Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- SolSeed Village/Business
- Evaluation
Check-in (gratinews)
- Eric … I had a nice, quiet, restful day
- Ben … I had a fun time playing a card game at the world builder meetup and I just joined the Long Now foundation.
WW(W)s from last time
Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees.
Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when
- <s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … create a Meetup and a Facebook event for the Solstice, including the Sanders as co-conveners … by Saturday
- Ben … create sheet music for Psalm of Solstice … by next call
- Ben … post my article (or a summary & link) to spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com … by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … work on the Winter Solstice event page on the wiki … by next Sunday
- Brandon … invite Jude to the next service call … by next Sunday
- Brandon … email response to Bart about experiment … by Monday
- Brandon … do more research into past experiments similar to what we want to do with Gaia's Heartbeat … by next Sunday</s>
- <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … order parachutes for rockets … by next call
- Eric … read last attempt at Village documents including Vision Workshop and SolSeedVillage#Governance Draft … by next call
WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … order parachutes for rockets … by next call
- Eric … read last attempt at Village documents including Vision Workshop and SolSeedVillage#Governance Draft … by next call
Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2014-12-1 to 2014-12-7: 5+21+67=93 checkmarks
Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
Brandon’s totals for 12-07-2014: 0 … articles published, signups, conversants, bios added 5 community touches 67 daily practice checkmarks for the week
0 … articles published (blog, etc) 2 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (96 total) 0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) 0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants 2+3+5=10 … topical community touches 93 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- December 13 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Eric)
- December 14 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST
Midweek
- December 11 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST
SolSeed Village/Business
Green Hat (Generating Ideas) plus White Hat (Explanations)
- ++++ 3D Printing of living trees
Print long living wood beams tapered at both ends (one end printed as root the other as trunk) from tree stem cells or cellulose matrix (seeing as wood isn’t all living in a living tree) and then print cambium and bark etc onto the outside. Include the printing of branch buds on the trunk end and rootlet buds on the root end. The newly printed tree would have to be supported in terms of nutrients and needs and then hardened off (printed tissue is known to be initially very soft) but then could be dropped into a drill hole and as the branch and root buds grew, an adult tree could be planted very easily. Mass produced this could allow reforestation to be almost instantaneous (compared to planting seedlings). The feedstock would come from stem cell cultures from a lot of different trees (to prevent creating a monoculture) and grown in a vat. We would need to research how existing early-stage human tissue printing techniques would apply to plants, and how fast stem cells could be grown compared with cells in a normal growing tree.
- +++ Lighter than air stratospheric habitats
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_%28tensegrity_sphere%29 -- the basic idea, originated by Buckminster Fuller, is to make a geodesic bubble big enough to float just because the air inside is a little warmer than outside, and put a city inside the bubble. We would want to start much smaller-scale, maybe beginning with a tethered balloon big enough for a mouse to live inside with a supply of food and water for a day or two. A major research question is what materials would be best for the surface of the bubble, as well as for the geodesic struts.
- +++ High frontier style game
Ben's idea: Players would grow an ecosystem in a space colony (probably inside a hollow asteroid), starting with bacteria and working their way up, with the goal of either making the colony human-habitable or providing habitat for endangered species from Earth. The idea would be to promote both space colonization and ecological thinking.
- +++ Earthrise Graphic Design (serving both space advocacy and environmental groups)
A major problem for SolSeed is how polarized the environmentalist and space enthusiast communities are, with many members of each group having extremely negative views about the other. The theory behind Earthrise Graphic Design is that such ideological differences probably can't be resolved with words, but maybe images with emotional impact can help (the Apollo 8 Earthrise photograph being a premier example). Ben has taken several graphic-design courses, and Brandon and Eric have at least done some amateur graphics work, so we have a starting point toward becoming skilled enough to attract customers. (Also, nonprofits generally have lower standards than most other graphic-design customers, given their limited budgets.)
- +++ Teaching technology camps/workshops (earn money from the enterprise, empower the
disenfranchised, have an space we can use for other events as well)
- +++ Biosphere 3
- +++ Museum of Big Time
Michael Dowd and other proponents of religious naturalism view the development of a "deep time" or "big time" perspective, one that encompasses an understanding of the universe's billions-of-years-long history, as important for spiritual growth in a non-theistic context. SolSeed shares this view and has already developed a Cosmic Calendar that expands on Carl Sagan's concept for teaching deep history by extending it into the future as well. With our gradually developing skills at presenting these ideas in words and images, we may be able to create a prospectus for a museum exhibit, perhaps to be displayed first in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Changing Exhibits Hall, if and when we can get it funded.
- ++ Kindred mapping FB app
- ++ Implement JP Aerospace’s airship to orbit (test aspects of it)
- ++ Large scale consensus for governance issues, especially generation of legal codes
- + Closed Circle Humanure Transport (linking people with composting toilets to people with organic farms)
When humans consume food, some of the atoms involved end up in our waste. In order to ensure a continuing food supply without degrading the environment, we need to return those atoms to the food-growing process. Sewage is too toxic for this purpose, but composting toilets probably produce an output that can safely be used to grow food for human consumption (certainly some gardeners are using it that way already). Although composting toilets aren't currently commonplace, there might be enough of them in environmentally conscious cities like Portland for a business model that literally pays people for their composted poop, using part of the proceeds from selling it to organic farmers. Some of the proceeds would also be needed for operating a truck or van capable of moving the compost from the toilets to the farms. We have contacts (Mathew and Molly) with expertise in composting toilets, which could help us get started and avoid pitfalls.
- + CELSS
- + Food-producing Green Roofs/Walls (high in the watershed!)
A business which simply installed standard green walls and roofs and then creates a CSA like relationship between citizens living nearby (or even in the building) and farmers who would use that "land" to grow food to sell. The added benefit to the city is that the amount of storm water that has to be processed is much less when people have green roofs and the citizens have easy access to a 100 meter diet!
- + Nonprofit that raises money from the ultra-wealthy by providing a version of the SolSeed vision that appeals specifically to them
- + Comet/Asteroid surface simulators
In order to test systems for robotic probes to Comets and Asteroids a dedicated simulator would be useful. We could build a large vacuum chamber with typical comet/asteroid temperatures and lighting (very cold, slightly dim) and rough icy surfaces, and allow space agencies to test components in the environment. By making the surfaces nearly vertical, a robot tethered to the ceiling of the simulator would have zero gravitation force attracting it to the surface of the comet. A slightly tilted surface would allow for microgravity. We could also allow “tourists” to do low pressure extreme cold rock climbing in space suits (who knows, it might catch on or it might be good for people to practice climbing really tall peaks on Earth (like Everest)).
- + Space station simulator (a rotating space station so there is gravity but instead of the room you're in rotating the whole view outside the windows rotates.)
This is a straightforward tourism idea. People would pay to spend some time inside the simulator. The idea would be to simulate a space station that had artificial gravity due to its rotation. However because we are here on Earth the station would actually have gravity. So the tourists enter a room (perhaps after a ride that simulates a rocket ride to low Earth orbit). The room can be a bit of a space museum or it can be a dinner/theatre event. Looking out the windows, an IMAX camera would project a view of low Earth orbit onto a screen surrounding the simulator so that the rotation of the station is simulated by rotating the view outside.
- + Micro-interplanetary probes (pushing miniaturization)
This idea is based on the idea that the delta-V of a rocket is inversely proportional to the mass of its payload, especially if you use enough stages. Could we build a probe with a mass of only a few grams that could be launched with a really small rocket?… (more to come)
- + Genetically engineered trees for arctic climates
- + Continue Dr. Mautner’s experiments
- Web design business (playing to our core skills)
- Living Geodesic trees (grafting)
Items eliminated during Yellow-Hatting
- Greenhouse business
- Greenhouse supply business
- Viventibus Galaxia plate business (variants)
- Genetically engineered flying (floating) plants (air phytoplankton)
- Software house for robotic space missions
- Geodesic Winter Holiday
- Church of SolSeed (build it and they will come)
- Living Geodesic trees (grafting)
- Living temple construction (growing) for other Pagan groups.
- Water desalination and pipelines for greening deserts
- Cellular robotics (cellular automata in robotics with self-assembly)
- Fusion research
- Large scale vacuum chamber manufacturing
- Kinetic launchers (mass drivers, light gas guns)
- Vertical Cities … small scale
- Natural Spirituality/Religion Retreat Space
- Media company promoting shift in consciousness toward the three obligations
- Micro-machining R&D
- Autonomous mining robots
- Overlook effect tours and vacations
- Tree engineering simulator game
- Earn as much money as possible … try to earn a billion $ so that we can be Elon Musk
- Work for Elon Musk
- Research and publish various behavior modifications for footprint reduction
- Religious method research for positive spiritual/religious fruits
- Viral FB app
- Research and publish best practices for establishing eco-villages
- Social media meta app (allows a user to post to all his social media accounts at once and read them all together)
- Preparing humanity for its AI children
- Eco-burial (System for hygienic composting and tree growing from our loved ones when they decease, can maybe partner with Herland Cemetery at Windward?)
- Business analytics consulting firm (playing to Eric's skills in particular)
- 3D Printing something
- 3D Printing of greenhouse components
- Taking orders from people who don't own 3D printers but want something printed by a small local business
- Space ventures co-working space
- Windsurfing every day
- Become ultra competitive professional athletes and make millions for SolSeed
- Airship dropped gliders for commuting purposes
Blue Hat (talking process)
- Yellow hat dot voting (9 votes each, plus 3 among the narrowed down choices, plus we can bring back one that got eliminated)
- White hat (provide objective information about the ideas)
- Yellow hat evaluation of selected ideas
- Black hat (critique ideas we don't like)
- Think of it as a cycle so we don't feel pressured to be exhaustive at each step
Evaluation
- Eric … I like writing science fiction, and the idea that some of these bits of science fiction I just wrote could someday come true due to our efforts is exciting to me.
- Ben ... I like typing ideas … granted I feel like I am not researching them enough, but these are ideas we could spend time researching if we think they are good.