{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1","id":289484506,"number":1,"title":"Capitalism makes Wealth an OP stat","user":{"login":"jakimfett","id":2565176,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/2565176?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett","html_url":"https://github.com/jakimfett","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":808239160,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"ee0701","default":true}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2018-01-18T02:36:46Z","updated_at":"2018-03-17T02:21:17Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"CONTRIBUTOR","body":"With a small group of individuals controlling the majority of the wealth in our solar systems, the Wealth stat becomes a heavy tool wielded without consideration for harm by individuals and organizations who are willing to sacrifice the well-being and health and lives of others in exchange for more zeros in their digital coinpurse.\r\n\r\nI've heard that communism and/or socialism might be good options for fixing this unbalanced problem. That's a long term fix tho."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/comments/373887533","html_url":"https://github.com/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1#issuecomment-373887533","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/AudaciousSpacePirates/reality/issues/1","id":373887533,"user":{"login":"jakimfett","id":2565176,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/2565176?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett","html_url":"https://github.com/jakimfett","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-03-17T02:21:17Z","updated_at":"2018-03-17T02:21:17Z","author_association":"CONTRIBUTOR","body":"@woozalia I think I'm going to try to apply a hotfix to this particular problem.\r\n\r\n# I'm forming a _literal_ `gay space agency`.\r\n\r\n[Assorted Tech](https://assorted.tech) supports:\r\n> Audacious Space Pirates, an open source engineering company, focused on aerospace engineering, with intent to achieve orbit in 2019.\r\n\r\nAs `Acting Captain` of [A.S.P.](https://github.com/AudaciousSpacePirates), I'm launching an IndieGoGo campaign for extra funding once I get the rest of the paperwork shuffled.\r\n\r\nThe pitch is basically:\r\n> Fund Audacious Space Pirates, the open source space company (or stop by one of our locations) and donate time, resources, or knowledge/expertise), and we'll develop ethical tech as we pursue a sustainable method of orbital delivery for an emergency communication network for activists.\r\n\r\nI am currently finishing up the last bits of getting the Audacious Space Pirates set up as their own legal entity, and then we officially declare it an open source moonshot.\r\n\r\nI've been working toward portions of this (space exploration) for the last three years, and I've got enough solid prototypes to be able to confidently say I have the background and knowledge to manage an attempt to get into space. I also have the skills to contribute confidently in my areas of expertise, and I've been fascinated by space exploration since long before I started studying engineering.\r\n\r\nI'm starting small, but I've been planning this for a very, _very_ long time.\r\n\r\nAssorted Tech is now [a legal entity in the state of Oregon](http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=1952420&p_srce=NULL&p_print=NULL), and I'm creating Audacious Space Pirates as the operating legal name of the `irregular.team` group project I started to implement my designs for [the DarkPi project](https://darkpi.com).\r\n\r\nMy team is building the DarkPi.  \r\nThen we want to put it into orbit.  \r\nThen we want you to help us put more of them into orbit.  \r\nAnd when we can all connect freely on the network, we work towards getting human sized payloads into orbit.\r\n\r\nWe develop medical tech and housing units here in Portland, with the short term goal of helping improve local health awareness and community participation in homelessness mitigation.  \r\n\r\nAs we iterate and refine the housing side of the project, we (the space agency) add additional staff to fork the housing designs into development of sustainably sourced orbital-safe microhousing, and a team building a scalable polyhedron based framework for orbital manufacturing.  \r\nWe recycle stuff here in Portland, build each thing carefully, by hand, and then send them into orbit as manufactured parts for moon exploration via remote partially automated mining robots.\r\n\r\nAfter analysis of commonly found moon materials, we identify the most resource-effecient way to produce lunar housing for a mining and transport site, and we start using the found materials to create habitat in one or more of the [lagrangian point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point)(s) between the earth and the moon.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, down here on earth in Portland, we turn cargo containers into housing for employees, and start asking people to donate Raspberry Pi computers for a project to create self-regulating indoor greenhouses and bioreactors for both food and environmental safety factors, eg recycling oxygen and human waste.\r\n\r\n## We need a way to recycle everything.\r\n\r\nThe development of housing is looking at an interlocking framework of plating for the outer area of each housing group, assembled out of recycled metal and minerals pressed into stackable, interlockable bricks by an [inconel plated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel#Inconel_alloys) reinforced hydraulic press, and plans to use PLA-based sustainably produced plastic as the internal seals and supports.\r\n\r\nIf we are able to fully develop this into a releasable form, anyone can do this, anywhere, starting with tools available online.\r\n\r\nWe can, together, do more research and planning than we can alone, and within the next few months we will have a sustainably sourced and recycled place that can house humans in safety here in Portland, even before we ever think about having to loft a prototype into orbit.\r\n\r\nWe can end homelessness as a _side effect_ of making the path to orbital living possible.\r\n\r\nAs a mechanical engineer, I studied industrial automation controls.  \r\nAs a software engineer, I studied distributed microservices and graceful failover of distributed systems.  \r\n\r\nAnd, as an activist, I see a way to use the energy found in biodiesel and hydrogen to get us into orbit using non-resource-discarding orbital delivery vehicles, meaning we aren't wasting thousands of dollars on a launch, we just refuel from our reserves of biofuel and try again.  \r\n\r\nMy cousin's family makes biodiesel.  \r\nI know how to work with it safely.  \r\n\r\nI also know how to use FreeCAD to make printable models, and I'm starting with a small quadcopter powered off a 4 cylinder diesel engine.  \r\nMy design is a high-rotor, low engine design, and is gravity balanced, with manual controls and pneumatics for computer adjustments and autopilot, courtesy of a microcontroller and a Raspberry Pi based microserver.\r\n\r\nOnce I start finding height or weight restrictions in the quadcopter physics, I will augment the design with a gyrocopter upgrade for forward momentum, using first a turboprop, and then using hydrogen thrusters.\r\n\r\nThe goal is to gain enough forward momentum to escape the the gravity well.\r\nThen, we establish communications architecture in orbit, share it with first responders as a \"last option\" communication protocol, and then push on to further objectives.\r\n\r\nThis is a marathon.  \r\nWe have to escape this planet.  \r\nThe money holders and political elite are literally killing us with their indifference, and my friends keep getting harassed and mocked just for existing and taking up space.\r\n\r\n> Earth orbital velocity is 11.186 km/s\r\n> Turboprop speed record is 870 km/h, or 0.241667 km/s\r\nWe can close that gap, sustainably.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the process of moving forward, I (@jakimfett) and we (@AudaciousSpacePirates) will fail a lot at some things, and some plans will change.  \r\n\r\nBut this is happening.  \r\nI've found generous people, and I've got 18 months of funding for myself, personally, already confirmed and signed on.  \r\nI have more than enough resources to keep my team of people working part time now that my housing woes are over.\r\n\r\n## We're going to get a payload into low earth orbit.\r\n\r\nThe IndieGoGo is to help **accelerate** the development and fund extra side-trails of useful or interesting tech, like a shoe sorting machine.  \r\n\r\nAnd, If [they](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight#History) did it before with slide rules and military tech, we can figure out how to do it again, today.  \r\n\r\nAssorted Tech and Audacious Space Pirates is doing focused research into:\r\n* ion propulsion technology and remote robotics, to prepare for a successful orbital delivery.  \r\n* solar cells and Maser/Laser energy transmission tech for use in siphoning (essentially free) power from orbit.\r\n* Faraday cages and other shielding for the computer cores and communication module cores.  \r\n* materials recycling modules with hardpoints for attaching belt feeds or shredders, so that materials can be reduced to \"bricks\" when found, without need for storage in bins.  \r\n> (The [`TinFerno` metal smelter has an Amazon wishlist](https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3KQ0BS478H5EL/), if you want to see what materials we're (currently) researching for yourself.  \r\n\r\n\r\nHere's some of the bits we're thinking about doing, in no particular order:\r\n* Livestream portions of the ongoing development.\r\n* Sell prototypes on Etsy.\r\n* Release the 3d models on Thingverse, so you can test the prototypes too.\r\n* Monthly/Quarterly public disclosure of funding gained and spent.\r\n* Open invitation for contributions to our code via GitHub.\r\n* Release a Kerbal Space Program mod with our tech available to test, with realistic pricing for campaign mode.\r\n* Provide local news sources with feeds from our telemetry when we attempt a launch.\r\n* Partner with livestreamers to do Q&A sessions.\r\n* Keep a wiki knowledgebase available online and distributed, in case of disaster.\r\n* Partner with local after-school programs for engineering interns and volunteers.\r\n* Co-develop medical technology with local clinics to assist with long term health of our employees and neighborhoods.\r\n* Actively provide relief for anyone fleeing disaster and wishing to start a new life.\r\n* Forming a company approved neo-steampunk-space-pirate-themed thespian group for local events.\r\n* Meditation and self care app.\r\n* Providing free public housing (using sections of the employee housing overflow areas) for transient housing programs.\r\n* ???\r\n* non-profit.\r\n\r\nThat last one is sorta important.\r\n\r\nThis idea is backed by a business plan that I've shared portions of with several individuals, but the end goal is precisely zero profit, but an increase over time in owned and accessible resources and assets.\r\n\r\nAt the end of each quarter (at a minimum 4x per calendar year), we provide anything we have extra to employees in various forms.\r\nExtra financial resources are made available to employees who need their \"emergency fund\" Simple Banking card refilled (default $128 balance).\r\n\r\nComputer and mobile phone equipment is similarly offered to employees in need.\r\n\r\n(we hope to soon provide tech support clinics in partnership with FreeGeek and the Portland Linux User Group, but I'm still working on making that one happen, so don't hold your breath.)\r\n\r\nAm currently doing paperwork with OnPoint banking, and once that is done, I'll be able to run payroll.\r\n\r\nOnce I can run payroll, I will be working closely with my team to get documentation and involvement details online, so that you, yes you the reader of these words, can get involved in space exploration in 2018."}}
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