Kim Peart’s avatar in Second Life, Starfarer, with news from real life in the ABC News Online story.
Kim Peart offers to go to North Korea to win peace.
As the drums of war beat ever louder over North Korea, is there a way to release the doves of peace?
North Korea is sending out missiles and testing nuclear weapons.
South Korea is making threats to cripple North Korea with War.
The United States is now threatening a military solution to the North Korean problem.
At what point does red-faced talk tumble into rapid-fire nuclear conflict?
North Korea has threatened Australia, so we are not safe.
Last year China threatened Australia over the South China Sea.
Many have expected war with China, as the Chinese seek to expand their forward defence and sphere of interest.
Could we find ourselves tricked into conflict, which triggers a Chinese plan, long prepared?
I explored how this could go in my article ~ World War??? ~
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/world-war-/
and the outcome for the Antipodes does not look too bright.
It is highly unlikely that China and Russia will allow South Korea, Japan, the United States, or Australia, to occupy North Korea, as that would be too close for their security interests.
There is a way to peace that no one on Earth has tried yet.
What if we decided to build orbital cities and settlements in space?
The nations could collectively do this, if they rose to the challenge.
Building cities in space was worked our in the 1970s, and is more highly refined now.
My article ~ Peace: the Final Frontier ~ explores how this can happen ~
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/peace-the-final-frontier/
and what the city in space could be like.
Rather than allowing conflict that delivers more losers than winners ~ what if we offered to create land for North Korea in space?
If they accepted this offer, they could then work with us in making it happen.
It will not happen overnight, but knowing it can happen, will provide an incentive to build peace on Earth, by investing in serious space development.
In my document ~ Creating a Solar Civilization ~ I suggest that we will need peace on Earth to deliver security in space ~
http://spacepioneers.com.au/articles/casc.html
Gerard K. O’Neill once worked out that there is enough raw material in the asteroid belt alone, to build land area in space three thousand times that on Earth.
And there is a lot more raw material out there among the trillions of objects in the Solar System.
O’Neill observed ~ “Almost anything can be done in a ten year period, when we set our minds to it.” ~
Even if it takes 50 years to build the first glittering city in space, if this is the way to focus on peace and avoid nuclear madness, then that would be a far better outcome, than red-faced taunts of anger.
I will be attending the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide from 23 September ~
http://www.iac2017.org
Could the space-faring nations rise to the challenge of peace at this congress?
Could the media help drive such a conversation?
That would be a good news story well worth reporting on.
If a delegation from the International space community could establish peace with North Korea, then this would also please China and Russia, and could herald the end to wars on Earth, by expanding into space, where there is no limit to human activity.
ANOTHER STORY JUST OUT
There is a story about Kim Peart and the Australian Space Party on the ABC News Online ~
Kim Peart, Tasmanian political candidate, and his dream for humanity’s future in space
By Aneeta Bhole, 16 September 2017, ABC News Online
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/kim-peart-tasmanian-political-hopefuls-space-dream-for-future/8892938
Anyone visiting the Space Pioneers embassy building in Second Life can access the story via a Notecard in a display board.
In Adelaide I will be inviting one and all to my 77th birthday in an orbital space city, and one and all can be their, if they help to build the venue.
This will need to happen by January 2029, when I turn 77.
Who would like to make that party happen?
Kim Peart’s avatar in Second Life, Starfarer, with news from real life in the ABC News Online story.
ABOUT ~ Kim Peart was raised in Howrah in Tasmania, is a visual artist, writer and researcher, launched a Viking Society in 1975, joined the space settlement movement in 1976, founded the Southern Cross L5 Society in 1981, which is now called the National Space Society of Australia, has had studio galleries in the Salamanca Arts Centre, Murdunna and Bellerive, ran in the Federal election in Franklin in 1996, also ran in a number of Council elections in Clarence, organised an event in Ross as part of Tasmania’s Bicentenary in 2004 with a focus on Jorgen Jorgenson, believed to be the king on the Ross Bridge, was included in “The A List” by the Mercury newspaper in 2007 of Tasmania’s 200 movers and shakers at 115 in regard to, “An urban bushland conservationist who has worked tirelessly over the years to maintain walking tracks and protect wildlife from the encroachment of bush-front housing developments.”, opened a Tasmanian Space Centre on Rosny Hill in 2007, proposed an event to remember the Moon landing at the moment it happened globally in July 1969, called First Step, founded Space Pioneers in 2011 to develop a space program using the virtual worlds, including Second Life, and now lives in Ross, where he holds a bonfire every mid-winter to burn a Viking dragon boat, and is planning for his 77th birthday in an orbital space city in 2029.
NOTE ~ The Australian Space Party (ASP) is a business name registered in Australia by Kim Peart, and relates to a plan to hold a party in an orbital space settlement in January 2029. When ASP has a hundred members in Tasmania, it will register as a state political party also. When ASP gains 500 members in Australia, it will also register as a national political party. By aiming for the stars, we can solve all problems on Earth. By clinging to the Earth, we create problems that cannot be solved on Earth alone. Aiming for a party in space will brake this negative cycle. Shifting our thinking to an overview from space will help us to see ways to live in harmony with the Earth, and open the way to human exploration of the Solar System and the stars. A presence in space will also allow us to defend our home planet from asteroids, or build arks in space to preserve life from Earth, should one arrive that is too large to deal with. ASP enquiries ~ [email protected]
Kim Peart, Ross
