The living already exists in the "Universe", the terrestrial rock being in reality a space rock "like the others", where the physical and chemical conditions are simply adapted to life. The fact that living beings do not turn into dust in the space station or on the Moon demonstrates that the Earth rock does not have a "specific property" that would enable life to exist.

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To open our minds to this possible extension of the terrestrial life beyond the planet, we can draw inspiration from many science fictions (books, movies) that already take place in the Universe. Beyond the situations of each story (sometimes clearly fanciful), they have the merit of making us culturally appropriate this extension of life beyond the terrestrial barrier which has become a reality since our first steps on the Moon.

Some can be clearly dystopian, pushing the worst of our fears to the extreme: more than visions of anticipation, they speak precisely to what we never want to see happen by extrapolating the darker side of the openings offered by the progress of our technical capacities (for example the movie Matrix or the manga Gunnm proposing very negative extrapolations of “Artificial Intelligence”). Sometimes to be taken with precaution (especially for children), because they can extrapolate and lock up the natural fear that we have of the future and all its uncertainties; fear which today becomes all the more legitimate as these uncertainties are becoming a certainty that we have indeed overshot the planetary boundaries, and that we have not yet invented clear solutions to respect them (eco-anxiety, just the cartoon Wally makes us already uncomfortable... rather watch the cartoon Terra Willy to positively appropriate this possible extension of life beyond the terrestrial barrier).

But the fact remains that any capacity will always be "double-edged" (or to avoid the binary "good/bad" vision: any capacity can always be used in a gradient going from very destructive to very constructive): the metal has killed thousands of lives with the sword, is present everywhere in our daily tools and saves thousands of lives thanks to its usefulness in many applications in medicine; atomic energy is the most powerful that we have discovered the existence, it can destroy a city in one go, or supply an entire country with energy; etc...

 

The fact remains that in the entire history of life on Earth, living beings have never been so capable, and that the barrier of space is indeed wide open... not because that it is profitable in terms of exchange tokens (money), but because it allows us to imagine that life will no longer disappear with the Earth and its sun.

One could cite an incalculable number of productions which story already occurs in the Universe, between Star Wars and Dune.

 

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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Litany against the fear of the Bene Gesserit (Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965).

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Two examples that resonate very strongly with this Manifesto would be the movies of Luc Besson (by the way, congratulations to this journey which is an achievement and which demonstrates how from nothingness life can create):

• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: which from the first minutes shows how the International Space Station, which continues to grow over the next few decades, is forced to be desorbed so as not to destabilize the Earth: more than a fiction, this film seems to be a real projection of the future; in any case it can be used on many aspects of specifications for engineers for future space developments.

• The Fifth Element: cry of the heart which opposes any stone which would endanger life by hitting the Earth, any domination, any tyrannical power... and seems to resonate with each cell of this Manifesto.