Planetary Cybernetics Administration (PCA)

In the glory days of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States government administered research on aeronautic and space that enabled exploration and extended the options for cultural evolution. As the American post-World War II economy shrunk its industrial base and transitioned through service sectors into superfluity, the post-terrestrial options shrunk to the wealthy few.


Systems continue to atrophy under the combined influence of excess population, multi-tiered pollution, natural resource depletion, proliferation of weapons of depopulation, and the corrupting multi generational and globally active influence of over resourced secret & semi-secret societies.

As America's Camelot generation wakes to the threat of an American Hiroshima and as the free press goes out of business, the domain of exploration and cultural enablement expands past the nation -- across and beyond the planet. As long as the issue of inter-planetary transactions is obscured in government secrecy, the domain of collective natural science exploration can not be narrowed to earth. This is also true as long as extra-terrestrial solutions to issues on the planet remain an option.

So scope extension of "our" natural science exploratory efforts requires a planetary systems scope both in terms of the ownership of that science and its province. Planetary inhabitants respond in systems that potentially vary from trans- to inter- to intra-planetary, regional, national, state, county or city in places that may host governmental, economic, religious, educational, medical, or behavior-therapeutic agencies and services. These places and those whose behavior transacts with them comprise the domain of planetary systems.

The scope of contingencies surrounding planetary behavioral transactions is practically infinite but an ethical behaviorology and culturology seeks to reform the systems comprising behavioral and socio-cultural environments so that they are self-correcting or cybernetic and that the power that they impose preserves and protects systems, system controllers, and system controllees, mutually.

Behavior and culture change in time and a self-correcting cybernetics must be in time to avert failure scenarios and maximize success opportunities. Standard celeration charts enable fundamental behavioral and cultural phenomena over time to be displayed with quantitative and qualitative precision for both baseline analyses and parametric adjustment of imposed experimental conditions based on consequence measures.

The starting locus for the administration of a Planetary Cybernetics in Time is the freeRADlab Cafe in Northern Liberties Philadelphia. The freeRADlab cafe is an e-cultural hub of business and events designed to enable and enhance survival and success for inter-planetary systems. The "free" in freeRADlab uses the American concept of freedom from unwarranted restrictions to go "Beyond Freedom & Dignity" (Skinner, 1972) and act collaboratively to preserve and protect our future as individuals, communities, cultures, and species.  A free operant is a response that changes the environment and is immediately thereafter capable of being repeated. In the freeRADlab, social media is designed to enable free-operant talk to enable users to share frameworks for bottom-up (e)governance.

The RAD is freeRADlab is radical in the sense of being rooted in a context in which multiple sets of socio-cultural circumstances are subjected to systematic analysis and integration using strategy patterns in Rapid Application Design of cultural software. The radical is extreme and thoroughgoing in its search to predict, control, and explain behavioral and cultural processes and phenomena in terms of selection by consequence contingencies. It favors drastic social and political reform so that contingency defects can be successfully repaired and rapidly corrected.

Finally, freeRADlab is a laboratory-cafe environment in Northern Liberties in which behavioral and cultural experiments are collaboratively discussed, designed, developed, deployed and data disseminated in the service of administering planetary cybernetics in time.

Cybernetic Culture Design

Establishing the link between digital and analog culture.

http://freeRADlab.blogspot.com

(ongoing)

NASA Space station manuevers to avoid Chines space junk ...

blogging (space junk)
updated: March 22

* The entire space station complex had to move out of the way for approximately 3 hours (using thrusters to create a slow drag affect) from a very small piece of a 10 year old Chinese satellite rocket motor. The piece of space junk measured just 4-inch (10-centimeter).

- The frequency of space junk impact has "suddenly" become a recurring issue.

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notes:

The PDS is mainly designed for scientists researching the planets: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/

Mars program faces turning point
As mission costs mount, some scientists say other destinations beckon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842638/

reference:

Sunday LA Times bloggers
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/

Think Progress
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/geithner-krugman/
http://www.communitycounts.com/forum/?id=obama

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog: Digital-Image Color Spaces
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1

Space Junk funk ... Space Station under attack... Again.

blogging:
Looks like another collision is possible (last report: Feb 12).

It appears that "tactical" efforts will not alone be sufficient going forward. For now, it will work. Tomorrow who knows.

What does NASA have in mind?
Will new NASA Space Defense weapons be devised / accelerated to shoot down the possibility of collision with multiple pieces of junk in space? What kind of weapon would this be? Photon? Gas? Particle? Laser? Nuclear?

It appears that the frequency of collision with such "high velocity" debris will only increase.

continuing.

SEE:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4307535.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/16/space.station.debris/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

What is e-governance? Blogging from W3 eGovernment Interest Group Meetings

update:

Tomorrow we are attending the W3C's eGovernment Interest Group Meetings in Washington, DC.
W3 eGov Interest Group

We are interested in egovernance and the ongoing interaction between the emerging Digital class with current methods of (global) governance.

We will be updating via Twitter at PoliticiansTV. We'll post links and updates later on this blog, so please return soon.


See you online.


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contact: benjaminserious at gmail.com

Thoughts on #wemedia ... virtually speaking, we were there.

Blogging:

Our Washington Bureau Chief had briefly mentioned the WeMedia conf. in Miami sometime ago and suggested that it be something we check into. We did, by sending in a half thought out version of a time line we have been compiling over here and moved on. Safe to say, we never heard back. So instead of going, we decided to tie into this conf. virtually. We figured their would be enough going on online that we would feel right at home and on-location. With the state of online aggregation and advocacy being what it is (see #inaug09), we figured we would be right there in the mix.

We were not disappointed. Of course, there is no replacement from actually being somewhere. We missed the face-to-face casual chats, pool side meetings, and local eats. What we got instead was an unfiltered interaction with the community of attendees (est. 200) via local Press (Miami Herald mainly), blogs, Vblogs, Posted articles, and minute by minute Tweets.

There was what seemed like an average of 2/3 Tweets (http://Twitter.com) every 5/10 minutes or so. We witnessed little self-promotion in the blogosphere, although plenty of that was happening we are sure. The conf. was being streamed live via the http://WeMedia.com site.

Discussions ranged from TV news embracing new media, Knight CEO Says Journalism Losing its Geographic Roots, and WeMedia, or Their Media? amongst many others.

We found the mood to be somewhat gloomy and perhaps for some reason (These are liberals by some people's description) elitist or is it just confidence? Why would We Media not be a highly charged interactive discussion about success and failure scenarios (live!) of the past 2 years of journalism in general and maybe politics specifically. The whole world now has a case study of how the 2008 Obama campaign used New Media to help change the direction of Democracy. The New Media community has clearly entered the next phase of its integration. Citizen 3-D - Rise of the Advocate. This is revolutionary. Capitalism can never be the same.

It was effective, none the less, to see the cross-roads of traditional press and digital journalism. We hope this is a featured subject / component of this conference for years to come. Virtually speaking, we think We Media is an important gathering of interesting and influential people that are living and examining an evolution in journalism history. Perhaps next year, We Media will engage more of the web and the blogosphere as an actual part of the conference and webcast / post (audio or Audio/video) events. To take it a step further, link up early with blogs, active sites and tech writers / pundits as the year progresses in a "grand experiment" of sorts.


None the less, we were there.
Maybe next year, we'll be there. ;)


See: We Media



Pending update. x2-030309

We know know that the modern human stemmed from ...

... a split about 300,000 years ago from the Homo gene pool.

According to current carbon dating, Neanderthals appeared about 800,000 years ago.
Does that suggest that "humans evolved in 800,000 years" to what we are today?

This seems like a short period to us considering the Earth is 100's of millions of years old.

Does that suggest that other life forms could have been capable of visiting or evolving in such a time frame?

Why humans?

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Scientists Finish First Draft Of Neanderthal Genome
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100648070

Nano Bio & Anthro:
http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/

eObama - Campaign 2008

Repost. 021209

This is a good resource of articles about Barrack Obama and his run for president, with an emphasis on Internet.

e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics
Learning from the Obama Campaign: Essential Reading

We will be discussing in talk back and forums.

end.

Destroyed Satellite's high speed debris worries scientists...

notes:
1. We have no idea what to expect in such a disaster. Nothing.
2. The debris is traveling at 660 ft per sec.
3. This could set off a chain reaction of events that puts the Space Station and other satellites in trouble.

Will their be interplanetary cooperation? NASA's debris experts are working on the situation now with Russian counterparts.

ongoing.