[SpaceProgram] Introduction & Leightweight probes

[cole santos]

@meat plants? please give info, freaking awsome. hydroponics sucks
uses non renewable nutrient. need biogasaponics or aquaponics or both.

@ricky gravity wells do suck big time. no one ever talks much about
that. there is one caveat, if you could land a 2.5m thorium nuclear
powered tunneler on the moon you would have miles of habitat with only
one launch. Would require dragon heavy or larger. Refill power once a
year. Lunar orbit can be achieved by humans with a peroxide jet pack.



On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Paul Szymkowiak <paulszym at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas!
>
> On 11 April 2012 04:34, Andreas Sturm <masterstorm123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello @all,
>>
>> I'm new to this hackerspace... Hope I post it on the right spot...
>
>
> Your post was fantastic,and directed at the right group :)
>
>>
>>
>> I'm a DIY-biologist - especially on bioluminescence, thereafter biodiesel
>> and meat produced by plants
>
>
> I've been working a little on OpenPCR (openpcr.org), mainly as one of the
> KickStarter funders, but I have access to two of the original Alpha (Beta?)
> release machines. I've been partnering with a local Biotech scientist here
> in Australia - Robert Shepherd http://www.robertshepherd.com/ (cc'd above) -
> and Robert and I have been taking various opportunities to talk with the
> local Australian community about Open-Source Biotech.
>
> I think BioTech solutions will have a big part to play in space research
> projects.
>
> As it happens, I've just come from a talk by Mark Stevenson where he
> discussed a carbon-neutral oil refinery using a genetically modified
> bacteria to process atmospheric CO2.
>
>
>>
>> - who is also very interested in space exploration. Sadly, there's nothing
>> new about that topic. Constellation cancelled...
>>
>> So I'm thinking and thinkering about ultra-lightweight interstellar probes
>> (if they are very very lightweight, they don't need so much ion fuel to
>> accelerate!) They may just use a microcontroller (or two for redundancy) and
>> a camera. They also would just send one picture a day to save energy. A very
>> small plutonium-pellet would power the probe, also keeping the probe warm...
>> Some 5-10 watts may do the job... Thus it would be pulsed ion-drive ->
>> charge a capacitor for some hours, then power the ione drive for one hour.
>
>
> Fantastic project idea!
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>
>>
>> And also about Martian probes and habitats, e.g. inflatable ones.
>
>
> .. and more idea goodness :)
>
>>
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>>
>> What's your opinion on lightweight crafts? I think this is the only cheap
>> way to go, and nowadays it has to be cheap or it gets cancelled...
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>> The hundred years starship project is a very great thing. I hope fundings
>> will be approved...
>
>
> Agreed. Although our bid to get that funding directly failed, we are hopeful
> that we will have opportunities to work with project Icarus
> (http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/) and may even be able to receive some
> funding support through them.
>
> For now, we're actively pursuing direct funding through other grants and
> sponsors to enable an International Hacker Space Program to be supported.
>
> Nice to meet you Andreas, and welcome to the fun :)
>
> Paul
>
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