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ONLINE AIAA LA-LV Space Philosophy Gathering ONLINE
To Register : contact AIAA Vice Chair for Events Dr. Ken Lui - events.aiaalalv@gmail.com
Saturday December 18th, 10:00am-2:00pm Pacific Standard Time
Tentative Agenda
10:00 – Welcome
10:15 – Arthur Gordon - Overcoming Objections to Space Travel
Why objections to space travel are so persistent and to explore how we might address them more successfully.
10:30 – Jim Crisafulli - Global Space Enterprise: The Case for Multinational Collaboration
ACES Worldwide has been established by a team of visionary space pioneers to help promote international collaboration in space-related activities. The goal is to identify key issues of common interest in space exploration and development, as well as to explore opportunities for both public and private space coalitions to collaborate in these areas – ultimately helping to reduce the costs, enhance the benefits, and accelerate timetables for future space enterprise, while ensuring that the outcomes are environmentally sustainable, safer, peaceful, and beneficial for all nations.
10:45 – Adriano Autino - Expanding Civilization Beyond Earth's Limits: An Evolutionary Process
Evolving to a Kardashev Type II Civilization. The history of life evolution is a negentropic struggle towards freedom
11:00 – Alice Gorman - Space Archaeology And Why It Matters
After more than 60 years of space travel, human material culture has spread throughout the solar system and beyond, and is the subject of investigation by space archaeologists
11:15 – Kaja Antlej - Museums In The Age Of Human Expansion To Space: Extended Reality For Living & Working Off-Earth
How museums and other heritage institutions could support mental, emotional and identity needs of astronauts and people living and working in ICE (isolated, confined and extreme) environments of space. Can meaningful and engaging gamified extended reality (XR) experiences motivate astronauts to exercise?
11:30 – Steve Durst - Egalitarian Considerations and Cislunar Development"
Equality, the first truth to be held self-evident in the USA independence declaration, is a most appropriate first principle for human build-out and development of Earth’s Moon. Egalitarian considerations have individual, social, political and economic implications / applications, as well as cultural, spiritual, international and interplanetary ones, including for property rights matters and lunar acreage.
11:45 – Samer El Sayary – Space Exploration, A Utopian or dystopian future?
Some consider space exploration and colonization as a plan B for humanity to survive any probable mass annihilation event, On the other hand many others find it an opportunity to accelerate stepping up to type 1 civilization on Kardashev scale. Is space exploration a utopian or dystopian future?
12:00 – Anita Sengupta - Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars: How the Space Program Creates Sustainable Technology
A review of how the challenges of all space missions, especially EDL missions, requires a design mind set to maximize efficiency, minimize mass, and make the impossible possible. Dr. Sengupta will touch on how space technology and design philosophy can serve to mitigate climate change here at home.
12:15 – Michael Potter - From Scarcity to Abundance
12:30 – Phanm Bagley - Imperfect Astronauts: Inviting The Whole Of Humanity Into Space
How good design can help make space less of an extreme environment for all.
12:45 – Laura Danly, Curator, Griffith Observatory
1:00 – Fiorella Terenzi - Life Lessons of the Universe
Universal laws of astrophysics contain extraordinary wisdom about our own lives. The laws do not discriminate between the enormous and the tiny, the primitive and the new. They are simple. We cannot break or change these real and unchangeable Universal Laws.
1:15 – John Rummel - Stewardship of the Earth and the Universe Beyond – You are everything to me!
When we “boldly go” into near-Earth space our ignorance proceeds us. We never expected the scope of the space debris problem, but it is far worse than we thought possible. Now, we anticipate benefits – even riches – from moving into cislunar space and the asteroid belt, yet we don’t really understand the physics of those locations, let alone the economics of working there. As stewards of these potentially rich locations we have to wonder, how far will we go before we regret the way that we have treated these new frontiers?
1:30 – Panel Discussion moderated by M.Thangavelu
2:00 – Fin
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