In all geologic time, the responsibilities are on our generation ... including you ...

News

On April 6, we committed to resuming news posts in a systematic way, and intend to maintain a News section on our forum. The idea is to cover news items and other events near the times they happen, as well as add our commentary where appropriate, similar to a "blog" but a forum log (flog). Visitors can comment, too. You can find it here:

Small news items will go on the PERMANENT Facebook Timeline for people who prefer news and social networking on that channel, but those will be very brief due to the nature of the Facebook medium, and not as often.

Our website, forum, Facebook page, and blog still focus specifically on lunar and asteroid mining, space industrialization and colonization, and do not cover space in general ...


Besides PERMANENT's blog, you may want to also monitor these regular news sites which also focus on our specialization:

One of the best sources of news on lunar development is the Lunar Enterprise Daily, which is part of Space Age Publishing, which also puts out the Space Calendar. Led by Steve Durst, this operation has been going since at least when I came onto the scene in the mid-1980s when it was a paper publication.

If you would like to suggest other sites for us to list here, please do!

We do not list blogs or news sites on space in general, only those which focus on the specific topics lunar and asteroidal mining for space industrialization and colonization.


PERMANENT goes back to 1985 as an institution, and its heyday on the web as a leading source of information was 1996-2002. By focusing on PERMANENT rather than our other careers, we ran out of money due to a lack of donations and a neglect of our own business (the founder and first mate are self-employed), so we diverted time to development of our own business for self-funding. Meanwhile, we budgeted our limited time on PERMANENT as a consumer rather than a producer, for the most part.

The first thing to be cut on the website in 2002 was the News and Commentary, since it required constant monitoring and writing, and “news” is to a considerable extent parroting and reinvention of the wheel. It wasn’t easy to resist our own commentary, but discipline prevailed.

Our priority work in the 2002-2013 period was all budgeted on the PERMANENT technical website, building up its body of knowledge and structure, largely behind the scenes in the “back office”, and when time permitted on the “front office” website, but still without any blog and with only occasional news.

We did maintain a forum over the latter years so visitors could post news, and some good volunteers have performed well as administrators of that.

Now we are trying to budget time to post on news and events as they happen.

Nevertheless, the first priority is to get information into the PERMANENT databases and website structure, so much of the information here will have been added the website first, shortly before it is noted in the News.

User comments here may also lead us to additional information to subsequently add to the website.

When we committed to posting news update, we also committed to start posting regularly onto our Facebook timeline. However, the website will have larger posts and more in depth commentary, whereas Facebook is mainly for short notes with outside news links for that brief social networking distribution channel. Also, we don't want to bother Facebook people with too many posts. Something must be fairly important to be echoed onto Facebook.



External links:

Space Age Publications

Stve Durst, editor

Space Calendar

Steve Durst, editor

Lunar Enterprise Daily

Steve Durst, Editor


spacesettlement.com > News, Blog

Additional, children pages of this current parent page:

News, Blog :

Please provide quick feedback on this page. It is encouraging to just know people read anything on this site and care enough to give some quick feedback.

Which one are you?:
Robot
Human

How many stars would you give this page?
1 = very bad
2 = less than expected but okay
3 = average or no opinion
4 = good
5 = excellent

What is your age range?
Under 20
20-29
30-59
over 60

If you choose to submit feedback, then I wish to thank you in advance. After you click on Submit, the page will jump to the top.


Reasons to do something yourself:

  • It will help save life on our special planet -- be part of the solution in your generation.
  • It will create and secure a better future for your children and grandchildren.
  • It could be an interesting, cool, and a fun adventure for your life!

You can join us and volunteer to help out,

... or ...

If you're short on time, you can just donate by seeing our donate page, or contact Mark Prado via his personal website at www.mark-prado.com.

If you really much prefer to send by cryptocurrency, then you can donate into a wallet of any of our cryptocoins, though this is our least preferable way to receive donations ..., so please donate this way only if it's really much more convenient or feasible for you. The wallets are included in my cryptocoin critiques opinion page.

... or ...

Suggest this website to other people and organizations.

NOTICE:

PERMANENT needs a PHP / MySQL (actually, MariaDB) programmer. Are you a PHP / MySQL programmer interested in getting into space development as a career, or already working in space development? Or do you know somebody else who might be interested?

This is a volunteer, unpaid role at this point in time. A limited paid role would be considered on a tight budget, such as for at least bug fixing with some minor improvements, and/or a security review of our code before it goes online publicly. If you or one of your friends or associates may be interested, please send an email to spaceprogrammer at ... of course this domain.



To get updates on PERMANENT (occasional, not frequent), get on our mailing list.

For general or specific e-mail regarding PERMANENT, please use our Feedback page.

Leave information about yourself in our people, companies, and organizations database.

If you are interested in hiring our expertise, anywhere in the world, please contact us.
We have people in the USA and Thailand, and can travel or consult by internet.
You can call anytime, 24/7, at +66-8-1135-7977

Text by Mark Prado, Copyright © 1983-2024, All Rights Reserved.
Many website artistic design elements by Sam Fraser, Copyright © 1999-2024, All Rights Reserved.

Except where specifically stated otherwise,
Copyright © 1983-2024 by Mark Evan Prado, All Rights Reserved

Source: https://www.spacesettlement.com

PERMANENT logo
P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm

PERMANENT logo
P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon
and A steroids N ear E arth
in the N ear T erm



This website has a lot of text content, so here are some suggestions on how to navigate and also recognize pages you're seen already vs. still unseen pages in the SiteMap.

There are 2 ways to browse this website:

  • A menu floats on the top left (unless you have JavaScript disabled, in which case you must use our SiteMap).

    or

  • The SiteMap page.

The pulldown menu and the SiteMap are the same tree of pages and links. The pulldown menu offers + and - for expand and collapse sections/subsections/sub-subsections... of the tree, sometimes multiple levels, whereas the SiteMap has everything expanded with no + or - expand and collapse options so the SiteMap is much longer, compared to the pulldown menu if not fully expanded. You may just choose which of the two formats you prefer at a particular time.

The SiteMap colors links red which you have already visited, vs. normal blue for still unseen. It is convenient to browse the SiteMap in one tab or window, and opening pages in other tabs/windows (Ctrl-click or right-click), such as browsing the whole SiteMap to skip pages you've already seen and to choose to open pages you haven't read yet.

The pulldown menu doesn't change the color of seen pages, unfortunately, unlike the SiteMap. However, using the pulldown menu, you can quickly browse the list of sections and other pages without leaving the page you're on. The SiteMap is a separate page of its own.