Space and Coral Reefs
We helped fundraise $57,571 for "Our Future in Space — A National Space
Society Video" at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/351...ty-video
(We donated to this cause as well.)
We are currently fundraising for "Coral-bots: teams of robots that
repair coral reefs" at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376...al-reefs
(We donated to this cause as well.)
Bitcoin Endowment Fund
Brian Cartmell's matching pledge at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bitcoins has
a time limit so any amount that you can donate to match his pledge would
be appreciated.
Our bitcoin endowment fund has accomplished the following recently:
1) We have received our first MasterCard and Visa donations.
2) We are now partners with Bitcoin Foundation and Bitcoin Magazine.
3) We added the paragraph "Crypto-currencies have many advantages over
old-fashioned government-backed money. For example, they allow people in
less developed countries to have access to the rest of the world. For
example, PayPal alone blocks access to over 60 countries, and many
credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for
political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for
other financial reasons. Whatever the reason, we don't think a human
being from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to
the world because of payment issues they can't control. Our goal is to
enable people, not block them."
4) We added the section "Board Members: The Lifeboat Foundation is
recruiting bitcoin talent from around the planet. Our many
bitcoin-related board members include Jeff Bone, Paul Buitink, Mike
Caldwell, Philippe Camacho, Brian Cartmell, Matthew Elias, Chris Haley,
Zach Harvey, Sean Lavine, Adam B. Levine, Colbert Low, Jon Matonis,
Trace Mayer, Lasse Birk Olesen, Salvatore W. Delle Palme, Michael
Parsons, Elizabeth Ploshay, Benson Samuel, Charlie Shrem, Eli Sklar,
Adam Stradling, Jorge Timón, Jonathan Waller, Alex Waters, and J.R. Willett."
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bitcoins
Shout-Out for Chris Haley
Six months ago Chris Haley made our first large bitcoin donation, totaling 85 bitcoins worth $1,000 in total. Today they are worth over $11,000 and were the key to jump-starting our bitcoin endowment fund now worth almost $100,000. Thanks Chris!
Pretty from a Distance
Read the novel "Pretty from a Distance" which is a deeply moving passage into the lives of people caught in an interweaving dance of dependency and control. It is at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147934...found-20
Articles
"Big banks vs. Bitcoin libertarianism" at
http://www.kurzweilai.net/big-banks-vs-...arianism
"Don't fear the robo-apocalypse, yet" at
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...2107909/
"Omens: When we peer into the fog of the deep future what do we see — human extinction or a future among the stars?" at
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views...inction/
Videos
"In the beginning was the code: Jürgen Schmidhuber at TEDxUHasselt" at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ogwa76yQo
"What is a physicist doing in the jungle?: Ille Gebeshuber at TEDxKL 2012"
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wcfY129eQ
Anyone who posts in our Facebook group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by April 30, 2013
will be entered into a contest to win a signed copy of the new — just
out — "A Few Good Men", by Prometheus Award winning author Sarah A. Hoyt.
The following people have already entered the contest:
Henry B. Augustine, Gerard Bain, Klaus Baldauf, Paul Battista, Kevin
Berry, Alex Michael Bonnici, Phil Bowermaster, Geoff Brennan, Mark
Carney, Greg Ching, Brenda Cooper, Renee Coughlan, Nikola Danaylov,
Eamon Everall, Walter Farah, Toni Ferraté, Sean Emery Flatt, Adam Ford,
Ancelmo Luiz Graceli, Valdimir Dorian Gray, Tristan Hambling, Kashif
Hasnie, Alex Hoekstra, Phillip Keane, Tom Kerwick, Adam Kisby, Josef
Koch, Wes Kretzschmar, Stephen Lang, Ron Langdon, Jeremy Lichtman, Brian
Lundquist, Christopher MacArthur, Daniele Mancinelli, Brady McKenna,
Gary S. Mezo, Astrônomo Carlos Mourâo Mourâo, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu,
Vincent Ocasla, Lawrence A. Oshanek, Edward Pandemonium, Ira Pastor,
George Perry, Boris Petrovic, Rafael S. Ponio, Charles F. Radley, Byron
Craig Russell, Luis R. Saraiva, Eric Schulke, Chris Smedley, Valentin
Socolov, Kim Solez, Frank Stratford, Sergio Tarrero, Jerrold Thacker,
Reno J. Tibke, Robert Tindale, Zachary Urbina, Philippe Van Nedervelde,
and Simon Waslander.
Learn about "A Few Good Men" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145163...found-20
Learn about Sarah at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.sarah.a.hoyt
International Space Development Conference
Learn about the International Space Development Conference at http://www.razoo.com/story/Isdc2013
Telomere Testing
Learn about "TeloMe — Telomere Testing: Take Control of Your Long-term Health" at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/telom...-health/
Blog
Franco Cortese joins our blog team with the post "Techno-Progressives
and Neo-Luddites are Brothers in Arms" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/techno...-in-arms
Leif DeVaney joins our blog team with the post "Life and Boats" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/03/life-and-boats
J.R. Willett joins our blog team with the post "Bitcoin's Dystopian
Future" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/bitcoi...n-future
Other interesting blog posts include:
"4 in 5 Americans Don't Think That Death Exists?!" by Franco Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/4-in-5...h-exists
"An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance" by Reno J. Tibke at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/03/an-ups...aissance
"Brian Greene, String Theory & the Gamow Memorial Lectures" by Benjamin
T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/03/brian-...lectures
"Colorado Celebrating Space Exploration" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/03/colora...loration
"Does Advanced Technology Make the 2nd Amendment Redundant?" by Franco
Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/does-a...edundant
"Faith in the Fat of Fate may be Fatal for Humanity" by Franco Cortese
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/faith-...humanity
"Killing Deathist Cliches: 'Death Gives Meaning to Life' is
Meaningless!" by Franco Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/killin...ningless
"The Life Extension Hubris: Why biotechnology is unlikely to be the
answer to ageing" by Marios Kyriazis at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/04/the-li...o-ageing
"Robots for Japan's Future: talk with them, move with them, live with
them... All in time." by Reno J. Tibke at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/03/robots...-in-time
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Charlie Shrem: $1,300,
Anonymous: $131.90,
David W. Corne: $100,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez: $85,
Sergey Prokudin: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Ryan Witt: $10,
and J.R. Willett: $4.54.
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.
