Week 9 Blog 

“The Power of the Powers of Ten.”

This fascination of space and the world around us has always been a big topic at hand. This week I read about multiple blogs and organizations that are working towards funding the vast interests of space. I read, Powers of Ten blog, Leonardo’s Space Art Project, Coded Utopia, and Artic Perspective Initiative which all related back to the correlation between space and nanotechnology. I never made this correlation between space, nanotechnology, and literature until this week. One thing that stood out to me from the blog, Coded Utopia was. “Moving away from the creation of recognizable work, an art becomes an experimental territory for producing subjectives.” (2009). I found this interesting because I thought it related back to the robotics lecture and the idea of individuality and originality fading away. (Benjamin, Walter). Another thing that correlated to this was the reading Power of Ten. This blog related back to the video which showed the different aspects of using the multiples of 10. (Power of Ten) This serves as a reality check to show the huge world around us like outer space. 

 “60,000 Miles up: Space Elevator Could
Be Built by 2035, Says New Study.”

One quote I found that correlated to literature and space was from Leonardo Space Art Project by B.E. Johnson, “Knowledge- technology and the recording of it and the expression of it is the most important gift to our future and to our heritage. This quote is important because every single technological advancement made today will impact the future generations. Just like literature impacted space travel. For example, Author Arthur C. Clarke and his book “The foundations of Paradise”, which was written in 1982 about an elevator that con transport humans up to space.  Science fiction literature, shapes space travel by making these ideas a reality and then scientist execute these new ideas presented through literature. After Clarke came up with this idea of an elevator, a scientist name David Smith is now making plans for this elevator in the future (8Spacept1). 

“Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow? 

Nanotechnology and space is also correlated, as they found Bucky balls which are helium found on meteors. (8Spacept1).  This idea of mining meteors is also being worked on in order to use all its natural resources needed on earth. (8Spavept6). It is fascinating how throughout the course topics I was unaware about correlate so much with each other. Especially this week’s topic about nanotechnology and literature which help shape space travel itself. 

References

“An Eames Office Website.” Powers of Ten Blog, blog.powersof10.com/.

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Prism Key Press, 2010.

 “CODED UTOPIA.” Continental Drift, 18 May 2009, brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/coded-utopia/.

EamesOffice. “Powers of Ten™ (1977).” YouTube, YouTube, 26 Aug. 2010, Length, 9:00. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0.

Leonardo Space Art Project Visioneers, spaceart.org/leonardo/vision.html.

“Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow? - Room: The Space Journal.” Room, The Space Journal, room.eu.com/article/space-mining-the-reality-of-tomorrow.

“The Power of the Powers of Ten.” Design Thinking, designthinking.ideo.com/?p=1043.

Templeton, Graham. “60,000 Miles up: Space Elevator Could Be Built by 2035, Says New Study.” ExtremeTech, 20 Nov. 2014, www.extremetech.com/extreme/176625-60000-miles-up-geostationary-space-elevator-could-be-built-by-2035-says-new-study.

uconlineprogram. “8 Space pt1 1280x720.” YouTube, YouTube, 29 July 2013, Length, 8:11. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIqTR332l8.

uconlineprogram. “Space pt6.” YouTube, YouTube, 30 May 2012, Length, 8:17. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYmOtFjIj0M.