Concept Art and BCP
Business Continuity Planing and to some degree Disaster Recovery Planning are about seeing what is, looking at potential risks to operational continuance, then planning how to mitigate or eliminate those risks. By extrapolating a situation or existing construct out to the extreme end of possibility, stepping back to plausibility, then stepping back once more to affordability, a continuity planner is usually able to present an acceptable mitigation / recovery plan to the executive.
Utilizing these same practices we can visualize potential threats to a successful IPF or colonial expedition and perhaps be able to prevent a mission failure. The one major difference between applying these principles to an Earth based corporate operation and an interplanetary mission is affordability. If affordability became the governing factor in space, or on a hostile planet, mission success could be severely degraded
In future postings I will be providing some insights into how such thinking processes can be applied to current constructs to identify weaknesses or potential failures. For now, take a look at the image below. It is one of thousands of designs, artistic renditions and concepts you can find on the internet depicting space ship and colonial designs.
This particular illustration is a rendering of a Martian colony. Can you identify what is wrong with this concept?
After scouring the internet for materials published by the national space agencies I have found many such images and concepts that would not likely be successful if they were deployed. Fundamental flaws in such concepts would usually be found by applying a BCP mindset during the design process.
Two of the five flaws in this artistic rendition are an example of not getting the technology right and failing to extrapolate risks to a logical conclusion. Perhaps you can identify them.
For interests sake, the link below is to an article about how Norman Rockwell, an American painter and illustrator was commissioned by NASA to paint a concept image how the first lunar landing would look.
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