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Helga Zepp-LaRouche Proposes Space-Driven Recovery

August 27, 2009 (LPAC)—The radical change in thinking required today, Zepp-LaRouche said in the concluding section of her Aug. 21 webcast, is expressed in the vision of the great German scientist Krafft Ehricke (1917-1984), who developed what he called the "extraterrestrial imperative." For Ehricke, she said, the "extraterrestrial imperative" was a natural expansion of the evolutionary process of the Biosphere itself, in which existing physical limits are overcome, and also the so-called limited resources, and scarcities.

"If we want to bring mankind out of his linear and monetarist thinking, there is no better way than manned space flight, because it inspires the spirit and the imagination," Zepp-LaRouche said. "This program would have gone forward if President Kennedy had not been assassinated, and the world today would have been a totally different place, if we were advancing on this program. We would have long ago solved all the problems of this Earth, because the spin-offs of this fundamental research would be enormous. Thus it was that for every penny invested in the U.S. space program, 14 cents was gained in the civilian economy. It was therefore not the case that it was an extravagance, but, to the contrary, through the stimulation of these new revolutionary technologies, productivity in all sectors would increase enormously."

Zepp-LaRouche then presented Ehricke's plan for the construction of a city on the Moon, which would become a launching pad and resource base for the exploration of Mars and beyond. To accomplish this, however, we have to develop nuclear-powered transport, so that the journey to Mars takes not 200 days, as it would with present technologies, but only four or five. This means developing nuclear fusion, and the isotope economy — which naturally goes against the idea of limited resources and scarcity that are traded on the financial markets.

"This extraterrestrial imperative is the essential next step in the coming-of-age of mankind," she said. "Of that I am absolutely convinced. And as Krafft Ehricke told me, shortly before his death: 'The problem is not the technology. The problem is, that man has not adequately developed."

Ehricke himself had outlined three fundamental laws of aeronautics, which apply to man's nature as a whole:

1. Nobody and nothing under the natural laws of this universe imposes any limitations on man, except man himself.

2. Not only the Earth, but the entire Solar System, and as much of the universe as he can reach under the laws of nature, are man's rightful domain of activity.

3. By expanding throughout the universe, man fulfills his destiny as an element of life, endowed with the power of reason and the wisdom of the moral law within himself.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded her presentation thus:

"Therefore, in this, the greatest crisis in the history of mankind, I think that we cannot come out of the crisis with some kind of pragmatic short-term solutions, but that we must—and that is in the tradition of Nicolas of Cusa, Kepler, Leibniz, and other great humanists of European intellectual history: We must bestir ourselves with the highest ideals. And only thus can we gain the strength, to be ready to deal with the current situation, and to usher in a positive era in history."


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