"Dear Space Travelers,

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Meet SEED.

SEED has the smell of the soil, the touch of the forest. SEED remembers gravity. SEED longs for the Earth.

Let it keep you company during your journey into the ultra space. Let it guide you home."

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I imagine the future of deep space travel:

Being alone in a shiny, metallic, highly artificial cubicle. Far away from the Earth, from the loved ones. Feeling like a seed, floating in the air, lost in the vastness of the universe, longing for home. 

Earth means ground, land, soil. When we say “we miss the Earth,” we miss touching the soil. We miss sitting on the land. We miss the sensation of holding something in our arms and feeling its weight. We miss feeling grounded. We miss gravity.

SEED is a space-traveling artifact that carries memories from the Earth. It has the smell of the soil, the touch of the forest. It remembers gravity. It will keep you company during your journey into the deep space, remind you of the ground, and guide you home.

No matter how it’s repositioned, SEED will always rotate itself to point towards the Earth. The internal mechanics is inspired by reaction wheels, which is commonly used by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control.