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Lifeboat News #56

#56

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 04/01/07. Copyright 2007 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Videos

Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total) at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#dancing_robots
 
Watch "Human Version 2.0" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#human_v_2_0
 
Watch "I am the very model of a Singularitarian" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#i_am_the_very_model
 
Watch "Might we all live 100 years longer? 1000?" by Aubrey de Grey at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#1000_years
 
Watch "Z450 Full Color 3D Printer" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#z450 (This real product makes three dimensional objects).

Blog

Darnell Clayton joins our blog team with his first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=68
 
Steven Palter joins our blog team with his first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=59

Interview

Our Philippe Van Nedervelde was interviewed by the Space Show on March 16, 2007. This interview covered our SecurityPreserver program in great detail. You can listen to an archived version of the interview at http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/...3-16.mp3

InternetShield

We have launched a new program, the InternetShield, at http://lifeboat.com/ex/internet.shield. As the Internet grows in importance, it is increasingly likely that an attack on the Internet could cause physical deaths as well as informational damage. We would love your input on how to improve this new program!

Free Banner

Dr. Zenon Kulpa has posted a free banner on his site for us at http://www.ippt.gov.pl/~zkulpa/zkperint.html#space

Scientific Advisory Board

Brian Cox, who is in charge of an international project to upgrade the giant ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN's new 27km-long machine, with tiny silicon detectors almost half a mile from where the particles in the LHC collide, joined our Scientific Advisory Board. Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.brian.cox
 
Leading theoretical physicist Paul H. Frampton, who in 1974 was the author of the first ever book on string theory, and provided the first correct calculation for vacuum decay in 1976, and who has recently developed an alternative to the Big Bang theory, joined our Scientific Advisory Board. Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.paul.h.frampton

Reports

Our Scientific Advisory Board members have generated many interesting reports recently. They include:
 
Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD. at http://lifeboat.com/ex/jurisprudence.of.artilects

Recent Donors

Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $2,170, John J. Peters: $500, Anonymous: $95, Michael Dickey: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, John Claus: $25, Adam Dobrin: $25, James William Taylor: $25, Sylvia Engdahl: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, Fundación Juvinter: $10, Jeremy Shepard: $10, Kaj Sotala: $10, and Michael Vassar: $10.
 
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.