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Experimenting With Living in The Environment of Space… On Earth
The Eden Project. What is it all about? But let’s first look at why we need to prepare and experiment within Earth’s safety net first
Benjamin Franklin once said that; “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Shrewd saying, definitely.
After all, don’t we all take the time to prepare when we are confronted with something new in our day-to-day lives? Douglas Adams once said in a 1981 episode of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemists, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
That was simply a science fiction show but VAST however, stated that,
“Earth is finite & fragile, space is vast.”
Their goal is to develop artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.
To enable large populations to live and work in space, permanently.
Without gravity, our bodies deteriorate. Long-term weightlessness results in permanent biological damage. Artificial gravity is not science fiction. It only requires a large spinning structure. The resulting centrifugal force provides a gravity-emulative pull.
We must learn if the gravities of future destinations, such as the Moon and Mars, are sufficient to sustain us.
VAST. Our mission.
As you can understand from the statement, this goes a long way toward understanding the true need for preparation, particularly when it comes to a hostile and unknown environment that space extends to us.
Many exploratory examples come from SETI, whereby they are constantly searching for life other than our own outside of our own planet. You can read more about SETI from my article below.
