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<td>[hackerspaces] Hackerspaces Space Program</td>
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<td>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:47:36 +0800</td>
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<td>Ricky Ng-Adam <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rngadam@gmail.com"><rngadam@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>Hackerspaces General Discussion List
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org"><discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a>, spaceprogram
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:spaceprogram@lists.hackerspaces.org"><spaceprogram@lists.hackerspaces.org></a></td>
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<div>Hello!</div>
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<div>A few months ago we (a few hackerspaces) submitted a reply to a
DARPA Request For Information. DARPA is interested as to the type
of organization that would be well suited to turn an initial
investment into a long-term self-sustainable decades long space
program to achieve the ambitious goal of inter-stellar space
travel. </div>
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<div>Our short document (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://xinchejian.com/2011/06/04/xinchejian-and-the-100-year-starship-study/">http://xinchejian.com/2011/06/04/xinchejian-and-the-100-year-starship-study/</a>)
was well-received and we've since been invited to both an Asian
manufacturing roundtable in Singapore (next week) and to the 100
Years Starship Symposium in Orlando (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.100yss.org">http://www.100yss.org</a>) at the
end of September.</div>
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<div>In the meantime, existing efforts continues in various
Hackerspaces, such as the Lunar Numbat space program (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lunarnumbat.org">http://www.lunarnumbat.org</a>)
and the Space Program track at Chaos Communication Camp (<a
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href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Space_program_of_the_Hacker_Scene:_For_our_future">http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Space_program_of_the_Hacker_Scene:_For_our_future</a>)</div>
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<div>To get the efforts further organized, it seemed eminently
reasonable to establish both a wiki page and a mailing list on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hackerspaces.org">hackerspaces.org</a>:</div>
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href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram</a>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces_Global_Space_Program">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces_Global_Space_Program</a></div>
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<div>Although right now focused on the 100YSS discussion, I think we
can use both resources as a focus for any space-related efforts in
our respective hackerspaces - if only to catalog and showcase the
efforts so far.</div>
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<div>If you have an interest, I invite you (space geek!) to join the
new mailing list and start the discussion.<br clear="all">
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<div>Thank you!</div>
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伍思力 | Ricky Ng-Adam | <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://xinchejian.com" target="_blank">http://xinchejian.com</a> |
(+86) 186-2126-2521<br>
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