<div dir="ltr"><div>An excellent article about supporting the super-wealthy prime movers behind turning things around for humanity and our planet.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have fond memories of being a teen and reading G.K. O'Neill's book, The High Frontier. A special book for many people... <br></div><div><br></div><div>"This wouldn't be so bad if we didn't need to open space quickly, or
if governments hadn't blown the job over the last few decades. But we
do, and they have. With the climate almost literally melting down,
economies cracking under the coronavirus pandemic and people lost in a
fog of disunity and pessimism, we need the space revolution to succeed,
not instead of or in spite of these other challenges, but because it can
help us win them all.</div><p>We need to get our best minds out there, to
observe and help us understand what is happening down here, but also to
develop new technologies and <a href="https://www.livescience.com/4091-10-ways-improve-earth-health.html" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed">ways to save the planet</a>,
create new products such as medicines and to begin utilizing the
resources of space to take the pressure off our home world. Governments
have shown they are unable to make it efficient, and they certainly
can't take it to scale.</p><p>Look, if you're reading this, you probably
already "get it" when it comes to the importance of opening what Dr.
G.K. O'Neill called "<a href="https://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?tsid=74387&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHigh-Frontier-Human-Colonies-Apogee%2Fdp%2F189652267X%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dlivescience-us-4858645465568343000-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed">The High Frontier</a>"
(the seminal book on space settlement that converted Bezos and became
one of his early products). There isn't much time for the space
community to act, and as members of a society of nerds for whom it is as
patently obvious that we must open space as that there will be another "<a href="https://www.space.com/31802-star-trek-space-tech.html" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed">Star Trek</a>" spinoff, we need to get much better at engaging the rest of the world in this new conversation about space.</p><p>It
really is critical that these space revolutionaries not only be allowed
to, but are supported in their quests. The best thing we can do is to
understand and speak to the concerns of those who don't yet understand
why this is happening and what the true drivers are behind it all."</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/elysium-effect-billionaire-space-revolution.html">https://www.livescience.com/elysium-effect-billionaire-space-revolution.html</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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