OLPC (One Laptop per Child) wiki

[Paul Sutton]

Back again, 

The money we spend on the space program ,or perhaps the part that looks 
at building bases on say the moon,  deals with many problems,  if we can 
learn how build a colony on the moon, then the same technlolgy could in 
theory be used to build green houses say  africa where locals can have 
an environment that is controlled,  so the soil stays moist and 
fertile,  allowing crops to be grown,   which would otherwise die in the 
heat of the outdoor enviroment, or the cold of the night (given that 
night temperature in the desert can fall below 0c, but rise above 40 c 
in the daytime.  It just going to take a company to look at this 
technology and apply it somewhere else,  and perhaps use that to help 
improve the research,  wihich in turn will improve the technology, 
allowing the company to do more work,  it's a cycle that could benefit a 
lot of people, 

eventually when we go to the moon, mars or beyond,  we will have much 
more knowledge and technology to go with.   In fact by using this 
technology in the field and getting feedback from locals.  I think 
reading below, is this a good example.

Paul

>This is a bit analagous to the issue of "How can you spend on a space
>program when there are homeless in the streets?"; part of the answer
>is that there aren't always ways for spending to actually SOLVE the
>problems of the homeless.  Another part is that if there are enough
>useful spin-offs, sometimes spending money on expensive things can be
>a good deal.
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