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Number: 4363 Name: 2TOGO

Address: J.E.D.CLINE1 Date: 940319

Approximate # of bytes: 3480

Number of Accesses: 11 Library: 19

Description:

Rationale for creating a massive space settlement in the

Clark Belt. OPutline of technolical feasability.

Keywords: KESTS,settlements,bridges,electromechanical,ecosystems

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2TOGO By J. E. D. Cline 940319

The average person believes that there is no hope for he/she to be

able to go live in a comfortable space colony in this lifetime, but

this is not necessarily true.

The average person believes that massive space colonization in our

time cannot remove the population/resource pressure on the Earth

surface ecosystem in time to provide ecological balance and genetic

diversity, but this is not necessarily true.

What if it were possible to develop a technology of bridges

supported by the internally-stored kinetic energy of an orbital

velocity mass stream which is electromechanically coupled to the

structure of the bridge?

What if it were possible to build such bridges from Earth surface to

the relatively stationary orbit called the Clark Belt or the

Geosynchronous Earth Orbit?

What if it were possible to lift the mass of every human being on this

planet into space on such a bridge, using only the electrical power

equal to that consumed by the city of Los Angeles over a period of

two weeks?

What if it were possible in the long term to support these bridges

from the electricity generated by solar satellite power technology?

What if it were possible to build a 10,000-person condo-like city in

this Clark Belt, from materials brought up from Earth surface on such

a stored-energy bridge?

What if it were possible to build one and a half million of these

10,000-person condomium cities around the Earth in the Clark belt,

mostly made of materials brought from the Moon?

What if this were just the beginning of a spacious city around the

Earth above the equator; a Earth restored to a garden planet of the

vast potential of great harmonious genetic diversity?

Is lethargy our only enemy, the only thing blocking humanity from

being born into the spatial resources around the planet, born to be a

new partner for Mother Earth?

What is the problem? It is not necessarily so that space colonization

cannot solve the resource population pressures in our time. Turn on

your computer; start bending metal. Hey, let's build and let's go for

the great life in the Big City built like we want it!

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We have the space shuttle in operation from ground to low earth orbit

and back. We have the years-orbiting Soyuz space station example. We

have the Apollo footprints on the Moon. We have robot spacecraft

checking out asteroids and our other planets. We know we can live out

there, and there are energy and materials resources abundantly

awaiting life.

A progression from the present-day space scenario might be:

1a Creation of flyback engine/control type wet launch module vehicle

1b Artificial gravity space station made of circle of linked modules

1c Earth-Moon two-body orbiting Skyhook one-way materials pump

1d Creation of stored-energy bridges on Earth surface

1e Fabrication of stored energy bridges to the Clark Belt

1f First Clark Belt Island One space settlement built from Earth

1g Solar Power electromechanical thrusters supporting these bridges

1h Lunar industrialization with stored energy bridge transportation

1i Massive transportation of lunar materials to the Clark Belt

1j Robotic construction of more Island One space settlements in GEO

1k Great living for humanity in the Clark Belt City

1l Restoration of Earth surface ecological balance by City dwellers

1m Humanity looks inward...and outward

2a ....

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