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The Near Earth Objects (NEOs) - Stepping Stones to the Solar System Exploration

Discover the origins, current presence, impact on Earth, and potential for future exploration and resource utilization of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) - asteroids and comets. Learn about past missions to NEOs and the possibilities for human visits and mining operations. Explore how evolving virtual creatures and Artificial Life can pave the way for habitation on NEOs. Dive into the realm of space exploration and innovation with NEOs as key players in expanding human presence in the solar system.

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The Near Earth Objects (NEOs) - Stepping Stones to the Solar System Exploration

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  1. The Near Earth Objects(NEOs-Asteroids and Comets)Stepping Stones to theSolar Systembrought to you by Bruce Damer, NASA, JAXA, the Hayden Planetarium and many others.

  2. Q: Where did NEOs come from? A: The very birth of our Solar System!

  3. Q: Where are NEOs today? A: Everywhere!

  4. Q: Have NEOs shaped life on Earth? A: Yes! Our biota was impacted by NEOs, large and small!

  5. Q: Could this happen again? A: Yes! Take a look…(thank you Carter Emmart,Hayden Planetarium)

  6. Now that’s something to think about!

  7. Q: Have we visited NEOs? A: Yes! With robotics…

  8. NEAR-Shoemaker (Eros)

  9. Hayabusa (Itokawa)

  10. Deep Impact (Tempel 1 Comet)

  11. Q: Could humans visit NEOs? A: Yes! Here is a way it could work…

  12. Design for a human mission to a NEO

  13. …which was picked up by the popular media… Popular Science, November 2007

  14. …and somewhat creatively misinterpreted!

  15. Q: Could we use resources on NEOs to support exploration and settlement of the solar system? A: Yes! Here is a way it could work…

  16. Which you can see on the DiscoveryChannel on “The Human Body – Brain Power

  17. Q: But would mining NEOs be like mining the Moon? A: Yes! More challenging but more rewarding!

  18. Vehicle on virtual lunar terrain, excavating volume

  19. From the fanciful

  20. To the seriously studied Vehicle on virtual lunar terrain, excavating volume

  21. To the imagined

  22. But perhaps we would have to “evolve” a whole new kind of life to “live” natively on NEOs, to prepare the ground for human habitation and resources?

  23. Like Freeman Dyson’s Trees?

  24. And the Artificial Life field gives us some clues about evolving virtual creatures, could these creatures one day “crawl out of” cyberspace and into outer space?

  25. Stay tuned… project EvoGrid

  26. DigitalSpace’s Design-Human NEO Mission:http://www.digitalspace.com NASA Near Earth Object Program:http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov

  27. Biota.org, Podcast and EvoGrid:http://www.biota.org

  28. I am Bruce DamerThank you for your attention!Contact:Bruce@Damer.com

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