Big Ideas

Big Ideas for Lunarpedia

A present, the back-to-the-Moon idea may not be dead but it is at least comatose. The task for Lunarpedia is to breathe some life into it.

Above all else, back-to-the-Moon is a big idea.

If we can generate a few ideas and help them take off and find a solid constituency, we could make the back-to the-Moon idea fly and we would be on our way. The effect of such working big ideas on human history is so nonlinear that they must follow at least a fourth power law.

It is not hard to come up with raw ideas, but it is very hard to figure out which one-in-a-hundred will really fly. The process seems to be quite random. About the only thing we can do is to take the risk of putting lots of ideas out there and push them for a while to give each their chance to get off the ground.

Here are a number of big ideas currently under testing on Lunarpedia.

Lunarpedia Foundation Ideas

Lunar Encyclopedia

Provide a central source for the data we will need to return to the Moon.

Lunar Web Community

Provide a strong and active anchor for a web community of people supporting lunar return.

Ideas currently under test

Support for Students

Provide support to the people who will actually end up doing the job. See Student Projects List.

Oral Histories

Record the personal stories of people who have worked in space exploration for the benefit and amusement of the next generation to do so. See Oral Histories List.

Short Stories; Provide stories providing a positive vision of what it will be like to live in a settlement on the Moon. See Story List.

Purposes for Lunarpedia; Develop clear ideas of our purposes and how we can achieve them. See Purposes List.

(Your Idea Here)

We need even more ideas. Each is long-shot roll and the more rolls we take the more chances we have to win.