Attendees

Ideas

  • Space memorials
    • not many doing, some are
    • people are dying for the opportunity
    • live stream
    • RocketLabs, ULA
    • sub-orbital fireworks of my ashes (-Kris)
    • Timothy Leary did this
    • Scotty’s remains went twice
    • Elysium Space
    • Burial Service in the sun
    • Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
    • crystals of my ashes into the sun so the prism rainbows earth (Kris)
    • dedicate my body to science - specifically data/information
    • Cremation Diamonds from Ashes
    • LifeGem
    • use your blood to make a diamond
    • How much ashes or blood to make a diamond?
    • Make your head into a mini head - with a magnifying glass making it large.
    • Your family’s skulls as a bracelet
    • literal family tree for jewelry
    • over the baby’s crib
    • Can we make silicon wafers chips from the silicon in our bodies
    • Heaven’s Above
    • Track Iridium Flares
    • space junk is a big problem
    • Kessler Syndrome
    • [SevenEves Book] (https://www.amazon.ca/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377)
    • 2/3 of a cup of (3.5ozs) or 1/2 a cup of hair to make a diamond - diamond growing
  • Death
    • compost
    • something practical
    • explode me
    • least costly (for the sake of loved ones). bic lighter/torch, singe the body until it flys (Mongolian sky burial)
    • mummified and sent into the sun - I’m not only the president I’m also a customer
    • not sure (ethical and ecologically sound - I want to be serious about my last act on earth)
    • tattoos of information, put where it won’t be touched for a very long time - mummified - put info in a diamond - (contribute back)
    • not sure
  • Condosinspace.com
  • Delivery into space
    • railgun (0.73c/ kilo)
    • we need to get away from rockets (big, heavy, hard to make reliable)
    • compressed gas to orbital
    • 70km long tube with compressed gas to launch humans
    • Launch Loop ($3/k)
    • space is only 100km away
    • Kerbal Space Program
  • 3d printing on the moon (sunlight to bake dust) - (astrobiotics -2mm per km)
    • video footage for a hollywood company
    • [Von Newmann robot - one builds the other] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine)
    • moon express - ferry service to the moon.
    • astrobotics -2mm per km
    • 1m fresnel lens - lighthouse manufacturer - (try plastic instead)
    • offworld.space (rovers that can work off-world)
    • REI - MEC - Their tent on the moon. (auto poppet space blanket)
    • Regolith on the shell of the tent to make solid
    • Mars City Design
    • NASA ISRU
    • Dig tunnels (Elon’s Boring machine, just need a door)
    • Mars Habitat challenge
    • no wind or gravity (height of buildings not an issue)
    • Bigalow aerospace B330
    • trap door spider
    • keeping it warm over night
    • nuclear battery for its waste heat
    • The Martian (movie?) atomic battery
    • Ian Soutar’s research on low level radiation
    • Radium Dials
    • Night vision eye drops
    • Dangerous Things
    • Rich Lee (friends with Dan)
  • Sphere with a vacuum on the inside to make a platform
  • Crowdsourced World building
    • If someone you just bought a camera lens from craigslist just got kidnapped, would you save them
    • Using a MUD platform
    • https://www.kingdomofloathing.com
    • Real-time D&D x 7
  • Book: The moon is a harsh mistress
  • Humanure Handbook
  • Book: The More in God’s Eye
  • jade rabbit died from the cold (darkness)
  • Use DT for next week’s topic
  • what do you want to do with your remains
  • public transit - is it efficient
  • neuroscience