Designing a Space Settlement

[AizaTariq]

Was this the winning project for ISSDC? Also, did you make it all of it alone, or did you have a team working in the various departments?!

[MikDonsen]

You guys are clearly missing the point. Design competitions are not about coming up with good idea,s. People do that stuff all day long. It's about the follow through on an idea that gets the cake. This is clearly what this kid has done quite well. A shitty idea, that is well put together is worth 1000 good ideas, that are forgotten.

[trakkaton]

How TERRIBLE! A lot of 100-10 old ideas. Without the details that matter. He talks about the flaws inherit in the design without actually naming them. He's laughing about his own dumb jokes. The "radiation suit" is nonsense and physically impossible. The "meat growing" doesn't make any sense. Communication with earth from LEO is difficult? Is that a joke? And he wants to have locker rooms in space? And Arcade games? What is he smoking? He wants banksters but no criminals? A President? Money?

[lobelia2]

NASA has to take ideas from high school students now?

[Sagoba58]

@Mahruful I'll look into it. It's been a year since I have seen this so I'll look at it when I have time.

[Stego2001]

Or you could put the mother inlaw through the airlock.

[beeohhski]

should definately put the girls with big boobs on the lower gravity part so thier boobs never sag it would be like perfect tit land

[demmylowther]

Slow down! Something so important should be explained with clarity.He 's talking like hes got a time limit. How about

micro meteorites,and large space debris ?

[makedownrecords]

i'm glad i'm not the only one researching this type of information............ my only statement ... "why don't we use space technology on earth?" wouldn't HHO or fuel cells be useful here? p.s. we could automate the world and work only to fix our robots ..... the only thing is that certain founded families wouldn't have their privilege any more.

[azezel2311]

those privileged families would be the only survivors. You have to use a mixed market approach with a technocrat general appointed by the president with the consent of the federal reserve board.

[jaypatrikar]

Hey Eric, i hope u remember me.. I am a particiapant of "E-NeXt".. we won 1st prize in our catagory.. nice project i must say.. seems u have done some real hard work.. keep up and do post your email id..

[HankMeyer]

I don't like the tax system, and I don't like the form of government. I think that with the possibility of total internet integration, a true constitutional democracy is possible. That is the ability for everyone on the station to vote on each government policy decision, and the difficulty in passing laws or amending the constitution could be based on percentage of affirmative votes required for approval.

[Iggyocracy]

Not bad, only a few freakin' major oopsies! Geeeeez, this is the best one? So much for mass-production, feasability or walking on the floor with your feet. I can't imagine any of this is news to anyone at NASA & if it is, then they should all be shot. This is 50-yr old thinking mixed with cutting edge unnecessary garbage. I'm sorry for the sponsors, Earth & humanity.

[tenofzero]

I would be very interested in seeing your highschool projects. I think the idea is to get kids thinking and who knows, maybe one small idea will come out of it that can help things move along.

[Iggyocracy]

Actually, I didn't have any "projects" & they would've never been "sponsored" or given me years, like the Yamster here. The problem is, we have stupid people addicted to wasting time, money & effort. So stupid in fact, that they don't tell the public what their problems are!? No, their great plan is to waste 16-yrs on inexperienced thinkers, who've never built, maintained, managed or run anything. It's a direct reflection of our pointless praise & pain "society". New Taxes, is why this shit won!

[S2Cents]

Well Stephen Hawking has repeatedly expressed his view that humans must leave Earth if the species is to survive. Best get to work pretty soon.

[ABOSOLUTEKNOWLEDGE]

incoming mesage for the  asian fag who speaks in this video

di u know that we have moon bases and mars bases since the 60ths? u fakin low iq monkey

and u talkin about space setlement in 2009? lol

im mean some people liek this dude are jsut fakin retarded like most of u reading this make no mistake about it

[ResuXunil]

We do have permanent settlements on the moon and mars? I dont think so.. Source?

[SaposaBear]

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you know you're living in a 21st century. :D

[Ruffsett]

YAM!!!!!!!!! Good work and most of your project is mostly pros and not many cons. I hope they do launch your project into space because it's freakin amazing what you have done and I think your crazy, but that's okay, because it's in a good way. If NASA doesn't build it, I'll make them build it, and then be the first to live in it. Congratulations man once again and what other amazing project that will blow people's minds will you come up with next?

Best of luck to you in the future and space.

[Sagoba58]

Sorry if I'm repeating anything. Interesting choice of languages as well, I'm considering learning Mandarin and Hindi but I have a few others to make my way through first. You've might have made your speech in Florida by now but if you read this, congratulations, you deserve it.

[Sagoba58]

Very well done, much deserved win and excellent presentation and hard work/preparation to make it so far. Some points to add: Relax, slow down speech, interjecting humor is well placed, albeit natural, so no worries. This helps with Demron, which is lead free and tout nanotechnologies and going well beyond others in individual radioactive source protection, available by RST, you want to protect against Uranium, not wear it.

[Mahruful]

@Sagoba58 Can there be any other structure for the space settlement?

If anyone knows can you please help me.....

[Sagoba58]

@Mahruful It's been a year since I've seen this, I'll look into it when I have time.

[kostiak]

So we know it CAN be done, now the question is, who will benefit from it?

That question, when answered, will also answer the question when is it going to become a reality.

[zubatzu]

solve over population, grow crops in space and send them back to earth to stop famine

[kostiak]

too expensive to send em back to earth, so it's not economical..

[zubatzu]

Yea true, but I like the idea of using solar panels in space and beaming the energy back to earth

[rtsownage]

Nice concept - sounds fine in a pretty static world.

I don't think undertaking such projects would be very realistic though. By the time they have been completed, technological advancements will have made them obsolete.

Also, just wait 40 to 50 years, and you can scrap all the restarted analogue accommodations for biological life forms. Colonizing space digitally is so much more efficient and feasible.

[blacksilkblacksilk]

You are right - on the one hand - Moore`s law would probably catch up way befor the whole thing would be ready. HOWEVER: it is good to know, that we COULD do it given what we know now, only stretching technology a slight bit in the future.

I read the basic message as. we can do it, and whil it might be f%!&*ng expensive - it is even within our financial reach.

So this makes me optimistic.

And yes, the world aka population would need strict control.

greetings

silk

;-)

[crimsonstate]

Amazing...we're the same age yet at this point he has accomplished or demonstrated far more brilliance, ingenuity and knowledge than any 17 year old can ever fathom. Congrats on a well-deserved win!

[orisei]

will they have internet?

oh god what if they don't, omg

i would die :P

[bmecher]

@orisei They would HAVE to have internet- can you imagine the mass of paper if they did not?

[orisei]

Halo music??

huh?

[empbac]

I don't agree with the income tax. Just because idiot nations do that on earth doesn't mean it should be taken and applied to a potential utopia. Make it work this way:

Time and resources are money. Those that contribute with skill and time are already paying their tribute to society. They make 'space money' for their services and then pay back part as rent and utilities to the respective managers. It would be more of a property tax. The income tax is inhumane. Don't copy the US!

[empbac]

The rest of the ideas are great and very well-thought out. I've considered projects like this before (what nerd hasn't? ;) ), but never to this degree. It sounds possible. I can't think of anything he left out. Hopefully, some time in the future, we will see something like this get built, and kids like this are going to be the ones leading the way. Screw politicians. What we need are engineers!

[satish890]

Hhmm i like the sound of that... you are introducing and asking them to pay you for a ''monocock''

[stian1986]

love the end coments, "i need to find a girlfriend"

[k0zka]

Even if we humans manage turn the Earth into a poisonous overpopulated urban nightmare, I do not believe the Moon will be a better place to live in the next 100 years. There will be no free air, water, space, not even gravity there.

So... will people really want to go to live on the Moon?

Anyway, nice work!

[Gerafix]

What? There's gravity on the moon. In any case, free floating space colonies are an option. The colony can provide it's own air and water etc, after given enough structural support and resources to create/recycle. Like what they do on the ISS, although the ISS is on a very small scale. Having our entire species on a single tiny rock flying through space isn't a really great plan. It's better to have off-site backup in case some catastrophic event happens on Earth.

[k0zka]

Sure there is gravity on the moon. 0.165 g compared to the 0.99732 g on earth. That may have "health implications".

Air and water can be extracted from the rock.

You can emulate gravity with that rotating thing, you can extract water from the moonrock, produce air with some chemical process and turn human waste into food, but on Earth you get all this for free :-)

[Gerafix]

Yes, but the point is that it *isn't* Earth. I don't see why we as a species should settle for a tiny tiny tiny rock in the vastness of space to call home exclusively. Perhaps there will be genetic drift if a space located civilization of humans remains genetically separate from gravity bound humans. Speciation and the adaptation to micro or zero gravity would be pretty cool, although that may take quite a while.

[PonderLust]

I think within 100 years the moon will be just as populous as Australia, with many cities built as a network of tunnels 50 yards below the surface, sealed with membranes and sectioned off with airlocks, sunlight piped in with fiber optics.