The human race into space will require kidneys: 1/14/22: updates and reading

AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

Women in space project. Latest update needed is to go with 3-digit percentages, since 87.5% and 12.5% both round up and then add up to 101%.
VJB research. Sent an update. Exponential decay eq. needs to be somewhere in the paper.
PT research. Working on review article.
Students needing projects?

2. Reading and discussion:

de Alcantara and Martens 2019. We finished up to the first par. on p. 133, so we will start there next time.
A background paper related to the women in space project: see SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles
One of McDowell's yearly reports, available on the website.
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.
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.
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?

The human race into space will require kidneys