[ExI] Fwd: Space Renaissance

[Stefano Vaj]

Space Renaissance? I would rather say Space Middle Age... :-(


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Walter Putnam <waltputnam at gmail.com>
Date: 7 July 2011 20:55
Subject: Space Renaissance
To: cosmic-engineers+owner at googlegroups.com


Results from Space Renaissance International's first Congress -- an
online conference involving dozens of participants from around the
world:

Space Renaissance International ‘s First Online Congress

world wide web - July 6th, 2011

With a membership composed of space enthusiasts all over the world,
holding a meeting on the Internet seems like just the thing to do. On
two days, June 25 and 26, 2011, Space Renaissance International lived
up to its name by holding its first Congress on line.

Hosted by SRI President Adriano Autino and moderated by Florida space
writer G B Leatherwood, the Congress was attended by over 85 members
and observers from countries including Italy, the US, Australia,
Chile, Mexico, Sri Lanka and many others.

The main topics for discussion were downsizing the cost to orbit,
space industrialization, conveying public support and private
investment for the new space industry, urging governments to develop
space based solar power, and developing a space policy harmonizing the
interests of all countries.
To implement these broad and extensive objectives, three projects were
presented for group discussion and approval: A civilization risk
assessment and management project;  identifying the most promising
space industrialization development line; and a project to determine
the feasibility and design of a virtual O’Neill Habitat to be settled
at an Earth-Moon Lagrange point.

In its 2009 “Space Renaissance Manifesto,” SRI said “The resources of
the Solar System are nearly limitless, whether measured in energy
(clean, renewable, readily harvested,) valuable physical materials, or
simply space to live and grow. Even a tithe of those resources would
allow every person who will live this millennium to enjoy a standard
of living higher than any currently available on Earth.”
During the conference, Mr. Walter Putnam put it this way: “We need to
open new ways of looking at Earth and the Cosmos, with shared values
of humanity, rather than remaining locked into philosophies from the
19th and 20th centuries, many from much earlier in history.”

Former NASA engineer and risk management specialist Dr. Feng Hsu
added, “Space renaissance is a new ideology which must replace
socialism and capitalism altogether. SRI is not just about space, it’s
about sustainable human development and survival.”

The Congress reconvenes on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, June 10, 2011,
again by Internet to finalize plans and accept individual
responsibilities for leadership of the projects approved in the first
session. Anyone interested in human expansion into the unlimited realm
of space is invited to attend by registering at the SRI web site,
www.spacerenaissance.org.

Contact:

Adriano V. Autino (EU)        email: aa at tdf.it         tel.: +39 335
8244435

G. B. Leatherwood (US)        email: gleatherwood at gmail.com     tel.:
+1 3522 328460

Kim Peart (Australasia)        email: kimpeart at iinet.net.au    tel.:
+61 0400 856 523



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Stefano Vaj