Welcome!
Welcome to the participants discussion for the key events in space survey. Here you can participate in the promotion of the survey and when it is complete the processing of the results. The two top contributers to this process will selected as youth representatives to attend the workshop in the US on 12-14 April 2007, and there will be funds to cover the the cost of travel!
Getting started:
The first place is to help in the promotion of the survey. We would like to ensure that this survey is receives answers from as wide an audience as possible. How would you do that?
So that we can monitor your progress you should frequently post the results of your work and other updates here in these forums.
Good luck, and I hope you enjoy this experience! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Chris Boshuizen
Executive Director
Space Generation Advisory Council
One way we can promote the survey and attract a wide audience would be to make use of one's blog to do it, particularly organizational blogs such as the SEDS Blogs. I've posted something to this effect on my blog and while this may serve as an example, it is by no means the only way one can do this.
Hi Lavina, that is a good idea, and your blog looks very interesting. Right now we really need to get word out about this opportunity, both so we can get a lot of answers to the survey and get some serious discussions going on in here. Thanks for leading the way!
Chris
Thanks Lavina, great initiative. I posted a similar note on my space blog too. We should all pass on the word to other organizations and universities too, possibly via the Points of Contacts. I have been sent out messages to the International Space University community and the Next Generation folks. Again, these are only some avenues, and it would be awesome to find more outlets.
Here is a suggestion that can serve as a press release:
Call for applicants for planning the next 50 years
Space Generation Advisory Council will sponsor two youth visionaries to present how space will help solve problems on Earth to world’s leading experts
The Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications has teamed up with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Boston University Center for Space Physics and the Secure World Foundation, to provide an opportunity for two young space enthusiasts to help the next 50 years in space. Winners shall present their ideas to prominent world leaders such as Freeman Dyson, Elon Musk and Dr Harrison Schmitt gathered for the planning workshop, held on 14 April 2007, in conjunction with a conference titled, "The Future of Space Exploration: Solutions to Earthly Problems?" at the Boston University in USA.
All applicants 29 or under are invited to give their input regarding key events and timings that are thought to be important for the space activities, briefly describing the event in 100 words. The simple survey can be found at the SGAC website (www.spacegeneration.org). Deadline for receiving completed entries for Round 1 is 15th of January 2007. This input will be captured in a publication tentatively titled: "Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Next Generation's 50-Year Vision for Space".
Travel expenses will be covered for two young people to attend the conference and participate in the Saturday planning workshop by representing the input gathered in this process. The processing of the input and preparation of its results will be opened to the youth community, and two individuals will be selected from the top contributors to this work.
About the Space Generation Advisory Council
The Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications is a United Nations endorsed organization dedicated to bringing forth the voice of today’s youth on tomorrow’s space issues. The SGAC was sanctioned by the United Nations following the 1999 UNISPACE III conference in recognition of the invaluable input provided by young people on world space issues.
For more information on the Space Generation Advisory Council on the Internet please visit: www.spacegeneration.org
Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejection data will be correlated with the changes in Kp values, electron flux, proton flux on a particular latitude of the earth. Correlation will be attemopted to establish the triggering of earthquake during direct hit of CME and deviation of cloud ,occurrence of tornado during glance of CME to earths magnetosphere. A change in pixel values of high resolution satellite images will be monitored during the change in the above environmental parameters.
I realise that CME's are very turbulent phenomenon in the outer space around Earth, but actually relating them to physical phenomenon on and beneath the earth's surface is something that I surely haven't ever imagined. I am sorry if I sound ignorant but I would like to know a bit more about what these Kp values refer to and how could we actually utilise this information to establish a correlation. The Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere are immensely affected by the particle winds coming from the sun, on the other side they help us study and observe quite a few elementary particles and help us understand our Universe in a better way.
Also, what effects these highly energetic winds might have on the International Space Station once its completely made, no human craft has ever been of the scale that we expect the ISS to be.
About the next 50 years in space, I would like to suggest a discussion on Extra solar planets. As i saw on a webpage recently, that we actually cant expect that life of any form should be found in a chemically and physically identical world as that of ours. It shall be a great breakthrough in itself if we can model an environment that may support life. With the recent developments we have far better observing techniques to look for places in the near space that may be habitable. Setting up an remote controlled observational and experimental base at the Moon might be a far better option than actually colonising the place. Thats just an initial idea...very fluid actually.
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Hello Everyone,
Some very interesting thoughts flowing here regarding what people feel are candidates on the topic of key events. However, lets focus more on how we can promote the survey for more input. Our annoucement is now featured on SpaceRef.com on the website and space calendar as well as on their daily news update!
Please feel free to use the text above and pass it on to all you know. Also, if anyone is interested in contributing to an article regarding the survey for Ad Astra online, please post a response to this note.
Best regards, Bee
I think that good promotion would be to send something to www.space.com about this organization and the offer to send youth delegates to the conference in April.
Also, how about posting the offer to yahoo.com, google.com and other websites millions of people view everyday?
I just posted a thread on the Something Awful Forums (http://forums.somethingawful.com) pointing people here. SA is the 9th largest forum on the Internet (according to www.big-boards.com) with nearly 90,000 registered users. I have a feeling that this might generate some interest there. (Link to thread.
As far as getting noticed by search engines like Yahoo and Google, we would have to work on some serious search engine optimization stuff, which is something of a black art, and one I know very little about. I doubt we have time to get something together before the Jan 15 deadline.
A submission to space.com is a good idea. They have contact information on this page. We might also try their forums. As this was your idea, I'll leave it for you to contact them. If you'd prefer that I do so, just say the word.
I'm not sure I understand you. Are you saying that we SHOULD submit this to Google, Yahoo, etc? If that is the case, go ahead and do so, but I'm not sure what you mean bu submitting it to them in the first place. Search engines simply don't work like that.
If I'm misunderstanding you about submitting it to Google, etc. Please let me know.
I have already contacted Space.com - and they haven't replied yet, but their partner website - Ad Astra Online has offered to feature an article about the survey. I shall be posting my article here for comments - so that you can be involved in forming it too. Wow, I didnot know about the SA Forums! Also, please feel free to post on the Space.com forums - thats great help!
I also submitted a request to feature our announcement on spacealumni.com - lets see if it comes up in a day or so. I would suggest that if you see somewhere appropriate, please go ahead and post: it won't hurt if they hear it by popular demand.
It takes a village! :-)
Ok, I posted about this in the Space Science and Astronomy section at the Space.com forum. Here's the link to my post: http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=sciastro&Number=647134&p...
I just hope I put it in the right forum. heh
Also, I posted about this on my myspace blog. I know it's a music page but I figure with the amount of hits it gets, someone will take notice: http://blog.myspace.com/syentiffic
And I posted about it on my facebook page, also. I don't have bunches of friends there, but a lot of my fellow physics majors are on my friends' list. And hopefully they'll care enough about space to participate. http://memphis.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=2229208601&ref=mf (I don't know if this link will work. It's a direct link to my note at Facebook).
Well, I guess that this method would not be as effective, but it is essentially free. Just tell your friends, who are interested in space and the future in general, they will later tell their own friends, and so on..
It would generate some results, at least.
I will begin pestering my contacts right about now :)
Seeing as there are many people from around the world who use livejournal, I thought it would be a good idea to post about it on a community for people with an interest in things like this, and ask for people to spread the word to their own lj friends.
Nice to meet you guys!
I *just* received Bee's email this morning and I think it is a phenomenal idea. This is exactly the kind of opportunity SEDS members requested more of at our national conference in November. I have sent our Executive Board, Chapter Representatives and general members list an email about the survey.
Guess I got in a bit too late for this section. But I do agree with Miln and one place to post this stuff that doesn't seem to have come up much are those mailing lists that appeal to the fannish types. Many of them have opinions about space that they would love to get out. Fandom mailing lists and websites are likely to pull in quite a wide range of people with ideas in this direction. Probably as wide a range of knowledge as any given the common overlap in interests.
It's might be too late to do more advertising for Round 1 of the survey, but some attention to this process wouldn't hurt, and it would be great to time more PR for the possible Round 2 survey.
Don't forget, registration for selection as a participant has a strict closing date.
I am the student coordinator for ProSpace's annual March Storm. Recently, I have been collecting names and contact information of students who are interested in talking to U.S. Congressmen about the future of the space industry. I think many of them would also like the opportunity to submit the SGAC survey and have their opinions heard by other professionals advocating space development. I am going to send these activist students a personal email and hopefully some of them will participate.
Let me know if any of you have any suggestions about contacting student groups.
Thanks!
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