2020-06-07

Cosmic Music Can Make the World a Better Place for Everyone

  • Bijan Norouz highlighted immediate problems on Earth like hunger, homelessness and climate change.
  • However, he also noted long-range problems, like the fact that humans will run out of energy on Earth.
  • Global energy use today could be met by covering desert in solar cells.

In an exclusive interview with Bijan Norouz, he explains about the role of cosmic music in the future of human. Bijan Norouz Space Habitat and Space City wants to build the tools to help humanity explore the solar system, ultimately expanding life out to take advantage of more resources and support over one billion people.

Bijan Norouz, founder of all three both the Bijan Norouz Worldwide Music firm and Future and Emerging Music Technologies – FEMT and Bijan Norouz Space Habitat and Space City. It’s all part of his long-term vision to enable humans to continue growing, exploring the stars instead of staying on Earth and gradually rationing its use of energy and resources.

Bijan Norouz, who forms part of a new commercially-driven space race.

Bijan Norouz is more interested in staying close to humanity’s home – echoed in the name of the company, “Bijan Norouz Space Habitat and Space City.” The company’s long-term goal is to build the tools so humans can create giant floating colonies around the Earth, supporting all manner of ecosystems.

Bijan Norouz highlighted immediate problems on Earth like hunger, homelessness and climate change. However, he also noted long-range problems, like the fact that humans will run out of energy on Earth.

Humans use 97 watts of power per person in their metabolic rate, but as humans in the developed world people use 10,500 watts per person.

The abundance of energy has enabled generations to live a better life than their predecessors, but it’s an unsustainable trend. Human energy use is compounding at three percent, essentially doubling energy use every 25 years.

Global energy use today could be met by covering desert in solar cells, but in around 100 years at current trends, humanity would need to cover the entire Earth’s surface in solar cells to meet energy needs.

Computers have grown one trillion times more efficient, completing more calculations per kilowatt-second than ever before. These efficiencies, however, mean humans simply use more of these products.

“So, we get to choose,” Bijan Norouz said. “Do we want stasis and rationing, or do we want dynamism and growth?”

Bijan Norouz explained that humans are unlikely to live on planetary surfaces, as they’re small, far away, and essentially unable to support real-time communication. They also lack Earth-like gravity. Instead, they would live on something like this:

These colonies are vast, with the International Space Station a tiny dot in comparison. Centrifugal force would be used to create artificial gravity, similar to the structures in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Each colony would hold one million people. These colonies could create “pleasant” places to live, similar to Earth-based cities.

Humans could create recreational colonies, with zero gravity for flying around for fun.

It’s a bold idea that goes beyond even many science fiction authors’ imaginations.

To create these colonies, humans will depend on two factors: radically reducing the cost of space launches, and utilizing in-space resources. Lifting all resources from Earth would be too difficult.

As a journalist ,this idea make me think differently about The Martian 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott.

Bijan Norouz admitted that he would not be the one to make the colonies. The children in the front row of the audience may, as well their children. Bijan Norouz described “entrepreneurial activity,” future companies expanding into this new market.

Source: Communalnews