[General] Fwd: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work

[Ethan Chew]

I'm sorry,

     But I have no recollection or record among my notes of this exchange
between us.  But welcome to the party! :D

           - Ethan/spacefelix

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, <ainut at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Ethan, this grant is along the lines of what I suggested to you a couple
> years ago.
>
> Also, since it is space-oriented, it REALLY makes me salivate!
>
> David Merchant
>
>
>
> Quoting Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>:
>
>  Yo,
>>
>>      Some more ears to the ground info on the DARPA grant of HackerSpaces
>> in Space Program.  Jerrry Isdale of Maui Makers now has $500,000.00 he
>> will
>> be using to give $30,000 grants every 3 months for  "education and
>> research
>> projects that enhance humanity's survivability, on earth and in space."
>>
>>                  Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,
>>                  Ethan/spacefelix
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Edward Wright <edward.v.wright at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
>> Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work
>> To: Robin Snelson <robin.snelson at gmail.com>, Michael Clive <
>> zeinin at gmail.com>,
>> Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>, Scott Nietfeld <snietfeld at gmail.com>,
>> Gary Hudson <gary at ssi.org>
>>
>>
>> I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new
>> project, Hackerspaces in Space. He wants to meet us at Maker Faire.
>>
>> Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3
>> months
>> for "education and research projects that enhance humanity's
>> survivability,
>> on earth and in space."
>>
>> The following is from the DARPA project proposal:
>>
>> *There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first decade:
>>
>> education, space economy and biospheres.
>> **The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers who
>>
>> can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in the
>> form of an open source education program, with both self-education and
>> group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the
>> basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual
>> innovation
>> and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest
>> in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences
>> and engineering.
>> **
>> **Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space
>> economy:
>>
>> *
>>
>>   - Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body
>>
>>   electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.
>>
>>
>>   - Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space
>>
>>   facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission
>>
>>
>>   - Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is
>>
>>   possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up production,
>> research
>>   into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated
>>   manufacturing.
>>
>> *
>> **Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space and
>>
>> other planets of the solar system through the creation of
>> self-encapsulated
>> biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste recycling.*
>>
>>
>
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