"We will start inhabiting outer space," says Angelo Vermeulen, crew commander of a NASA-funded Mars simulation. "It might take 50 years or it might take 500 years, but it’s going to happen." Angelo and his team are already focused on a 500 Year Business Plan. Why not a 1000 Year Business Plan?
Is it time to activate your Interplanetary Commerce & Interplanetary Social Media imagination?
Watch Angelo Vermeulen's TED GLobal Talk, 2014: "How to Go to Space without Going to Space."
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Ah -- a whole new take on Interplanetary Career Planning and "Extraterrestrial Life"... All Astronauts who travel to the moon or Mars are temporarily "extraterrestrial" -- will your great grandchild working on a Moon project be an "extraterrestrial engineer"?
Will "The Ultimate Marketing Plan," considered now, have us conceiving of designs for interplanetary social media/communication now...
Angelo Vermeulen's crew is already looking at creating new kinds of "sustainability": Growing food to sustain you on Mars...? But what about Social Media Sustainability? Sustaining your TRULY LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS...? Tweeting from Mars, marketing from Mars (imagine how valuable Mars location videos could be for advertising or entertainment?)
"Interstellar," the movie, raises the issues of time travel and non-local consciousness communication methodologies -- as practical problems that we will have to solve. But with different minds. The very act of non-local travel changes consciousness -- as most Astronauts have reported.