End of the Year Fundraiser
Our End of the Year Fundraiser has begun!
You can get donations made by October 31 •tripled• at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser
Typography
We would like your input on typography issues. If you would like to
give your opinion on such issues write to
Blog
Yasemin B. won last month's blog contest with the post "Space Junk!
Environmental concerns!" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/09/space-...concerns
She won a free autographed copy
of "Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars"
(thanks to our Haym Benaroya) and an autographed DVD of "Orphans of
Apollo" (thanks to our Michael Potter).
This month, anyone who posts to our blog in the space category will be
eligible to win an autographed copy of "Missions to the Moon" (thanks to
our Rod Pyle) and an autographed copy of "Darkship Thieves" which won
the Prometheus Award (thanks to our Sarah A. Hoyt).
To get authorization to post to our official blog, write to
You can learn about "Missions to the Moon" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140276...02769806
and you can learn about "Darkship Thieves" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143913...39133980
So far, the following people have entered this drawing:
Gary Michael Church with the post "Water and Bombs" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/water-and-bombs
Steve Nerlich with the post "Astronomers Win 2011 Nobel Prize in
Physics" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/astron...-physics
Walter Putnam with the post "Space Renaissance: Dawn of a New Age of
Civilization" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/space-...lization
Amalie Sinclair with the post "ISDHuB – Supporting for 100 years" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/isdhub...00-years
Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson, author of The New York Times best selling science
fiction book Robopocalypse, joined our Futurists Board. Steven
Spielberg will be directing the film version of this novel, scheduled
for a release date of July 4, 2013. (Note that Dreamworks bought the
film rights to the book a year and a half •before• the book was
published.)
You can learn about this book at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038553...85533853
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Anonymous: $130,
Brenda Cooper: $120,
John J. Grencer: $120,
Paula J. Wilson: $120,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Brandon E. Larson: $50,
Brian Shiro: $30,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Don V. Black: $10,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Phil Nadeau: $10,
Frank D. Smith: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Keith Godici: $5,
Gissell Gonzalez: $5,
Tatiana Gonzalez: $5,
John Gutierrez: $5,
Paulette Kallas: $5,
and Carlos Ingram: Private amount.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
