Activism, Science and Technology, Space participation

Zooniverse passes one million citizen science volunteers

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Congratulations to Zooniverse on gaining their one millionth volunteer for their many citizen science projects after starting seven years ago : One Million Volunteers – Zooniverse

This map shows the global distribution of volunteers.

Here’s a list of scientific publications resulting from Zooniverse activities:  Zooniverse Publications.

A posting on the Planet Hunters blog about the milestone : 15 percent of 1 million – Planet Hunters

This accomplishment is yours too. Our estimate is over 280,000 people world wide (unregistered and registered volunteers) have participated in Planet Hunters. 150,000 registered Zooniverse volunteers have classified at least one Planet Hunters light curve. Roughly 15% of the 1 million registered Zooniverse volunteers have contributed to Planet Hunters science. That’s a huge representation! 

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week

The guests and topics for The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back DR. CURT BILBY CEO of Terapio with updates on RLIP 76 for radiation exposure.

2. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014:, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome back DOUG MESSIER of Parabolicarc.com for space news reports and updates.

3. Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, 9:30-11 AM PST (12:30-2 PM EST; 11:30 AM-1 PM CST): We welcome back LIZ KENNICK for a very special report on Teachers In Space and some important news regarding this fine organization.

4. Sunday, February 23, 2014, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). OPEN LINES. All callers welcome dealing with space, STEM, and related topics. We especially want first time callers, new callers.

See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

Space Policy

Space policy roundup – Feb.17.14 [Updated]

Another selection of space policy/politics related  links:

Update:

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Future space, Living in Space, Space Arts

Bryan Versteeg – space illustrator extraordinaire

Artist Bryan Versteeg, who has created illustrations for many space endeavors including Deep Space Industries and Mars One, is profiled in this article, which includes a gallery of his work: Bryan Versteeg’s Mars One Illustrations Show Human Life On Another Planet – Huffington Post (Canada).

See also spacehabs.com.

A sampling of Versteeg’s artwork:

roadmap2024[1]Mars One base

Harvestor-close-20-01-13[1]Deep Space Industries asteroid mining concept

Wheel-feature-1200[1] Space Station Construction

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Spacevidcasts 7.04 – Get off my Lunar lawn

The latest Spacevidcast show is now available in the archive: Get off my Lunar lawn – Spacevidcast

In space news we look at the rebirth of China’s Rover, the launch of Turksat 4A, the Earth does in fact revolve around the sun, 50 special Olympic gold metals and the Mars mystery rock is solved.

Main topic: Bigelow wants to have the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation to define Lunar zone of operations. What may follow defines Lunar law. We talk about what this means and if this is the right time.

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