Club of Rome and Ehricke's Extraterrestrial Imperative

Yesterday I received my copy of 'Krafft Ehrickes's Extraterrestrial Imperative' by Marsha Freeman (Aprogee Space Books), and have made a few more inquiries about the man.

Those made me wonder, Ehricke intended to publish a book on his Extraterrestrial Imperative philosophy in 1971 and/or 1973 one year earlier or later than the 'Limits of Growth' report by the Club of Rome. Combine it with the Energy Crisis later in the 1970s.

Could the publication of the book and more intense work to promote it have helped with a stronger space program? Not only for the US, but elsewhere?
 
I'm taking, this is highly related to the Fermi Paradox, right?

That if an extraterrestrial civilization was, say, 50 million years older than us, it would have had plenty of time to colonize the galaxy, even with travel at only a fraction the speed of light and ample time for re-colonization.
 

NoMommsen

Donor
TBH : I am afraid not.

Look at todays politics. There is no "space-question" or "space-solution" anywhere even thought of, even though the knowledge of the 70ies is widly spread.
...
Only by nerds like me :D.

IMO this would require a major POD in the USA, someone high enough sensing these possibilities and making them his by heart, somehow decicating the nation (and with it europe as well as japan) to it.
 

NoMommsen

Donor
I'm taking, this is highly related to the Fermi Paradox, right?
Nope.

It's about the growth of humanity to REALLY explore and settle the solar system. Due to the knowledge, that earth is NOT a closed system but open to space.

So : no discussion of "Limits of growth" necessary, 'cause we have a whole solar system to grow into ... without destroying the planet prior.
 
Ah, but once we grow into a whole solar system, at that point it might become very expensive to travel with considerable numbers of fellow humans and citizens to other solar systems?
 

NoMommsen

Donor
Well, at that time, humanity counting in trillions, living all over the system in maybe O'Neill like stations the costs to start a generation ship the size of an asteroid will be peanuts for any kind of govermental body:D.

But ... maybe ... kind of a Alcubierre drive has become operational already

To boldly go ... and so on ;)
 
I like the idea of expanding, in part so we won't be putting all our eggs in the one basket of Earth.

If we try and raise families on Mars, I think we'll going to end up with a bunch of angry teenagers. Because people raised with the 1/3 gravity of Mars, I don't think ever can come home to Earth.

So, yeah, short and medium-term, space stations with artificial gravity are probably the way to go.
 

Archibald

Banned
Yesterday I received my copy of 'Krafft Ehrickes's Extraterrestrial Imperative' by Marsha Freeman (Aprogee Space Books), and have made a few more inquiries about the man.

Those made me wonder, Ehricke intended to publish a book on his Extraterrestrial Imperative philosophy in 1971 and/or 1973 one year earlier or later than the 'Limits of Growth' report by the Club of Rome. Combine it with the Energy Crisis later in the 1970s.

Could the publication of the book and more intense work to promote it have helped with a stronger space program? Not only for the US, but elsewhere?

Now that's an interesting idea ! The easiest space resources may be mined from asteroids (the Moon and Mars have not much interesting resources), and, coincidentally, the first serious search for Near Earth Objects started in 1973
 
TBH : I am afraid not.

Look at todays politics. There is no "space-question" or "space-solution" anywhere even thought of, even though the knowledge of the 70ies is widly spread.
...
Only by nerds like me :D.

IMO this would require a major POD in the USA, someone high enough sensing these possibilities and making them his by heart, somehow decicating the nation (and with it europe as well as japan) to it.
Like the discovery of alien life on Mars perhaps, if one was to go the ASB route?
Sry, this is OOT but .... Geoffry Abel Warringer ???;)
:D

Well, with one additional 'r' perhaps. ;)
 
I'm taking, this is highly related to the Fermi Paradox, right?

That if an extraterrestrial civilization was, say, 50 million years older than us, it would have had plenty of time to colonize the galaxy, even with travel at only a fraction the speed of light and ample time for re-colonization.
Perhaps a bit. :D
 
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