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This document discusses the geoethics of interstellar space missions and proposes establishing a Society for the Advancement of Geothical Activities in Nature (SAGAN) to accelerate space infrastructure development. It defines a baseline geoethical interstellar mission that would launch within 100 years, enable spacesteading, and travel between star systems within an adult lifetime using constant low acceleration. The document argues that technology can be developed more ethically and freely in space than on Earth due to fewer regulations and pollution concerns.

Geoethics of 100YSS
Contribution 157
2nd 100YSS Symposium, Houston TX
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
United Therapeutics Corp.
mar@unither.com
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Guru of Galactic Clusters, George Abell
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We All Live in Space, But Living
“Transterran” Is A Kind of Freedom
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Principles of Consent & Compliance:
Space Is the Value of Freedom of Risk
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Likely to
Risk
Harm to
Others?
Terms of
Consent
Obtained &
Enforced?
NO ✔
Y
NO

Geoethical Analysis Depends Upon
Specifics of Interstellar Mission
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Geoethics of Unmanned Mission Very
Different from Spacesteading Mission
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Because of Mission Diversity, I Defined a
Geoethical Interstellar Baseline (GIB) Mission
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Magnetic Sail
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GIB = Launch w/in 100 Years;
Spacesteading Goal;
Travel completed w/in Adult
Lifetime (50ish Years)
Constant Acceleration &
Deceleration, e.g., 0.1g, 0.2g
Up to 20 ly radius
Over 100 star systems

Magnetic Deflector
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 Geoethics Satisfied for
Passengers and Their
Descendants by Virtue of
Informed Consent
> Trustee Arrangements to
Enforce Terms of Consent,
e.g., Assured Funding for
Continued Software Updates
and Relevant Knowledge

Geoethical Obligations to Non-Terrans
a Function of Discernable Values
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As no discernable
non-terrans exist,
much less their
values, there is no
geoethical analysis
to carry out with
respect to non-
terrans

Discovery of
Gerard K. O’Neill
What is the optimal
location for the industry
associated with a
population that is rapidly
growing in number and/or
quality of life?
It is not the inward surface
of a biosphere, such as the
surface of the earth.
It is the outward surface
of a biosphere, which is
only practical if that
biosphere is a large
structure in outer space.
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Quantitative Geoethics = Is Ph > 10-6 ∧
Is h > .05*Value? If Y,  CONSENT
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It is Much Easier for Technology to Be
Geoethical In Space Than on Earth
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Pollution of
Technology is the
Risk of Harm
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The Gulliver of Technology is Tied Down by Countless
Regulations Due To the Geoethical Process on Earth

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FEAR OF IDEATIONAL
POLLUTION LED
ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
TO BAN DIVERSE
RELIGIONS

THE HIGH FRONTIER IS THE NEW
WORLD FOR RISKY TECHNOLOGY
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Society for the Advancement of
Geothical Activities in Nature (SAGAN)
• Accelerates the Space-Based Infrastructure
Needed for the 100YSS Project
• Increases the Critical Mass of Persons Who
Believe in Space As Our Future: “Technology
Wants to Be Free”
• Is Essential Building Block Toward Becoming
an Interstellar Culture
• Why Go to Space? Many Things Are Too
Dangerous to Manufacture (or Do) on Earth
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