<div dir="ltr"><div>I have been reading and watching all the sources analyzed by Newell (list with links at the end of my post), and I think she has a good point. In the 1950s, the impression was there that the space frontier would one day be open to ordinary people from settlement, just like the Western frontier in the 19th century. Perhaps "Space version 1.0" WAS what our collective mind wanted, and we lost interest after realizing that Space version Apollo was reserved to the government.<br></div>To recover Space version 1.0, I think whatever lowers the cost of access to space (like your own work), and especially what lowers the cost of human access to deep space (Musk, Bezos), is a step in the right direction. Plus suitable cultural engineering initiatives.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:53 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That Space 1.0 lost funding for not being the version that the public wanted - specifically, for not allowing the common masses to directly participate - is an interesting argument I had not heard before.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It tracks with the sizable public interest I have seen while promoting a space access means that, by having just the one small satellite as the only payload, would minimize involvement of parties other than the satellite owner and the launcher. (Government licensing still needed, but much less regulation when they're not paying for it.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 12:52 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The space frontier and our divine cosmic destiny</div><div><br></div><div>Back to the future: Space should be seen as the new frontier, and space
exploration should be promoted as our sacred, divine cosmic destiny...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://turingchurch.net/the-space-frontier-and-our-divine-cosmic-destiny-80a6a729643" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://turingchurch.net/the-space-frontier-and-our-divine-cosmic-destiny-80a6a729643</a></div></div>
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