Venus: Stanford Astroscale talk from Japan, "Mars: Space SALVAGE resources, How to define Space Law http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Law and Salvage Law re Maritime Law to clean up Space? With realistic virtual universe?, Mars is ~35 million miles' away ...," Wittle bit of a law enforcement / public safety issue in deep space on the way to Mars :), How best to stay in touch about space law, space missions perhaps in communication with Astronaut Abigail Harrison who seeks to be the first person to land on Mars in the 2030s (she's a Wellesley undergraduate presently), salvage/maritime law, and cleaning up space ... and making space art and markets in general (re space law)? ... UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' talk: The Case of “House-Planting” in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Baisha [Lijiang], MIT OCW's first Anthropology book - Laura Ahearn's "Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal" from a tourism studies' perspective - and especially from Chinese, French and Egyptian / Arabic perspectives too

Chris, and Richard, 

Thanks for your email address, Chris, and your great talk at Stanford recently:  https://events.stanford.edu/events/733/73339/.

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Wittle bit of a law enforcement / public safety issue in deep space on the way to Mars :)

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How best to stay in touch about space law, space missions perhaps in communication with Astronaut Abigail Harrison who seeks to be the first person to land on Mars in the 2030s (she's a Wellesley undergraduate presently), salvage/maritime law, and cleaning up space ... and making space art and markets in general (re space law)?

Best regards, 

Scott

Hongmei (and All), 

Thanks for an interesting Tourism Studies' talk at UC Berkeley yesterday - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/Zhao2017.htm . To further ask my "advertising discourse" question (re Thurot and Thurot), and as an afterthought: 

In what ways could the village of Baisha best plant nicer and nicer houses to grow Bai peoples' culture - re Bai people see ... http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/811 - (as distinct from their economics), such that micro-milieus would lead to macro-milieus of tourists visiting Baisha en masse, since their reports' home would reflect the growing quality of house-planting ... in main cities/countries of tourist origin ?

And how would local and foreign students (further) study this Bai (and/or Naxi) culture/fantasy/imagninary question (and in a realistic virtual earth for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy especially, thinking Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER which we can all add to - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ).

Here's Baisha in Google Streetview -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baisha,+Heqing,+Dali,+Yunnan,+China/@26.6413335,100.2137902,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x372737a243d8debb:0xc638a3758c63f304!8m2!3d26.641315!4d100.222545 - to which we can add further photos, and probably videos. 

Thank you,
Scott

(Here's my " Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity) " paper which I wrote in Nelson's course where I look at this question further -https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ )

Nelson, Hongmei, Stephane, Amir, Xiangchun and All, 

Thurot and Thurot's 1983 paper provided a key interpretation for creating a tourism studies' reading of the internet / information age for me as a condition informing tourism, and emerging from my reading of Dean's "The Tourist" re modernity (and Urry's reading of post-modernity re tourism). Each author's broad theorizing (MacCannell, Urry, Thurot and Thurot, and MacLeod) could also probably inform an interpretation of "house-planting" in Baisha, Lijiang, China, as well, in a related vein, and around the "culture" question - how does this word translate anthropologically meaning-wise into Chinese I wonder? ... beyond imaginary and fantasy (and aside from the political economics' questions your talk addressed as I heard it).  

Hongmei, Stephane and Amir, I've found far-reaching the MIT OCW "Introduction to Anthropology" course in English - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-00-introduction-to-anthropology-spring-2013/ - and especially reading its first book - Ahearn, Laura M. Chapters 1–2 in Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal. University of Michigan Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780472067848 - (which is accessible for free to borrow in limited copies from the Open Library - https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8246563W/Invitations_to_Love )

It would be interesting to read Ahearn's "Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal" from a tourism studies' perspective - and espeically from Chinese, French and Egyptian / Arabic perspectives too . 

But books don't get translated easily between languages - so it isn't possible to read Ahearn's "Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal" in Chinese, French and Arabic, for example. 

So here's the MIT OCW in Chinese 'Introductory' course called "Anthropological Theory, Spring 2003" - http://www2.myoops.org/twocw/mit/Anthropology/21A-110Anthropological-TheorySpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm - but without Ahearn's "Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal," and accessible from MIT OCW in Chinese - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ . 

How best to create great translations of texts re Tourism Studies or MIT OCW Anthropology between these languages ... and to study how students learn comparatively around the same course (a goal of WUaS too) ... and until, for example, the machine translation between all 7,099 living languages in Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - gets to a professional level, I wonder? I hope too that matriculated students for free CC MIT OCW degrees at World University and School in nation states whose official languages are traditional Chinese, French and Arabic will have access to excellent online university libraries from the field in all 7,099 living languages at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources - for free.

While it looks like Anthropology Prof. Laura Ahearn's field site of Junigau village and the nearby Banyan HIlls in Nepal haven't made it into Google Streetview yet, the capital ciety of Kathmandu, Nepal, itself, has -  

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kathmandu+44600,+Nepal/@27.706,85.3095,3a,106.5y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1shttps:%2F%2Fthumbnails.trvl-media.com%2FLatZqqdpdjzUiaxuJfNAol-OZtE%3D%2F768x432%2Fimages.trvl-media.com%2Fmedia%2Fcontent%2Fshared%2Fimages%2Ftravelguides%2Fdestination%2F180066%2FKathmandu-91423.jpg!2e7!3e27!6s%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FGx3Lw8-HWuTXPKuVehYNgAVUoUEi4-6tXMvmkEOPDHdj7VKCdGXzx_mcQ2fBtcS3UH-EPrvCefJpKZzAosWaIhSzep25mq-8B30e-duxdnpNQCLbYjWBh7y8vdV0mZeuxVolbzSrPwv4K3ws2HGHLbas7nMAGF0%3Dw153-h86-k-no!7i768!8i432!4m5!3m4!1s0x39eb198a307baabf:0xb5137c1bf18db1ea!8m2!3d27.7172453!4d85.3239605 - 

As a further thought re your "house-planting" talk, Hongmei: since Baisha near Lijiang, China is in Google Streetview - 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baisha,+Heqing,+Dali,+Yunnan,+China/@26.6413335,100.2137902,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x372737a243d8debb:0xc638a3758c63f304!8m2!3d26.641315!4d100.222545 - it should be able to design and build buildings to house-plant further eventually in Google Streetview itself, and with economic and touristic significance (and culturally in new ways too) ... and for doing virtual field work ... which could give Baisha and your anthropological studies there a big advantage over, for example, Junigau in Nepal, which has a great book "Invitations to Love: ... " (the first anthropological book read in a MIT course ) ... and with an opportunity to write as comparatively a good Tourism Studies' anthropological book about Baisha as Laura Ahearn's book "Invitations to Love" as well. 

And by way of further comparison: 

Thanks again for your interesting talk on Friday, Hongmei. 

Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States 

- each to become a major online university - the Harvards / MITs / Oxbridges of the Internet

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