# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Jan 29, 2016)

* Archels shared Cohen's (2004) framework of six fundamental questions in biological science: how is it built (structures), how does it work (mechanisms), what is it for (functions), what goes wrong (pathologies), how is it fixed (repairs), and how did it begin (origins).

* Kanzure suggested that Cohen's framework was incomplete, noting it should also include questions about controlling biological systems and their potential as food sources, which JayDugger later argued could be subsumed under agriculture and cooking respectively.

* Fenn noted an interesting connection between Gerard O'Neill (known for the O'Neill cylinder space habitat concept) and magnetic levitation technology, mentioning that O'Neill invented the particle storage ring used in particle accelerators.

* Participants discussed the naming of megastructures after scientists, including Dyson spheres (which docl noted Freeman Dyson credited to Olaf Stapledon's earlier work) and O'Neill cylinders.

* Fenn shared information about the 2009 satellite collision between an Iridium satellite and a defunct Russian military satellite, initially believing debris had fallen over Texas, but later correcting that it was actually a bolide meteor event.