User:Eliasescotol/sandbox

Just Ideas
1) Research government agencies that are funding or planning to fund space colonization in the future.

2)Research private companies that are funding or planning to fund space colonization in the future.

3) What types of projects are they working on to make the space colonization a reality.

4) What is stopping government or companies to do these investments.

5) How much money would they need to make space colonization a reality.

6) How would these agencies will be able to make money after colonization in order to make their investment back. ( The article talks about mining already, don't repeat the information)

After doing more research, I found out that other parts of the article needs to be improved not just the funding section. However, as I progress I will find out where I can make a mindful impact to the article and to the general public by finding good data resources.

After, doing some research in the library data base. I found a really good book that will help me on the space colonization article task. The name of the book is Here Be Dragon: Science, Technology, And The Future of Humanity. I will provide it's citation and notes in the "new sources data" section of my sandbox.

I will use this section just to brainstorm ideas and record the new sources. The "new sources data" is where the data and pictures of my articles will actually go and I will be redefining them until I feel satisfied. Then, it is will be ready to be posted and to be shown to the public.

I found a really cool article at http://www.nature.com.libproxy2.usc.edu/articles/324115a0.pdf. This will help to to write about past goals that united states had to colonize space.

The first edit was removed by someone. Even though I posted on the talk page to give me feedback, I didn't get any back.

My Idea is to find multiple resources using the library data base to write good content to the article.

Evaluation Of The Article
Space Colonization Link: Space Colonization

Point of View: The overall point of view I will say is not neutral. The majority of the article supports space colonization and just a 15% of article shows facts about not colonizing space. I think by making a research on the area of the risk associated in colonizing space, I will be making the article feel more neutral. When this article talks about the benefits of why colonizing space, I think the writer wrote more about supporting her or his point of view than actually doing a research because there are some citations that are missing. However, I really understand this article can be tricky to write for writers because it has new ideas that most of the time doesn't have so many scientific research behind them because some of them are still science fiction Other, mistakes that I found that some parts of the article are just quotes from an NASA administrator and the writer fail to make it in his or her own words. .

Content: Space colonization article needs more expansion in some areas example in location, funding, objections, history, planetary objections and more citations. This article needs to be trustworthy and it needs to have enough citations in order to define reality vs science fiction. Also, there are parts of this article that talks about too much about space concepts without explaining their importance in space colonization. The content is up-to-date because the technology or findings that we need in order to have a space colonization are still in underdevelopment or are still in science fiction. It might takes decades or centuries to reach some source of information constanly updates.

References: The references that are currently in the article are linked to reliable sources like literature reviews, books, and expert publication. We just need to link this article to more references.

The reasons why I want to make edits on space colonization: I want to make a contribution to Wikipedia and to this article because I want to contribute a neutral, honest, well researched article to Wikipedia where people can learn this new fascinating topic "space colonization". I want to expand this article in one area, it might be in the funding part or it can be just adding more information to other parts of the article that needs more information and more citations to give a more accurate information to the general public.

New Sources Data
Other argument is call the Bullerby Scenario. It debates that high advance civilizations are more concern in their spirituality and in building an peaceful utopia civilization than space exploration. This thinking refers that as humans get to a more advance civilization, they will start moving from the mentality of having space civilizations to a spiritual world.

Reference

First Post Goals

In 1986,The US National Commission of Space had ambitious goals for the early 21st century. By the year 2000, they were planning to have the first earth spaceport. And, by 2025, they were planning to have 3 more spaceports. This included one human base in the moon and two astronauts posts on the two moons of Mars. This was going to guaranteed the first space high-way in the solar system. This goal was really ambitious at the time. But as time progressed all these ambitious fade away. The first spaceport was not open until October 18, 2011 in New Mexico. The main reasons why this goal had taken so long time are funding, technology and collaboration among all the countries.

References that will be useful

Spaceport America

http://www.nature.com.libproxy2.usc.edu/articles/324115a0.pdf

Second Post

Another objections is that space colonization will not happen soon. The better strategy for humans to colonize space will be to find a planet like earth to settle down. And, as their technology progress. They can start focusing to do agriculture in hostile environments within the solar system. Technology had always played an important role for human survival in new environments since they explored out from Africa 80,000 years ago.

Links

References.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.3115547

http://www.nature.com.libproxy2.usc.edu/articles/326124c0.pdf