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Mutupo / Natsai Audrey Chieza (UK), Karl Aspelund (US)

Origin stories of a multi-planetary diaspora

In the coming century, humans will become a space-faring species, forming settlements on other planets, even traversing the solar system as wandering nomads. Advancing technologies for inter-planetary habitability to enable new market prospecting underpins current goals to achieve low earth orbit to the moon and Mars by 2033. Energy, water, food and material security – innovations developed for extreme conditions “out there” – are set to be generators of wealth and utopian earthly futures. Seventy-two countries have a space program, while only the government space agencies NASA, CNSA, and RFSA possess human space flight capabilities. Meanwhile, the private sector is propelling advancement. Urgent questions arise: who gets to colonize the life beyond Earth, and what does it mean for those ideas to seed those human futures? Is it possible to dream of other worlds beyond those presented to us through a privatized “cosmos Imaginarium”?

 

Credit: Jürgen Grünwald

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Uploaded on September 7, 2019
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