NASA has encouraged students to come up with ideas and to express them in the form of ART.
It is a beginning, and from ideas new adventures develop.
A spark, that can be nurtured until the glow turns into a fire.
It helps to have the right materials, the energy to rub the sticks together, and the dry material to burst into flame.
{Sorry, was remembering watching a Samoan rub two sticks together and light some coconut husk with some energetic rubbing.]
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/
http://www.ssrsi.org/ods/fire.
Are we providing the right environment to help our students create the new ideas we will need to get back to the Moon?
- LRK -
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Animation Student Wins Moon Art And Design Contest
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/
Zachary Madere could not believe his eyes when he read the e-mail announcing his first place win in NASA's Life and Work on the Moon Art & Design Contest.
Zachary, a student majoring in Illustration and Two Dimensional Animation at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, had come home late after a long night of work, with a plan to go straight to bed. Before getting his much needed sleep, though, he decided to give his e-mail a quick check. What he saw dashed away any need for rest.
He had been notified as the first place winner with "Best Overall Score" for his oil painting, "Crater Core Sample."
"I was not expecting it at all," the soft-spoken art student said, disbelief still in his voice. "I started jumping around and screaming, accidentally knocking down some furniture. Right away I shared the news with my roommate, an artist who's like a brother to me. It was really exciting!"
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See some more of the winning pictures.
- LRK -
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http://www6.cet.edu/copper/
NASA ART CONTEST WINNERS
2009 Contest Winners
College Winners | Honorable Mention
High School Winners | Honorable Mention
View All 2009 Entries
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Always interesting to see what might be put up on the Moon.
Hope it turns out to be more than just pictures.
- LRK -
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http://www.newscientist.com/
What NASA's return to the moon may look like
23:08 23 July 2009 by Rachel Courtland
[See 11 images with informative text. - LRK ]
http://www.newscientist.com/
What NASA's return to the moon may look like
Although an expert panel is now reviewing NASA's future plans, the agency has been developing concepts for lunar bases that could be built by 2030
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Want to send something to the Moon, testing helps.
Maybe you will win the prize.
- LRK -
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http://astrobotictechnology.
New design overcomes intense lunar heat
July 19, 2009 by david.gump
The third prototype for Astrobotic Technology’s lunar robot has innovations that will enable it to survive the blistering heat at the Moon’s equator, which is the robot’s destination in May 2011 when it will visit the Apollo 11 site.
Noon at the equator is hotter than boiling water: 270 degrees F. The robot beats the heat by keeping a cool side aimed away from the Sun to radiate heat off to the black sky. It travels toward or away from the sun (generally east or west) without turning its radiator into the light. Only the solar cells on the hot side ever face the sun. The robot can travel north and south by tacking like a sailboat.
The Apollo 11 crew landed shortly after local dawn and left by mid-morning, so Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never encountered the noontime extreme. (Each day on the Moon is two weeks of sun followed by two weeks of darkness and extreme cold.)
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If you like to look at video clips you might find some of the ones at Moon Base Omega blog of interest.
- LRK -
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http://moonbaseomega.blogspot.
MOON BASE OMEGA
Return to the Moon
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Have you ever considered what might have been, IF.....?
David S. F. Portree posted an interesting speculation on his blog Robot Explorers.
:-) - LRK -
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I've posted something speculative to my Robot Explorers blog.
Call it a mid-summer edutainment.
Call it a profound waste of electrons.
In any case, here it is.
http://robotexplorers.
David S. F. Portree
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http://robotexplorers.
http://beyondapollo.blogspot.
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Some blame NASA for our not going back to the Moon sooner.
Some blame the President.
Some blame Congress.
Others the lack of interest in the general population.
Were you ever a student when the Duncan YoYo expert came and showed how you could do all those tricks with a spinning wheel at the end of string?
http://www.straightdope.com/
http://www.dixiesyoyos.com/
http://www.begin2spin.com/
http://www.howtoyoyo.com/
And later practically every kid had bought a YoYo.
How do you create that kind of excitement for going back to the Moon?
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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