The Project effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience - i.e., [[virtual exovivaria]] - for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].  However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process.  For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be [[telebots|telebotically]] outsourced to lower-wage countries.

* a source of income for users in developing nations, especially for those in [[equatorial alpine regions]].

A secondary Project Persephone focus is to assess the prospects for building [[projectile space launch]] infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. The studies will focus on

This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in [[equatorial alpine regions]]) for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building [[projectile space launch]] infrastructure in equatorial alpine regions. The studies will focus on

* a compelling educational and recreational experience for earthbound users in developed nations, and
* a source of income for users in developing nations, and especially for people in [[equatorial alpine regions]].

** Desktop

* Integrate Orekit and Spacenet
* Multiverse MMO - modified for articial gravity in rotating habitat
* Open Source analysis of satellite imagery[^See e.g., Rocchini, D., Metz, M., Frigeri, A., Delucchi, L., Marcantonio, M., Neteler, M. (2011).[[http://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/CAGEO_2011.pdf | "Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an Open Source space."]] Computers & Geosciences.^]

* a source of income for users in developing nations.

!!!! Exovivaria - remote-control of ecosystems in orbit

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building [[projectile space launch]] infrastructure in [[equatorial alpine regions]].  Any such infrastructure would naturally enable lower-cost expansion of [[exovivaria]], if they prove viable and popular, since the basic ingredients of vivaria (structural materials, mechanical components, seeds, ova, spores, microbes, soil, water, micronutrients) can be packaged to survive high-acceleration launch and be assembled by [[telebots]].  Such a launch style would also enable almost any other use of outer space, directly and indirectly, since most uses depend one way or another on similarly packageable elements.  This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in [[equatorial alpine regions]]) for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

The Project effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].  However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process.  For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be [[telebots|telebotically]] outsourced to lower-wage countries.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].  However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process.  For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be [[telebots|telebotically]] outsourced to lower-wage countries.

A secondary Project Persephone effort is assessing the prospects for building [[projectile space launch]] infrastructure in [[equatorial alpine regions]].  Any such infrastructure would naturally enable lower-cost expansion of [[exovivaria]], if they prove viable and popular, since the basic ingredients of vivaria (structural materials, mechanical components, seeds, ova, spores, microbes, soil, water, micronutrients) can be packaged to survive high-acceleration launch and be assembled by [[telebots]].  Such a launch style would also enable almost any other use of outer space, directly and indirectly, since most uses depend one way or another on similarly packageable elements.  This Project Persephone effort includes surveying the current state of the art in projectile launch, exploring interim commercial uses of the rudiments of such infrastructure, evaluating candidate sites (probably in [[equatorial alpine regions]] for building launch infrastructure, and studying how Project Persephone goals can dovetail with programs for improving the lives of natives in regions around candidate sites.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].  However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process.  For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be [[telebots|telebotically]] to lower-wage countries.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].  However, a wide range of other research topics are opened up in the process.  For example, economists might be interested in what happens when you have labor mobility much higher than the mobility of products and raw materials -- terrestrial analogues of exovivaria could tell us a lot about a future in which higher energy costs make transportation more expensive, and in which almost all manual labor could be outsourced telebotically to lower-wage countries.

The effort is currently focused on how to provide realistic computer simulations of the user experience for a range of exovivaria designs, while researching how tele-operated robots might be enjoyably used in existing (terrestrial) [[vivaria]].

Project Persephone's current key effort is assessing the prospects for [[orbital terraria]] ([[exovivaria]]).  User studies will focus on how to make them