Space1 Leaving Man on the Moon

Can We Leave a Man on the Moon?
Go to the Moon and not come back? This is the same proposal made of Mars. Can SPACE1 accomplish this using super technology? Or will it take conventional technology? Let's examine the possibilities.

At this time, if we want the moon man to survive, he will need food, breathable air, water, energy, sheltered housing and recycling facilities. He should also have a 3D printer to make things as needed.

Shipments
As the Moon is close by, it could be resupplied with necessary survival materials.

Food
Conventionally speaking, leaving a man on the Moon will require leaving other things as well. At first, a massive supply of years of food packets with a microwave oven is necessary as work progresses on a massive greenhouse to grow hydroponic food and garden food grown in lunar regolith, tended by autonomous robots.

Robots
A single man will need helper robots for growing food, working in the harsh vacuum and conditions. Robots can maintain the equipment and do the mining operations.

Water
Setting up shop at the South Pole will allow collecting and purifying a supply of frozen water from the bottom of polar craters using mining machines.

Mining
Mining will collect ice for water purification, soil for oxygen extraction, regolith for building materials and growing food.

Air to Breath
Air will come from the hydrolysis of water and recycling, filtering out co2, and replenishing with oxygen.

Habitation
A habitat shelter can include a crater or lava tube to protect from radiation.

Power
Power can come from solar panels at the top of the crater, eternally bathed in sunlight. Water processing could also collect hydrogen but it must be processed and made safe. Taking a small nuclear power generator would also be helpful.

Heat
Heat is piped in from collector fans to radiators from near the surface bathed in very intense sunlight. Lunar rock can store passive solar heat from direct sunlight and release the heat in areas not sunlit.

Super Technology
Doing a long term mission on the Moon with super technology will happen completely different and may be a more detailed future topic. Super technology has different needs and can supply nodes of all the requirements of survival in one place in space-time and propagate/transport astronauts through augmented reality.

Singularity Observatory Live Astro Photo

Singularity Observatory
Capture a Live Astro Photo

by Humanoido

It's alive!!! Apple has introduced several new iPhone cameras and software that changes everything when it comes to taking a photo and doing astronomical imaging! It's called Live Photos and the reality of this new kind of photo is it holds enough photos to make a 1.5 second video and has many other useful tricks.

This is a spectacular boon for astro imaging the Moon and planets as a single best shot can be chosen or several best shots extracted and summed into one more perfect image. It's one way of shooting through those pesky sky conditions when the blurring atmospheric seeing conditions clear for only a fraction of a second. Doing Astro Live Photo imaging changes the game for the better, making imaging through your telescope far more easy. It can sidestep the other lengthy procedures of image processing.

What is Live Photos?
Live Photos is an iPhone camera feature that brings your photos to life by creating a moving image. Instead of freezing a moment in time, you can now capture a Live Photo with movement and sound. iPhone Live Photos can be converted into stunning long exposure images. A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a photo. As well as a high quality still JPEG image, you also get a 3 second Live Photo with sound. When you play a Live Photo, you don’t see the still image that you took when you pressed the shutter button. Instead, you’ll see a 3 second moving image. When you shoot a Live Photo, the iPhone also captures a still image. This lets you relive those moments before and after you took the photo.

Phones and OS Working with Live Photo
You can only shoot a Live Photo with the iPhone 6s/6s Plus or newer. But you can share them to older iPhones or an iPad as long as that device is running iOS 9 or later. The Live Photo feature is available on the following iPhones:

iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X
iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR

How it Works
How does the iPhone know to record video for the 1.5 seconds before you press the shutter button? With Live Photos enabled, the built-in camera app starts recording video as soon as you open the app. So when you press the shutter button, your iPhone has already captured the 1.5 seconds before the shot. It saves this footage along with the 1.5 seconds following the image capture. Your iPhone discards all other video footage captured before and after those 1.5 seconds. So you don’t need to worry that the constant video recording will fill up your iPhone’s storage.

How To Switch On Live Photo
Start by opening the built-in camera app, and set the shooting mode to Photo. You can’t shoot Live Photos in any of the other shooting modes. The Live Photos setting is the round icon shown on the top of the screenshot below. If the icon is yellow, Live Photos is on. If the icon is white, tap it once to turn on Live Photos.
Live Photos is on by default, but you can switch it off at any time by tapping the yellow Live Photos icon. When you switch on Live Photos, the word “Live” appears in a yellow box as shown. This will disappear after a couple of seconds.

Video Starting
Remember that the 1.5 seconds of video starts before you press the shutter button. So make sure you compose your shot and hold it there for a couple of seconds before you press the shutter. If you don’t do this, the first part of your Live Photo will be of you moving the camera to frame the shot. Likewise, your iPhone will record video for 1.5 seconds after you’ve pressed the shutter. So make sure you keep your phone still for a couple of seconds after taking the shot.

Live Photo Audio
Live Photos capture audio as well as video. So you’ll hear any sound in your Live Photo when you play it back.

Turn Off Live Photo
When you no longer want to shoot Live Photos, switch off the Live Photos feature so that the icon turns white.

How to View on an Older iPhone Model
View Live Photos on an older iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that can run iOS 9 or later. Find the Live Photo you want to view. Touch and hold the photo to animate it.

How to view Live Photos on a newer iPhone model
View a Live Photo on Apple's current-generation iPhone models, see list. Launch the Photos app from your Home screen. Find the Live Photo you want to view. Press firmly on the photo to animate it. It will blur for just a second and then start to play.

Storage
Live Photos take up a lot of storage space on your iPhone. So if you leave it on for every shot you may find that your phone becomes full.

Processing
Processing your live images is easy with Apple's free Photo, a program on iMac computers and an app on iPhones. You can edit Live Photos in the Photos app in a similar way to editing still images. For Live Photos there are some extra editing tools. When you open a Live Photo, tap Edit at the top right of the screen. The editing tools will appear. Crop and rotate, apply a filter, or make lighting and color adjustments. The wand icon is an autocorrect option for enhancing exposure and color with a single tap.

Change the Key Photo

You can change the key photo (the one you see in your photo library) using the slider at the bottom of the screen. Move the slider until you find the image you want. Tap Make Key Photo to confirm your choice: A white dot will appear over your chosen photo. A grey dot appears over the original key photo in case you ever want to go back to it. When you’ve finished editing your Live Photo, tap Done to save the changes. If you want to remove the editing you applied, you can revert back to the original Live Photo at any time. In the Photos app, find the Live Photo you want to revert, tap Edit, then tap Revert. On the message that appears, tap Revert to Original. Another option under the Edit facility is to switch from a Live Photo to a still image (without making any edits). When you’re viewing a Live Photo, tap Edit, then tap the yellow Live Photos icon to convert it to a still image. The icon will turn white to show that it’s no longer a Live Photo. Tap Done to confirm.

Special Effects

Since iOS 11, you can apply three special effects to your Live Photos: Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure.

Long Exposure

The Long Exposure option creates a photo with a slow shutter effect. It overlays all the video frames from your Live Photo to create a single image. Long exposure with scenes that include movement will blur the motion. With a telescope, make sure tracking in on and the image is ultimately stable. This ensures that the stationary parts of the scene remain sharp in the final image. Long exposures should lessen image noise.

Turn a Live Photo into a GIF
There's no longer the need for a GIF creator app. You can do it all right in the Photos app! Launch the Photos app from your Home screen. Find and tap the Live Photo you'd like to turn into a GIF. Swipe up on the center of the screen to reveal the animation options. Tap Loop if you'd like to loop the Live Photo as a GIF.

How to Extract a Still Shot from a Live Photo
If you want the still photo only, you can make a copy. Open the Photos app. Select the Live Photo you want to extract a still shot from. Tap the Share icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. Tap Duplicate in the option tray at the bottom of the screen. Tap Duplicate as Still Photo. A copy of the still photo will appear in your library right next to the original Live Photo. You can delete the Live Photo if you no longer want it to take up storage on your iPhone.

Links
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207310

Space1 Living by the Space Stick

How a Stick can Enable Life into the Future of Space
Want to live to see those fantastic promises made by the space program? Want to live farther into the future? Interested in seeing settlers and colonization of Mars? A journey to the stars?

Everyone lives with their own stick of life, some just born are at their beginning of the stick and some with fewer days to live are at the short end of the stick. Our position on the stick of life is determined by many things such as our chronological age, physical age, sickness or degree of health, genes and longevity, accident, and good living or poor living abuse indulgences to name a few.

Once the short end of the stick is reached, all hope is not lost - there are ways to gain more stick but it takes some luck and maybe some technology. Now new evidence, science and technology, are offering ways to increase our time of life. For example, if the human body has a failing or failed component, surgery may be an option to replace the failed organ with a machine cyborg version to gain additional years of life, thus making the stick longer. Sometimes this is a significant gain. But this is a gamble - sometime surgery itself can be too much and result in a clot, stroke, heart failure, or the human body giving up, and thus the stick will end, ultimately causing death.

Another technique is to use a machine to extend life through a technique known and Enhanced External Cardiopulsation. This increases circulation in the human body to a point where some have reported sensory enhancements strong enough to be labeled super power.

The advantage of extending one's stick of time into the future is gaining a personal witness to modern technology and perhaps spectacular new achievements of mankind - for example, witnessing humanity becoming a multiplanetary species, trips to the Moon, Motels in space, outposts and settlers on Mars, Solar System stations on various moons, mining of the asteroids, and trips to the stars.