WPenner's Blog

In fact, projects might even be on the planning boards in 2019 to shift industries into orbit in a wholesale manner.
--- Isaac Asimov (The Stare)

In 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted a shift to space-based manufacturing that would revolutionize the process of creating products and the environmenta...

Energy in space is more crucial than on earth. On earth, our atmosphere circulates the energy from solar radiation, for example, and heats extensive areas to liveable (or mostly liveable) temperatures. Outside of the atmosphere, there is only the vacuum of space, which technically doesn't have a tem...

One of the most valuable sectors of the Canadian Space Economy is satellites. Used for communications (cell, TV, radio, internet), military and defence, agriculture, insurance, location services, Canadians benefit massively from these services, especially considering the size of the country and the...

In 1805, Playfair ¹ attempted to understand the mechanism whereby Netherlands sustained wealth for generation after generation and England seemed on the brink of losing theirs. His conclusion was that the shortest line to wealth was from necessity, which, sparking industriousness, created wealth.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed views we had never seen before and novel aspects of views we had seen many times before. There is a lot of excitement and curious people of all stripes will pour over these images and associated data for years to come. Beyond the scientific, there a...

Enter the Worm

"How long could a worm live in space?" I pondered this odd question last week after coming across a bit of space gardening research from Iowa State University. Fans of The Martian know just how compelling space gardening can be!

A group of researchers looked at the ways to overc...

Those who know me know I have a crazy business idea at least once a week. For over a month, I've been exploring Canadian Space. In that time, I've become convinced about a few things that are not at all obvious from the perspective of the gradual development of the last 50+ years of the space indust...

In part 1 of this series, we explored how a Space Collective might benefit from a DAO.
Part 2 explored why a DAO improves human coordination.
Today we attend to some patterns for getting the collective started and evolving as it grows.

The DAOhaus blog suggests 10 basic DAO patterns. Our p...

In part 1 of considering the benefits of a DAO for the proposed Space Collective, we explored what a DAO was (How a DAO might fit a Space Collective).

When considering creating a DAO, the Space Collective, besides deploying their own has several platforms to choose from: Aragon, Colony, DAO...

The Space Collective is an idea I've been thinking about for a while and plan to write about more. I imagine it as a welcome place where people who are interested in space, but may not want to make a career out of it by becoming an engineer, scientist, or astronaut. A space place for the rest of us....