A useful primer explains how cosmic exploration has been commercialised and explores the challenges in policing this new wild west
NASA
Space Exploration and the Age of the Anthropocosmos
The new generation of space architects can learn from our successes and failures in protecting the internet commons and build a better paradigm for space.
China’s Solar Industry Is in Upheaval—The Effects Will Be Global
Rather than opening space for rivals, China’s solar industry shakeout is forging a more resilient core — embedding deeper into global value chains, securing a technological lead, and reshaping the industry’s future trajectory to its own long-term advantage.
The Astrosky Ecosystem
We're building social media tools for the astronomy & space science communities. From feeds to hosting, we're billionaire-proofing scientific discussion for good.
Ponomareva, The Human Factor in Space Exploration
by Valentina Ponomareva in Vladimir Orel, ed., Institut istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhinki. Godichnaia nauchnaia konferentsiia, 1998 [Proceedings of the 1998 annual conference of the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology], Moscow, pp. 614-18.
NASA's New Mission Will Try to Map the Heliosphere After Voyager's Exit - Slashdot
The heliosphere "plays a major role in why life is possible on our planet," reports CNN, "and how it perhaps once existed on others such as Mars." (Basically solar winds create "a constant flow of charged particles" that form "an enormous bubble that protects the planets in our solar system from c...
Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.
Reclaiming the Computing Commons
Hunter writes: The commodification and exploitation of nature; the enclosure of the intellectual and informational commons in medicine, agriculture, and other areas of technical knowledge; the expropriation of public space to secure profit-all define an economic system supposedly premised on freedom.
Application as Governable Space Makers at Metagov: Exploring Tokenized Namespaces for Deliberative Processes | Notion
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Jason Hickel on Twitter / X
The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) January 6, 2022
How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
Open Systems Foundation
Building open infrastructure for a thriving planet.
COSMIC
Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.