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Peter Sci Turpin  
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 More options Oct 5 2012, 11:39 am
From: "Peter \"Sci\" Turpin" <s...@sci-fi-fox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:39:11 +0100
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2012 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Re: Open Source Ecology - Anyone Interested?
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The technologies are useful for many things in the future, and certainly
useful to hackspaces seen as "build anything centres", even if the
current space is insufficient to house/use them all.
Angling developement toward the items other spaces could use interally
would seem the best option for driven development (the induction heater
for example).

I'm also glad you said colonise rather than terraform or something.
While planetary bodies may contain certain native materials, I
personally feel the drive should be toward living on ships rather than
intentionally throwing yourself back down the bottom of another
gravity-well.

Personally, I think the key to the universe is lunar mining, refining
and automated manufacturing. Self-replicate a bit, build ships and clean
up all the loose debris floating around our star-system, remove the big
random reset button in the sky.

On 04/10/2012 09:53, Alex Cureton-Griffiths wrote:

> I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting involved
> (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My passion is working
> on tech to help humanity colonize space, and we'd need all those
> industrial machines if we're ever going to colonise the moon and Mars :)

> More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org - I'm not the only
> hacker interested in taking humanity to the stars...

> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser wrote:

>     Hi everyone,

>     I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools
>     for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).

>     What is the GVCS?

>     "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source,
>     modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables
>     fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to
>     build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."

>     I’d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:

>     http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set#Int...
>     <http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set#Int...>

>     And here's my take on it: they're developing a bunch of cool open
>     source machines that we could replicate ourselves. Plus some of
>     these machines could be very useful for the Hackspace.

>     So I'm keen to meet anyone else who has an interest in developing
>     the GVCS machines. Perhaps we could meet in the quiet room sometime
>     over the next week or so - unless there are any objections.

>     Who is interested?

>     Adam


 
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