The Club activities:

What we want and can do?

The question arises: How can we, individual people, inhabitants of not too large and not too rich a country, benefit from space exploration, and how can we contribute to the establishment of a permanent human presence outside Earth?

One may think: "Not too much".

Please note, however, that space exploration is nowadays by no means so difficult and expensive, as many still seem to think. The Mars Pathfinder mission cost only $175 million, fully in reach of even a small European country, just like Poland. You no longer need to be a superpower to explore and conquer space.

Moreover, contribution to the development of science and technology is not always directly proportional to the amount of money spent, or to the political or economic position of a country. Intelligent people are born everywhere. Also, when speaking about space research and exploration, the contribution of people of Polish origin is not so minute as one may think. Let us mention here the two widely known names of Copernicus and Tsiolkovsky. Possibly, the discoverer of some as-yet-unknown principles of space travel will happen to be of Polish origin. To make such an accomplishment possible, and to prevent it from being overlooked and wasted, we should already start to labor toward advancing among Poles all over the world the awareness of the fact that advancement of our civilization cannot proceed without development of space research and exploration, and that every one of us can, to smaller or larger degree, contribute to the achievement of these goals.

The spreading and advancement of that awareness constitutes the primary goal of this site.

Contents

Manifesto

Biographies

URANOS

POLAND

URANOS website
Site development group

Open discussion list

What to do in Poland

URANOS website

Our first action was the development of this very site, as a means for presenting the space exploration message to the public, and as a meeting point for people sharing our opinions on the matter. Hence we are eager to know your opinions on the site, and proposals and ideas for our activities which you - just visiting our site - may want to share with us. Please send remarks, comments (or even, possibly, words of sympathy and support?), and any ideas concerning form and methods of our activities, by e-mail to kontakt@uranos.eu.org.

Site development group

Several people cooperate on the development of this site. They are collectively called the "URANOS Group". If you think that you have some time to spare for working on URANOS, we invite you to become a member of the Group, and to improve and develop it together with us. For that, you should subscribe to the (closed) e-mail list <devel@uranos.eu.org> sending to the address kontakt@uranos.eu.org a letter expressing such an intention and containing also a short statement about you personally and about what you would like to do for the development of the Club site. Every helping mind and hand will surely be useful.

The e-mail list <devel@uranos.eu.org> is bilingual, that is, letters to it can be written either in Polish or in English.

Open discussion list

For the Club supporters who want to work actively toward realization of the Club aims, we propose subscription to our open discussion list <klub@uranos.eu.org>. The list is intended as a means for:

Contacting and grouping together people who want to participate more actively in propagation and support of space exploration;
Exchange of information about, and coordination of, possible individual or collective actions aimed at that goal;
Discussion of aims, methods, perspectives and consequences of space research and space exploration by humans.

The discussion list is bilingual, that is, letters to it can be written either in Polish or in English. The list is monitored, that is, the list owners will delete from the list (after prior warning) those participants who violate the basic rules of constructive discussion or deviate too far from the list aims and scope.

Letters sent to the list are considerd to be in public domain, and hence, can be quoted outside the list in full or in part, provided the source of the quote is always indicated.

In order to subscribe to the list <klub@uranos.eu.org>, send an e-mail to the address: Majordomo@uranos.eu.org with the following command in the body of the letter:

subscribe uranos-klub name@domain

where "name@domain" denotes the e-mail address of the subscriber. In response, to the address "name@domain" a confirmation letter will be sent, containing an instruction how to use the list server.

For technical information on the server of the list <klub@uranos.eu.org>, send an e-mail to the address: Majordomo@uranos.eu.org with the following command in the body of the letter:

help

We invite you!

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Last update: 21.VII.2003