John Thomas Riley

John Thomas Riley is the chief designer for The Big Moon Dig. From 1989-2014, he worked at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center as Contamination Control Engineer on 1) Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (HST SM-4); 2) Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA). From 1979-1981, he worked at Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory as a System Engineer. The Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory was at the time the third-largest ground based astronomical telescope on Earth. He has a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston.

Publications

General George S. Patton and Our Climate Crisis: The Stories People Need – Building New Myths for a Sustainable Earth
General George S. Patton and Our Climate Crisis: The Stories People Need – Building New Myths for a Sustainable Earth
John Thomas Riley. © 2021. 30 pages.
The story of General Patton at the Battle of the Bulge is an excellent example of a story with a message that can be applied to our climate crisis. Our climate crisis is the...
Symbioses as an Alternative to Master/Slave for Artificial Intelligence
Symbioses as an Alternative to Master/Slave for Artificial Intelligence
John Thomas Riley. © 2021. 24 pages.
Human society is facing enormous problems this century as result of our climate crisis. These problems include sea level rise and the loss of farming capability. Society will...
Narrative Thinking and Storytelling for Problem Solving in Science Education
Narrative Thinking and Storytelling for Problem Solving in Science Education
John Thomas Riley, Luisa dall'Acqua. © 2019. 271 pages.
The 21st century has seen no shortage of historic problems, which has begged the question, How is society preparing today’s young people to take on these challenges? There have...
The Coming Human/Machine Symbiosis, Effects on Society, and Business Planning
The Coming Human/Machine Symbiosis, Effects on Society, and Business Planning
John Thomas Riley. © 2019. 29 pages.
Although the future of society is hazy, a workable vision of the future can be developed from existing computer modeling of key parameters like population and sea level. This...
Extended Managerial Implications: People and Space in the Twenty-First Century
Extended Managerial Implications: People and Space in the Twenty-First Century
John Thomas Riley. © 2018. 29 pages.
In these challenging times, people need a positive vision of the future that human space exploration best provides. The way Apollo to the Moon was run in the 1960s, with a huge...