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Non-Terrestrial Permutations and Impacts
as Related to Access
and Use of Terrestrial Resources
Robert Bigelow
January, 2000
In a round about way, I recently experienced a personal revelation. For the
last several months I have been thinking of ways to enhance various business
plans related to commercialization of space. These involve transportation
systems and economically justifiable destinations.
Naturally, what you can do or produce on an orbiting system that creates
special or unique value becomes very, very important for the
business case. While reading and talking on this subject, I reinforced what
I previously knew a little but not nearly enough; and, that was that many
unique and often profoundly special reactions occur upon organic
and non-organic substances in a microgravity environment that happen nowhere
else. We all know of the usual cast of characters but, I'm talking about ones
you normally don't read about.
As it turns out in processes affecting non-organic substances for
example, it is possible to create materials, components and products that
are totally in a class by themselves. Nowhere, terrestrially, can any of these
items with their unique performance capabilities be made. I'm getting closer
to my revelation. What is the implication here? Well, I believe that components
for advanced spacecraft can be manufactured in a microgravity environment
that cannot be duplicated on the surface of a planet.
And now here is my theory. I strongly believe that at least some UFOs
owe their beginnings to being manufactured whole or in substantial part from
materials made in a microgravity environment. Competitively, we might well
be working with a periodic table containing much fewer elements compared to
a species that has access to those same elements but has fully achieved manufacturing
and experimentation in space on a significant scale.
I believe, so long as a species remains planet-bound in their manufacturing
processes, they will not avail themselves of the resource necessary to make
interstellar craft. They will only develop what terrestrial processes allow.
As for our UFO friends, we will not begin to match their early craft until
we also begin to exploit space for manufacturing purposes.
Thank you.
Robert T. Bigelow
