High-Level Project Summary
I produced through art, philosophy, and science a story of a hominid discovering its capabilities in a way subtly poetic. This being, even though does not recognize its power, its imagination tries to unravel ideas not just about it, but also what's surrounding it. For that to happen, the mind must offer glimpses and epiphanies which may allow it to piece by piece assimilate the origin of things.The solution of the challenge can be seen once the hominid, through its glimpses, visits the trojan asteroids and understand how each of them is formed and composed in a poetic and artistic way. The importance of the project turns out to be the creative way of explaining the mission purpose.
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Introductory idea
Seeing the lack of interaction between some areas and Science, I decided to create a story that is capable of unifying literature, philosophy, art, and science. The main tool used to get the reader's attention is writing the texts using easy-to-understand writing skills and also using poetry.
What made the unification possible:
- The literature provided the creation of the poetic texts;
- Philosophy acted on a sort of metaphysic parts of the texts;
- Art was illustrated by the drawings;
- Science was fundamental to the understanding of the compositions and diverse types of asteroids.
The Story
A primate human lives in constant conflict with yourself and your surrounding phenomena. Your mind is responsible for great imagination and provides the primate the power of assimilation. Throughout the story, the primate witnesses epiphanies and glimpses that allow the being to travel through many ideas, helping to form the enormous puzzle within your brain, and each situation gives it a better understanding of itself and the other things.
All these powerful moments provided by the imagination are a piece the primate must get of the puzzle, and, one of the moments, is a possible beginning of our Solar System in which the primate has the opportunity to understand some interesting bodies: the trojan asteroids. The composition of these bodies makes the primate human logically assume things that could have made possible not only our Solar System's existence but also its existence: the existence of a being.
The ending of the story is the ultimate understanding of what the primitive human has been witnessed, and it's worth reading.
Space Agency Data
[1] http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/04/24/Nice-Model.html | Provided the necessary understanding of a possible way of the Solar System formation, and thus allowing the use of the information in the texts.
[2] http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Overview.html, [3] http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Targets.html, [4] http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/Asteroid-Taxonomy.html#C-type | These data were responsible for giving me the knowledge to comprehend the whole NASA's Lucy Mission.
[5] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20121015.html | These WISE's bunch of information was essential to illustrate some of the asteroids.
[6] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-organic-compounds-found-in-enceladus-ice-grains | Quite useful data that allowed me to create an important analogy in the story.
Hackathon Journey
It's my first time participating and unfortunately, I got aware of the announcement a bit late. In spite of that, it's been an extremely cool (and exhausting - but it's worth it in the end) experience. I would like to thank NASA for creating such a great event. Please, keep up with the good work!
References
[1] http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/04/24/Nice-Model.html
[2] http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Overview.html
[3] http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Targets.html
[4] http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/Asteroid-Taxonomy.html#C-type
[5] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20121015.html
[6] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-organic-compounds-found-in-enceladus-ice-grains
Tags
#art #tecnology #science #youth-friendly #knowledge #lucymission
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