September 20, 2006

Dear Editor in Chief,

A scholar asked: “Could you give, in your wildest suggestion, the cheapest, easiest
way to prove that life could survive sometime or a little while in other planets or other
moons.” The S.I. answered: “Researching, imitating and improving, compressing
technology-using toy technology, robotics are the keys. a) I heard that an ordinary two
sitter private jet plane had already reached the outer space; and perhaps using the
improvised private jet plane technology in reaching the space is cheaper way in going to
space than the conventional rocket ship. And perhaps using balloon, sling shot
technology, bow and arrow technology, and combinations of those technologies and
letting buoyancy could be combined with the private jet technology to save some fuel. b)
Using remotely control technology and using self-deciding mechanism if control from
earth is lost, using computer programming for automation, using cell phone with camera
technology to send reports are perhaps good ideas. c) Example: using mongo seed as the
living thing or plant specimen; or that the mongo if mixed with water, the mongo seed
could become a sprouted mongo for a while example at the moon or at planet Mars. d)
Using cockroaches as specimen to test reproduction of living things for a while or animal
specimen at other planet; cockroach could be better than other specie perhaps because a
cockroach could even survive a nuclear holocaust. e) Experiment first a smart life
supporting small biosphere here on earth especially on extremes environment like too
much heat and too much cold. The biosphere could be as small as a gallon container or a
little bigger with all its counter checks of any extremes. The small biosphere might have
an air-conditioning system or heating system and thermostat system that could let the
temperature inside always balanced or normal. f) Technology of docking or landing on
another small smart spaceship for space by small device mechanism using robotic
technology is cheaper. Example if there is a space station for small smart space at outer
space where it is designed for small robotic spaceships and also as launching pad from
space to other planets or other moons it could be cheaper. g) There was already a robot
that landed on Mars as shown in the TV news but it lost its contact. Why just improve the
technology and make the robot smaller and smarter, simpler, and could have other ways
to communicate if contact is lost and could use the technology of buoyancy as balloon
when traveling and could hide itself on soil or sand if there is too much air movement or
tornado or hurricane in other planet. h) Perhaps the small smart spaceship has three major
parts-a detachable smart biosphere, the engine and fuel-fabricator, the data procedure or
the command center.
Principle: The more it is smaller, simpler, robotic, using buoyancy, self-deciding and
even self-repairing; the better. If the small smart biosphere with controlled temperature is
successful in earth’s trials or experiments, the possibility that the specimen would grow
for a while at other planet is great as long as there is sunlight, and the normal condition is
artificially imitated at other planet. But to research that if there are organisms thriving on
those extreme environments in other planet or other moon, the best place is to develop
robotic small smart spaceship that could also swim and dive on underwater bodies or that
could become a small smart submarine in other planets or other moons.
The trial on earth might be two months at a place where a heater could be increased
same as on a very hot desert, and another two months at a freezer container letting the
small smart spaceship and biosphere expose to colds and do what it should be doing
using robotics and self deciding. And perhaps another two months on an artificially
sulfuric environment to test the device from being invaded of contaminants by harmful
chemicals through air that could test if the chemical could knockout the devices of the
smart small robotic spaceship. If 100% self doing or 100% automation could be possible
then it should be the case.
Since there are now robots that could do specific tasks by themselves then perhaps
just imitate and improve those technologies is the easiest way. Example: How to have a
smart eye, smart brain, smart hand and smart finger, and other smart devices for specific
doing of task by itself or through automation should be the target. Perhaps the easiest and
the cheapest way is: pass a policy or ruling that there should be another department on
small smart robotics and self deciding devices using the latest and available technologies
specializes on self-production of energy from: solar, water: (electrolysis- hydrogen-fuel
cell or combustion), wind, battery and combination of mentioned energy processes for
small smart instruments or devices so that the small smart robotic spaceship could have a
perpetual or never ending supply of fuel or energy.
 Pass a ruling that there should be department on developing smart brain for doing
specific task especially a) piloting a small smart space ship using micro chips, b) step by
step doing and self-deciding on i) how to dock and lunch on a space launching pad
designed for small smart spaceships, ii) on how to produce energy example energy from
the sun, iii) on how to refuel example perhaps using hydrogen, iv) on how to travel to
another planet using imagery and other computer data or Smart Intelligence on a virtual
space on a laboratory. It is like jogging on a stationery jogging flat form where there is a
wide TV screen telling the jogger that he is now example on a road going left; or a
computer simulation as if one is really actually on a reality but it is just virtual, v) on how
to operate the biosphere and do experiments there automatically, vi) on how to send data
on the development of the experiments through robotics.
Perhaps the key here is how to make devices that could be guided first by human on a
macro mode so that after the recorded procedure is done the macro mode could be
replayed to do the exact way how the procedure was done by human first. Example of
how a macro mode could be tested: if a remotely control small smart robotic toy car
could be maneuvered by a man to do a specific task and the procedure being carried by
the man could be recorded using macro mode then the task could be repeated.
Combinations of recorded specific tasks could produce another different task and another
combination and so on…! Perhaps deciding when to turn or to weld a point on a car in
manufacturing industry is now a technology. The technology should be made smaller so
that smart arms and smart hand could now just be simple and as just one component of
the small smart robotic spaceship.
Example of macro: when executing a remotely control joys stick there should be
mechanism inside where all the digital codes or sequences could be replayed. It is like
typing in macro mode: one would actually press the key to have “s” “m” “a” “r” “t” but if
the code is already recorded to have “s” “m” “a” “r” “t” without actually pressing the key
board because it is in macro mode, then s” “m” “a” “r” “t” could appear on the screen
without being typed by executing another command; or instructions which were
previously done by human and had been preserved and could be repeated again by
example just pressing another code or by timer or by being sensitive to another code, etc.
Example: the signals to maneuver a toy car to example to turn left could be repeated
without actually redoing what had been actually done because of memory chips. And if a
series of codes of sequences of human first sequences could be recorded and replayed
perhaps if many sequences and codes or instructions could be replayed then robotics and
automation could be cheaper and more practical and simpler. The key is instruction once
previously done by human could now be replayed because of memory chips.
Perhaps a simple air balloon that could lift or carry a cell phone camera and the cell
phone could automatically shot photos and could send the photographs to a data base
because procedures or trials on earth were done in macro mode, and the procedures could
be repeated in other planets …; perhaps it is the cheapest way to research thing at other
places. Perhaps if an enclosed mongo seed that upon landing on Mars could automatically
be wet and be mixed with soil and oxygen is also released on a confined and temperature
controlled small container or small smart biosphere could perhaps let the seed grow and
be photographed through cell phone technology with a powerful directional antennae is
perhaps another cheap way to do research at other planet.
And a toy small smart submarine attached with cell phone camera and with
programmed to photograph the water sample using some improvised lens so that small
living things could be camera at an aquarium is a good start. Perhaps pass a ruling so that
a competition could be conducted yearly to do a simple task on an aquarium on how to
have a microscopic photo of the water sample and being sent through a cell phone
technology in the internet automatically or by itself is a good idea.
Perhaps there could be many practical and easy ideas that could be gathered on the
contest. The key is simpler, smaller, robotic, fuel self-sustaining, self-repairing especially
just using replacements. Perhaps because of smart small robotics in the future, man could
plant plants in the moon or reproduce animal on other planet through small smart
biosphere.
Perhaps the robots should be tested to really have some lost contact and the small
smart spaceship could be able to do another way to replace the old way of contacting on
another new instruments and antennae. Perhaps so that the money and effort and time in
the research would not be wasted perhaps do the experiments or test the designs of the
small smart space ship that could become a small smart submarine with smart
intelligence in an eco-system that were been destroyed by human abuses and
exploitations; and rehab the destroyed eco-system to be normal and balanced using the
small smart submarine that could also become a small smart spaceship. Or especially
rehabilitating destroyed coral reefs by doing the experiments for designing small smart
robotics and devices and small smart submarine.
-RV-