The Association of Autonomous Astronauts
The AAA is the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, they are as of right now not a highly visible organization anymore. But their spirit, and a few of their practitioners have helped in establishing the DIY Cryopunk League along many of the same structures, "poetry does not life extension make."
Here is the AAA's introduction to their own work:
"The days of this society are numbered. Its reasons and its merits have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; its inhabitants are divided into two parties, one of which wants to build its own spaceships and leave this world behind.
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts (AAA) was launched on April 23rd 1995 as the world's first independent and community-based space exploration programme. A Five Year Plan was also established for creating, by the year 2000, a worldwide network of community-based AAA groups dedicated to building their own spaceships."
posted by Nathan Shafer @ 4:35 AM
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Now, what about the so-called 'Buck Rogers Phenomenon" where based on the technologies espoused in the Buck Rogers television show, several thinkers are designing works based on these? Like The Ranger Three designs from the MILE Foundation? Or the designs for space ships that would purposefully launch people into 'trajectories beyond imagination'?
What dreams are fantasy what memories real?
I am currently designing several projects based on Buck Rogers. One of them is based on the fact that in the Buck Rogers television show, the props used to give the look of futuristic technology are really left-over props from Battlestar Galactica. It is a more DIY or collage approach to building cryonic devices.
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