Luxurious Space
some quotes from luf-team @ yahoo by various group members
>Have. But it’s not for the ‘majority’ of people and we’re not going to change
>that.
from : http://www.culturalcreatives.org/
“While Cultural Creatives are a subculture, they lack one critical ingredient in their lives: awareness of themselves as a whole people.”
There is a very quickly emerging subclass of consumers that is being labeled the cultural creatives they / we are 50 mil strong in the US and 80-90 in the EU… But we still frame ourselves against the masses or the ‘majority’…and are relatively unaware of out collective strength.
[warning : incoming arrogant overstatement]
The world will always be full of 60-80% sheep. The question is what principles do the sheep follow.
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>>microgravity research.
>>There is a LOT of interest in it, but little opportunity to pursue actual
>>research given the limits of the Shuttle schedule and the lack of facilities and
>>manpower on the ISS.
just heard a story about a ESA reasearcher who lost two years of prep work and many Euro’s worth of cash on a failed microgravity experiment - because her boss miswired some small electronic component… point being lots of interest, lots of money allocated, lots of starving thirsty people, lots of pollution, lots of pesticide on our food….
Can we play a role in cleaning up this environment so that we deserve to visit space? Can we prove that we know how to engineer stasis within a very supportive environment before we go trying to inhabit a much less supportive one?
Space is sexy. Space is the ultimate escape from the disaster we are creating…
>my guess is that virgin galactic will use their money from the
>intial LEO tourism to try to expand their market sevices all the
>way to a lunar resort.
point is can we take the profits from this outlandish luxury of space tourism and redirect to provide sustainable infrastructure REGARDLESS OF THE COST/EFFICIENCY… before we get so far ahead of ourselves to be building lunar resorts….
rant_ingly yours,
joshua
ps : http://www.wie.org/spiral/
spiral dynamics at amazon.com
