Milwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society About Us - Home Moon Miners Manifesto Projects Display Items Workshops PUBLIC SPEAKING Painting Experiments Experimental Lunar Agriculture NSS Chapters Space-Milwaukee Our local Meet-up TMS Chapters MLRS SPEAKER SERVICE MLRS will supply speakers for various events in the Greater Milwaukee area. For talks outside the Milwaukee County Transit Service Area, transpotation must be provided or paid for.e Gratuities are not expected, but donations to help further our outreach activities are welcome. MLRS Speakers and the things they like to talk about Peter Kokh (414) 342-0705 kokhmmm@aol.com  (7am-9pm Central Time) Editor of Moon Miners' Manifesto since 1986 - [bio] Co-founder and current President of the Mlwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc. Past Regional Board member of the National Space Society; Member of NSS Board of Advisers Recipient of the Gerard O'Neill Award Prepared Talks: The Moon Common Myths about the Moon Clean Energy from the Moon to wipe out poverty and save our environment The Moon: From Outposts to Settlements Living of the Moon: Resourcefulness is the Key to Lunar Settlement Home, home on the Moon: underground for safety, but with the Sun and the views - and without Spacesuits Expanding a Lunar Outpost with made-on-Luna additions The "Magnificent Desolation" - outdoors on the Moon Living with the Moon's month-long day Beyond Biosphere II: establishing mini-biospheres on the Moon and Mars. Living downwind and downstream from themselves, pioneers don't dare pollute The Xity: beyond Earth's atmosphere, Cities will be radically different institutions "Regolith Impressionism": Paints Lunar Settlers can make from moondust Towards a distinctive Lunar Culture: customs, calendar, holidays, arts, sports, etc. The Commercial route to Opening up the Moon Social lessons for Earth that may come out of the Lunar frontier experience Breaking out of "Cradle Earth", viable exclaves of humanity and Earth-life Toward an Earth-Moon Economy: diversification of lunar industry Prinzton: a design study for a 3,000 person Lunar Settlement The Moon's Hidden Valleys: lavatube shangrilas Beyond the Hubble Space Telescope: advantages of observatories on the Moon Amateur Astronomy from the Moon and Elsewhere Arts & Crafts on the Moon U-LuCy: The University of Luna in Cyberspace Prepared Talks: Mars Moon versus Mars: what should be our priorities and synergies? The Exploration of Mars: let's not go until we are ready to do it right! The Colonization of Mars: making a second home for man on the red planet Towards a distinctive Martian Culture: calendar, holidays, arts & crafts, sports, etc. Mars' More Earthlike past: where did all the water go? Red Mars-Green Mars-Blue Mars: "terraforming" Mars vs. "rejuvenating" it Earth-Moon-Mars Triangle of Trade: making the economics work Pioneering on Mars: Yolk Sac Mentality & Resourcefulness are the Keys to Mars Settlement Home sweet home on Mars: underground for safety, but with the Sun and the views Mars' Hidden Valleys: lavatube Shangrilas Expanding a Martian Outpost with made-on-Mars additions Life on Mars with and without Spacesuits Tourism to Mars, direct and via Venus, Cycling Mars-run ships Prepared Talks: Elsewhere in the Solar System Island Cities in Space: the Vision of Gerard O'Neill Venus: this "hellish" planet may not be totally off-limits Mercury: why its closeness to the Sun could be an asset Resources from the Asteroids and Dormant Comets Europa: the water moon of Jupiter: the mysteries of its ice-covered ocea Titan: mysterious and exotic giant moon of Saturn The Economic Geography of the Solar System Prepared Talks: Commercial Space Commercial Space Opportunities, on Earth and out there, now and coming up Tourism in Space I: suborbital hops; orbital hotels; loop-the-Moon excursions Tourism in Space II: on the Moon, to Mars, the rings and moons of Saturn Prepared Talks: Beyond the Solar System Will Humans Ever Reach the Stars? Could Earth have been visited by other intelligent races?