Theories: Wanna run that one by me again?
By Clark DeLeon
Call me skeptical, but I had a hard time buying James Morasco's concept that
the planet Jupiter would be colonized by bringing all the people of Earth who
had ever died back to life and then changing Jupiter's atmosphere to allow them
to live. Is this just me, or does that strike you as hard to swallow too? Morasco
says he is a social worker in Philadelphia and came across this idea while reading
a book by historian Arnold Toynbee, who's theory on bringing dead molecules
back to life was depicted in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"There are no scientific principles I've found that can make this possible,"
Morasco said, "especially colonizing the planet Jupiter, which has a very poisonous
atmosphere. The possibility of giving that planet an oxygen atmosphere is beyond
even science fiction writers' imaginations."
Now that quote may sound as if Morasco doesn't believe it can be done, but that's
not true. He thinks that between Toynbee and Stanley Kubrick there is a way
to pull it off. That's why he's contacting talk shows and newspapers to spread
the message. He's even founded a Jupiter colonization organization called the
Minority Association, which he says consists of "Me, Eric, Eric's sister who
does the typing, Frank. . ."
You may be hearing more from Morasco. And then again, you may not.