The International Space Station Starts Minting NFTs
▻https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hardware/international-space-station-starts-minting-nfts?NL=DCK-01&Issue
Ils veulent vraiment en finir avec le commun de l’espace !!!
Despite its seemingly playful nature, the project has a very serious goal: to demonstrate a prototype of lunar-based cloud services.
The project’s generative adversarial network harnesses cosmic radiation data and combines it with space photography and conventional painting to create unique images, which are then minted as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing ownership of one of the 600,000 real asteroids that orbit our solar system.
Technology partners supporting the project include software giant Canonical, edge computing startup Lonestar, and Redwire Corporation, described in the press release as “a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy.”
Et soyons clairs, on ne fait ça que pour la « prise de conscience » des débris spatiaux. Promis, juré, craché.
The NFTs minted by Celestium won’t be sold for cash. In order to receive the tokens, individuals must contribute images to a collaborative artwork that will be sent into space in March 2022 as a contemporary portrayal of humanity. They can then exchange their ‘fungible tokens’ into NFTs that signify the ownership of a specific asteroid, and its accompanying AI-generated image.
But it’s not all fun and games for potential asteroid miners: along with the ownership of the stellar body, each NFT will be allocated a piece of space debris equivalent to the amount that would be produced in the asteroid’s harvesting, in order to raise awareness of the shared responsibility of the sustainable disposal of space rubbish.
Non profit, c’est sûr. Non-ideology, ça l’est moins
Besides its tech partners, the project was supported by a number of unusual non-profits, like MindFuture Foundation that wants to add ‘Life with Artificials’ as the 18th UN sustainability development goal. The Angiogenesis Foundation wants to improve human ability to grow new blood vessels, while the Arch Mission Foundation wants to seed the solar system with detailed records of human civilization called Arch Libraries. Its first project was launched in 2018, when it sent a quartz disk containing Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy to orbit the sun, in the glove compartment of Elon Musk’s Tesla.
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