Reply To: Space Flight

[Aeronaut]

Great post and link, JShell. My first read of “crowdsourcing” was the high profile and unprofitable social networks. It fits well with some similar ideas I’ve been developing. This just may be the fastest and least expensive way (overall) to commercialize at least the onion and promote the entire project. We’ll need to include ideas for developing political/regulatory, training/certification, tooling, manufacturing, and sales/service chains as well so that developers are encouraged to treat the entire project as a system which can capitalize on economies of scale to deliver the most benefits to the most people in the least amount of time for the least amount of money and hassle.

Basically we’d point them to a string of my more recent posts and see what options we can come up with for ~$1,000 or less, since there should be few if any hidden assumptions left to identify and challenge- i.e.- most of the “creative problem solving” may have been done already, becoming the crowd’s starting point more or less. For $5k we could post the gig to several of these crowds, and have a clean win in PR/publicity/advertising among a very influential set of communities.