LPAC Informs House Science Committee: If Humanity Runs Out of Helium 3, Blame Barack Obama

April 27, 2010 (LPAC)—The House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing April 22, on the topic, "Caught by Surprise: Causes and Consequences of the Helium-3 Supply Crisis," at which time three representatives of the LaRouche Political Action Committee provided attendees with written testimony on how there need be no such eventuality. The full text, prepared by Peter J. Martinson:        
If humanity runs out of an adequate supply of Helium-3 soon, and if adequate measures are not taken to reinstate our supply, the blame must be placed at the feet of President Obama. The most abundant source of Helium-3 that is accessible, is not in our nuclear arsenal or in Amarillo, Texas, but on the surface of our Moon. If President Obama's proposed budget goes through, without provision for the continuation and advancement of the NASA manned space program, then we will have thrown away the greatest mining opportunity in our history.

It is useful to use the Helium-3 crisis to illustrate how the problems in scientific and economic thinking have led to the point of the breakdown of human civilization. The Helium-3 problem does not represent one of many unconnected, coincident crises facing civilization today, but is integrally involved with the dynamic of global collapse. American economist Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly warned, that we are now, indeed, at end-game, where either our world will not return from the meat grinder of world wars and disease for many generations, or we will reverse the process of collapse and turn our sights towards the heavens, in cooperation with at least Russia, China, and India on the project of Man's true destiny—the colonization of the Moon, Mars, and the rest of our Solar System.      

Our true enemy is the British Empire, which resides in the financial houses of London, Wall Street, and various off-shore locations such as the Cayman Islands and the Dutch Antilles. This empire is right now moving towards the final destruction of the world economy, especially their historic enemy the United States. Until that threat is consciously taken on, through such Federal acts demanded by LaRouche — beginning with the bankruptcy reorganization of the U.S. Federal Reserve system under the Glass-Steagall standard — then no amount of bailouts or terrorist hunting will ever secure our nation. We must de-fang this British Empire immediately, and finally regain control over our nation's economy and security - in much the same way as that great Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.      

The power of the American System of Political Economy, is in its reliance on the powers of human cognition. From even a money perspective, missions of discovery organized by the Federal government have always resulted in huge profit, even though the importance of these missions was never implied by a conventional economics class. For example, the Apollo program made ten cents for every cent invested. But, the real profit was in the form of an increased power Man wielded over nature, at the end of the program, in terms of new technology, and trained engineers — many of whom have been tapped for NASA's Constellation project. Real profit is never in money, but in increased power to evoke anti-entropic changes to the universe.      

Since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, our government has been induced to dump this concept from our national economic thinking. As the current case involving Goldman Sachs, and the proliferation of former Goldman Sachs employees in our government, indicates, we have turned to the practice of pleasing Wall Street, the junior partner in the British Empire, instead of pushing for scientific and technological breakthroughs. Our economy has turned into a giant casino, where the progress gained up through Kennedy's presidency has been largely discarded, and now "cures" for our dead economy are being thrown to entities such as Goldman Sachs and AIG in the form of huge infusions of money.      

Human civilization has been living off of the momentum developed up to the death of President Kennedy. Since the late 1960s, we have exhausted the resources to support a world of going on 7 billion people, at the current technological level. In order to survive this global economic crisis, it must be the mission of the United States of America to begin making great leaps again in the level of real technology, which is only possible through setting a few very great goals. This is where the apparent crisis in Helium-3 is really located.      
The largest known source of Helium 3 (besides the outer gas giant planets) is on the surface of the Moon. The same money that could be invested into reviving the domestic production of Helium 3 could thus be more effectively invested for a serious mission of Lunar industrialization.      

The best use of Helium 3 is being demonstrated right now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they have been running an inertial electrostatic confinement reactor for some years, using the Helium 3 + T reaction. Were significant funding offered for this kind of fusion research, then break-even could actually be achieved. This research will lead not only to a clean, efficient, powerful source of electricity, but to breakthroughs in knowledge of the nature of matter and spacetime.      

In reality, the best plan, regarding the supply and use of Helium 3, is what should be the current goal of all human science, and specifically the mission of the United States. We must begin immediately to move on a manned mission to Mars. We cannot risk sending human astronauts on a two- to three-hundred day, ballistic voyage there, because of the deleterious effects on their health due to extended weightlessness. We need those astronauts to be able to perform work when they get there, and they must be able to return home. Therefore, we must at least provide an artificial gravity on their spacecraft, which could most directly be attainable through construction of Helium 3 fusion rocket engines, which can continuously accelerate the craft at 1 Earth gravity. This would shorten the trip to the length of about a long weekend.      

All discussion about both Helium 3, and fusion, is best put into context by recognizing Man's immortal mission to explore and colonize, personally, our Solar System and beyond. Therefore, some concrete proposals for this Committee on Science and Technology are:  

      1) Fight to block President Obama's proposal to shut down NASA's manned Lunar program,  

      2) Immediately launch a real Apollo-style mission to send astronauts to Mars, and return them to the Earth safely,  

      3) Increase funding for all aspects of fusion research in the United States, but especially that involving Helium 3.