Blog Zero
It begins with a feeling, a direction.
Off planet.
Such a thought
posits a community
for eco-logic and eco-nomic
becoming (unfolding).
“Earth Birth,”
speaking poetically.
Or Gaian gastrulation,
to put it in biomechanical terms.
The inside-outing of a planetary ecosystem
as it sets forth hundreds, thousands of
centrifugally spinning colonies
in near-Earth space.
(Habitat rotation simulates
Earth life’s requisite Earth-like gravity,
at the interior wall of their tubular shells.)
DNA life settling space.
Building space habitats
from near-Earth asteroids.
Nearly 6,000 near-Earth asteroids
have been detected, you know. And 15%
are easier to reach than the moon.
Or if you didn’t know,
now you do.
There are, of course,
carrots and sticks.
Many asteroids are rich in metals
especially the platinum group metals.
Money to be made.
Near-Earth space: Everything
from energy to iron.
Stick-wise,
if our understanding of global eco-logical systems
is as poor as our recently demonstrated failure
to understand global eco-nomic systems,
who can deny the possibility of a
Children-of-Men or some such
similar demise of our
favorite species?
Carrots and sticks.
Sticks and carrots.
A Hero’s quest?
Watership Down?
Ah, stories.
Naught but
feelings and thoughts
in song.
The movement off, once felt,
precipitates stories, and actions.
Conversations, letters, perhaps a blog.
And, if we do it right, maybe even dialogue.
“Where are they?”
asked Enrico Fermi.
Maybe it’s not easy getting off.
Maybe they only engage
if and when we do.
Either way,
it’s up to us now.
Shall we “Make it so”?