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We can’t put it back together.
It is together.
-The Last Whole Earth Catalog, 1971
![UPDATE: GOOD Ideas: Is Space the Next Frontier?
- Hillary Newman wrote in Environment, Space and Exploration
[UPDATE: Check out the complete hangout in the video below]
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UPDATE: GOOD Ideas: Is Space the Next Frontier?
- Hillary Newman wrote in Environment, Space and Exploration
[UPDATE: Check out the complete hangout in the video below]
Welcome to GOOD Ideas, a web series where we talk with people who are doing cool things to make the world a better place. We’ll be updating this post with a live stream of the conversation via Google Hangout, so remember to bookmark this link. We hope you’ll tune in, ask questions in the comment field below, and help us push the conversation forward.
In the Friday, June 28 episode starting at 11:30 AM PST, journalist Maxwell Williams explores our fascination with space and its feasibility as the next frontier. Williams will be joined by Buckminster Fuller Institute president David McConville and Chris Lewicki, president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources.
Carrying on the conversation raised in GOOD Magazine’s Exploration Issue (Summer 2013), our guests will contemplate how, as mankind continues to ravage the planet, we find ourselves increasingly casting our gaze upwards in search of a solution—and, if need be, an escape. Take a look at some of this summer’s movie blockbusters: Elysium, After Earth, Oblivion. Outer space and what that vast expanse may or may not contain has become a recurring theme not only in pop culture, but among artists, social innovators, entrepreneurs, and futurists alike. Could space be the answer we’re looking for?
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Thinking about space these days.
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Here’s an oldie but goodie illo from one of our favorite designer/illustrators, Dan Matutina. His work can also be found in two of our issues!
- Don’t Hold the Elevator (The Data Issue)
- The End of Cheap Coffee (The Next Big Thing)
Here are 10 book covers of The Martian Chronicles to celebrate NASA naming the Curiosity landing after Ray Bradbury
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Neil Armstrong
Born: August 5, 1930
First Moon Walk: July 21, 1969
Time in Space: 8 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes, and 30 seconds
RIP: August 25, 2012
From his 2005 USC commencement speech:
“The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man. Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.”
In Event of Moon Disaster
A speech was prepared by Nixon’s speechwriter William Safire in case of a tragedy that, thankfully, never occurred.
via Buzzfeed
Roving Curiosity: Why NASA’s Jaw Dropping Mars Mission Is Worth Every Penny
This argument occurs, year after year, at dinner parties and in Congress alike. Every time, someone asks the question: why are we paying for NASA?
Written by Wylie Overstreet
The Legacy of Sally Ride, the First American Woman in Space
In 1983 every American woman who’d ever been told that she wasn’t good at science, technology, engineering, or math cheered as Sally Ride broke the astronautical glass ceiling with her journey aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Ride, who died on Monday at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, will forever be known as the first American woman in space. That’s more notable than what most of us will ever accomplish in our lives, but Ride’s legacy extends beyond what she achieved as an astronaut.
Kids are awesome - two 17-year olds launch a lego into space on $400!
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad now have an awesome topic for their college essays. They launched a homemade balloon into space as one lucky lego got the ride of his life. The lego carried a Canadian flag and was attached to a video camera, collecting evidence of the journey.
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