Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

[Valley Oak]

Published on Sep 27, 2016
SpaceX Founder, CEO, and Lead Designer Elon Musk will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. The technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for sustaining humans on the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead.

[Mark Goldes]

Published on Sep 27, 2016
SpaceX Founder, CEO, and Lead Designer Elon Musk will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. The technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for sustaining humans on the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead.

A sleeping invention by Dr. Robert L. Carroll (1910-1997) a mathematical physicist - could open space to human exploration far beyond the dreams of Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos. Carroll’s Ultra-Cold Disruption (UCD) is a revolutionary alternative to any form of fission or fusion. The fuel is very small amounts of ordinary water. There is no radioactive waste. Carroll was aiming for the stars. His alternative to relativity proposed the maximum speed of a spacecraft is 20 million times that of light. However, if it proves practical, UCD could spin a turbine and generate power. Carroll believed it would be safe enough for vehicles. It might also replace chemical rockets with a system that cannot explode and would be much lighter and cheaper. That would allow humans to settle in space in great numbers. AESOP Energy intends to prototype the breadbasket sized reactor. A possible early application is replacement of fuel in an 18 wheel truck. A spacecraft design firm, once convinced it is worth pursuing, has indicated interest in exploring the replacement of chemical rockets with UCD. The invention depends on room temperature superconductors. Polymer Ultraconductors are equivalents - proven by four successful government Small Business Innovation Research contracts. Once UCD proves practical, a small robotic spacecraft can be launched aimed at a star. If it quickly returns with photographs confirmed by the Hubble telescope - Carroll was correct. See: aesopinstitute.org look under MORE.