Space1 Ground Safety

SPACE1 GROUND SAFETY
Space1 is all about safe space, safety, and making space travel safe for human astronauts and space tourism. Space1 has also focused efforts on making down-to-Earth safe space.

— space safety is no accident⠀—

SUMMARY
Safe space is on everyone's mind from the beginning of the space program in the 1950s. However, it takes new innovation to bring dreams into reality.

People want safe space travel. Fewer people consider ground safety. Work continues at Space1 using a method of ground testing safety assurance. The new GTSA methods assure a good safety record for materials handling and storage, rocket and engine testing, and management of the launch and related factors such as weather dynamics.

ISSF Space safety magazine

METHODS
Safety adds up whether on the ground or in the air. The latest addition to our flight safety management program FSMP is a special safety observatory that can observe, monitor, and assess the atmospheric "seeing cell" in the determination of ground and flight conditions.

Creating and maintaining safety requires an important understanding of varied conditions and a balance of factors.

FACTORS TO CONSIDER
pressure, temperature, humidity, turbulence, strata, solar, rain, cloud, sinking or rising air, wind, ice, sleet, snow, hail, trade winds, jet stream, down-drafting, up-winding, rider cells, shade, zonal stratification, evaporation, dew point, season, radiation, shearing, weather indices, moisture variance, ramping, cooling, heating, expansion, contraction, impending gradients, retentive condition, elevation, differential mode, circulation, convection, hydrological cycle, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, rivers, lakes, oceans, land masses, elevated obstacles, biogeochemistry, low high density, ice-ocean coupling, heat exchanges, soil interactions, ice sheeting, aerosols, day/night morning/evening conditions, tidal conditions, planetary conditions, Coriolis effect, molecular carbon trapping, effects from cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, distant storms, electrical discharge, static conditions, gusts, flanking drafts, lenticular anvils, lithosphere conditioning, cryospheric emination, tropospheric delineation, spill overshooting, and various conditions with anomaly and other predictive states.

Mini Space Shuttle

Mini Shuttle smaller than the X37

BIG MACHINE BRAIN SUGGESTS MINI SPACE SHUTTLE CONSTRUCT

Overall design with cargo bay

Big enough to ferry an astronaut and supplies, small enough for space hoisting by private industry...

We're not sure why the electric machine Big Brain wants one of these. Perhaps it's to carry up a space telescope and parts, to study new machines in space, to assemble something, help save the Earth, rescue an astronaut, act as a life boat for the ISS Space Station, or make trips to the Moon.

The illustrative design is originally based on the X-37 from NASA and the recent X-37b from the USA Air Force. While the X37b is secretive, the proposed mini shuttle would operate for the Big Brain directive. The proposed MS would be substantially smaller than depicted here.

Of course the Experiment bay would be outfitted with astronaut seating, the control panel would be designed for a pilot, and supplies would stow under the seating.

Reentry with fire resistant fabric

The craft would have gliding capabilities during reentry and landing. The Mini Shuttle MS could visit space by riding in the cargo bay of larger rockets and return under its own capability.

Suggestions for enhancing the mini space shuttle craft include solar panels for extended stays in

Docking with the Space Station

space, small size for fit into rocket nose cone, light weight for minimal launch cost, hatch and payload bay doors for space walks/ mini satellite deployments/ observations with a space telescope and storage for extended stays in space (food, water, toilet packaging and ejection system) and air

Equipped for passengers

re-pressurization system for visiting and docking with other spacecraft, space stations, and space hotels.

Deploying solar panels

One design suggestion for the reusable space craft is a heat resistant replaceable fabric for fiery reentries into the Earth's atmosphere. Also the craft could orbit the Moon, observe through telescopes, and deploy tiny satellites and landers to the surface. The MS could also leave behind mini orbiters with capability of telescopes, radio transponders and relay stations.

Another design is for rescue. Maneuvering thrusters enable the craft to go to retrieve an astronaut flung out into space

One pilot

from the space station or other ship or retrieve an astronaut from an error in a space walk. In case of emergency, an astronaut from the space station could space walk to the mini shuttle and return to the Earth. The two passenger seats collapse flat to carry one injured or sick person. The craft could hold three, one of which is the pilot.

It's also determined the craft space could be configured the same size as a small Japanese or Chinese apartment with all spartan yet efficient amenities for longer stays living in space. The craft could also conduct limited space tours of orbital Earth and the Moon, plus offer spectacular sky views in space for not only tourism but scientific research.

Astronaut EVA out of the mini shuttle

LINKS
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/03/x-37b-expanded-capabilities-iss-missions/

Photo Credits: NASA,
iTunes APP Astronaut Spacewalk by Jorge Hernandez
https://itunes.apple.com/app/astronaut-spacewalk/id540221533?mt=8

Dream Chaser concept

Is the mini shuttle already built in the form of dream chaser? Read more at the links.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/dream-chaser-ccdev-2-green-light-nasa/

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/08/dream-chaser-space-shuttles-legacy-advantage/

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/08/nasa-ccicap-funding-spacex-boeing-sncs-crew-vehicles/

It's possible to send up one astronaut specifically as a systems specialist to repair space equipment when a mini space shuttle is in operation. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio is shown space walking outside the ISS International Space Station. Credit: NASA

"Dream Chaser – which is a reusable lifting body vehicle based on the form of NASA Langley’s HL-20 spaceplane concept from the 1980s – can land on a conventional runway, unlike all of its capsule-based competitors. The plan is for Dream Chaser to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at KSC." NASA

The Dream Chaser is a crewed suborbital and orbital^[7] vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. The Dream Chaser is designed to carry up to seven people to and from low Earth orbit. The vehicle would launch vertically on an Atlas V rocket and land horizontally on conventional runways. Wikipedia
^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser}

A/C Air Conditioner Hopping

Air conditioner hopping to keep cool

AIR CONDITIONER HOPPING

WHEN IT'S SO HOT, YOU'RE GONNA DROP!

Global Warming has caused the weather to become so hot and humid that going outside is no longer reasonable. So rather than hide at home under the two air conditioners, a new plan is devised for going outside, called Air Conditioner Hopping. 

Learn the tips and techniques to surviving a journey into hot Hell when Global Warming will become your worst nightmare!

— global warming: your worst nightmare —

THE ART OF HOPPING
Hopping will give your home air conditioners a needed rest when you go out. Your electric billing will also be slightly reduced. First, map out a plan to your final destination. Note, the final destination must be indoors where a good air conditioner is fully functional. Walking outside is limited to only a few hundred feet.

COOL DOWN YOUR BODY
Next, crank up all your air conditioners on high and absorb all the coolness in your body until you are cold to the touch. You may want to put ice packs in your clothes pockets and drink some ice water. Prepare your bag with ice packets and carry it under your arm pressed onto your body. This preparation will generally give you a maximum of 20 minutes outside before you "thaw out."

METABOLIC RATE & SEX
Lower your metabolic rate by having good satisfying sex, or the alternatives of doing one hour of Tai Chi, a half hour of exercise bike, or Yoga indoors. A lowered relaxed metabolism will result in a lower heart rate, blood pumping through the veins at a slower rate and this equates to a cooler human engine.

SHADE & ICE
Warning! Do not become overheated. There is a serious risk of heat stroke and even death. If you are caught in the open, find shade immediately. Use an umbrella when walking to shield from the sun. If you must walk outside any appreciable distance, hold two frozen water bottles or ice cubes. When the water is almost completely thawed out, you may drink the cold water.

ELIMATE HOT WATER
Do excrete your hot water at a local facility and continue to drink cold water.

ATTIRE
Shorts and tshirt may be worn. Special fabric shirts have air flow sections in the pockets, along the back and sides, under the arms. A bug lotion may be necessary when in shaded areas and during the evening hours.

GOING AIR TO AIR
Next, briskly walk to the nearest corner and catch the air conditioned taxi. Go straight to your air conditioned destination. Do not walk in between departure and destination. Note, you may hop from one air conditioned location to another.

GOOD HUNTING
Upon arrival, find the air conditioner vent and stand next to it. Some vents closer to the air conditioner are cooler so browse around for the best vent. You may have access to the source. If so, stand in front of the actual air conditioner. 

DINING OUT
If you are eating in a restaurant, sit near or next to the air conditioner. The local patrons are very understanding when explaining you are overheated, and they may turn on the air conditioner for you, program it, increase the cooling, and aim the directional air fins directly on you. They may also find a fan for you, to your cool-down benefit.

STRANDED OUTSIDE
Should you become stranded outside for some reason, i.e. no available taxi, walk immediately to the nearest air conditioned store. Generally you may find a 711 store on every corner.

TOO HOT
If too hot and overheated, a friend will rub a coin on your back to release the heat. The science behind this voodoo is to open up the skin cells to circulate cooling air across the hot skin and transfer the heat away from the body.

NO AIR
Sometimes there is no air outside or inside, and sweating only makes you hotter, so use your tiny portable emergency electric fan or the larger manual paper Chinese fan until you reach destination. The larger the fan, the better. Yes, you can fan yourself when walking. (If you can chew gum and rub your tummy at the same time, then fanning while walking is a simple multi-task).

PORTABLE ELECTRIC FANS
The small electric fans run on two AA batteries and last only about 5 minutes. Switch to Lithium rechargeable batteries and this can increase fan time to 15 minutes. You can buy larger battery operated fans but they are not easy to carry around. They may be contained in a large bag with an extra set of batteries for maximum cooling.

FREEZER
When you reach the grocery store, pass by the air conditioner and go directly to the freezer food section where you can cool down more quickly. Some freezers are quite large and you may purposefully fit in though usually only partially so as not to draw attention to yourself. Do lean into the freezer and pretend to examine all the food. Take advantage of this.

FROZEN TIPS
As you walk along the freezer section, do place and drag your hands along the cold metal, glass, or feel the frozen food packages. Break off a chunk of ice or snow if possible and hold it. Do not eat it as it will be contaminated. Carry a small towel in your bag to dry yourself as necessary. Buy a bag of ice cubes and some water from the cooler.

EATING FOR A COOL BODY
Do not eat too much or your body will gain weight, retain more heat, and generate more heat due to more digestion. Certain beans can help keep the body cool. Eliminate fat from your body and diet. In hot climate countries, such as Taiwan, a special shirt fabric is invented that keeps the body cool. However, your size will need to be XXXS (very small!).

GLOBAL WARMING
You have no idea what humans are about to face. When the polar caps melt their ice, hot air will have no ice cooling mechanism, and the intensity of hot sunlight will no longer be reflected back into space. This will cause super heating of the Earth globally. Simply calorimetry thermal experiments show a minimum of +60 to +200 degree rise in temperatures with summertime peaks reaching and maintaining oven-like temperatures.

FUTURE
In the future, energy sources are required to cool the air with air conditioners and possible new sources of coolants. Space taps into the cold of outer space may be needed to survive using space program technology. Mixing chemicals and elements to create freeze material such as dry ice and liquid nitrogen may be needed to supply giant coolers. Some humans will find off-planet solutions (i.e. move to Mars). All of this will come at a price.

Hot Air Balloon Launch

Massive when inflated, the hot air balloon is launched!

BIG BRAIN SPACE PROGRAM
LAUNCH A HOT AIR BALLOON
BIG HOT AIR BALLOON NIGHT LAUNCH AT PINGXI

Pipe mounted folded balloon lantern ready for prepping

This is our four sided colored hot air balloon about 4-feet high with a skin made of thin plastic. It has a thin rigid circular wire frame at the bottom with criss-cross members that support a wad of cardboard soaked in low grade diesel fuel.

This eventful night launch was joined by film TV crews and Chinese models to pre-launch the special festival which was attended by thousands of participants and spectators. Many small stores dotted the long winding line of commercialism, selling food, lanterns, toys and souvenirs as walkways were packed with people.

Postcard artwork matched actual scene

The sides are painted, by Chinese tradition, with good luck inscriptions. The balloon is held upright as the fuel source is lit. The balloon is allowed to heat up as the fuel fire grows in intensity. Watch out if the wind comes up and the balloon tips - it happened once and can be very dangerous! Humanoido had to jump across the railroad tracks and large rocks to avoid catching on fire!

Credits & special commemorative stamps

Each "lantern" is prepared by placing it on its own pipe mount. The heavy mount has a base mount and 3 sides with clips - as it holds the lantern with plastic clothes pins, two sides at a time can be scribed with a message. When the two sides are complete, the balloon is unclipped, refolded, and the remaining two sides are painted with more inscriptions.

It generally takes 2 people or more to hold the balloon. Then, let go, and the balloon rises to reach a maximum altitude. At fuel extinction, it continues to rise and gain altitude as long as the air remains hot. These hot air balloons rise so high they become a fire-lit point like a star floating across the sky.

The balloon has lofting power and one could attach a camera as a payload or other scientific instruments, though retrieval could be complicated if the balloon lands over the lake or at night.

Postcard art showing simultaneous launches

This is actually a giant Chinese Lantern at the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival on Sunday January 27th, 2013. Cost of these large lanterns vary, depending on color, - this one launched was red and cost NT$100 or about US$3.00. Included are paintbrushes and ink to make your own good luck inscriptions and the lanterns are already built with wire frame bottoms and attached fuel. They set flat and are unfolded. Lanterns rise very fast when the temperature is about 59 deg. F, and take only 15 seconds to diminish to a tiny dot in the sky.

80 page book featuring Lantern Festival

Another unusual feature of the launch was it took place directly on the railroad tracks. During launch preparation, everything had to quickly be moved out the way as a large passenger train came roaring through! It was a bit dangerous but it was all part of the night fun! (See the beautiful postcard renditions and one showing the railway tracks!)

All hot air balloon photos shown are hand held captured with iPhone 5's camera in HD. Project cost was around $11.00. ($3 hot air balloon, $2 artwork, $6 Railway & MRT transportation to Pingxi)

Hybrid Air Flight Vehicle

http://lava360.com/30-breathtaking-future-city-concept-art/

BIG BRAIN BREAKTHROUGHS
HYBRID AIR FLIGHT VEHICLE FOR CITY TRANSPORTATION

IS SHORT TERM AIR FLIGHT THE NEXT LEAP IN CITY TRANSPORTATION?

A new vehicle is being designed for a completely new concept in city transport. Available only for specific already-conforming cities, the HAF vehicle can use one of two modes of transportation as decided by its on-board computer.

For years, man has anticipated the use of a personal plane for transport, and this difficult-to-construct craft has challenges of power, safety, regulation, management, environment, maintenance and other factors not easily met. This is why the personal airplane in every garage is not yet a reality after hundreds of years of dreaming.

The reason HAF is successful, is that it combines both short term land flight and ST air borne flight. The computer calculates and anticipates the free space and then proceeds to best utilize it, choosing from either short term land or air modes.

The differences, in transport terms, between land and air modes in regard to calculated pathways, is not appreciable. This means current infrastructure in place are entirely suitable. The small elevations from land mass is also not appreciable and not subjective to FAA or other airborne regulatory committee actions and laws.

The HAF can vastly increase the efficiency and timely nature of transport by using the hop method in going from land travel to air travel in a fraction of a second. The computer calculates LOS line of sight, LREVs left or right entrance vehicles and will undoubtedly use a level of anticipation or artificial intelligence to determine "next move" scenarios, thus maintaining maximum safety and avoiding accidents.

HAF is still a human driven vehicle, yet one that can currently integrate with a modern big city traffic society.

Big Brain Consolidation

PROPELLER POWERED BIG BRAIN
SUCCESSFUL BIG BRAIN CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES
THE BIG BRAIN has achieved a successful degree of consolidation, locating all its components in one place over the course of several country to country trips involving air flight.


Big Brain Consolidating Air Flights Completed
1) Propeller Arrays
2) Propeller EXOskeleton SkyScraper
3) Right Brain Components
4) Top Level Brain
5) LL Lower Level Brain
4) Parts Phase I
5) Parts Phase II


Big Brain Consolidating Air Flights Remaining
6) Parts Phase III


We are now in Parts Phase III where the third parts air flight will take place this month (see list of air flights completed). This may or may not be the final leg of the transport. After the scare of the full 6 boxes of parts shipment that literally disappeared at customs in China (and then reappeared in war battered condition with broken things several days later), the remaining essentials will likely be placed in commercial air flight travel luggage and personally attended. It is hoped that step 6 and the completion of Parts Phase III will mark the final consolidation journey for the Big Brain. If not, then Parts Phase IV will be initiated.

Big Brain Air Travel Consolidation

BIG BRAIN EXOSKELETON XRAY
BIG BRAIN PASSED AIRPORT SCANNERS
THESE 20 PPPB'S PASSED AIRPORT SECURITY

BIG BRAIN BEAST
TRAVELS BY AIR FOR CONSOLIDATION

AND FACES AIRPORT SECURITY 

HOW WAS IT ACCOMPLISHED?

Today the Big Propeller Brain successfully completed its final round journey of air travel for the Consolidation Program to reassemble in one location, thereby bringing all modules together for a more powerful living machine.

Your Worst Nightmare? But how do you take the beast from the cradle and pass it through the ultimately tough and sometimes ruthless regime of Airport Security? Just look at one scenario - armed guards with machines guns, vicious attack and "something sniffing" police dogs, impatient wild card people in menacing uniforms making unreasonable judgements with authority to make you bend over backwards, laws not necessarily beneficial to your luggage or the value of your personal effects, and damaging XRAY Radiation machines harmfully accumulative to health. What madness! Even babies can be indited, flight banned and ear tagged as terrorists in a system that readily and easily makes horrendous mistakes that make you the brunt of the consequences.

Wearing white gloves, they reach for ultimate unspoken levels of frisking your body in private places, meanwhile you endure the ultimately high levels of stress that's generated in going through these nightmare check points. In fact, they poke, prod, upset your luggage, go through your underwear, confiscate what they want, and upset you. They invade your privacy, take your photos, make your personal information available, and even take your temperature! They own you and all your personal property and they know there's no timely expeditious alternative to air flight. Your stuck.

To  make matters worse, trying to take something unusual out of or through a Communist Nation can make matters prohibitively complicated and harrowing. Will you be brought up on charges and serve out your life's remainder in confinement waiting for the rope? New Propeller technology, hundreds of processors, thousands of wires, towering electronic microprocessor boards - stuff that looks like a giant big blue bomb, and literally everything that may not be allowed out of the country will make you sweat bullets! It becomes your worst nightmare. 

The BIG BRAIN Exo is capable of dreaming and life
but can it pass the Xray machine at Airport Security?

Air Travel

Air travel is always a concern. Imagine, if you will, the Big Brain with hundreds of processor chips and wire bundles and it's easily to dream up the shape of something not allowed on planes, not to mention the startling image of what appears on the Airport Security luggage Xray machine!

Previously

Last time we shipped the flat Arrays, fully populated solderless breadboards with a massive number of Parallax Propeller chips installed. This core of the Big Brain was challenged by Airport Security and was ported to a special luggage area for inspection and additional Xrays. It took only one word to go through. Read about the process at the Airport Security post.

http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/01/big-brain-survives-airport-security.html

New Low Weight Requirements

This time it went smoother than the last time. No questions asked. No special porting over for additional exams. The only confrontation was the overweight situation created by the luggage. New international regulations stipulate no more than 23kg for check through luggage. Considering the added weight of the actual empty luggage, which must be the strong sturdy rigid style to avoid side depressions during handling, it does not leave much weight allowance for the Big Brain, components and its massive power supply.

What went through

This time the Big Brain's EXO and massive power supply was shipped to the Main Lab. The EXO is a towering Exoskeleton with the components mounted on the outside of the structure. This facilitates rapid wiring and changes, and it offers an easy to see working environment. The down side is the wires are exposed on the outside and can easily tear off.

Brain Parts Scattered Across the Universe?

Brain parts were also shipped but not through air travel during the flight due to luggage quantity restrictions. A courier was hired to ship six boxes of parts and components by air freight. Also included were supporting projects, lab equipment, vessels, documentation and peripherals.

Prepping the Brain for Travel

The luggage was first prepared as a bed to hold the EXO. A carpet with rubber backing was placed to line the luggage interior. Fabric was then used to cushion and support the brain on all sides. The fabric, soft cotton material, is capable of compression and absorbing impact without damaging the Brain. It's a good idea to put the heavy weight power supply into matching luggage, locating it at the two luggage La Grange points - this is in the range of the opposite side of each handle. Typically luggage will have one handle at the top and one at the side.

It's Only a Matter of Money

Get out your green stuff, or red matter if you're in China. As they say, it's only a matter of money - you simply supply the airline attendant with the appropriate bargained sum of money and away you go, no further business required.

Frequent Fat Flyer FFF

If you're really fat (lots of overweight luggage) or a Frequent Fat Flyer FFF (fly often with overweight luggage) you may even get a discount.

Consolidation Program

We're really happy the final components of the Big Brain arrived safely at the new laboratory and in the next several months a project will be initiated to reconnect and rewire the Big Brain in a new, even more powerful, configuration with the Consolidation Program.

Definitions

Consolidation Program - a project to bring together all Big Brain components, parts, modules, assemblies, and offspring in one place, and to reassemble with the goal of a more powerful and readily accessed unit.

Links
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/02/disembodied-brain-goes-airborne.html

Disembodied Brain Goes Airborne

EXO BRAIN DISEMBODIED WILL GO AIRBORNE

It will take at least two weeks and a trip to China to retrieve the disembodied EXO portion of the Big Brain. It will then travel by jet aircraft, personally monitored, in disassembled pieces to it's new location.

This is part of a new program to fully assemble the disembodied brain in one location, to readily facilitate the next move in an effort to make the Big Brain more portable and easier to move, and create new built-in characteristics of mobility.

There's an increasing demand of the Big Brain for processing power and control, and in an effort to increase the magnitude of the Big Brain, all its components will need to function in one place of space time. Most remaining labs will remain open for R&D. Consolidation will be a future topic. The Big Brain has moved seven times and is an international project.

The BIG Brain is currently functioning without the EXO, by using its Right Brain and Left Brain sections which contain enhanced Propeller chip Arrays and AMD streaming processors. This currently leaves enough remaining brain power to run the new NULT 945-inch Telescope and the new Universe Penetrator.

The Big Brain EXO is made from 100% Parallax processors. The isolated EXO Brain section currently has a total of 21,000 enhanced Propeller VP processors, 168 Propeller Cog processors, and several host processors. Predominantly Propeller chip driven, it owes the majority of its processing and controlling power to enhanced Parallax Propeller chips.