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LPACTV: From the Moon to Mars: The New Economics - Part II
Part two of the New Economics deals with fusion-powered spaceflight as an integral part of national economic planning, by examining 1.) The measurement of physical-economic value and the notion of physical profit, 2.) The case of the 1960 Apollo Project as a physical-economic science driver for the United States, and 3.) The frontier questions of science that will represent both the impetus for, as well as the fruits of, a fusion-powered Moon-Mars program, especially in the area of biology and the relationship of electromagnetic radiation to living processes. Watch this, and you'll never again believe the lie that "space travel costs too much."
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NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 8 • December 5th, 2009
Oyang Teng, Meghan Rouillard and Aaron Halevy finished off the eight-week class series with a look back at what had been encapsulated in the seven previous classes, plus a look forward to something new. Teng reviewed the nature of the space program which challenges our assumptions about the nature of our physical universe, as well as our assumptions about how to run the economic policies of nations — the future-driven nature of a credit system is what mankind needs to get him into space, where his conception of the physical universe will be further challenged. Rouillard then presented the unique characteristics of Russian and US cultures, being the Vernadskyian scientific tradition, and the US credit system: recognized even by Vernadsky to be the most efficient way to develop the Noosphere. She then looked at aspects of what the credit-system allows us to do, including Kennedy's investment tax-credit policy. We must think in terms of investing in infrastructure needed to support a creative mind, and we must have that top-down view in all policy-making. That which drives the creative individual, however, is his imagination and sense of immortality, which is strengthened by a classical culture, and this is what Meghan said to transition into what Halevy attempted to get across to the participants in his final section of the presentation. He stressed that the unique quality of the individual which is required for the economic solutions and science driver policies to bear physical fruits, is that identity which only impassioned artistic creativity, both its composition and its performance, can reflect — yet no art is higher than the science of politics.
NYC Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 7 • November 21st, 2009
Peter Martinson and Shawna Halevy continue the now famous New York City LaRouche Economics Series, with a seventh class on the development of a true space culture. What kind of person will be suited to travel on a continuously accelerating ship to Mars? Martinson presents the distinction between what LaRouche calls the Type A and the Type B personalities, in terms of using the paradoxes of sense perception, to make ever higher breakthroughs in human knowledge. He then compares Euclidean geometry with non-Euclidean geometry, and the fight to establish a geometry without axioms, from Gauss's investigation of anti-Euclidean geometry, to Riemann's indication that the universe is continuously developing to higher and higher states of order. Halevy then presents the concept of a continuous human culture throughout history, with quotes and discussion from Lyndon LaRouche and Albert Einstein, emphasizing the willful act of creativity and how Einstein explicitly used the passion of music to ignite his imagination when making a scientific discovery. The challenge of joining this immortal culture is then posed to the audience.
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.
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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...
