[tt] Repost: Undersea Colonies and Articles From Discovery Enterprise Blog Spot!!

Sun Oct 28 10:09:29 UTC 2007

 Forgive me for reposting this item again but, for some reason the links did not appear to be working. If you still have trouble with the hyperlinks please just cut and paste into your browswers address bar.

Alex

Hello Gang,
            Forgive me for reposting this item again but, for some reason the links did not appear to wbe working.
I would like to direct your attention to an exciting Undersea Colony Project inaugurated by Dennis Chamberland. I am currently involved in this project and have been appointed its European Union Liaison.
  There is a whole kingdom that lies uninhabited just beneath us.  While we live crowded and struggling on a mere 59 million square miles of dry land, this new territory of certain promise spreads out before our very eyes and unfolds to encompass an astonishing 138 million cubic miles of habitable space!  I am speaking of the oceans – whose human population is now and has always been - zero.  While there a few military men ply beneath the waves in submarines, they have no seafloor base to call home and they are always moving and temporary visitors without even a window from which to peer out. I am speaking of a human colony – a human undersea city – a permanent dwelling place for people and even families.  Today it is but fantasy, as it has always been.  But no more.  As of today, the dream of permanently settling the undersea regions of our earth has taken wings.This is the site of the Atlantica I and II Expeditions that will establish the first human undersea colony. We do not intent to establish a base or an outpost, but a human colony.  Soon, beneath the sea, families will live and work.  Children will go to school.  A new generation of children will be born there – the first citizens of a new ocean civilization.

http://underseacolony.com/prime/

Also check out the crew biographies page to see the people currently involved in this project,

http://underseacolony.com/prime/crewbios.html

and the promotional video.

http://underseacolony.com:80/prime/VIDindexLRG.html 

Also take a look at DST II submarine:

http://underseacolony.com/prime/dstII.html  and the Leviathan Habitat  .

The Leviathan Habitat is the undersea habitat designed specifically for the Atlantica Expeditions world record breaking 80 day mission scheduled to begin in 2009.  The Leviathan is designed for continuous habitation four aquanauts during the extended undersea mission.The Leviathan is designed to maximize functionality in a restricted space.  Its floor plan allows for two private aquanaut staterooms as well as a private bath, separate wet room with hot shower and a command and control room that doubles as the community space and entertainment module. 

http://underseacolony.com/prime/leviathan.html

The Undersea Colonies by Dennis Chamberland book is also available for purchase.

  Of all one hundred billion humans who have ever lived, not a single one has gone to live permanently undersea.  While we have had the technology to settle this vast, three dimensional domain for over half a century, it remains empty of outposts, colonies or cities – or even of a single settler.  While its immense territory covers nearly three quarters of the globe, no one has ever gone there to stay.  In this book, Dennis Chamberland traces the history of the aquanaut from the first tentative 24 hour experiment in 1962 until today.  Surprisingly, a careful reading of the record of humankind’s penetration of the oceans reveals misdirected starts, misunderstandings of the human’s capacity to adapt and, eventually, a great abandonment of the quest.  But now, Chamberland unveils a visionary strategy and a fresh, new look at previous challenges that will soon open up the expansive undersea regions called Aquatica.  Here will arrive  21st century pioneers, colonists and families who will become the first Aquaticans in what may yet prove to be the greatest human adventure in all of history. 

http://underseacolony.com/prime/book.html

A review of this book can also be found at the following link:

http://farfuturecalling.blogspot.com/2007/08/undersea-colonies-book-review-by-alex.html

Best Regards,

Alex Michael Bonnici

European Union Liaison – Atlantica Expeditions

Hello Once Again,
                        Here are a few links to a few articles I wrote for the Discovery Enterprise  blog site which I share with NASA scientist Dennis Chamberland and Australian space activist Ralph Buttigieg.

Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids, the Pioneering Work of Dandridge M. Cole 

http://discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/08/islands-in-space-challenge-of.html

Forty-five years ago president John Fitzgerald Kennedy affirmed our nation’s commitment to putting a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s in the most stirring and inspiring speech ever given by any American president concerning our national space goals. In his “We Choose to go to the Moon” speech he asserted the need for the United States to lay claim to a firm leadership position in the new frontier of space and that the U.S. should "do it right and do it first before this decade is out.” The young American president linked our nation’s commitment to the exploration of space to our long term national political and strategic goals during our Cold War battle against the forces of international communism.

Four and a half decades later we must reassess and reaffirm this nation’s commitment to the high frontier of space and link that commitment to the present political realities we face as a nation in the post 9/11 world. 

http://discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-must-choose-to-return-to-moon-and-do.html 

The High Road to the Moon 

http://discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/07/high-road-to-moon.html

and my review of Dennis Chamberland's most recent book "Undersea Colonies"

http://farfuturecalling.blogspot.com/2007/08/undersea-colonies-book-review-by-alex.html

My article concerning Space Pioneer Dandridge M. Cole seems to have aroused much renewed interest in his work.

  Notes & Queries 8/11/07
  American aerospace engineer Dandridge MacFarland Cole, who died just over forty years ago, was an early advocate of exploring the asteroids, advocating their eventual colonization in his book Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids. Alex Michael Bonnici takes a look at this fascinating figure, placing him in the tradition of Tsiolkovsky and Goddard as a futurist whose thinking challenged us to think big. Among his startling ideas was the use of asteroids as interstellar arks or generation ships. Bonnici’s tribute is well deserved and highly recommended.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1397

I look forward to your comments and your thoughts on these articles.

I beforehand thank you,

Yours truly,

Alex Michael Bonnici

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