The human race into space will require kidneys: 7/1/22: Updates and reading

AGENDA AND MINUTES

Fun photos:

Lava River Cave, in Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ. Lava caves have been proposed as sites of extraterrestrial colonies.

1. Updates:

RS, VJB: Conference will be in the 2nd week of July. VJB's recording will used.
PT: Will send the current draft to the group by email for comments, if any. Plan is to submit to TS.
MH: Currently summarizing studies on technology progress. New Things Under the Sun site has lots of stuff. There is a need to focus. This is true for any literature review.
HA, DB: Conclusion is now drafted so the full draft is there. Everyone is invited to recheck it. DB will do a revision iteration next.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS917US917&oq=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.15448j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

DB suggested dividing it into two papers, one with all the details and one with the core elements. POAS is one of our targets, due Aug. 15.

Upcoming: 11th Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) will be on Friday, September 16th in Little Rock, in the UALR EIT building. DB will list everyone as co-presenters.
Lunar exploration status summary for 2022. This is a new potential hiccup in developing a Moore's law for deep space vessel lifetimes.

CAPSTONE, a 12-unit CubeSat, lunar orbiter with 9-month planned lifetime, launched this week after delays.
Artemis 1 mission (uses expendable launch vehicle; to launch "no earlier than" Aug.

Payload: Orion capsule with no crew, will not be reused, and short lifetime of 25 days ending in reentry and recovery

Luna 25, launching Sept. (doubtful?) by Russia
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), JAXA vessel launching in 2022, short lifetime of 2-3 weeks in orbit and several days after landing

2. Reading and discussion

In depth reading: "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenInSpaceRef3.pdf. Vote was 4.

We read up to section "Candidate Testing" on p. 160 and can start there next time.

Possible readings/videos that have not yet been scanned and voted on. Read/view paragraph/minute or two of each and vote: Should we read it in more depth? 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946
https://www.planet4589.org. Scan one link deep from the astronautics page at https://planet4589.org/space/index.html. Don't read large documents through entirely.
One of McDowell's *yearly* (not the more frequent news) reports, in particular, the most recent one: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space20.pdf.
Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
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.
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.
Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.

Readings that we previously scanned and voted on that might or might not be read in more depth at some point. Listed in decreasing order of vote score.

Already voted on: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it. We skimmed https://www.picmet.org/main/ and the question next is whether we want to read through the site in more detail. Do we search this site for another paper/papers to read? Vote was 3 11/12.
Already voted on. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like it might be a good paper for us to read. Vote was 3.9.
Already voted on: One candidate: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/394111 is a recent account of using DEA (which is part of TFDEA). We rechecked the abstract and read the first paragraph. Votes were: 3,5,2,5,4, averaging 3.8.
5/20/22: We read the enlarged font paragraph at the beginning of "Women's Place in Space Exploration, 1996, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenPlaceInSpaceExplorationRef2.pdf. Vote was 3 1/3.
Already voted on: The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress. We will try out a bit of https://progress.institute/immigration-powers-american-progress/ to see if we want to read it in full. Vote was 3 2/7.
Voted on 4/15/22: One of McDowell's update reports, available on the website. Link is: https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html. We checked #804. Vote was 3 1/12.

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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