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Space Technology:
“In contrast to the home arts let us look at the space rocketry world. At the present moment we have the enormous, major governments subsidized weaponry race into space undertaken by both Russia and the United States. In order to be able to put a man in space-- to stay in space, not to make a few orbits-- in order to have man, in effect, live continuously in outer space for weeks and months and possibly years, we have to solve scientifically the problem of mastering the ecological pattern of the human being and the metabolic pattern of the human being. We have to realize that the energy events that take place metabolically in supporting man ecologically on Earth involve energy transforming functions of trees, worms, water, sunlight, the slowly forming topsoil, et. al. The delicately balanced pressure and heat of energy exchanges and chemical transformings involve very large ecological domains to complete the cycles of a man-supporting environment process on Earth. We are going to have to compress the total ecological domain of man from approximately a one-mile radius process into a ten-foot radius process. We are going to reduce the total volume of energy transformation patterning several millionfold. In order to be able to send that man off into”
