SSI Activity (and its rebirth?)

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| I support the space habitat vision, I just don't support the
| economic roadmap and think space habitats have to be pursued
| directly (or, at least, via a physical self-replicating seed
| bootstrap approach funded by volunteers and charity).

I believe that we are in total agreement on this point. There may at
some point be an economic reason for building a space infrastructure,
but even if that happens the methods and results are not likely to be
along the lines that would make colonies in space viable. To me the
first problem to be solved was to make sure that what was needed at
the end was produced at the beginning therefore the reason why I
created InnerTransit.org. Which is a specific method for tracking
requirements through design and implementation. The next step of
course is to have viable projects that are done within the frame
work. Which is where we need a good hunk of charity to get that first
small eye catching seed project implemented. Without a seed project
there will be no volunteers to help push the vision along.
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| Certainly, once you are talking about owning hardware, then you are
| on much stronger ground arguing for a central owner of a complex
| artifact

Exactly! The first seed project has to be something real that works.
It may work very poorly but it must work. Therefore the first seed
project has to have working hardware / software. Anything that is
just a mental exercise will not attract volunteers. The project that
I have had in mind for a long time is some sort of web accessible
robotic assembly / sand moving lunar simulation where the goal would
be to work on a telerobotic interface.

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| Perhaps what it comes down to it is that SSI sees itself, being
| started by a scientist, probably mnore as the Space
| *Science-Studies* Institute, whereas what I kind of want at this
| point is more like a Space *Engineering-Studies* Institute (based
| on my "design it and the billionaires will come" hopes).

Agreed!

|> I wasted the whole night working on a brochure for
|> www.BidetsUnlimited.com, a business that my wife is starting up.
|> I don't even have the web page up yet. The brochure is good
|> enough for now.

| We'd like to have a bidet if only our bathrooms were big enough for
| them (so, not soon). Although I admit to being mystified at first
| as to what they were when I first saw them travelling in Europe.

These are seat bidets. They don't take up any extra space in your
bathroom. They replace the toilet seat of an elongated toilet and "Y"
off of the water line going into the toilet.
http://www.BidetsUnlimited.com> I put up a first page just for you.
Space habitats are going to need seat bidets.

Mitchell James
www.InnerTransit.org (Requirements traceability when it really counts.)

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