Yeah, uh, sounds a lot like like "hay, dudez, let's use the moon as a restroom wall. lol!"
I mean, I know we're moving towards cyberpunk dystopia, but, come on, can we not have this kind of poop being floated?
Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
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Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand and appreciate your sentiments. America and Australia would have been a lot more "beautiful" without the European settlers ruining it. But in a strange way mankind needs to move "forward" "whatever" that means. We need to colonize the Solar system, then the galaxy and then spread to the other galaxies. Governments prefer to fight religious wars by spending orders of magnitude more than the NASA budget, b…
America and Australia would have been a lot more "beautiful" without the European settlers ruining it. If we're going to play that game, then Australia would have been a helluva lot more beautiful if the Aborigines hadn't got to it either. As soon as they showed up they killed off most of the awesomest wildlife (goodbye, Diprotodon) and burned a helluva lot of the forests down.
sure...
I would go onto say we should not have not moved out of Africa at all.
Most people would agree that we humans somehow end up making places less beautiful by own standards by inhabiting them and exploiting them.
But we NEED to do it. We can just ensure that we restrain ourselves from crossing a commonly accepted limit. I had never suggested turning moon into a billboard in the sky.
Think of it more like rock painting made by a caveman. in certain restricted parts of the moon.
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#23Yeah, uh, sounds a lot like like "hay, dudez, let's use the moon as a restroom wall. lol!" I mean, I know we're moving towards cyberpunk dystopia, but, come on , can we not have this kind of poop being floated?
You bring up a very important aspect of quality control. i.e. How to prevent it from turning into a restroom wall. Of course it will go through an editorial process.
Something magical has prevented HN from turning into a rest room wall when many others have failed. "Processes" and communities can make that magic happen. Anyway as I said elsewhere I have abandoned the idea :).
I love the community here... Validating an idea can get over in a few hours especially if the decision is to toss it away...
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#24Yeah, uh, sounds a lot like like "hay, dudez, let's use the moon as a restroom wall. lol!" I mean, I know we're moving towards cyberpunk dystopia, but, come on , can we not have this kind of poop being floated?
You bring up a very important aspect of quality control. i.e. How to prevent it from turning into a restroom wall. Of course it will go through an editorial process. Something magical has prevented HN from turning into a rest room wall when many others have failed. "Processes" and communities can make that magic happen. Anyway as I said elsewhere I have abandoned the idea :). I love the community here... Validating a…
Yeah, HN has a pretty narrow focus and has a conscious effort to maintain its quality.
OTOH, reddit, digg, 4chan, pretty much every newspaper with comments - they all turn into hives of idiocy and depravity really quick (although 4chan might have simply started there. :X)
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#25Hmph. Ten years after it occurred to me, someone else has this idea in their head. At the time, Microsoft was dominant and branching into everything. I figured they'd deploy microrobots on the Moon that people could drive around for a fee. I called it Microsoft Moon. http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/so-no-microsoft-moo...
SpaceX has brought down the cost of space travel by an order of magnitude. If Ad Astra succeeds in their VASIMR effort, they will bring it down further. Many things you could only dream about in the past will soon be economically viable.
Just because something is possible does not mean we need to do it. And that is something I figured today!!!
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#26Hmph. Ten years after it occurred to me, someone else has this idea in their head. At the time, Microsoft was dominant and branching into everything. I figured they'd deploy microrobots on the Moon that people could drive around for a fee. I called it Microsoft Moon. http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/so-no-microsoft-moo...
Microsoft? Why would you have (even in jest!) thought Microsoft might do anything of the sort? Someone else would have to do it successfully first, then they'd copy their business model.
Bill Gates tried teledesic... it went nowhere though...
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#27From the Lunar X prize teams we know that it nearly fits within a 30 million budget. how so? from the lunar x teams I know, it is exactly the opposite.
Well not that it fits exactly, but that is the order of magnitude of the expense. At least many videos of the glxp are saying so... But hey only the winner gets to keep the cash. They are in it for the learning so that they can become part of the industry.
i think the cost of a booster is roughly 30m at best :)
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well not that it fits exactly, but that is the order of magnitude of the expense. At least many videos of the glxp are saying so... But hey only the winner gets to keep the cash. They are in it for the learning so that they can become part of the industry.
i think the cost of a booster is roughly 30m at best :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Launcher_versions
These are GTO numbers... but the bots r tiny in Kgs I guess...
The glxp teams share the rockets i guess... The robots must be cheap at least in terms of materials used... in relative magnitude to the launch... I could be wrong. Engineering the bots does not get paid apart from the learnings and future opportunities...
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#29Hmph. Ten years after it occurred to me, someone else has this idea in their head. At the time, Microsoft was dominant and branching into everything. I figured they'd deploy microrobots on the Moon that people could drive around for a fee. I called it Microsoft Moon. http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/so-no-microsoft-moo...
Microsoft? Why would you have (even in jest!) thought Microsoft might do anything of the sort? Someone else would have to do it successfully first, then they'd copy their business model.
This was before Google even existed. It really was a vastly different world when Microsoft seemed like a juggernaut getting into everything. And I think right around then they had created the precursor to what everyone now thinks of as just Google Earth. MS had something like it first -- I forget its name, though.
Re: Startup Idea: Draw usr specified art on moon using teleoperated robot
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft? Why would you have (even in jest!) thought Microsoft might do anything of the sort? Someone else would have to do it successfully first, then they'd copy their business model.
This was before Google even existed. It really was a vastly different world when Microsoft seemed like a juggernaut getting into everything. And I think right around then they had created the precursor to what everyone now thinks of as just Google Earth. MS had something like it first -- I forget its name, though.
Sure, I remember that too. I guess MS did seemed to headed in a stellar direction circa 1996 or 97. To me, they lost their shine as the internet picked up steam... I'd say 92-96 was the end of the golden age of the desktop computer as envisioned in the 80s. Just three years later, everything was dramatically different in a way only the savviest people would have expected in 1990.