"The Earth isn't sick, she's pregnant!"
David Buth, dbuth@freemars.org

P.E.R.M.A.N.E.N.T.
Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term

The purpose of the PERMANENT pages is to introduce potential investors, engineers, journalists and the general public all over the world to these concepts, and to invite participation by a diversity of additional human resources. By bringing a brief synopsis and also offering comprehensive materials at your fingertips via the WWW, you have an opportunity to consider involving your life with this progressive venture in our generation, at the ground level. It will take off real soon now. We want real good people lined up at the ground level, and need people in a variety of fields outside the traditional rocket scientist field. Space development will no longer be an elitist, narrowly specialized field mainly for American and Russian "rocket scientists", but will become a broad economic frontier needing skills from a wide range of disciplines - engineering, construction, financing, public relations, project management, agronomists, etc.
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Enquanto sofríamos a atracção gravítica da Lua, aproveitávamos para ganharmos balanço, num vôo rasante pelas crateras habitadas e com os canais de som abertos ao que se passava lá em baixo, e ao som de música neo-concreta que alimentava a pujança dos operários a labutarem na extração de minerais para fabricarem lunarcrete, com que outros iriam encher as duplas paredes reforçadas de mais duas HUSOS (Human Urban Spacial Orb Stations). Uma para a cadeia Sheraton-Hilton-Luna Resort e outra que se esperava grandiosa e que não voltaria a órbitras próximas de qualquer planeta ou lua do sistema solar. A Maná - Igreja Verdadeiramente Universal de Todos os Deuses tinha a ambição de criar um novo sistema social, livre de não-crentes e provavelmente a primeira organização inteiramente livre e colonizadora do espaço... Os condos protegé evoluiam!
Encostei-me no assento, liguei o Pop - Story -Teller sem imagens e fechei os olhos

...uas bolsas que tinha trazido "emprestadas", das sofisticadas bancadas VIP do Mega-Stadium, durante um dos intervalos do espaço-tempo de uma final, de uns contra outros, que qualquer país-nação desejaria organizar, tive mais surpresas do que era suposto. A primeira que abri, escondia, saído em qualquer jogo popular de azar, um free-name-Ticket com o poder de mandar-me à HUSO com as vistas mais espectaculares de todo o sistema solar, a de Saturno, oito dias em cruzeiro. Tinha fama também devido à âmpola-Bio13 com pântanos e espécies locais à mistura. Uma paisagem cheia de espécies extintas na terra e prontas a colonizar outros lugares no espaço onde o homem se demorasse mais. As atrações turísticas tinham feito despoletar o negócio na exploração planetária, seguindo-se o business dos minérios e da energia solar.
A viagem era... ... Para já! Tinha cerca de uma hora para chegar à aerogare. Foi uma corrida violenta até ao outro lado da cidade e cheguei à justa.
Sendo o último a entrar, entre centenas, fui praticamente empurrado pelos hospedeiros para o camarote que restava.
Logo que me encontrei sozinho e trancado no cubículo, ataquei o dispositivo de segurança da segunda bolsa. Quando a consegui abrir, por entre bips e leds, saltou um compartimento secreto. Por debaixo de um pano preto, no fundo, alguma coisa mexia-se... ... Devagar, aproximo a mão, e levantando o pano suavemente destapo um cão bebé. Um chiwuawa recém-nascido que acordava de uma qualquer letargia de hibernação forçada. Um tradutor básico de guinchos canídeos começou a falar: Tenho fome e sede. Alimento: leite. Quantid...
Um alarme soou no painel de controlo do quarto. Os sensores de feromonas alertaram o rapaz de serviço. Abriu a porta no exacto momento em que eu metia a caca na sanita. O animal, em cima da cama, continuava a emitir ruídos que a bolsa apressava-se em traduzir. Senti-me agarroabbbbYERYuityeis b..zzZXzzz.,...

...A nave tremia toda, éramos sacudidos e quem não se amarrou a tempo ainda deu umas cambalhotas, sem gravidade, quando perdemos a gravidade artificial. Qualquer coisa estava a correr mal e de repente tive a sensação que não me livraria desta. A voz do comandante fez-se ouvir ao mesmo tempo que um calhau atravessou a nave à minha frente, fez um buraco de um lado ao outro da fuselagem e começou a chupar tudo e todos.. Ainda tive tempo de observar, com uma calma extraordinária, o caos à minha frente...depois voltámos ao pó das estrelas...
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Mário Cameira

 

 

 

 

 

<< Despite feeling the Moon's pull, we balanced ourselves free from its gravitational atraction, and speeded hair-thin by one of the inhabited moon seas. The sound chanel was opened and we were able to hear the neo-concrete roar from the music that pushed forth the working muscles from the mineral extraction workers, to be used in lunarcrete, with which other people would erect strong doubled walls of some more couple of HUSOS (Human Urban Spacial Orb Stations). One for the Sheraton-Hilton-Luna Resort chain and another one said to be gigantic and that wouldn't be half near any planet or satellite from the Solar System. Mana - The Truly Universal Church of All Gods was ambitious enough to build a new social system, free from non-believers and much probably the first totally free space-colonies organisation... Protegé condos are it, man!
I leaned back on my seat, turned on my imageless Pop-Storyteller and closed my eyes...

...wo pouches «borrowed» from the sophisticated VIP seats of the Mega-Stadium, during the time-space interval of one of the finals, one against the other, that any country-nation wished to organise, and I found more that I'd bargained for. The first I opened had hidden, from any popular trial-and-error game, a free-name-Ticket that could send me to the Huso with the most outstanding views of the Solar System, Saturn's, na eight-day crusier. This HUSO was also well known for its Bio 13 dome with swamps and local species roaming around. A landscape full has long gone species from Earth, ready to be reproduced in planets in which man would perhaps linger a little longer. The turistic attractions set off the planetary speculation business, not to mention mineral and solar-power businesses.
And that trip was due...Right now!! I had less than an hour to reach the Aerostation. After a violent race to the other side of town, just on time!
Being the last one to hop in, among hundreds of people, I was literally pushed into the last compartiment by the stewards.
As I found myself alone and trapped in the cubicle, I attacked the security gizmo of the second pouch. When, finally, I was able to open it, among beeps and leds, I realise there was a secret compartiment. Beneath a black cloth, within the deep, I found a baby dog. A newborn chihuhuaha was waking up from an indulced hybernation-lethargy situation. A basic dog bark translator began its function: I'm hungry and I'm thirsty. Food: milk. Quanti...
An alarm set off in the room's control board. The pheromone sensors alerted the concierge boy. He swang the door open as I tried to sweep the poop to the john. The animal was in top of the bed, making sounds that the translator insisted to clarify. I felt grabbbbbbbbbeeeehdjhUYUjndcjh hjikj....zzzzZZXXzzzzz....

...The whole ship was trembling; we were being shaken off our seats and the ones who were not with their seatbelts tight rolled over in the air, when the artificial gravitation went dead. Something's was wrong and suddenly I thought I wasn't going to make it. The ship's commender was shouting something as a huge rock wrecked the whole ship from side to side, just in front of me, and the hole was sucking everything and everyone... I still had the time to watch, outstandigally calm, the chaos around me... and then we returned to the dust of stars... >>