Broadcast 923 (Special Edition)

Guest: Dr. Richard Kirby was the guest for this Space Show program. Our discussion began with Dr. Kirby sharing with us his knowledge of, and friendship with, Sir Arthur C. Clarke. From this part of the discussion, we talked about many different issues from finance to Dr. Kirby's and Bob Krone's program for Earth-based space stations. Although we covered many topics, we did so with two important overriding themes for moving forward with space development and a space-faring world. These two themes involve imaginative thinking and the need to "think a fresh thought." You will want to listen carefully to this program to see how these two themes, these two concepts, apply to everything we are doing in space and why they are so important in terms of our going forward with space development and finance from this point now. Many listener questions challenged Dr. Kirby, especially regarding our existing educational system paradigm for graduate school, but also for where we are today with space development, policy, hardware, and capital acquisition. Listeners wanted to know how to break out of the current situation, which we all know too well, to the type of space development being discussed on this program. Among the many topics we discussed, and that were used as example of what Dr. Kirby was sharing with us, included weapons research, competition, new financial methodologies, and how not to let the past dictate the present or the future. Additional programs Dr. Kirby discussed with us included "Women of the Stars" with Barbara Hero, a program focusing on 222 world feminist thinkers. Dr. Kirby let us know about the program to train one million gifted children in Mexico. For those of you who speak Spanish, you can watch a YouTube vide on program with Raul Macias regarding GENyo at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6zqLAYrpo. Dr. Kirby has several websites of interest, www.newgenius.com, www.wnrf.org/cms/index.shtml, www.wnrf.org/cms/finance3.shtml, and the www.wfs.org/. If you have questions or comments for Dr. Richard Kirby, please send them to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com.