RE: The Sentry Program, Near Earth Object Monitoring
Great post! We need many more of these to get people interested and engaged in the subject that is, after all, quite serious.
Working at ESA myself I was a bit disappointed to see that the ESA AIM project - short for Asteroid Impact Mission - did not receive the neccessary funding to proceed. Working in the same corridor as those responsible for the project logistics and strategy I am lucky to learn about it on a regular basis.
Hopefully it can still become the successor to ExoMars 2020 once other projects that have been prioritized are out of the way.
Anyways, I hope to share much more on this topic for those that are interested. Having just yesterday posted my introduction to steemit I look forward to doing many more blog posts about Asteroids, and the work that space agencies and private companies are doing in the field.
Asteroid research have always been on the top of my interest as I got into space in the first place chasing my curiosity to understand the origins of life. Since Asteroids carry the fundamental building blocks of our solar system in their purest form since its formation ~5 billion years ago they offer so much opportunity for us to learn from!
Anyways just wanted to give you a upvote and say that I look forward to discuss the topic a lot more and share both my own views and what I see working with the space community in general :)
Yeah space is interesting, too bad we are too busy funding war to fund space.
well I guess that's the highest stage of capitalism for you.
Indeed. It is quite frustrating to watch... Anyways perhaps this is where Blockchain can help have an impact. I can see a future where people are collectively funding and building new capabilities in space.
I think cryptocurrency might be better, but I still don't think its the solution. Still too much power given to the rich. Five people own half the wealth of the world, they could easily take over any blockchain.
Well, everything begins small. The accelerating inequalities have to a large extent been enabled by a time where a few handful of people have been able to serve the needs of many in a globalised economy. Especially on the web, what used to take hundreds of thousands of employees can now be done by a few software engineers.
However, I think we're slowly getting to the point where people are taking a pause, looking at the data, and wondering why they should continue to provide the essential foundation for a few people to succeed. I at least hope (although I'm far from convinced) that more people will start demanding that when some companies can profit absurdly from them giving up their 2 most important 21st century assets: Their time and their personal data, that they will also want a fair share of profit that is generated from them investing time in building content on the web, and them providing data that is vital for digital products to function.
This is where I hope blockchain technologies, and sites like steemit, can have an impact. No it won't solve the problems overnight. But it can help steer the balance a bit more in the right direction.
I think at this point they have enough power to prevent any small shifts in power, they have been happening for hundreds of years. At this point only a full scale revolution can solve our problems.
Capitalism will always form monopolies and in the end stages always be controlled by a few.