During the Autumn of 2009, the LaRouche "Basement" team gave a series of eight presentations in New York City on space policy. The human colonization of Mars, making use of nuclear-powered rockets for continuous one-earth-acceleration trips to-and-from the planet, in order to set up a functioning science city, is a sine qua non of economic recovery and progress for the human species. The classes are presented here as a series:
Presentations:
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.
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.
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.
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.[br]
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Additional Material:
- (Video) From the Moon to Mars: The New Economics — A thirty-minute policy video produced by the basement before the commencement of the class series.
