Farmin' in the HOOD! The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland - Motherboard | VBS.TV. When Dennis Chamberland was 12 years old, he dreamed of escaping his small Oklahoman town for somewhere much farther away. One day he wrote a letter to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center: “Dear Sir, Please send me all the information you have on the space program. Sincerely, Dennis Chamberland.”
Mail from NASA began arriving, and it didn’t stop. Every couple of months for the next few years, space program spam fed Chamberland’s exploration fantasies. Still, he couldn’t have imagined where that early letter would take him. When Chamberland joined NASA in the early ’70s, as the manned space program was starting to thunder forward, he latched on to an idea being floated by NASA at the time: using the sea as a test bed for space exploration. As a developer of the agency’s Advanced Space Life Support Systems, which monitors the safety for all off-planet habitation pursuits, Chamberland soon became a lead proponent of research on underwater habitation and what he calls the “space-ocean analog.” Wolf Hilbertz – Autobiography. Autobiography, originally written 2004 (note by Kai Hilbertz: Though written in the third person, this is indeed a short autobiograpy written by Wolf himself. At my request, he wrote it in 2004 while living in Dubai.
After his death, I changed some sentences to the past tense where necessary.) Hilbertz studied architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin,at the University of Michigan, and at Louisiana State University. He worked at architectural offices in Berlin, New York and Detroit. His academic affiliations as an environmental educator and researcher have included Southern University, MacGill University, the Academy for Arts Bremen, and The University of Texas, where he also held an appointment as Sr. Hilbertz formed and directed The Marine Resources Co., is a co-founder and Director of Biorock Inc., Vice President of Research of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, and founder and President of Sun & Sea e.V., a no profit NGO.
Life Cube: Inflatable Emergency Shelter. We've seen a ton of emergency shelter concepts, and it's always exciting to see when one of these ideas becomes a reality. Life Cube, an inflatable tent that can set up in just five minutes is an example of a smart shelter design that has actually been built.
Packed neatly into a recycled plastic container, it contains all the basic necessities needed post-disaster, including food, water, a battery, lights, radio, solar trickle charger and of course, a place to recuperate. Although the Life Cube hasn't been vetted in a real world scenario, the company has at least had a chance to show it off to the Red Cross. Life Cube offers 144 sq ft of instant emergency space and requires no tools to set up.
Then a CO2 canister included with the package inflates the canopy, which is manufactured by the Patten Company, who has made NAVY life-rafts for over 50 years.