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LPACTV: From the Moon to Mars: The New Economics
This feature video explores the “Extraterrestrial Imperative” for humankind to develop both our own planet as well as the rest of the solar system. A new economics of space colonization begins with the industrialization of the Moon as a precursor to accelerated, fusion-powered flight to Mars.
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NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 6 • November 14th, 2009
For the development of the solar system as a whole into a manageable human economy, the method and paradoxes which Vladimir Vernadsky developed in his science of Biogeochemistry,the science of studying the history and present flow of isotopes into and out of living matter in the biosphere, are of first rank importance. Discussed here is universal applicability of Vernadsky’s method of the studying the biosphere to approaching other planets, as well as defining the ontological measurement for valid evolutionary progress in the living and cognitive domains. From this standpoint, the way in which the economy on earth and the moon should be managed in order to achieve manage the whole solar system it taken up through a discussion of the potential of creating a relatively infinite quantity of power, choice isotopes, new and higher forms of industrial heat through fission and fusion; both of which demonstrate the necessity to repeal the “laws” of thermodynamics.
NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 5 • November 7th, 2009
In the fifth installment of the economic series presented by the LaRouche Basement Team, fundamental questions are raised as to the effects and potentialities of a one-gravity accelerated flight to Mars. The team dispels the idea of an empty void lying between the planets, and presents a picture of the Universe as a highly structured space-time continuum with an ordered array of broad-ranging electromagnetic effects. In this context new questions arise as to the nature of life and its relation to these effects, and certain paradoxes are presented in the field of life that can only be further explored as we change our relationship to such things as Earth’s magnetic and gravitational fields.
NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 4 • October 31st, 2009
How does a science-driver program pay for itself differently than does an infrastructure investment? How will LaRouche’s Mars colonization effort change human economics in a way that the Apollo program did not? This week's presentation, after covering some more basic economic concepts, jumped into the specifics of space colonization, covering the different regions to be developed, the types of rockets to be used, problems in food production, and a history of Mars development plans through the years, compared to LaRouche’s.
The wide-ranging discussion period covered cultural changes associated with a space-orientation, the possibility of a secret space program, the scale of development required, and who wants to stop mankind from reaching the stars.
NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 3 • October 24th, 2009
In the third installment of the class series, we begin by elaborating the concepts of energy-flux density and potential relative population density through an examination of the 1960s Apollo program as a case study of a physical-economic science driver, followed by the closely related subject of a credit system as a uniquely human expression of consciously directed negentropy. Within this context, the implications of a future-oriented economic policy for our understanding of physical -- as opposed to absolute -- time is discussed.
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LaRouche: Begin Now on a Mission to Mars
First of all, you have to re-educate people in economics, because most of our economists don't understand how to run an economy. That's why they call them economists. I have some good friends who are economists, but they are not of this evil type, not the Wall Street type.
But the problem here is that people don't understand the space program. Now, there is a long-term human reason for the space program. One, is simply because it's necessary to do that. We can not sit on one planet, like prisoners on the planet, and wait for the catastrophes that are likely to happen to this planet to occur. Now, all of that is in the distant future. But sometimes you've to think about the distant future.
Secondly, in order to maintain an economy, you must have a high rate of technological and related progress, scientific and technological progress. To do that you need a driver program. Since the 1920s, the indicated driver program—which was started actually in Germany, but other people were involved...
LaRouche: Powered Human Flight to Mars Orbit
July 25, 2009
In the “Basement Program” the time has come to return to one of my favorite topics from the 1980s work of the Fusion Energy Foundation: the subject of powered manned flight, by means of successive phases of acceleration and deceleration between our moon and the lunar orbit of Mars, a subject which I brought up in basement discussions earlier today.
Back during the 1970s and 1980s, I emphasized that the delayed priority of development of "crash programs" for controlled thermonuclear fusion, showed a kind of indifference to the role of fusion power in manned flight within the Solar system (in particular), and also in dealing with the role of power sources of qualitatively higher energy-flux densities for human life in general.
Among the presently visible advantages accessed from the vantage-point of the accumulated developments in the Riemannian physics of Albert Einstein and Academician V. I. Vernadsky, is that the mere study of manned flight and habitation in the nearby interplanetary domain, can be approached more advantageously from the vantage-point of my emphasis on...
