Interesting live stream from medialab today (BO, SX, science fiction, etc)

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http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

 

Edited March 10, 2018 by tater

[tater]

BO talk right now

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Track A is where the good stuff is.

[tater]

Planetary Resources talk is fascinating.

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49 minutes ago, tater said:

Planetary Resources talk is fascinating.

What I found that was alot of the talk was unfocused, but when the questions were focused, the general answer is that space is

- really tough (short term anything out of EM is pretty much a 1-way trip for humans)
- we are making progress (largely on the front of automation)
- that humans were not designed to live off the Earth - we are tethered.
- that commercialization is a means not a goal. (JAXA is apparently offering spots on the ISS for 'da people')
- [interpreted] space art is like, space on drugs.
- we are probably going to screw up more life than colonize other planets (cause its hard to do and we are not very good at it).
- that ISRU is not a thing in as much as its a goal and the thing we try off planet is going to be really crude and at some point in the future they may be an environmental movement that tries to reform it.
- not alot of women and minorities are in space. (What is a minority now-a-days?)
- gravity (or lack there of) is not a confining principle, we can live 3 to 5 years without it, but hell to pay when we get back to Earth.
- solution to radiation and other problems may be bio-engineering of astronauts.

Lets see, the cause of slow space is the fact that public space tried to convince us it was really hard, therefore only they could do it (which is true, it fed technology into the private sector), but now the private sector is pooring technology into space science, which means that the public sector control of space is fading.

The future of space belongs to those willing to study it and automate. There are unlimited amount of resources in space, just human physiology makes us very poor at utilizing it. Thus studying means finding ways to localize the materials we want and studying means find better automated ways of extracting what we want and placing it where we want it.