Category: Projects
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Rogue Planet Dream
I had a dream and wanted to write it down. Maybe eventually I will work this into a short story. an asteroid is discovered on a long elliptical orbit that passes several potentially habitable worlds. The gravity on the asteroid is close to Earth normal. Humans decide to colonize it in order to drop…
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Communal Effort
In my capacity as regional co-chair of Burners Without Borders, I once asked some of my peers if there is a manual somewhere for how to respond to disasters. That’s what we do. We respond to disasters and provide things like shelter and critical infrastructure. Unfortunately there is currently no repository of tools and strategies…
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NomadPedia
I have done a great deal of personal research and interviews with people in experimental and improvised communities about how they address individual-scale solutions to infrastructure problems. I’ve taken countless pages of notes and countless photos of the examples. As regional co-chair of Burners Without Borders, I am also working on deploying these solutions at…
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Resource Sovereignty
This is a project I’ve been working on for some years which is slowly evolving with experimentation and research. The basic idea is that small groups and communities should be able to reach a point where they can provide for their own needs without new inputs and while managing and minimizing their outputs. I call…
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Moving Cabin
I built a moving cabin which is basically just a custom self-sufficient self-powered rv that I’m using to travel safely and conduct my research on improvised infrastructure, community resilience, sustainability and other related topics. Check it out at https://movingcabin.com
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Wrangling Metaphenomena
This semester, a professor in one of my classes made the claim that almost no person or organization is aware or its core principles. Maybe they have some vague nonsense mission statement or political identity that could be used to argue literally anything, and that’s basically the point. They don’t have a set of claims…
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Crossroads App
Intersectional nomadism Monetization built in Geolocation like grindr to find nearby friends
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DIY Quasar Interferometry
CJ Trowbridge 2020-12-02 ASTR 11 Lab N13 Report I’m writing about Radio Interferometry. This is a topic that I am very interested in. As a licensed amateur radio technician, I have tried for several semesters to do an honors project on this topic but haven’t yet found a professor who was as interested as I…
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covid colonists
Write an essay about settler colonists traveling to places like pv at the height of covid. Connect it to contemporary discourses like Auslander, Estes, etc.