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Lyndon LaRouche is, without a doubt, the most controversial figure
ever produced since, for instance, Mussolini. He has been called
"a small time Hitler" by Irwin Suall, who was later sued by LaRouche
for this remark and was found innocent by a jury of LaRouche's peers.
In the past 20 years Lyndon LaRouche is, perhaps, the person who
has singlehandedly set back civilization's progress decades, via
racial hate, religious ignorance, and civil terrorism, through a
large private information-gathering service and political mechanations.
He is also extreamly bright (perhaps even brilliant), and when not
in manic, paranoidal, delusional savior mode, can be quite lucid.
The following article concerns a futuristic colonization of Mars.
For more information of the LaRouchite Cult, contact The Astro-Net.
-d rice.
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 MARS COLONIZATION BY 2027 A.D.

 by Lyndon H. LaRouche


"What I am about to present to you are the highlights of
present U.S. plans for establishing a permanent colony on Mars by
approximately the year 2027 A.D.  The plans to be outlined here
are based on the two somewhat similar, but slightly differing
versions of the plan as developed by various U.S. specialists.
One plan is that first presented at a July 1985 conference in
honor of the space pioneer, Krafft Ehricke, who died at the end
of 1984.  The second plan, is one drafted by the U.S. Space
Commission, and presented approximately a year after the Krafft
Ehricke conference.  This presentation will emphasize the
approach laid out at the Krafft Ehricke memorial conference, but
it will also make use of important features of the proposals by
the U.S. Space Commission.

"For this purpose, I ask you to come with me, in your
imagination, to a Wednesday in September, in the year 2036
A.D., nine years after the Mars colony has been founded.
Starting from an imaginary television broadcast to Earth on 1800
hours London time, that day, let us look from that day and
year, back to the time of the United States' adoption of the
Mars colonization project, and trace each major step of the
project from the year 1989, up to the year 2027, the year the
first permanent colony on Mars is finally established.

"Those who have worked to prepare this presentation, have
thought that we must use our powers of imagination in this way.
It is thought, that we must focus attention on our destination
as we outline each step of a journey.  It seems to us, that
that is the only way this project, and its importance for all
mankind, can be properly understood.

"To present the project in this way,  it is necessary to
include some imaginary political figures and political events,
so that we might present this as a story.    However,  the
technical facts we use here represent the scientific and related
facts of the Mars colonization plan as those facts exist today."
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                        THE WOMAN ON MARS
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The BBC television studio's clock says that it is 1600 hours
in London,  on Wednesday,  September **, 2036 A.D.    From **
millions miles away,  on Mars,  a televised image travels **
minutes across space,  to be picked up by the giant geostationary
receiver hovering over the South Atlantic,  from where the signal
is relayed to other satelites,  reaching waiting disk-antennas
around the world.    A woman's face appears on the BBC screen.

The woman on the screen is in her late thirties.   The sight
of her familiar features brings expressions of admiration to the
viewing audiences now receiving this live broadcast around most
of the world.   She is Dr. Ellen Jones,  chief executive of the
Mars colony,  and the daughter of the famous space pioneer, Dr.
Walter Jones,  who headed the U.S.A.'s Mars-colonization program
from 2008 until his retirement in 2027.

"I bring you greetings from your 683,648 relatives and
friends living here on Mars,  and some very good news,"  she
begins.   "Our astrophysicists agree,  that with our latest
series of observations at our Cyclops III radiotelescope,  we
have solved at least a good part of the mystery of what you know
as black holes.   We are convinced that we are at the verge of
fundamentally new ideas about how our universe works."

The TV audience followed her five-minute televised report
with a scientific interest which would have been unimaginable
when the Mars-colonization mission was first launched by the
U.S.,  back in March 1989.

The 1990s flights of transatmospheric craft up to stations
in low Earth orbit,  had revived the spirit of the popularity of
space-exploration from the Apollo-project period of the 1960s.
After Earth's first geostationery space-terminal had been
completed near the end of the 1990s,  manned flights to the Moon
had sson become routine.   Over the 1990s,  the point was reached
that every school-child, not only in the U.S.,  Europe, and
Japan,  but throughout the world.  demanded to know everything
possible about space.

Beginning the 1990s,  fewer and fewer university students
attended courses in the social sciences,  as the physical
sciences,  including space biology,  took over the classrooms
almost completely.   Even at pre-school ages,  more and more
children,  asked what gift they wished for Christmas,  would
answer,  "a telescope."   As the industrialization of the Moon
began near the end of the Twenty-First Century's first decade, to
look up was to express optimism about the human race's future.
Space and the spirit of adventure became one and the same.

There had been a deeper quality of changes in attitudes.
What had been the most popular competitive sports of the
Twentieth Century became less popular,  and achievement in
swimming,  track and field,  and mountain-climbing the most
popular features of physical education programs.   "Keeping in
shape for space-travel," was the value which more and more
attached to physical education.

Twentieth-Century man would be astonished to know the new
way in which "spirit of adventure" was translated during the
early decades of the Twenty-First.   Some things Twentieth
Century man would have recognized.   Being the first to set foot
on some planetary body,  was of course a commonplace fantasy
among children and youth.   The difference was,  most teen-agers,
and some much younger,  already knew the real purpose of space-
exloration.   That purpose was,  to acquire knowledge which the
human race needed,  and could not gain without scientific
exploration of our universe in a way which could not be done
without travelling far beyond Earth's orbit.   The idea of
adventure,  was not a matter of simply getting to some strange
place out there.   Exciting adventure,  was to participate in
making some exciting new discovery in space,  which would be
useful to the majority of the human race remaining back here on
Earth.

So,  those children and youth gobbled up every bit of
information they could,  with the purpose being to understand
what kind of knowledge mankind was seeking out there.

The last two years,  2025-2026,  just before the building of
the first permanent colony on Mars,  had seen the most rapid
transformation in popular values here on Earth.

The TV screens had been filled often with images of those
giant spacecraft,  each much larger than a Twentieth Century
ocean liner,  taking off from the vicinity of Earth's
Geostationery space-terminal,  in flotillas of five or more,
each seeming to thunder silently in the near-vacuum under one-
gravity acceleration.    By then,  a permanent space-terminal was
being constantly manned in Mars orbit.   The televised broadcasts
from that terminal showed the monstrous space-craft arriving.
Earth's television screens showed the gradual accumulation of
that vast amount of material in Mars orbit,  waiting for the day