Cities in Space
Cities in Space® Virtual 2021: Student Competition and Conference will
be held in cyberspace on February 5, 2021 at 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM CST. This
event is organized by our Holly Melear and our Janet Ivey is speaking.
Learn more at
https://steam-space.org/student-competi...ace-2021.
Evolution of Science Fiction Webinar Series
Attend “The Evolution of Science Fiction Webinar Series: Module 7,
Evolution and the Late Nineteenth Century: Utopias, Robots, the
Mystical, and the Martians” on January 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
EST. Host is Tom Lombardo and is organized by Tery Spataro.
This is an online event. Learn more at
https://events.eventzilla.net/e/the-evo...38784520.
Healthy Longevity Webinars
The NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and our Professor Brian Kennedy
are proud to be hosting FREE Healthy Longevity webinars on January 7,
14, 21, and February 4 and 18. They will be held 7 PM Singapore time.
Our Steve Horvath will be speaking at the January 7 webinar.
Learn more at
https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register...5d58qZhg.
Planning for Transformative Change
The virtual conference Planning for Transformative Change: Strategic
Talks on the Pivotal Issues of Our Time will be held each Friday,
February 5 – March 19, 2021. Our Jerome Glenn, Theodore Jay Gordon,
William E. Halal, Steven Hausman, and Paul Saffo will be speaking.
Learn more at
https://mailchi.mp/8e3498c7bb8f/virtual...b-5-2021.
Space Renaissance 2021
Space Renaissance 2021 is calling for papers/abstracts by May 31, 2021.
Learn more at
https://2021.spacerenaissance.space/ind...speeches.
Rogue Space Systems
Rogue Space Systems Corporation, a new satellite servicing company is
fundraising money. Rogue is developing Orbital Robots (Orbots™) that
will transport and service satellites in LEO, MEO, and GEO. In December
of 2020, Rogue signed a cooperative agreement (CRADA) with the US Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
In addition to traditional fundraising efforts, Rogue is also accepting
investment funds from non-traditional investors on Trucrowd, a Federal
equity-based crowdfunding portal. Learn more at
https://us.trucrowd.com/equity/offer-summary/Rogue.
Special Report
Read “Special Report The Future of Digital Surveillance and Healthcare:
A Conversation with World Leading Philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner” at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/the.future.of.d....sorgner
by Dinorah Delfin.
Biotechnologies are giving us the ability to create algorithms that
allow us to better understand and monitor what is happening inside of
the human body by means of implanted chips that measure bodily processes
and generate biometric data.
By means of this data, we can also get warnings before a disease
develops. The same chips can also be used to prevent future epidemics by
spotting infected people and isolating them.
SpaceX
Lifeboat Foundation congratulates SpaceX on its successful Starship SN8
launch. Starship is the world’s first reusable space vehicle. Starship
will transform our world, starting with making Starlink the first
non-bankrupt LEO constellation, later bringing us to the Moon and then
hopefully Mars.
We recommend that NASA redirect their funds from the dead-end SLS system
towards Starship. Even if NASA continues to waste tens of billions of
dollars on SLS, it is unlikely that it will ever do more than a handful
of launches as the low cost Starship program makes it obsolete.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.spacex.
Books
Read “18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather” at https://amzn.to/3dO7oZy by Christopher Dewdney. This
book is winner of the American Meteorological Society’s Louis J. Battan Authors’ Award for science writing, the 2019 Science
Writers & Communicators of Canada Book Award, and the 2018 Lane Anderson Award.
Read “Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence” at
https://amzn.to/37xEVHc, coauthored by Woody Barfield.
Read “Aftershocks and Opportunities: Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic
Future” at https://amzn.to/3mIse0w coedited by Alexandra Whittington. It
includes chapters by Bruce Lloyd, Liselotte Lyngsø, and Nell (Eleanor)
Watson.
Read “The Aging Gap Between Species” at http://amzn.to/2f9xb5R and “Eat
Less, Live Longer — Your Practical Guide to Calorie Restriction with
Optimal Nutrition” at http://amzn.to/2x4kFZK, both by Anca Iovita.
Read “A Greater World is Possible: The expansion of civilization beyond
the limits of our home planet is the moral issue of our time” at
https://amzn.to/2KFmvvr by Adriano V. Autino.
Read “Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and
Culture: Artificial Slaves” at https://amzn.to/2C98GRP by Kevin
LaGrandeur and “Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and
the Transformation of Human Work” at https://amzn.to/2WhKR10 coedited by
Kevin LaGrandeur.
Read “Arrival Mind” at https://amzn.to/3jKouLb and “Upgrade” at
https://amzn.to/36LpgnN, both by Louis B. Rosenberg.
“Arrival Mind” is a ‘picture book for grown-ups’ about the dangers of
artificial intelligence. “Upgrade” is a dystopian graphic novel about
human society willfully designing itself out of existence.
Read “The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms” at
https://amzn.to/2KDOsne edited by Woody Barfield.
Read “Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future” at
https://amzn.to/2CHD9WW by Roy Christopher. This book uses the concerns
and conceits of cyberpunk literature to thoughtfully remap
hip-hop’s spread from around the way to around the world.
Read “Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent
Developments” at https://amzn.to/38FE1YK by J. Peter Rosenfeld.
Read “Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft
Technology — Second Edition” at https://amzn.to/3hbXSSS and “The Future
of Humanity: Global Civilization and China’s Rejuvenation” at
https://amzn.to/2LVUNe9 by Zhouying Jin.
Read “Handbook of Small Satellites: Technology, Design, Manufacture,
Applications, Economics and Regulation” at https://amzn.to/3hedSUJ,
“Space 2.0: Revolutionary Advances in the Space Industry” at
https://amzn.to/2KxW7DP, “Handbook of Satellite Applications” at
https://amzn.to/3pm0AYT, “Preparing for the Next Cyber Revolution: How
Our World Will Be Radically Transformed — Again!” at
https://amzn.to/3nNZrZX, “The New Gold Rush: Riches of Space Beckon!” at
https://amzn.to/3hhGj42, and “Global Space Governance: An International
Study” at https://amzn.to/2JnTB2w, all authored, edited, or coedited by
Joseph N. Pelton.
Read “How to Be a Rocket Scientist” at https://amzn.to/31RcdwX and
“Cybersecurity for Kids Puzzle Book: Fun Learning Cyber Security Basics
Through Word Searches, Crosswords, Cryptograms, Logic Puzzles, Coloring,
and More” at https://amzn.to/38w9AUM, both by Brett Hoffstadt.
Read “How To Develop The Solar System and Beyond: A Roadmap to
Interstellar Space” at https://amzn.to/3aEY6kq by Giorgio Gaviraghi,
John Lee, Pier Marzocca, Joseph Miller, Armen V. Papazian, Dirk
Schulze-Makuch, and Amalie Sinclair.
Read “In Search of Consciousness and the Theory of Everything: Towards
the Final Answers to the Mystery of Existence” at
https://amzn.to/2SpYRls by Abed Peerally.
Read “Laundrygate: Strange Stories About the Future” at
https://amzn.to/2KToJqM by Tery Spataro. This book is a collection of
short stories about the unimagined consequences of technology and the
creation of new realities.
Read “Modified: Living as a Cyborg” at https://amzn.to/3gYUBWZ, coedited
by Chris Hables Gray.
Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new
collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a
set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a
cyborg in the twenty-first century.
Read “Moon: An Illustrated History: From Ancient Myths to the
Colonies of Tomorrow” at https://amzn.to/2QWT7TF by David
Warmflash.
Read “The Oppenheimer Alternative” at https://amzn.to/3ho8gHp. On the
75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and
Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit
history… with a twist.
While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to
develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating:
a bomb based on nuclear fusion — the mechanism that powers the sun.
Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the
sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar
system — including Earth.
As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan,
Oppenheimer’s team, plus Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, stay
together — the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century
racing against time to save our future.
Read “Replacing Aging” at https://amzn.to/38p4ole by Jean M. Hébert.
Read “Rise of the Space Age Millennials: The Space Aspirations of a
Rising Generation” at https://amzn.to/3p9NAW9 by Laura Forczyk.
Read “The Transhumanism Handbook” at https://amzn.to/2DCJCQA, edited by
Newton Lee. Also read his “Google It: Total Information Awareness” at
https://amzn.to/2UZRKp9 and “Facebook Nation: Total Information
Awareness” at https://amzn.to/2V0Gp8k.
Read “The Vanished Seas” at https://amzn.to/3mMTQSk. This is a science
fiction mystery by Catherine Asaro. Read an interview about her book at
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/07/09/...ne-asaro. Visit her Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/CatherineAsaro.
Read “Voyager: Photographs from Humanity’s Greatest Journey” at
https://amzn.to/34P6Q3x. Our Garry Hunt was a member of the Voyager
imaging team. (Garry received 2 NASA Awards for the Voyager Project with
two additional NASA Awards in 1986 and 1990.)
YouTube Duo
Sebastian Todor and Jixuan Wang join our Space Settlement Board. This couple works on the YouTube Channel “2 The Future” at https://www.youtube.com/c/JixuanSebastian, making videos on future technologies, ranging from transportation technologies to biotechnology, with the main focus on human spaceflight.
Blog
Mark Parkins joins our blog team with the post “Sirtuins Activation —
What They Can Offer Longevity & How they May Help Extend Life” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/sirtu...end-life
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“The Air Force Is Putting Death Rays on Fighter Jets. Yes, Death Rays”
by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/the-a...ath-rays
“Apollo 13: ‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/apoll...-problem
“Artificial intelligence co-pilots US military aircraft for the first
time” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/artif...rst-time
“Astronomers Just Found Cosmic ‘Superhighways’ For Fast Travel Through
The Solar System” by Jim Brownfield at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/astro...r-system
“China is Creating Biologically Enhanced Super Soldiers, Says US Spy
Chief” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/china...py-chief
“Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dead at 97” by Heather
Blevins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/chuck...ad-at-97
“Colorado student, scientist named Time’s ‘Kid of the Year’” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/color...the-year
“Contact lenses worthy of James Bond to zoom and film in a blink of an
eye” by Jeremy Dylan Batterson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/conta...f-an-eye
“Coronavirus: Should I start taking vitamin D?” by Poopeh Morakkabati at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/coron...itamin-d
“The country’s first commercial space center is coming to Houston” by
Brent Ellman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/the-c...-houston
“Cybersecurity giant FireEye says it was hacked by govt-backed spies who
stole its crown-jewels hacking tools” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/cyber...ng-tools
“Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days” by Kevin Huang
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/drug-...hin-days
“Elon Musk says Mars economy will run on cryptocurrency” by Montie
Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/elon-...currency
“Europe Is Launching a Giant Claw to Grab Space Junk” by Muhammad Furqan
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/europ...ace-junk
“Experiment takes ‘snapshots’ of light, stops light, uses light to
change properties of matter” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/exper...f-matter
“French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers” by Shane Hinshaw
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/frenc...soldiers
“Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline” by Muhammad
Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/googl...-offline
“‘Guardians’ of the galaxy: US Space Force members get a new name” by
Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/guard...new-name
“Here is the once in a lifetime Bethlehem Christmas Star Conjunction of
Jupiter and Saturn as seen through the telescope” by TJ Wass at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/here-...elescope
“It was honestly one of the most awesome experiences I’ve ever had,
feeling the power of the raptors on the way up is indescribable!” by
Heather Blevins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/austi...-awesome
“Japanese Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth” by Brent Ellman
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/japan...to-earth
“Jupiter and Saturn swing by the moon this week ahead of a ‘Great
Conjunction’” by Eamon Everall at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/jupit...junction
“Jupiter and Saturn will come within 0.1 degrees of each other, forming
the first visible ‘double planet’ in 800 years” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/jupit...00-years
“LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against
COVID-19” by Eli Sklar at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/led-l...covid-19
“Lifeboat Foundation congratulates SpaceX on its successful SN8 Launch!”
by Eric Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/lifeb...8-launch
“Liquid Blood Found In Remains Of 42,000-Year-Old Mummified Foal” by
Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/liqui...ied-foal
“Lower current leads to highly efficient memory” by Saúl Morales
Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/lower...t-memory
“Making the First Martians: Building an Economy on Mars” by Lola Heavey
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/makin...-on-mars
“Molecular mechanism of long-term memory discovered” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/molec...scovered
“NASA’s spacecraft spots China’s Chang’e 5 lander on the moon” by Roger
Dufur at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/nasas...the-moon
“Neuroscientists investigate the relationship between language and
cognitive functions” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/neuro...unctions
“New gravitational ‘superhighway’ system discovered in the Solar System”
by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/new-g...r-system
“Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/oral-...smission
“Radishes grown in space for first time” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/radis...rst-time
“Researchers Invent Material That Could Create Invisibility Cloak” by
Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/resea...ty-cloak
“SpaceX’s 1st upgraded Dragon cargo ship docks itself at space station
with science, goodies and new airlock” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/space...-airlock
“Stanford engineers invent a sonar device that works outside the water”
by Brent Ellman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/stanf...he-water
“Titanium atom that exists in two places at once in crystal to blame for
unusual phenomenon” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/titan...enomenon
“U.S. Army Forges Ahead With Its Railgun As Navy’s Commitment To The
Tech Is Questioned” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/u-s-a...estioned
“U.S. Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started” by
Chuck Black at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/u-s-b...-started
“Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/11/under...h-theory
“Why We Should Exercise Regularly — Ten Amazing Benefits” by Mark
Parkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/12/why-w...benefits
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