Future Dancing Under the Stars - Dancing in a Low Gravity Lunar Colony Environment

Everyone seems to like watching that reality TV Show "Dancing with the Stars" - and it does get fairly decent ratings. Now then, what if I told you that future space colonists will be dancing with the real stars, not those in Hollywood, but all those stars in the Southern Skies, you may too, if ever you should go. Imagine living in a space colony on the surface of the moon, then walking outside using a special breathing apparatus and dancing under all the stars, just you and the heavens in pure tranquility.

Perhaps wearing your earbuds and listening to your iPod nano and taking in all the scenery like a dream, inside your favorite MTV or YouTube music video, yes, this is the future of reality, not on TV but for those living in the first lunar space colony. In low gravity, you will feel as light as a feather, alive, and young, and lost in the beauty of the galaxy amongst the stars. Wow, imagine that? Okay so let's talk, how can we make this dream of yours come true, a life altering moment, making it all worthwhile?

If you are to become a space colonists, I hope you will dance, and I hope you will enjoy all there is to experience in an off world human habitat. Indeed, I hope others will enjoy it just as much, and perhaps download their experiences for all the rest of us living on Earth. Perhaps we can re-create it all through augmented-reality dance in our own living rooms within a holographic dome simulating everything that you feel, see, and experience while dancing under the stars.

Indeed, I can imagine in the future orbiting space hotels where couples are dancing on a dance floor using techniques of artificial gravity under a dome of Graphene and carbon nanotube composite, which is totally transparent. It will be part of their space hotel vacation, and it will be the experience of a lifetime. I see that, and I also see special breathing apparatuses being used by those who dare to go outside on the surface of the planet or moon, outside the human habitat and dance like there is no tomorrow, enjoying the low gravity and the bright stars where there is no light pollution.

I hope you will please consider all this and think on it. If you too are a dreamer, innovator, artists, dancer, or creative genius I'd love to hear your thoughts on this matter and I hope that you will send me an e-mail.

Scuba Diving on Other Planets Considered

Planet Earth is not the only place where there is liquid water, and when humans visit other planets, chances are they will put their space colonies close to liquid water. After all humans need water to drink and survive, to water their greenhouse gardens and grow food. There is no doubt that humans will also wish to explore off planet oceans, and perhaps go scuba diving. Of course things will be a lot different as they propel themselves under these waters.

On places like Mars, there may be liquid water underneath the ice caps. That water will be very cold, that is if it is in a liquid form, and the scuba diving outfits must keep the space colonists' bodies nice and warm. The water on other planets will be denser or less dense - it will not be the same density as that on Earth. Also, consider if you will that less gravity means that one can dive much deeper and do it much easier, which changes the entire dynamics of scuba diving, the bends, weights needed, and propulsion devices.

The rock formations underwater will be much different, and they will be quite intriguing to humans, especially those who have done scuba diving here on this planet. There will be some life, albeit unique compared to what an earth scuba diver is accustomed to seeing. Who knows, perhaps humans will live in underwater domed communities, surrounded by water, as this is an environment which has everything they need.

They can separate the H2O into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can be used in fuel cells to make power and the oxygen can be used to breathe, which will they then will exhale into CO2 which can be used to grow plants and gardens.

Much of the same equipment which is used in scuba diving on our planet will be used on other planets in their oceans, but there will be some differences in the future as the materials will get much stronger and lighter; space-age materials like Graphene, and Carbon Nano Tube composites. The oxygen tanks may only weigh a pound or less, but they will be many times stronger than steel.

We need to explore these oceans on the other planets in our solar system as we boldly go into the future, and mankind branches out into space colonies. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it. If you are a scuba diver, or if you have any futuristic questions, concerns, and/or comments about this topic please shoot me an e-mail.

Badminton in Zero Gravity - Possible Sport for Space Colonies But Equipment Upgrades Needed

In many Asian nations badminton is a favorite sport - it is fast, requires skill, and the most agile players become the champions. There is no doubt as many Asian nations are planning private space enterprises, and orbiting space stations and space hotels that someday in the future they will take badminton to space. But when they do there are some things we need to consider, for instance playing badminton in zero gravity will be much different than it is here on Earth.

A short time ago I was discussing this with a fellow think tanker, and we believe there is a way solve the challenges associated with zero gravity for this sport. It will take a little bit of ingenuity and reengineering of the sports equipment that is used to play the game, but we think it's doable. First of all we envision reverse propellers to prevent the birdie from flying away. The birdie will have sensors inside which will take into consideration the speed, velocity, and kinetic energy which has been applied by the player as they hit it.

Then as the birdie flies forward, it will adjust its flight trajectory to that of a 1G atmosphere using a small propeller inside and steering the birdie back to what its normal trajectory would've been here on Earth. Now then, there is another problem and that has to do with the people playing the game, or the athletes, namely the challenge of them floating away themselves in zero-gravity.

It will be very hard for them to move side to side or backwards and forwards in zero gravity. However if they are playing on a somewhat uneven surface, but a surface that is somewhat predictable they can push off sideways with their feet and move quickly. We had also considered using magnetic shoes and a metallic surface for the court. That's another potential solution.

Badminton just won't be as fun if the game is slowed down because the players cannot move as briskly, or because the birdie floats away. To keep the game fast and fun, the equipment will have to be modified, and because it won't be perfect, the players are going to need to adapt. It will be fun to watch the first badminton contests at a space hotel competition or tournament.

In fact, I have no doubt that people will be filming all this with their iPhone 12's and sending those videos back to Google's holographic YouTube video depository. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it. If you have any comments, concerns, and/or questions please shoot me an e-mail.

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