In the last century technology took human kind from a plane made of canvas
and wood, to space probes that allowed us to know what the outer planets,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were like. By the end of this century space
probes will likely visit our nearest star system of Alpha Centauri,
allowing us to see, close-up, what those stars and their planets look like.
A recent article in Space.com/
Yahoo News, ponders the idea that humans will eventually travel to and
colonize Earth like planets from nearby stars, such as Alpha Centauri:
What if our planet becomes unlivable and our future selves
decide to take to the stars in the hope of starting all over again. Where would
we go? Mars could be a good choice as it's the most habitable world beyond
Earth in our solar system — though it would be a struggle.
But say if we found a planet, not too dissimilar to Earth,
orbiting a nearby star? Could that incentivize us to not only become an
"interplanetary species" but also an interstellar one?
It goes on to mention the recently
discovered Earth-like planet around Proxima Centauri. The article then goes
on to speculate that eventually our scientist will develop space ships and
probes that will be able to make it to Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri in about 20 years. That is a
great improvement over today's space ships that would take thousands of years
to get there.
And for those of us involved in
Marxist and/or Maoist movements it is only reasonable to speculate on necessary
changes to prevent the kinds of human disasters and human atrocities that have
taken place as humans have spread out and colonized new areas on Earth. Such
movements and colonizing have taken place over thousands of years and have
resulted in the slavery of conquered peoples and other human rights violations.
From the possible extermination
of the Neanderthal race by the more modern Cro-Magnon men to the destruction of the
Native American Indian population and culture by Europeans, colonization has
brought out the worst of humanity. As Marxists we don't believe such human
rights violations are a thing of the past. We see all kinds of imperialist
policies, from the Russians to the Iranians, and modern colonialism in Afghanistan and Iraq
by the US .
While we don't know if there are any people or people-like intelligent
life on any of these planets, there may be some form of indigenous life and
even simple microbes have a right to exist in peace. As this article mentions,
there is the planet Mars that humans might someday try to colonize on. In fact
there is already a group of people who hope to begin settlements on Mars,
possibly in the next 10 years. There are no humans or intelligent beings on
Mars, but there may be some Martian microbes living on or in some parts of the
planet. That brings up the moral question as to our right to disturb possible simple life forms.
For us Marxists and Maoists there is a serious question as to whether we
should allow the present state of mankind, mostly capitalist and imperialist
societies, to simply gut this planet to the point where resources have been
crapped out. Should we simply implant the same system of greed and misuse of resources
to new worlds in space? At present we have growth oriented countries dominating
this world, including the US .
Without change
from a growth economy to a maintenance economy first world countries will
use up all resources, land, fuel, food, etc. The results of this is that we
already have bloody wars in the Middle east .
they are actually more about access to resources (mostly oil) rather than
religious or ideological contests.
Our present societies have embraced a policy of nearly perpetual war for
the foreseeable future. We still have the same problems of colonialism,
neo-colonialism, racism, classism and neo-fascist leadership. Do we really want
to export all of that into outer space?
These issues are already being debated on line. For example; Sarah Fecht, wrote "SHOULD MARS BE INDEPENDENT, OR JUST A COLONY OF EARTH?" in Popular Science. In this article Fecht ponders the issue of what kind of government Mars should have:
But what if we gave Mars its
independence right from the get-go? Rather than giving future colonies to
governments or corporations, Jacob Haqq-Misra thinks we should let Martian
colonists develop their own values, governments, and technologies, with minimal interference from Earth. Haqq-Misra is
an astrobiologist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a non-profit
organization that promotes international unity in space.
This whole thing almost looks
like this planet is on the verge of some type of future we see on the old Star Trek TV franchises. In that show
humans react with aliens, sometimes at war, some times in cooperation. But one
thing we don't see being practiced now or any time soon would be the so called "Prime
Directive" where the Enterprise Crew was forbidden to interfere in the
growth and development of more primitive cultures. Nothing like that exist on
the Earth today. In fact most of the first world imperialist countries have
policies that are the exact opposite.
While we may be on the thresh
hold of "space;
the final frontier" we have our work cut out for us. The future of
space technology and exploration are interesting and exciting. But there is
also a danger that our present capitalist and imperialist system will only use
these new technologies to push human kind further backward, when it comes to
human social development.
- សតិវអតុ
1 comment:
The Problem with the Hindoos ! They forget their true worth !
Sample the state of their confidence !
ISRO disaster ! dindooohindoo
https://www.news18.com/news/india/chandrayaan-2-live-updates-moon-landing-mission-news-isro-orbiter-lander-vikram-rover-pragyan-2300967.html
The Hindoo coward,impotentica Rama who took 12 years to make a bridge to Lanka, is going to space !
The Hindoo morons did not know that the Earth Rotates and that the Sun is still !
Even a FOOL knows that the earth rotates on its axis causing day and night.
But according to Vedas, the earth is static and this statement is repeated several times. The following are some of the examples:
1. Oh Man ! He who made the trembling earth static is Indra. (Rig Ved 2/12/12)
2. The God who made the earth stable (Yajur Ved 32/6)
3. Indra protects the wide earth which is immovable and has many forms (Atarv Ved 12/1/11)
4. Let us walk on the Wide and Static earth (Atharv Ved 12/1/17)
As the Veds Claim that the earth is static and so they tried to prove that the sun moves around the earth.
The following statement from the rig Ved tries to clarify it:
"Sun is full of light and knows all the human beings, so his horses take him to sky to look at the world" (Rig Ved 1/50/1)
"O, Bright sun, a chariot named harit with seven horses takes you to sky" (Rig Ved 1/50/8)
A Universal Fact
While proving the existence of scientific knowledge in Veds, some go to the extent of claiming that the sun has magnetic powers or powers of attraction of gravity.
"O, man, the sun who is most attractive, takes round of the earth, on his golden chariot through the sky and removes the darkness of the earth" (Yajur Ved 33/43)
As for the moon, the Veds have only to say that it runs in the space, which is full of water - a universal fact that no one can deny, hence nothing new. (Rig Ved 1/105/1)
WATER or GAU MUTRAM ?
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