Name: Douglas Mallette - Science, Engineering and Technology for Human Concern - Blindern, in Oslo, Norway
Uploaded: 2018-11-29T08:16:01.000Z
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Global Sustainability: Science, Engineering and Technology for Human Concern

Welcome everybody and thank you for coming to this lecture by Douglas Mallette.

He is the CEO of the Cybernated Farm Systems,

and also a former systems engineer on the

I appreciate all of you who took time out of your day

to come here and listen to what I'm going to talk about today.

As was mentioned, I am the CEO of Cybernated Farm Systems.

We'll talk a little bit about it later as it has some relevance to the topic.

I'm not here really to talk about that so much.

I am a former Space Shuttle Systems Engineer.

I worked with a Boeing subcontractor in Houston, Texas,

before they decided to start systematically shutting everything down

(so everybody all got laid off at periodic times)

at which point I decided I can go play with missiles, bombs and guns

because that's really what aerospace is starting to move towards

(in my neck-of-the-woods which I'm not interested in),

so I decided to do something a little more humanitarian.

a book that talks about space exploration and development

Unfortunately a lot of people have this mindset,

not due any fault of their own. The media does not do a very good job

of promoting space exploration and what it means to your everyday life,

but they don't find a lot of relevance as to what space exploration means

for mankind and their day-to-day operations.

Throughout the course of today's lecture we're going to touch base on that concept,

and what it means on how we operate on this planet.

We are going to talk about space exploration and sustainability.

What exactly do the two have to do with each other?

Sustainability in space increases sustainability on Earth.

There's nothing that we've ever invented for the space program

Whether it's the CAT scan machine or MRI's

or advanced materials that go into tires,

advanced systems for brakes, for telecommunications.

of industries that are affected by space exploration.

is called a Gedanken experiment, or a thought experiment,

on what would be needed to build a base on Mars

and how it would facilitate the needs of the astronauts. How will they live?

How are we going to provide everything that they need?

and so we have to think about how an astronaut would be able to live.

There's no grocery store down the street for them to resupply.

You can't just waste and go to the store and pick up a refresh.

Logistically that's near impossible to pull off in a sustainable way,

so what we look at is: Okay, what can we implement onto a Mars-based system?

these concepts actually don't just apply to Mars, but they would apply to the Moon

or a long duration space craft or the International Space Station, the ISS.

but we don't use those derivative technologies down here very well.

So, what are some of the things that you would need

to maintain a human being's biological requirements,

biological necessities of life? Anybody throw anything out.

[man from audience] - Water and seeds. - Seeds? You mean food, right?

Yes, ok. Food, water, what else? Yes? - Oxygen.

Waste reclamation and the proper handling of that, ok.

Things that enhance the quality of life beyond just the biological requirements?

because we're immersed in them all the time. Yes?

Social needs, people to talk to, to feel like you're a part of something. - Being connected with other people, ok.

What kind of technical systems might be a quality of life?

Oh, yes, ok. Entertainment and stuff like that. Right, and back there?

Energy? Absolutely. That's a good one. What else?

- Production. - Production, manufacturing,

things like that, to get the things that they need on a local level.

It's kind of hard to do the resupply so it helps to produce as much as you can.

Now you guys kind of get some of the concepts, all right?

What are they? In a nutshell: air, food, water,

Sleep and medical care seem to miss people, if you think about it.

You don't think about "You need to sleep!"

If sleep deprivation is a serious biological problem

for people, it can cause you to go crazy or you can get really sick.

In medical care, obviously if you hurt yourself,

if you don't take care of that issue, that infection,

your biological-ness will go 'prrrrrt' and you're done.

So, you've got to make sure those things are covered.

Now you've got your necessities for a high quality of life.

Here are some of the most pedestrian things: shelter,

clothing, education, energy, transportation and communication.

If you think about how you interact with the world today

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