Workshop Lecture Part 4

My workshop at the Caux, Switzerland Initiatives of Change conference, Leading Change for a Sustainable World.

The handout for this workshop can be found here, as a NOTE on my Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=1066639126#!/note.php?note_id=459256570361

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• engineering
• technology
• the venus project

[TheKnorrhane]

asteroids with iron you say.... that was another abundance besides the biological one, energy and eventually aluminum by smelting clay. how far off are these asteroids? and how was the iron on them detected?

[TZMSocialEvolution]

@TheKnorrhane NASA satellites. Global observatories (like Keck). Radar. Where...big fat asteroid belt we've known about for centuries. Research main asteroid "16 Psyche" to learn more, as just one example.

[TheKnorrhane]

@TZMSocialEvolution and could sense just that mineral.... wonderful! =)

Well im of to google then, thanks again for such well spoken lectures and notifications of such unique science, and thanks for answering so fast btw. :)

[TZMSocialEvolution]

@TheKnorrhane The observatories can actually sense many different minerals, as they all have their own signature. This is how we can tell what distant stars and planets are mostly made of. :)

I try to answer as fast as possible, depending on if I can get here to check my inbox. lol.

[TheKnorrhane]

@TZMSocialEvolution And there for tells what we can mine/harvest outside our planet aswell I guess. All we need now is abundant transportation energy to get all that, one fuel-saving method I know of that i´ve seen on discovery was through magnetic repulsion if that method sounds familiar? =)

[TZMSocialEvolution]

@TheKnorrhane That's good once you're in orbit and want to get going further, but to get off the ground, as of right now, chemical propulsion is all we've got that's powerful enough to get large masses out of Earth's gravity well.

[Foxcanine1]

@TZMSocialEvolution

I think TheKnorrhane is referring to a magnetic rail gun like approach. One that would launch payloads at >7500 KPS. I can refer you to an article if you want.

[TheKnorrhane]

@TZMSocialEvolution Indeed, it just gives a boost from the take-off that would just save a third (i think it was) of its fuel supply. However I do see it exciting what the next step of boosting a shuttle from the Earth's gravity well could be.

[Neanderthalcouzin]

I'm glad you referenced the Dan Pink article. We have the empirical, behavioral economic research now to show that higher cognitive and creative thinking does not require monetary incentive and can even be detrimental. This is an incredibly important piece of empirical social research imo.

We know this fact anyway (Einstein, Salk, Plato, MLK, Da Vinci, Pasteur), but we actually have a lot of research to show this in the court of science.

[blaziermissy]

This is great, Douglas...sucessful interaction with the audience!