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[cole santos]

It was a giant mess we had very little experience. I didn't run it. I
dumped the project on a friend who used to work at DarPA. But by and large
it was fun. Most projects were failures but that's probably expected. A few
were wild successes. Like the 3d printed telescope. Getting  the government
to sponsor makerspaces is critical to imementation of the singularity. I'm
interestsd  in trying again with a new agency. Talking to uscg this time.
On May 16, 2016 10:51 AM, "gmc" <gmc at hackerspaces.org> wrote:

> Yay, drama. It's what hackers are best at! Bye bye mailing list.
>
> On 16 May 2016 18:26:04 CEST, Michael Turner <
> michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM, cole santos <cksantos85 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Actually we took the DarPA money and the project was a great success.
>>> Www.spacegambit.Com
>>
>>
>> A great success for some people, I suppose.  In a certain sense.
>>
>> I pick a project at random.
>>
>> http://www.spacegambit.org/satstatsim/
>>
>> Funding: $20,000
>>
>> SpaceGAMBIT claim: only open source projects will be funded.
>>
>> Reality: well, ta! ke a look.
>>
>>   http://satstatsim.blogspot.jp/
>>
>> Excuse: "schedules slip". OK, but you can't check in any code, anywhere?
>>
>>   https://code.google.com/archive/p/satstatsim/source
>>
>> At least, that's the only repo I could find.
>>
>> There's nothing in it.
>>
>> It was largely because of my concerns about openness, clear
>> communication, democratic process, and leadership accountability that I
>> decided to have nothing further to do with SpaceGAMBIT. This was after
>> feeling enthusiastic about it and even defending it against what I thought
>> was unfair criticism.
>>
>> Really, I'd prefer to have been wrong in my suspicions.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Turner
>> Executive Director
>> Project Persephone
>> K-1 bldg 3F
>> 7-2-6 Nishishinjuku
>> Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
>> Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140
>> Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158
>> Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682
>> turner at projectpersephone.org
>> http://www.projectpersephone.org/
>>
>> "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
>> together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>> On Monday, May 16, 2016, Michael P Weber II <michaelweberii at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Michael Turner
>>>> <michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Whether intentional or not, the choice of watercress could be very
>>>> > space-relevant.
>>>> >
>>>> > (1) Biosphere II saw the direct participation of the late Roy
>>>> Walford, MD, a
>>>> > pioneer self-experimenter in CRON (calorie restriction with optimal
>>>> > nutrition) as a strategy for life extension. This research interested
>>>> the
>>>> > Biosphere II organizers because, in feeding long-duration space
>>>> mission
>>>> > participants, fewer calories eaten means, to a good first
>>>> approximation,
>>>> > less mass for the ecological life support system, leading to lower
>>>> mission
>>>> > cost, etc.
>>>> >
>>>> > (2) Research into how CRON appears to increase lifespans (in part by
>>>> > reducing cancer risk -- a big issue in space travel because of space
>>>> > radiation) reveals that it's more about protein restriction than about
>>>> > calorie restriction per se.
>>>> >
>>>> > (3) Further research has suggested that it's specifically reduction of
>>>> > methionine intake that is the main driver of life extension in CRON
>>>> (hence,
>>>> > presumably, lower cancer risk);
>>>> >
>>>> > (4) High-glycine diets sop up excess methionine. (To be sure:
>>>> methionine is
>>>> > an essential amino acid; glycine is not. But it seems that with
>>>> methionine,
>>>> > you can get too much of a good thing.)
>>>> >
>>>> > (5) Watercress is very high in glycine, quite low in methionine.
>>>> Watercress
>>>> > might be ideal for offsetting the cancer risks from space radiation in
>>>> > long-duration space missions.
>>>> >
>>>> > I think a good next step in such work would be to try to optimize
>>>> watercress
>>>> > production in an aeroponic rather than a hydroponic style.
>>>> Hydroponics is
>>>> > great, highly productive, but ... water is heavy. Aeroponics can give
>>>> you
>>>> > much of the benefit of hydroponics but with a fraction of the
>>>> equipment
>>>> > mass. Aeroponics should be more adaptable to low-g and microgravity
>>>> > environments since it's not gravity-dependent -- it's basically just
>>>> the
>>>> > deposition of nutrient-enriched mist droplets on plant roots.
>>>> Aeroponics may
>>>> > have gotten its start from NASA funding.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Michael Turner
>>>> > Executive Director
>>>> > Project Persephone
>>>> > K-1 bldg 3F
>>>> > 7-2-6 Nishishinjuku
>>>> > Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
>>>> > Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140
>>>> > Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158
>>>> > Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682
>>>> > turner at projectpersephone.org
>>>> > http://www.projectpersephone.org/
>>>> >
>>>> > "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
>>>> > together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Michael Turner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>> Are you going to take over the list then?
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