Google Universe Changing the Face of Space

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This video is an addendum to my earlier video, Changing the Face of Space - Future of American Human Spaceflight.

Most people cant afford to go to space. But they could take a virtual trip all around our solar system if a really good web site was built.

The best way to increase the publics support of space science, commercialization, and colonization is to change the publics image of space. To Change the Face of Space.

Most 15th century Europeans had no idea they were about to cross the oceans and begin colonization of the new world. This was viewed as impossible because of false assumptions such as:

The world was flat and ships would sail off the edge
Sea monsters would attack the ships
The Oceans near the equator are so hot that they boil.

Today the public thinks the colonization of our Solar System by billions of people is impossible because of similar false assumptions.

The public believes that one must leave the surface of this planet, Earth, and live on the surface of one of the other 8 planets. Mercury and Venus are too hot. Mars and our Moon have too little gravity and atmosphere for radiation protection. The gas giants have no surface.

The thousands of other bodies that could one day be home to colonies of thousands to millions of people are ignored. These include dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, moons, kuiper belt objects, and Oort cloud objects.

The public can not imagine our solar system being colonized simply because they are not aware of the diverse array of worlds making up or solar system.

The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has become a great source of entertainment and education, or edutainment, for people everywhere. Speakers of many languages around the world via the Internet can develop informed opinions on a variety of topics.

I propose a web site similar to Google Earth / Maps / Mars / Moon. The site would need to be hosted and the framework software holding the user content would need to be developed. All knowledge and pictures of space would be entered wikipedia style in a public collaborative effort.



Any user on the Internet could pull any photo or human knowledge of space from sources such as JPL or NASA. They would then use these photos, data, and knowledge to populate the Google Universe database. Thus volunteers from around the world who are interested in space would populate the database much in the same way wikipedia is populated.

Each solar system body would have:

1) A Complete three dimensional map of the surface that users can navigate, zoom, and fly through.




2) Encyclopedic entries of the corresponding Wikipedia page could be referenced or initially redirected to.

3) A list of all past, present, and future exploration missions.

4) A description of the possibility of life. Mars, Europa, Titan, Encelydus, etc would have detailed entries.

5) A description of natural resources that could be useful for future robot or human base establishment or colonization of the solar system body.

6) A description of what technology would be needed to send robot or human missions to the body or to colonize it. For instance it would describe how a fission or fusion reactor could be used to support a Mars colony.

The name Google Universe would convey to people that they could navigate and explore the Solar System or Galaxy or Universe in the same way they use Google Earth or Google Maps to navigate around and explore Earth. They could zoom in and out and drag the map with their mouse to move North, South, East, and West across the surface of the solar system body via a map made of integrated photos from NASA and JPL sources.

From a birds eye view above they would look down at the system and see the positions of the bodies at that point in time. They could then select other points in time or the last time they visited the system to see an alternate view of the system. For instance they could fly over the top of the Jupiter system and look down at the 63 known moons in real-time, viewing their orbital positions as they actually are in that moment in time. On a later visit to the site they can see how much they change position. They could make similar observation about Jupiters great read spot and any space craft currently in the system.

One of the goals of Google Universe is CHANGING THE FACE OF SPACE. Letting the public surf through the rich variety of worlds in our solar system and exo-planets.

The public and government see would see:

- The relevancy of worlds where humans could move to in the future
- The education value of space exploration.
- Which worlds are possible for life.

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[Ideas4Now]

I have no relationship with Google Inc. This video discusses the concept of a possible future space edutainment website which would combine the power of a wiki knowledgebase with map navigation. I used the term Google Universe to convey similarity with Google Earth, Google Mars, and Google Maps.

[isrealjason]

Bill Gates should buy a space station. i would.

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[bradzdestroyer]

im not sure what your going for. A 3d wiki of space? If so, to much mis-info like ufo's/life would be everywhere. It is a really good idea tho. But google moon and mars is kinda already the first step with this. I believe the other planets maybe a live feed of the sun or something will come out soon. And to me, using software is alot better than viewing an html page. Then again, if its more of a project... Like humans mapping space, not being 100% accurate. Then i digg.

[ISUALHEEREN]

this bad ass to think about

[avemariascott]

download google earth.. thenk click on the sky setting

[ginoisonfire]

how can i download google universe