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Learn from
the Past,
Invent the Future
By Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
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How do you predict a future from a past
that
hasn’t happened yet? Albrecht and Davis show students
how to
review the past to reveal the future.
Web Sites
Note. These Web sites were
valid when
this issue of L&L went to press. We have
no control
over these sites, though, and the Web is very volatile.
Please let
us know if you find a broken link, and we’ll do our
best to
update it.
The
Mars Millennium Project
www.mars2030.net
The
Gift Economy
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/giftecon.html
William
Sheehan’s The Planet Mars: A History of Observation
and Discovery
www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/contents.htm
NASA’s Web site that describes past and future missions to Mars
http://cmex.ihmc.us/CMEX/index.html
Oppositions
of Mars from 1901 to 2035
www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/appends.htm#1
Visual
Voyage to Mars
www.vidi.com/experts/bobspage/marstrip.html
Manned Mars Reference Mission
http://cmex.ihmc.us/CMEX/index.htm
Search
Engine Watch: News, Tips, and More about Search
Engines
www.
searchenginewatch.com
Search
Engine Reviews Chart
www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/reviewchart.html
with search keys such as the following:
+Mars +CELSS
+Mars +ECLSS
+Mars +CO2 +H2O
+Mars +TransHab
Designing
for Human Presence in Space—Acronyms
http://augusta.msfc. nasa.gov/ed61/papers/rp1324/acronyms.html
Acronym
Finder
www.acronymfinder.com
Mars
www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html
Mars
Fact Sheet
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.html
Earth and Mars: A Comparison
http://cmex.ihmc.us/CMEX/index.htm
Exploring
Mars
www.exploringmars.org/index.html
Designing
for Human Presence in Space
http:/augusta.msfc.nasa.gov/ed61/papers/rp1324/rp1324.html
Homesteading
the Planets
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad28apr98_1a.htm
Bringing
Mars into the Iron Age
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad03mar99_1.htm
Imagineering
on Mars (Imagineering On-Line magazine)
www.djandassoc.com/e-zine/mars.html
Life
Support
www.reston.com/astro/support.html
HSF—International
Space Station
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/transhab/
Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12354500
Cornell
News: Space Colony Menus
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan98/nasa.food.ssl.html
Integration
of Plant Growth into a Mars Habitat
www-sn.jsc.nasa.gov/explore/Data/Lib/DOCS/EIC016.HTML
Future
Garden—NASA’s Gardens
http://futuregarden.com/about/nasa.htm
KSC-Breadboard—Biomass
Production Chamber
http://atlas.ksc.nasa.gov/celss/BPC/BPC.HTM
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Bob Albrecht (dragonfun@aol.com)
is a writer and developer of science, math, and
technology
curricula. George Firedrake is his alter ego and
takes the
form of a dragon. Laran Stardrake, whose quotes
sometimes
lead off this column, is another of Bob’s
"accomplices."
She’s half-dragon and half-human. As Laran is
fond of
saying, "Reality expands to fill the available
fantasies."
The DragonFun image is from an original painting by
Marcy
Kier-Hawthorne.
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Paul Davis (ctec1@mchs.srcs.k12.ca.us)
is a mathematics teacher at Maria Carrillo High
School in
Santa Rosa, California. He was a happy, normal
teacher until
he met Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake in 1992 and
became
another one of their accomplices. Since then, Paul
has been
intertwingling math, science, and technology in his
classroom
with the help of Bob and George.
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