UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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I principle, to establish a permanent base on the moon, a minimal station like the Antarctic
base. Beyond that, it would be necessary to recreate an ecosystem where the essential raw
material needs (including air, water, and food) could be extracted on site or recycled.
I Actually, we cannot consider applying the current method on a large scale, where almost
everything must be brought from earth via costly launches.
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Ecosystems of this type were studied by the Russians first (the first experiment was in
1961) and by the Americans, namely with Biosphere 2, a greenhouse 1.3 ha in surface
area, planned to maintain in closed circuit (with an outside power supply) a set of plants
and animals, including the presence of eight people. This experiment, which was carried
I out initially using private funds, was unjustly criticized by the press and a portion of the
scientific community. In fact, despite certain "amateur,, sides, it has already contributed a
great deal: during an initial two-year experiment from 1991 to 1993, four men and four
women lived almost entirely self-sufficiently, demonstrating the validity of the principle.
I The recycling of water was total, while the recycling ofair was imperfect (it was necessary
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to add oxygen after fifteen months of total isolation), and the production offood slightly
inadequate (the inhabitants of the biosphere left thinner, having started in on the reserves).
After another six-month experiment, the structure was taken over by the University of
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Columbia, which seems interested especially in the ecological aspect, to the detriment of
the space application. However, it is a descendent of Biosphere 2 who could represent the
future autonomous moon base ofthe middle of the next century. A human settlement on
the moon is first of all a scientific necessity, namely for astronomers. It is also a
springboard into space. Almost all the materials necessary for the construction ofstations
I and spaceships can be found on the moon, the exploitation of these resources will be
much more economical than on earth because the reduced gravity and the absence of
atmosphere on our satellite enable an easy and sure launch into orbit.
I Human expeditions will necessarily follow automated missions to Mars, iffor no other
reason than to verify the past existence of traces oflife. As for the development of
permanent Martian colonies, this can be envisioned, but one can also imagine skipping this
I step, by creating artificial planets. The idea was conceived by American physicist O'Neill,
who studied in detail cylindrical structures 30 km in length by 6 km in diameter, in rotation
to create an artificial gravity and able to shelter millions of people in an earth-type
I biosphere. .
These artificial planets could be constructed in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of
Mars and Jupiter, where we find an abundance of materials that are easy to exploit, which
I will be able to provide numerous chemical bodies, including oxygen and water.
In longer term, and when the industrial-scale manufacture, storage, and use of
antimatter is mastered, smaller models of these same craft will be able to leave the solar
I system. They will be able to reach the vicinity of another star, after a voyage of several
centuries, during which generations will succeed one another in these "ship-worlds"
(unless we have mastered human hibernation by then).
I These migrations probably will not take place until after reconnaissance [missions]
conducted by automatic probes [have been completed]. The preferred destinations would
obviously be systems where a planet supposedly shelters evolved life.
I Imagine that a human expedition settles in the asteroid belt ofa system where a
civilization exists that is quite probably at a lower stage of technical development than
I ours (if the reverse is true, it is likely that the contact was already made via
telecommunications, or else that the most advanced civilizations made the voyage before
us): for ethical reasons, but also in the interest of a serious scientific study, it could not
afford to intervene openly, at the risk o f inducing a fatal culture shock. The study should
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