Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPACE COLONY
Introduction
The mission for the development of the space settlement is based on the scientific research and development to expand the horizons of human mind to settle any where universally and to saw the seeds for next space era. For accomplishing this mission there should be initial support form government like Funding basic R&D, initial infrastructure, Legislation protecting private property rights in space, Government-sponsored insurance, Providing a guaranteed initial customer.
The station is also submitted to requirements of research and development, Science, Tourism, Manufacturing, Science – Astronomy ,Manufacturing – Medicine, Service – Agriculture, (supporting colonies with food, water resources),Likewise size may go from a couple of dozen researchers and their families to tens of thousands of families supporting a dozen factories,.
“Government will not be the entity making products and services in space”, except possibly a few products in the initial years. the private sector will take over once the initial startup costs and basic infrastructure are overcome. It is beyond the scope of this discussion to cite other examples of government initiated research and development (and joint ventures with government contractors) which became purely private sector realms of high profitability, e.g., communications satellites, internet, various energy technologies, but business readers and government program leaders may want to study some of those case histories.
The station must be able to repay the governments that invested in it. Therefore, the station must be an international spaceport and a tourist location. Space tourists can be a good source of money. Also assembling spacecraft and satellites can become an important source of money. The fuel needed to bring the rockets or satellites up to the station can be spared. Building spacecraft and satellites in the space station can be a good way to earn money and repay the governments. Another way to repay the governments will be scientifically. Astronomers will inhabit the station and great research can be made. A telescope like Hubble placed on the station can bring great science income.
Another advantage will be doing experiments in space, in conditions of zero gravity and perfect vacuum.
The mission for the development of the space settlement is based on the scientific research and development to expand the horizons of human mind to settle any where universally and to saw the seeds for next space era. For accomplishing this mission there should be initial support form government like Funding basic R&D, initial infrastructure, Legislation protecting private property rights in space, Government-sponsored insurance, Providing a guaranteed initial customer.
The station is also submitted to requirements of research and development, Science, Tourism, Manufacturing, Science – Astronomy ,Manufacturing – Medicine, Service – Agriculture, (supporting colonies with food, water resources),Likewise size may go from a couple of dozen researchers and their families to tens of thousands of families supporting a dozen factories,.
“Government will not be the entity making products and services in space”, except possibly a few products in the initial years. the private sector will take over once the initial startup costs and basic infrastructure are overcome. It is beyond the scope of this discussion to cite other examples of government initiated research and development (and joint ventures with government contractors) which became purely private sector realms of high profitability, e.g., communications satellites, internet, various energy technologies, but business readers and government program leaders may want to study some of those case histories.
The station must be able to repay the governments that invested in it. Therefore, the station must be an international spaceport and a tourist location. Space tourists can be a good source of money. Also assembling spacecraft and satellites can become an important source of money. The fuel needed to bring the rockets or satellites up to the station can be spared. Building spacecraft and satellites in the space station can be a good way to earn money and repay the governments. Another way to repay the governments will be scientifically. Astronomers will inhabit the station and great research can be made. A telescope like Hubble placed on the station can bring great science income.
Another advantage will be doing experiments in space, in conditions of zero gravity and perfect vacuum.
GC22 project info
ABSTRACT
Space colony named galaxy city 22 for human settlement beyond the four layers of atmosphere to create an integrated system for solving global environmental, climate, and political problems and to develop global oneness.
Our mission is to develop a light weight space station with robust infrastructure having residential buildings, research and development centers, agriculture, power generating systems , sunlight , oxygen , carbon and nitrogen producing methods to maintain natural environment in space colonies like earth.
The galaxy city 22 has an unique vessel like structure which has an opening at the middle . It consists of four torus shaped residential colonies and In the middle; two dome space structures with extended infrastructure is constructed for agriculture purpose; these two dome space structures facing each other can move vertically away from each other allowing a spaceship to entre inside. This location will be with the major infrastructure for government, transportation, commercial complex, entertainment, research, industries, communication centre, power and oxygen generating subassemblies, communication system connecting inside space station and earth station. This Interior structure is connected to a shaft joining the end points of the top and bottom heads, and it is provided with thrust which makes it to rotate about its longitudinal axis, generating an artificial gravity effect upon the interior walls of the torus and dome space structures; due to centrifugal forces.
Major Lift is provided along the shaft for transportation and each torus consists of special type of elevator made with nanotechnology, which reduces the weight of the torus. The exterior of the cylindrical surface and heads at the top and bottom of the vessel are covered with solar cells for power generation. A Transparent glass fiber reinforced composite material is provided near the torus and the hub in the middle to direct sunlight inside the colonies by means of mirrors which is oriented independently of the rotation of the body. The size and capacity of the space station is calculated, and its, escape velocity, launching speed, transfer-time are calculated, along with this population size is estimation
GC22 project info
ABSTRACT
Space colony named galaxy city 22 for human settlement beyond the four layers of atmosphere to create an integrated system for solving global environmental, climate, and political problems and to develop global oneness.
Our mission is to develop a light weight space station with robust infrastructure having residential buildings, research and development centers, agriculture, power generating systems , sunlight , oxygen , carbon and nitrogen producing methods to maintain natural environment in space colonies like earth.
The galaxy city 22 has an unique vessel like structure which has an opening at the middle . It consists of four torus shaped residential colonies and In the middle; two dome space structures with extended infrastructure is constructed for agriculture purpose; these two dome space structures facing each other can move vertically away from each other allowing a spaceship to entre inside. This location will be with the major infrastructure for government, transportation, commercial complex, entertainment, research, industries, communication centre, power and oxygen generating subassemblies, communication system connecting inside space station and earth station. This Interior structure is connected to a shaft joining the end points of the top and bottom heads, and it is provided with thrust which makes it to rotate about its longitudinal axis, generating an artificial gravity effect upon the interior walls of the torus and dome space structures; due to centrifugal forces.
Major Lift is provided along the shaft for transportation and each torus consists of special type of elevator made with nanotechnology, which reduces the weight of the torus. The exterior of the cylindrical surface and heads at the top and bottom of the vessel are covered with solar cells for power generation. A Transparent glass fiber reinforced composite material is provided near the torus and the hub in the middle to direct sunlight inside the colonies by means of mirrors which is oriented independently of the rotation of the body. The size and capacity of the space station is calculated, and its, escape velocity, launching speed, transfer-time are calculated, along with this population size is estimation
Monday, May 17, 2010
life in space
Space Colony Project
Introduction: This is a hands-on project to create a space colony. This effort will use the
knowledge learned in previous mission plans and should provide a continuing theme throughout
the Galaxy Explorers program.
Each Mission Team will be divided into groups of four to five members. Each group will
present their results in a ten-minute presentation. The activity will be largely a guided effort.
Specifically the Galaxy Explorers will answer a series of questions framing the issue and will be
given time to polish their results and present it.
The activity is outlined as follows...
• Introduction. Give your Colony a name.
• What is your colony's mission?
• Where will your colony be located?
• What things does your colony need?
• How do you get to your colony?
• What types of companies does your Colony work with?
• What jobs will be done by people and what will be done by robots?
• Make a flag. Pick a song which your Colony will use as it's "theme song." The head of the
Colony is going to build a statue of the person who inspired them the most to be a space
colonist. This person can be living or dead, someone you know or someone you know of,
someone who is real or fictional. Who is that person?
• Presentation preparation (drawing or map) and delivery
This project will be to create some vision of a space colony and share it with others.
The presentation should essentially answer the questions on the following handout.
The Colony Mission
Purpose: We need to determine the purpose of the Colony.
Notes:
Space colonies can perform a variety of missions.
The basic explorers should decide among very broad categories. For example...
Science
Tourism
Manufacturing
Service (supporting other colonies with food, water resources)
Pioneering
Advanced students should take it one step further. For example
Science - Astronomy
Manufacturing - Medecine
Service - Agriculture
Likewise size may go from a couple of dozen researchers and their families to tens of thousands
of families supporting a dozen factories.
Presentation Question: What is your colony’s mission
Colony Location
Purpose: We need to identify a location for the colony to perform its mission.
Notes:
Here are some places where they may want to put there colonies.
The moon - good for research, good for mining materials and oxygen, good for tourists
Mars - Good for pioneers because of water and atmosphere. Research on origins of life can be
done on Mars. Great for tourists (Mons Olympus - the solar systems biggest mountain)
Earth Orbit - Good for manufactiuring, good for science. Low orbit is good for looking at the
whole Earth. High orbits are better for looking at one spot (communications satellites)
Libration points (places of gravitational equilibrium between heavenly bodies) -good for services
(act as a way station for space ships going between the earth and moon for example)
Asteroid belt - Good for mining
Outer planets - good for exploring and doing research
Presentation Question: Where is your colony located?
Building the Colony
Purpose: We need to decide what sort of special activities a colony will need to do to work.
Colonies like cities have specific subsystems which support the whole. They include
- life support
- local transportation
- power
- water storage and delivery
- sanitation
- food production and storage
- communications
- recreation
- housing
- weather/climate control
- Protection - Mars colonies need protection from dust and wind. Lunar colonies need protection
from radiation etc... .
Certain activities may require that special attention be given to certain subsystems. Tourists may
need extra recreation. Agricultural colonies may need more water. Miners may need power for
their mining equipment. Service colonies may need lots of local shuttlecraft and space tugs to
move space ships around.
Presentation Question: What is the most important subsystem your colony needs to do its
mission?
Space Transportation
Purpose: We need to know what types of transportation may be used to get to your colony and
back.
Notes:
The distinction being made in this activity is that there are orbital transportation systems and
interplanetary transportation systems.
The Shuttle only goes into orbit.
The Apollo space craft could only go to the moon.
The endstate should be a discussion of needs. We need to move a certain number of people
between the colony and earth atcertain intervals and the trip should take this amount of time.
New Fairfax needs a space ship capable of taking 100 people to the colony in orbit and earth
everyday and the trip should only be an hour long.
Presentation Question: Based on where your colony is located what type of transportation
will you use?
Colony Associations
Purpose: We need to know what supporting efforts are needed to sustain the colony
Notes: There are many possible space businesses one could have in a colony. Not just scientific
research. A space colony may need artists, salesman, welders, repairmen like the people who
work in Prince William County. Not everyone who goes to space will be a an astronauts.
Presentation Question: Based on the mission of the colony identify two businesses which
would support that activity.
Hints: The basic explorers may come up with something like telescope repairman to help out a
research station, while the advanced explorers may envision habitat construction companies in
support of a pioneering colony.
Space Art
Purpose: There are a few other things we need to know.
Presentation Questions:
What is your Colony’s Name?
What is the official Song of your Colony?
Every Colony will have a statue built to honor the person or people who inspired the
colonists to take an interest in space. What person or group of people will be on your
statue? Remember it can be anyone from your mom or dad, to your science teacher, to an
astronaut or even a TV character.
The future of the planet is closely tied to that of the Sun. As a result of the steady accumulation of helium at the Sun's core, the star's total luminosity will slowly increase. The luminosity of the Sun will grow by 10% over the next 1.1 Gyr (1.1 billion years) and by 40% over the next 3.5 Gyr. Climate models indicate that the rise in radiation reaching the Earth is likely to have dire consequences, including the loss of the planet's oceans.[50]
The Earth's increasing surface temperature will accelerate the inorganic CO2 cycle, reducing its concentration to levels lethally low for plants (10 ppm for C4 photosynthesis) in approximately500 million[19] to 900 million years. The lack of vegetation will result in the loss of oxygen in the atmosphere, so animal life will become extinct within several million more years. After another billion years all surface water will have disappeared and the mean global temperature will reach 70 °C(158 °F). The Earth is expected to be effectively habitable for about another 500 million years from that point, although this may be extended up to 2.3 billion years if the nitrogen is removed from the atmosphere.Even if the Sun were eternal and stable, the continued internal cooling of the Earth would result in a loss of much of its CO2 due to reduced volcanism, and 35% of the water in the oceans would descend to the mantle due to reduced steam venting from mid-ocean ridges.
The Sun, as part of its evolution, will become a red giant in about 5 Gyr. Models predict that the Sun will expand out to about 250 times its present radius, roughly 1 AU (150,000,000 km). Earth's fate is less clear. As a red giant, the Sun will lose roughly 30% of its mass, so, without tidal effects, the Earth will move to an orbit 1.7 AU (250,000,000 km) from the Sun when the star reaches it maximum radius. The planet was therefore initially expected to escape envelopment by the expanded Sun's sparse outer atmosphere, though most, if not all, remaining life would have been destroyed by the Sun's increased luminosity (peaking at about 5000 times its present level). However, a more recent simulation indicates that Earth's orbit will decay due to tidal effects and drag, causing it to enter the red giant Sun's atmosphere and be vaporized.
Possible alternatives to this fate include the purposeful displacement of an asteroid from the Kuiper belt, which would repeatedly fly close enough to Earth as to enlarge its orbit, thereby preventing the overheating of its surface. The lifespan of the biosphere could thereby be extended by 5 billion years.
Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun, the fifth-largest and the densest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four planets. It is sometimes referred to as the World, the Blue Planet,[note 7] or by its Latin name, Terra.[note 8]
Home to millions of species[16] including humans, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. The planet formed 4.54 billion years ago,[17] and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and otherabiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful solar radiation, permitting life on land.[18] The physical properties of the Earth, as well as its geological history andorbit, have allowed life to persist during this period. Without intervention, the planet could be expected to continue supporting life for between 0.5[19] to2.3 billion[20] years, after which the rising luminosity and expansion of the Sun – as a result of the gradual but inexorable depletion of its hydrogen fuel – would eventually eliminate the planet's biosphere.[21]
Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands which together have many lakes and other sources of water contributing to the hydrosphere. Liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface.[note 9][note 10] Earth's poles are mostly covered with solid ice (Antarctic ice sheet) or sea ice (Arctic ice cap). The planet's interiorremains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.
Earth interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days.[note 11] The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from theperpendicular to its orbital plane,[22] producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. Between approximately 3.8 billion and 4.1 billion years ago, numerous asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment caused significant changes to the greater surface environment.
Both the mineral resources of the planet, as well as the products of the biosphere, contribute resources that are used to support a global human population. These inhabitants are grouped into about 200 independent sovereign states, which interact through diplomacy, travel, trade, and military action. Human cultures have developed many views of the planet, including personification as a deity, a belief in a flat Earth or in Earth as the center of the universe, and a modern perspective of the world as an integrated environment that requires stewardship.
EXPO LIFE
Definitions of earth
- the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church"
- the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell); "it was hell on earth"
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
- hide in the earth like a hunted animal
- worldly concern: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world"
- connect to the earth; "earth the circuit"
- ground: a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- Earth was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001. Their greatest hit, their debut single "Time After Time", peaked at #13 in the Oricon singles chart.
- Earth is a Science Fiction novel by Marie C. Farca, published in 1972 by Doubleday in the United States.
- Dragon Ball|ドラゴンボール|Doragon Bōru is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. ...
- The chemical term earths was historically applied to certain metals substances, once thought to be elements, and this name was borrowed from one of the four classical elements of Plato. ...
- Earth is a 1978 album by Jefferson Starship. The album was recorded in 1977, with the same band lineup as the previous album, Spitfire. The band had not toured in 1977, partly due to Marty Balin's reluctance to commit fully to the band. ...
- Earth (; released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England). ...
- Ace Combat is an arcade style Flight Action video game series published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games. Emphasizing action and dramatic plots over complete reality, the series has established itself in Japan, and the world as a prime example of the pseudo realistic flight action genre.
- Earth is a 1978 album by Jefferson Starship. The album was recorded in 1977, with the same band lineup as the previous album, Spitfire. The band had not toured in 1977, partly due to Marty Balin's reluctance to commit fully to the band. ...
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