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| 9 | 9 | the goal is to produce a design (and reference interface) that any cypherspace |
| 10 | 10 | should be able to provide for, and be measured against. |
| 11 | 11 | |
| 12 | +## contents | |
| 13 | + | |
| 14 | +- [spaceship-schema](./spaceship-schema.md): a document describing the basic | |
| 15 | + building blocks of the design and how they relate. | |
| 16 | +- [spaceship-engines](./spaceship-engines.md): a document describing the basic | |
| 17 | + "API-like" functions needed to realise the schema. | |
| 18 | +- [ ] TODO: reference engine implementations in: | |
| 19 | + - [ ] swarmbot | |
| 20 | + - [ ] scuttlebot | |
| 21 | + - ?? | |
| 22 | + | |
| 23 | +## answers to questions | |
| 24 | + | |
| 12 | 25 | ### why all this space junk? |
| 13 | 26 | |
| 14 | 27 | space junk is [a real problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris). |
| 15 | 28 | |
| 16 | 29 | ok really, it's because deep space is a domain you imagine as drastically |
| 17 | 30 | different from where you are (at least at the time of this commit). space is a |
| 18 | 31 | new place, with new rules, which is good motivation to rethink things. |
| 19 | 32 | |
| 20 | -it's easier to imagine that if you can travel through space, you can imagine new | |
| 21 | -technologies and modes of interaction independent from earthbound | |
| 22 | -structure. fiction and fact about space are full of old and new ideas about | |
| 23 | -mechanisms and machinery. basic communication and interaction over astronomical | |
| 24 | -distances, without a governing central authority, are also imaginable as the | |
| 25 | -lifeblood of space-based society. | |
| 33 | +in other words, this is about **engineering safe communication spaces**, as free | |
| 34 | +from prior context as possible. | |
| 26 | 35 | |
| 36 | +it's easier to imagine such things if you can travel through space. you can | |
| 37 | +imagine new technologies and modes of interaction compeltely independent from | |
| 38 | +earthbound structure. | |
| 39 | + | |
| 40 | +fiction and fact about space are full of old and new ideas about technologies | |
| 41 | +and mechanisms. basic communication and interaction over astronomical distances, | |
| 42 | +without a governing central authority, are also imaginable as the lifeblood of | |
| 43 | +space-based society. | |
| 44 | + | |
| 27 | 45 | it's also a simple metaphor for judging approaches in the long-term. a |
| 28 | 46 | centralised communication system that finds ways of locking you and your data in |
| 29 | -forever is like a black hole. an endless succession of non-interoperable | |
| 30 | -alternative networks and secure messaging systems resembles, in the extreme, | |
| 31 | -[an over-expanded universe where no one can talk to anyone else](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip). | |
| 47 | +forever is like a black hole. on the other hand, an endless succession of | |
| 48 | +non-interoperable alternative networks and secure messaging systems resembles, | |
| 49 | +in the extreme, | |
| 50 | +[an expanding universe that eventually renders communication impossible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip). | |
| 32 | 51 | |
| 33 | 52 | and anyway, space is really cool. |
| 34 | 53 | |
| 35 | 54 | ### the design is abstract and confusing... |
| 36 | 55 | |
| 37 | 56 | the goal is to design and build something extremely minimal and generic, |
| 38 | 57 | independent of underlying network structure. naturally this means something more |
| 39 | -abstract than most assumptions brought in from every day life. | |
| 58 | +abstract than most assumptions brought in from some the everyday life of some | |
| 59 | +particular set of people. | |
| 40 | 60 | |
| 41 | 61 | saying that, it should be useful--spaceship's design should lead you toward |
| 42 | 62 | relatable interactions and experiences. please feel welcome to submit an issue |
| 43 | 63 | or pull request if you think something is missing or needs changing. |
| 44 | - | |
| 45 | -## contents | |
| 46 | - | |
| 47 | -- [spaceship-schema](./spaceship-schema.md): a document describing the basic | |
| 48 | - building blocks of the design and how they relate. | |
| 49 | -- [spaceship-engines](./spaceship-engines.md): a document describing the basic | |
| 50 | - "API-like" functions needed to realise the schema. | |
| 51 | -- [ ] TODO: reference engine implementations in: | |
| 52 | - - [ ] swarmbot | |
| 53 | - - [ ] scuttlebot | |
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