricke brings to bear his extensive technical credentials in describing the actual means of accomplishing this, credentials which he initially earned during Germany’s wartime rocket research at Peenemünde, and later, with both the U.S. Army rocket team under Wernher von Braun, and the civilian aerospace firms involved in America’s space program.
Born in Berlin, Ehricke believed in the feasibility of space travel from a very young age, influenced by his viewing of the Fritz Lang film Woman in the Moon. At the age of 12, he formed his own rocket society. He attended Berlin Technical University and studied celestial mechanics and nuclear physics under such luminaries as Hans Geiger and Werner Heisenberg, attaining his degree in Aeronautical Engineering. [1]
He worked at Peenemünde as a propulsion engineer from 1942 to 1945 with Walter Thiel, then went to the United States with other German rocket scientists and technicians under "Operation Paperclip" in 1947. He worked for a short time with the Von Braun Rocket Team at Huntsville.[2]
In 1948, while working for the U.S. Army, Ehricke wrote a story about a manned mission to Mars called "Expedition Ares". It anticipated the many challenges that still face explorers who will make the journey in the future. In the same year he wrote a book with Wernher von Braun, The Mars Project, which detailed how man could travel to Mars using a ferry system.
Originally posted by zorgon
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For "intelligent" people to continually think we will be able to someday is ludicrous.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
Nope! It's still 2010 and not 1510.
Originally posted by stealthyaroura
reply to post by zorgon
I think we both know there already are people up there
and have been for quite some time. 60's+ maybe.
The worms were sent to the space station to multiply rapidly, a special skill of the C. elegans worm, so Johnsen and his research team at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby could examine their descendants' genes for mutations.
"We are looking for damage to DNA caused by space radiation,"; Johnsen told CBC News.
In this "proof of principle" experiment, "a genome returned from space has been shown to have damage that we could define very precisely," said principle investigator David Baillie, Canadian Research Chair in genomics at SFU. One worm came back from space "with an extra piece of DNA inserted into the genetic material, carrying extra copies of eight different genes."
Originally posted by Oneolddude
Humans will never live any place else except on this little rock.
THIS is our vessel traveling through space.
For "intelligent" people to continually think we will be able to someday is ludicrous.
This place protects the human body in a way we will NEVER understand.
To continually waste money to attempt to send humans."out there" is nothing more than what I call being a modern day Icarus .
There is a phrase,"stay grounded".
That is what we as a species need to do.
Learn how to live on this planet in harmony with the earth and other species that inhabit this planet.
I am sure, if there are other universal species more intelligent than us, and they are monitoring our activities,they will insure we don't leave here and spread our ignorance and greed else where.
edit on 20-10-2010 by Oneolddude because: life is short.
News of a NASA experiment that exposed the bacteria salmonella to space flight aboard the shuttle Atlantis should not be a surprise After days of exposure to the radiation of space, the microbes evolved into a more virulent and dangerous strain..
Some of us vividly recall problems the Russians had with runaway strains of mold aboard their 15-year old space station Mur. In the end the mold not only interfered with the electronics but began growing on metal, plastic and glass parts. The problem got so severe we believe it was one of the main reasons Mur was abandoned and allowed to crash into the ocean in 2001.
It was our suspicion that the mold and fungus, as well as other microbes including germs, were being affected and altered by a constant bombardment of solar and other forms of radiation from outer space..
Once again, as is far too often the case, your campy B-movie’s have predicted a terrible future. First killer robots, then horrible things that climb out of swamps, and like a scene from Crichton's Andromeda Strain, killer germs from space
Or, in reality, killer germs from earth, that have gone to space, and then come home again.
That’s the news from a new report conducted by NASA on a shuttle mission from 2006. It was mission STS-115, back in September of 06, that NASA astronauts were accompanied on their spaceward journey by a batch of salmonella. Scientists wanted to see what effect the germs would take on after a space visit. What they found is somewhat disturbing, accompanied by how they found it.
Man’s unwitting science partner – the lab mice – were fed the jetlagged salmonella, and were found to be three times more likely to get sick and die quicker than those mice who were fed the original salmonella.
''Wherever humans go, microbes go, you can't sterilize humans. Wherever we go, under the oceans or orbiting the earth, the microbes go with us, and it's important that we understand ... how they're going to change,'' said Cheryl Nickerson, associate professor at the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Arizona State University.