(Courtesy of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation) Lyndon LaRouche’s January 1987 preliminary script on the colonization of Mars (EIR Vol. 16, No. 31, Aug. 4, 1989) is framed from the standpoint of Sept. 3, 2036, looking back on those exciting days of 2025 and 2026, leading up to the 2027 establishment of mankind’s first permanent colony on Mars. (See video “The Woman on Mars”)
Here’s how LaRouche describes the cultural climate of those heady years, 2025 and 2026, followed by the “sleepless” year of 2027:
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 20th-century ocean liner, taking off from the vicinity of Earth’s geostationary space-terminal, in flotillas of five or more, each seeming to thunder silently in the near-vacuum under 1-gravity acceleration. By then, a permanent space-terminal was being constantly manned in Mars orbit. The televised broadcasts from that terminal showed the monstrous spacecraft arriving. Earth’s television screens showed the gradual accumulation of that vast amount of material in Mars orbit, waiting for the day it would descend to Mars’s surface. TV viewers on Earth saw the first craft, designed to descend and rise through the thin atmosphere of Mars, and saw views of the approaching Mars surface from the cockpit, through the eyes of the cameras.
A great anticipation built up throughout Earth’s population during those last two preparatory years. Then, Earth went through what was afterward described as the “sleepless year,” as the first city was assembled on Mars, during 2027. Audiences on Earth demanded to see every step of the construction relayed back here. Nearly everyone on Earth became thus a “sidewalk superintendent” for as many available hours as his or her sleep-starved eyes could be kept open. On waking, it was the same. The daily successes reported from Mars were discussed as widely and in as much detail as 20th-century sports fans debated the details of a weekend’s football play.
There was no technical reason why that shouldn’t be today’s reality! It was within our easy grasp.
Let us cry for humankind’s myopic stupidity for not having heeded the wise words of Lyndon LaRouche back then. Will we ever listen, learn, and know true happiness?
