CONCLUSION: FOR PEACEFUL INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION For military purposes, technology is developed confidentially, nationally, independently and exclusively, but for peaceful purposes, it is open to international and cooperative development. International cooperative engineering projects based on already established and disclosed high technology. In this sense, SPS becomes an international project for the peaceful purpose which may be constructed by state-of- the-art established technologies. If military developments were given the top priority by a government, peaceful development should be sought after mainly by nongovernmental international cooperations. Hopefully, a concrete proposal by an international nongovernmental committee can attract governments’ interest in beginning a phase-A study and adopting it as a national project. For instance, the Earth Space Port (ESP) plan proposed by an American foundation looks attractive to us (6). According to this plan, a launching base for Space Shuttles and HLLV, to transport materials for constructing space stations and SPS, should be constructed on the equatorial islands. ESP can be constructed on an equatorial Micronesian or Melanesian island, which is rented to the international organization for ESP. This island is connected for expansion to an artificial offshore island where the macro-insurance center is established. This launching center is linked via SPS with another equatorial rectenna constructed in Indonesia, Malaysia and other Asian countries which necessitates energy from space! REFERENCES I. H. Yokoo and T. Oshima, Is Bacteriophage /X174 a Message from an Extraterrestrial Intelligence? ICARUS 38, 148-153, 1979. 2. R. Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe, Reader’s Library, 1981. 3. K. Nakamura, Nostradamus: Yogen no Kozo (Structure of Prophesy), Shisakusha, Tokyo, 1982. 4. F. Davidson, L.J. Giacoletto, and R. Salkeld, eds., Macro-Engineering and the Infrastructure of Tomorrow, West View Press, Boulder, 1978; F.P. Davidson, C.L. Meador, and R. Salkeld, eds., How Big and Still Beautiful? Macro-Engineering Revisited, West View Press, Boulder, 1980; R. Salkeld, F.P. Davidson, and C.L. Meador, eds., Macro-Engineering: The Rich Potential. West View Press, Boulder, 1981. 5. M. Nakagawa, Kyodai Gijutsu no Jidai ga Kita (The Era of Macro-Engineering Has Come), PHP Business Library, Tokyo, 1982. 6. International Division, Sabre Foundation, A World Gateway to Space: Proposal for a Space Technology Development Zone, 1977.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTU5NjU0Mg==