Settlement Governance – Factual Fiction Studios

“I want my grandchildren’s grandchildren to be using way more energy per capita than I am. And I would like to see us not have a population cap. I wish there were a trillion humans in the solar system. Then there would be a thousand Einsteins, a thousand Mozarts. But we don’t have that long. If you take current baseline energy usage and compound it at just a few percent a year, for just a few hundred years — such is the power of compounding — you have to cover the entire surface of the Earth with solar cells. That is not going to happen. That will lead to stasis — and I don’t think stasis is comparable with liberty.”

Bezos

“We must open the frontier to expand this grand experiment called freedom, because without an arena to feed and nurture the ideals of liberty, individual choice and the right to do and be whatever you want they may well perish from the Earth. We must open the frontier because without an edge to our packed culture of individuals, nurturing and then bringing in new ideas and giving release to bad ones, the center comes apart. We must open the frontier to find and create new wealth for humanity, because everyone in the world deserves the chance to have the same fine house, fine cars, and good life you can potentially have, and this planet alone simply cannot provide support that, unless you give up yours (and someone, sometime will try and make you do so). We open the frontier to help save the planet we love from the ravages caused by our ever growing numbers and our hunger for new forms of energy, materials and products. Finally, and most importantly, we must open the frontier as humans to survive as a species and to protect our precious biosphere from destruction by the forces of the universe or ourselves by making it redundant.”

Rick Tumlinson, Testimony to a Senate Committee, 2003

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“Lifting infrastructure – so that the next generation of people can have a dynamic entrepreneurial explosion into space. And I think that’s possible, and I believe I know what the – what you need to do to put that infrastructure in place so that future generations of entrepreneurs can have a solar system as dynamic and interesting and varied as we see on the internet today. I want thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs doing amazing things in space. And to do that you have to dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Right now only the most expensive things can logically and reasonably be done in space. Basically if you can find any other way to do it, you should do it a different way.”

Bezos

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.

“Per Aspera Ad Astra”

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter… Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse. Kepler

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“Even the beginning of realization of that vision will bring profound benefits to our planet and its life: The sure survival of all the races of humanity, and of the plant and animal life forms we cherish as part of our Earthly heritage, in colonies dispersed throughout our solar system and beyond it. The preservation of the Earth and its fragile biosphere, as a place of great beauty, deserving our care and our nurturing, as it has nurtured us through our evolution. Opening a hopeful future for individual human beings, with increasing personal and political freedoms, a wider range of choices, and greater opportunities to develop individual potentials. Reducing the incidence of wars and the constant threat of wars, by opening a new frontier with virtually unlimited new lands and new wealth.”

Gerard K. O’Neill’s “The High Frontier”, p. 326

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“The study of space societies may have a big dividend for Earth…. Inquiry into the rules that should govern societies in space is likely to provide fresh insights into the governance of societies here on Earth, a field in which, to judge by current events, there is certainly room for progress. This is particularly true because many of the most salient characteristics of space societies, such as strong dependence on sophisticated technology, problems with maintaining environmental quality, the need for people to work together smoothly under stress in close quarters, and the dependence of inhabitants on their society for basic necessities just as food, water, air, and communications, are in many ways simply exaggerations of characteristics already present (and growing) in Earth societies. By studying the problem of space societies we gain a window into not just their future, but our own.”

Bezos

Rick Tumlinson, Testimony to a Senate Committee, 2003

Bezos

Gerard K. O’Neill’s “The High Frontier”, p. 326

Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, speech at conference of Judges of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1988