Space based industry
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The document discusses space-based industry and its potential. It notes that space is one of the four pillars of transhumanism. Currently, value is derived from space through earth observation, telecommunications, and cosmic research. Barriers to further development include the high costs of launching materials into orbit and supporting human life in space. The document argues these assumptions could be overcome through greater autonomy of robots and drones, which could produce bulk materials in space at lower costs than human labor. It also speculates on alternative approaches to space development like using genetically engineered organisms or neural interfaces with other species that have benefits like long lifespans or innate flying abilities. The document has an optimistic view of future technological progress enabling new frontiers like indef
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• Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism
• Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth
• Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/spacebasedindustry-120731020657-phpapp01/85/Space-based-industry-5-320.jpg)
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• Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism
• Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth
• Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space
• Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/spacebasedindustry-120731020657-phpapp01/85/Space-based-industry-6-320.jpg)
![Where I want to go [was: Saturn]
• Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism
• Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth
• Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space
• Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy
• Out of left field: Biomimicry and downscaled cyborgs](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/spacebasedindustry-120731020657-phpapp01/85/Space-based-industry-7-320.jpg)
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• Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism
• Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth
• Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space
• Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy
• Out of left field: Biomimicry and downscaled cyborgs
• Into the galaxy: Far edge party, beaming actor updates](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/spacebasedindustry-120731020657-phpapp01/85/Space-based-industry-8-320.jpg)
Space based industry
- 1. Singularity Salon 25 July 2012 Space Based Industry Tony Smith Kororoit Institute
- 2. Where I want to go [was: Saturn]
- 3. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism
- 4. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism • Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth
- 5. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism • Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth • Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space
- 6. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism • Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth • Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space • Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy
- 7. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism • Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth • Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space • Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy • Out of left field: Biomimicry and downscaled cyborgs
- 8. Where I want to go [was: Saturn] • Background: Space one of four pillars of Transhumanism • Today’s state of play:Value delivery from space to Earth • Barriers: Escaping gravity well, humans exposed in space • Synergies: Bulk materials, autonomy spectrum, economy • Out of left field: Biomimicry and downscaled cyborgs • Into the galaxy: Far edge party, beaming actor updates
- 9. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism
- 10. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s
- 11. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s • William Gibson: Neuromancer—cyberspace
- 12. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s • William Gibson: Neuromancer—cyberspace • Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation—nanotech
- 13. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s • William Gibson: Neuromancer—cyberspace • Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation—nanotech • H Keith Henson: L5 Society, Alcor—parties
- 14. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s • William Gibson: Neuromancer—cyberspace • Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation—nanotech • H Keith Henson: L5 Society, Alcor—parties • Cognitive science phase of digital intelligence
- 15. Transhumanism and Techno Optimism • Bastard child of PC revolution of the 1980s • William Gibson: Neuromancer—cyberspace • Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation—nanotech • H Keith Henson: L5 Society, Alcor—parties • Cognitive science phase of digital intelligence • Graphical user interface, hypertext, networks
- 17. Today’s value from space
- 18. Today’s value from space • Earth observation: weather, mapping, military
- 19. Today’s value from space • Earth observation: weather, mapping, military • Telecommunications and geopositioning
- 20. Today’s value from space • Earth observation: weather, mapping, military • Telecommunications and geopositioning • Learning from rest of cosmos via probes, Hubble, observatories (not only up there)
- 21. Today’s value from space • Earth observation: weather, mapping, military • Telecommunications and geopositioning • Learning from rest of cosmos via probes, Hubble, observatories (not only up there) • Almost all our raw energy coupled with short and long term terrestrial aggregators
- 22. Today’s value from space • Earth observation: weather, mapping, military • Telecommunications and geopositioning • Learning from rest of cosmos via probes, Hubble, observatories (not only up there) • Almost all our raw energy coupled with short and long term terrestrial aggregators • Tiny but historically significant infall of matter
- 24. • Earth only intercepts one part in 2.2 billion of the Sun’s energy output
- 25. • Earth only intercepts one part in 2.2 billion of the Sun’s energy output • It took one stray rock to free future Surabaya from non-avian dinosaurs
- 26. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast
- 27. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast • Getting bulk materials Earth to orbit is costly
- 28. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast • Getting bulk materials Earth to orbit is costly • Human life support costly, worse getting back
- 29. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast • Getting bulk materials Earth to orbit is costly • Human life support costly, worse getting back • Material characteristics limit elevators, combined with hoop stress limit ring worlds
- 30. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast • Getting bulk materials Earth to orbit is costly • Human life support costly, worse getting back • Material characteristics limit elevators, combined with hoop stress limit ring worlds • Traction beams and rail guns draw heavy load
- 31. Default assumptions get us nowhere fast • Getting bulk materials Earth to orbit is costly • Human life support costly, worse getting back • Material characteristics limit elevators, combined with hoop stress limit ring worlds • Traction beams and rail guns draw heavy load • Given an off-planet economy, launch cost for a human less than cost of living on on Earth
- 33. (Semi-)Autonomous Robots, Drones, Cyborgs • Faster progress in these technologies will kill incentive for humans to do set up in space
- 34. (Semi-)Autonomous Robots, Drones, Cyborgs • Faster progress in these technologies will kill incentive for humans to do set up in space • Achieving bulk material production key step
- 35. (Semi-)Autonomous Robots, Drones, Cyborgs • Faster progress in these technologies will kill incentive for humans to do set up in space • Achieving bulk material production key step • Supplement with high value items from Earth
- 36. (Semi-)Autonomous Robots, Drones, Cyborgs • Faster progress in these technologies will kill incentive for humans to do set up in space • Achieving bulk material production key step • Supplement with high value items from Earth • Ion engines, solar sails, tractor beams
- 37. (Semi-)Autonomous Robots, Drones, Cyborgs • Faster progress in these technologies will kill incentive for humans to do set up in space • Achieving bulk material production key step • Supplement with high value items from Earth • Ion engines, solar sails, tractor beams • Large construction can start with solar farms beaming microwaves to farmland receptors
- 38. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy
- 39. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy • Indefinite life extension takes social value of each human brain way off sustainability scale
- 40. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy • Indefinite life extension takes social value of each human brain way off sustainability scale • Life, the Universe and Everything: collect data
- 41. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy • Indefinite life extension takes social value of each human brain way off sustainability scale • Life, the Universe and Everything: collect data • If complex life rare, greater obligation to nest
- 42. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy • Indefinite life extension takes social value of each human brain way off sustainability scale • Life, the Universe and Everything: collect data • If complex life rare, greater obligation to nest • Don’t give up on uploading, nor expect soon
- 43. Synergistic partnership with off-planet economy • Indefinite life extension takes social value of each human brain way off sustainability scale • Life, the Universe and Everything: collect data • If complex life rare, greater obligation to nest • Don’t give up on uploading, nor expect soon • Even if life extension restricted to off planet, still need to get down to 1 billion on Earth
- 44. Alternate route to Cyborgs?
- 45. Nothing stays the same
- 46. Nothing stays the same • Genetic engineering of complex organisms
- 47. Nothing stays the same • Genetic engineering of complex organisms • Find neural architecture genes and/or develop neural interfaces for other species
- 48. Nothing stays the same • Genetic engineering of complex organisms • Find neural architecture genes and/or develop neural interfaces for other species • Can fly 100 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos for the same weight/supply cost as one human
- 49. Nothing stays the same • Genetic engineering of complex organisms • Find neural architecture genes and/or develop neural interfaces for other species • Can fly 100 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos for the same weight/supply cost as one human • Live as long, plastic social structure, vocalise
- 50. Nothing stays the same • Genetic engineering of complex organisms • Find neural architecture genes and/or develop neural interfaces for other species • Can fly 100 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos for the same weight/supply cost as one human • Live as long, plastic social structure, vocalise • Instinctive flying a weightless benefit?
- 51. Before the heat death
- 52. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human?
- 53. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human? • Eggs in one basket, von Neumann probes
- 54. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human? • Eggs in one basket, von Neumann probes • Interstellar challenge to focus tractor beams
- 55. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human? • Eggs in one basket, von Neumann probes • Interstellar challenge to focus tractor beams • Extrapolate sci-tech changes of last 500 years
- 56. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human? • Eggs in one basket, von Neumann probes • Interstellar challenge to focus tractor beams • Extrapolate sci-tech changes of last 500 years • Mind objects less than 1Gb unique data
- 57. Before the heat death • Why bother to transition beyond human? • Eggs in one basket, von Neumann probes • Interstellar challenge to focus tractor beams • Extrapolate sci-tech changes of last 500 years • Mind objects less than 1Gb unique data • Building galactic network for mind updates
- 58. Or just to see what’s there? Partying with Keith Henson in the late 1980s was much about Alcor and Keith’s grander plan for a party at the far edge of the galaxy, as Keith described to Ed Regis for Great Mambo Chicken.
- 59. In 1987 Keith Henson founded the Far Edge Committee. The Those were Keith Henson's travel plans for the immediate group's sole purpose was to begin planning for the Far Edge Party, future-for the next million years or so-but as extravagant as an enormous gathering of downloaded multiple selves that was to it all was, none of it was in the least impossible, not in the be held in the far-off future and at the other side of the Milky Way. age of downloading, when every smart person had made and stored away dozens of duplicate selves already. All you Henson came up with the idea after realizing there was no way that had to do was make a number of extra copies of yourself, he personally was going to make a grand tour of the Galaxy if there place them in assembler-made starships, and send them was only one copy of Keith Henson alive, even if that copy was winging to all corners of creation. Those supplemental supposed to live forever. He might live forever, but the Galaxy sure downloaded minds would stop at every new star system for wouldn't. as long as they cared to and, in their spare time, would “There are 100 to 200 billion stars in our galaxy alone,” Henson make even more copies of themselves, as well as their said, “and even with nanotechnology to help, it will take a year or spaceships, all of which would then rocket away to the next two per star system, not counting travel time between stars. nearest solar system, where the whole process would repeat Visiting every interesting object in serial is literally impossible, itself. Making new spacecraft wouldn't be any problem since the interesting places won't last long enough. I don't want to either, not in the era of advanced nanotechnological excess, take such a long time looking over this one small flock of stars that when unending quantities of anything could be had for most of them burn out.” virtually nothing. Plainly there was a problem here: how could a single person see all “So we will sweep across the Galaxy,” Keith Henson said, there was to see if part of your destination went up in smoke while “and converge for a giant party, scientific meeting, and for you were still in transit? You couldn't, of course, not if you were those who want it, a memory merge, so they can have seen just one person. But if you were many people—a bunch of parallel all the wonders of the Galaxy.” selves—well, then, that would be a different story. In that case your Naturally, there were a few problems still to be worked out. different selves could visit the Galaxy's major hot spots For one thing, a clean sweep of the Milky Way might take simultaneously, before any of those great cosmic tourist attractions quite some time—a full two hundred thousand years even had a chance to evaporate. That way, all of you could see at half the speed of light. How could all the multiple selves everything. be expected to show up simultaneously after all those “We won't have to make hard choices about which way to go,” years? And where would they meet? Keith Henson said. “We take all roads.” “How do we get them all together at the same place?” Later, after your multiple personalities had collectively experienced Henson wondered. “How do we get back together at a place all there was to experience, you could get them back together again we can't even see from here? Should we give one party per to communicate and share memories. Each of you would behold galaxy? Or one on the far side of the Virgo cluster? How what every other self had seen and done, so it would be as if a many centuries should we party? How much bean dip will single person had in fact done it all. we need?”
- 61. Questions?
- 62. Questions? • Keith Henson on Space Solar Power ‣ http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7898
- 63. Questions? • Keith Henson on Space Solar Power ‣ http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7898 • Sulphur Crested Cockatoos: the movie ‣ http://vimeo.com/46665891
- 64. Questions? • Keith Henson on Space Solar Power ‣ http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7898 • Sulphur Crested Cockatoos: the movie ‣ http://vimeo.com/46665891 • @ynotds
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