Feature video:
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.
Weekly updates:
Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 4 • October 31st, 2009
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.
Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 2 • October 17th, 2009
Despite popular opinion and the lies of the mass media about a recovery, is there a way to actually know that we are in fact in the throws of a global economic collapse, which has recently entered a new phase, as LaRouche had forecast. In this installment of an economic class series being delivered to an audience in New York City, the fundamental metrics for measuring economic progress are presented, including LaRouche's notion of Energy Flux Density, and Potential Relative Population Density, with their implications for developing a new way to think about time and space. These ideas are then concretely established from the vantage point of the evolutionary development of rocketry, up to the latest potential for fusion driven propulsion systems, as would be necessary to achieve the one-gravity acceleration flights to Mars, that is central to the long view economic recovery mission proposed by Lyndon LaRouche.
Class Series: Moon-Mars Economics pt 1 • October 10th, 2009
The first in a series of classes to be presented in New York City by members of the basement, dealing with the physical-economic principles expressed by a Mars colonization program. It begins with an introduction to some of those key principles, followed by a presentation of Vladimir Vernadsky's ideas of the three universal phase-spaces of the lithosphere, biosphere, and noosphere.
Basement Roundtable • October 7th, 2009
A discussion on the problem of axiomatic "completeness" in science, as posed in Lyndon LaRouche's recent writings, as it pertains to thinking on economics.
Basement Roundtable • September 25th, 2009
In February 2009, in his report Now Comes Economic Time, LaRouche attacked the modern economic conception of clock time which lies at the root of the global economic crisis; late summer, after making his October forecast, he began penning a book length report, The Science of Physical Economy, where he similarly developed the necessary conception economic time. In this discussion, the work of Russian Scientist Vladimir Vernadsky on Space-Time, and its implications for living organisms, is taken up in the context of LaRouche's related works.
Basement Roundtable • September 6th, 2009
Members of the Basement discuss some of the frontier questions of science posed by accelerated spaceflight, touching on biology, cosmic radiation, and the role of the asteroid belt in the solar system.
Gauss Simulcast • August 30th, 2009
The Gauss basement team, simulcasting from California and Virginia, discusses ongoing breakthroughs in their understanding of the application of the tensor in Gauss’s discovery of the orbit of Ceres.
Basement Roundtable • August 14th, 2009
What are the requirements and implications of a manned mission to Mars? In their inaugural roundtable discussion, the basement team explores the needed scientific breakthroughs, lunar industrialization, and the implications of accelerated space flight to reach Mars in a matter of days.
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, Goddard, for example, in the United States—was the idea of going to the Moon. For it was understood by any astronomer or any competent person, that if you want to go into space, beyond Earth, the first thing you have to do is go to the Moon, to our Moon, and establish a base on the Moon from which you enter space—economically. And to do that you have to build industries on the Moon which enable you to build the equipment which you will go into space with...
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...
