1. Updates:
- MH paper. No updates.
- Women in space project. HA showed an initial draft. SD will add the two graphs to it. DB will then do an iteration on the draft.
- VJB research. We went through the figures and RS shared the document on his screen and we commented on some of them right in the document. Also added the abstract in that we have been commenting on recently.
- PT research. Will present search stats next time.
- Financials: FTC reimbursement.
- Autograph! DB showed off the autograph he got.
- Any students at one of our universities wanting a project that involves automatic checks on the planet4589 data files would be welcome. It is a useful type of project and students should find it to be an accessible, doable project.
- Anything else?
2. Reading and discussion:
- MH found this interesting graph: https://mobile.twitter.com/ns_whit/status/1471581216210145291
- de Alcantara and Martens 2019. We finished up to the first full paragraph on p. 132 last time, so we will start there this time.
- One of McDowell's yearly reports, available on the website.
- A background paper related to the women in space project. See SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles
- https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
- Future possibility: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress; Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
- James Pethokoukis, https://fasterplease.substack.com/, tech foresight blog by former Jeopardy! champ; Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
---------------------------------------Below are some ideas for future discussion-------------------
- We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.
- MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
- MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
3. Background literature update.
- Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.
- For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
- What is the source?
- What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
- Why is that advance important?
- What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
- What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
- What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
- What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
- Questions from the group?
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