Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, is planning a lottery that would send its winner into space in an effort to spread the dream of space travel beyond the super-rich. Although details – such as the spacecraft that would make the trip – haven't yet been worked out, the goal for the top prize is an orbital flight. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]