retrieving material from asteroids

1. Regardless of misguided dreams of such, there will be no permanent
colonization of Earth's Moon. Few realize it yet but it would be a
settlement that goes nowhere at all. It wouldn't be anything like
colonization of a planet or space itself.

2. Colonization of space isn't just colonization of space, it is Earth
life's beginning colonization of the Universe. It is life's beginning
colonization of at least some of the solar system's matter-mass itself
rather than any thin surface of moon or planet where the vast majority of
mass must remain intact, limiting energy. Space colonization is the real
beginning of life's conversion of masses to usable energies, powers,
structure, complexity, infrastructure and expanding reaches. Space is the
only gateway to the Universe, the gateway to any- and every-where, and space
colonization will of course be the sole possible colonization of the 'gate'.
Just one up and going 'gate' colony potentially realizes colonization of
every 'gate' everywhere.

3. Michio Kaku, a physicist I do not like for reasons of my own, in his
book "Hyperspace" talked toward the end about what life's colonization of
mass itself, via space colonization, might mean for greater mass conversion
to energy, expansion in dimension shrinking time, therefore life acquiring
greater and ever greater potential access to the Universe at large, quite
possibly "solving the problem of relativity" as he put it. No colonization
of any moon or planet, or any numbers of moons or planets, can ever possibly
even begin to acquire either the necessary masses (mass) or the necessary
energies (energy), or the necessarily vast complexity of infrastructure.
Such colonizations will go in the wrong direction, both regarding masses and
energies, and regarding space and time. To know it is the wrong direction
with regard to "time" alone is to know it is the wrong direction period (end
of story).

4. "Time" is the one thing that one U.S. President (Nixon) proved
conclusively we don't have. So permanent occupation of the 'gate' must be
the first thing we focus colonization upon and shoot for. With it comes
Earth's moon automatically. Then with expanding colonization of space comes
the other planets and moons, asteroids and comets, equally automatically.
All of the other planets, not just one. All of the other moons without any
exception. All of the asteroids and comets. All of the [mass] and [energy]
potential of the solar system being space colonization's potential resource
pool. Virtually none of it usable to planetary colonization where space is
nothing more than a highway.

5. Ten people, twenty people, a hundred, a thousand, do not need to see
opportunity opening up within the next hundred to two hundred years. Rather,
all of seven billion people need to see opportunity opening up within the
next fifty years or the ten, the twenty, the hundred, the thousand, might as
well forget it. Space colonization's possibilities for opening up
opportunity out there and down here are so vast, because space itself is so
vast, the solar system's mass is so vast, that not one of seven billion
people, no matter how narrow in mind or vision, could miss at least seeing
it once a space colony, and accompanying space complex, is in existence and
going. Not a major institution on Earth, except some religions possibly,
would not be planning to either move to or put an annex out there. Anyone
can see right now, immediately, the limits to the moon. Anyone can see,
right now, immediately, the limits to Mars colonization. Few, if any, can
see any space and time, or mass and energy, limitations to space
colonization, thus no limits to the expansion and growth of opportunity, out
there and down here, one or the other, for at least thousands of years. Once
upon a time opening up the vast New World to a new expansion and growth of
opportunity simultaneously opened up the Old World to a renewed expansion
and growth of opportunity. Going nova wasn't a one way street.

GLB

Another reply from "H2-PV NOW" proving why smoking crack before posting
is a BAD thing... Especially if you're another Third Reich
collaborator like our resident warlord(GW Bush).
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Brad Guth

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
...

I would prefer an Earth launching and Earth circling luxury liner over a
Mars going tin can any day.

The former might well have better economic prospects than the latter.

With all that, why bother to go to Mars, better to examine it up close
via robotic microscopes on your digital high definition TV, right?

A good point.


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Regards,
Mike Combs
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