Why an interstellar worldview is more sustainable than a green one and why the establishment of an icy moon fuel industry for the construction of moons, the exploration of space and the conquest of new star systems is necessary as a basis. – February 26, 2023

by Michael Klejna, still in progress

Copernicus gave us the heliocentric view of the world, and Einstein the mathematics to support it.

In the following, the urgency, inevitability, and simplicity of an interstellar society will be explained to you.

1. Reasons for the change to interstellar society

1.1. Survival of society

All life is 100% dependent on the intactness of the Earth. Realistically, a part of the society will survive most events, but it is questionable whether this remainder will have the capacity to make the transition to an interstellar society like the one we could currently achieve if we focused on it.

1.2. Inevitability

The transition towards sustainability is necessary, right, and should be supported, but it does not solve the problems of society. The problem of overpopulation or the limited resources of the Earth can only be overcome by making new planets habitable. Green technologies only postpone the collapse to a later point in time and are already existential. Those who can still ignore the abused, starving, and drowning refugees will hopefully wake up gradually as the numbers increase tenfold, hundredfold, or thousandfold, or at the latest when it affects them personally.

Furthermore, the virtues required for sustainable thinking contradict human nature. Abstinence is at the top. Even if you can muster the intellect and selflessness to abstain for others, there will always be a dozen others who will be driven by greed to compete for the freed-up resources. With the goal of making a new planet habitable and becoming an interstellar society, you can use the energy behind greed in a positive way.

1.3. Simplicity

In contrast, the path to an interstellar society goes hand in hand with human nature: research, exploration, taking risks, failing, constructing, conquering, mastering, and reproducing.

Instead of fighting each other under constantly decreasing living conditions, we should urgently work together as a society to shift productivity and growth into space, to create a new home for ourselves, and then to create many more homes, as the Earth cannot compensate for our overuse for a long time.

To do this, there is only one logical way as of today.

2. The road to interstellar society

2.1. Preconditions

Many star systems are built in the same way. A star like our sun, with rocky planets inside and gas giants outside, and asteroid belts in between.

We need a star with a similar radiation level and a rocky planet within the habitable zone, at the right distance from its star to be in the temperature range for liquid water. Additionally, an atmosphere and a magnetic field, created by the interaction of gravity, internal and external radiation, and tides. There are some planets with the necessary conditions within four to eleven light years away. However, they all lack a moon comparable to our own. Which is positive, as unlike the others, we can influence this factor and consequently make planets in neighboring systems habitable.

The only chance for humanity to learn how to build a moon within an acceptable timeframe is Mars.

2.2. Mars

We have a neighboring planet that brings everything we need with it: the rotation speed, axial tilt, distance from the sun, material composition, core-to-mantle ratio, everything except a moon that would be equivalent to Earth’s moon.

2.3. The Asteroid Belt

The asteroid belt outside of Mars has enough mass to study the effects of a moon on the previously existing balance, and we could also utilize the mass of dozens of Jupiter moons, not all of which are even known yet. This matter must be moved from its current orbit to a moon orbit around Mars.

The resulting knowledge, combined with the known data of the Earth and its moon, would allow us to develop formulas based on which distant planets can be made habitable. Whether or to what extent Mars becomes habitable is not the crucial factor here. It will definitely evolve in the right direction by becoming warmer and more humid, developing a denser atmosphere and acquiring a stronger magnetic field.

2.4. Fuel

For both to move matter in our solar system to a new orbit and to reach distant star systems, fuel is needed. It would be optimal to refine this on Callisto and then make it available in orbit for Mars, Earth, and the Earth’s moon.

The task of semi-automatically refining liquid rocket fuel, primarily composed of hydrogen and oxygen, on other bodies in the solar system is the most complex part of the journey. For initial non-terrestrial testing facilities, Ceres would be suitable (perhaps even the Earth’s moon). Similar conditions prevail there, and its water content would evaporate in a moon orbit around Mars anyway. Moreover, the travel distance is significantly shorter.

2.5. How to Reach Other Stars in Less than 100 Years

Rocket propulsion is only useful as a steering and parking aid for interstellar travel. Solar sails are already necessary for power generation but, due to insufficient radiation density, can only be considered a fuel-saving option rather than a propulsion system.

Only gravity possesses enough energy to accelerate spaceships to the required speeds.

2.5.1. Gravitational Cartography

Our navigation based on light, radiation, or wavelengths is useless here, as the largest gravitational players we know of, ‘black holes,’ emit no information of this kind. Worse still, a two-body system of two sufficiently large black holes creates low-mass spacetime pockets at the Lagrange points L4 and L5. In fact, they are massless spacetime pockets, yet so attractive to matter that a complete absence of matter is highly unlikely. On the contrary, this type of spacetime pocket could even act as an incubator for the creation of matter.

As far as we know, the size of black holes is unlimited. Consequently, in a two-body system consisting of two sufficiently large black holes, massless black holes can form at the Lagrange points L4 and L5. These can develop into low-mass black holes and eventually, if they collect enough mass, form another black hole from their own mass—ultimately representing a ‘nested double black hole.’

Cases of black holes—or more broadly defined gravitational centers—located within a low-mass spacetime pocket and amplified by it are already known. In the absence of an explanation, dark matter was postulated for this. This is no longer necessary.

For better visualization, we are no longer talking about black holes that appear as a dark spot with a distorted red corona on a star map but about black holes whose event horizons provide the black background of the star map. On this star map, Sagittarius A* remains, if at all, just a point.

Our observable universe is therefore bounded by the event horizons of unimaginably large black holes, which determine the gravitational environment of our solar system but emit no other information.

Thus, we have no choice but to map our surroundings gravitationally, just as sailors once created and used maps of ocean currents.

2.5.2. The Easiest Stars to Reach

By following a gravitational current, one can achieve speeds almost independent of one’s own mass, which are unattainable with conventional propulsion—and all without an engine of one’s own.

The propulsion here is the stored potential energy of the solar system’s orbit.

Once we leave the gravitational influence zone of our solar system, we can navigate through gravitational reference systems using a to-be-created map of spacetime pockets. To visualize, think of snowboard or skateboard halfpipes; here, too, gravity accelerates and decelerates, and as long as you maintain structural integrity, you can reach the other side without propulsion.

Practically, this means that star systems like Alpha Centauri, although only four to five light-years away optically, could theoretically be completely unreachable gravitationally if they are unfavorably positioned. On the other hand, it is possible to reach a star 10 light-years away in just a few decades if you know how to use a favorable gravitational current—or, in other words, let your potential energy work for you.

All this applies only to mass that aligns its motion with spacetime pockets. The transmission of information via light or waves remains largely unaffected.

3. Conclusion:

Believing in an interstellar society could aid enlightened humanity over the next centuries, uniting them, motivating them, and enabling them to look positively towards the future.

Establishing an ice moon fuel industry is a progressive and lucrative approach to humanity’s greatest problems. While green sustainability is necessary, it is not a solution in itself. The clear objective must be to embrace progress and work towards the goal of making a second planet habitable and subsequently many more.

Faith moves mountains, working on a better future creates moons.