Lifeboat Foundation

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  The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!

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  Our Scientific Advisory Board completes a report that Richard Branson requests on anti-viral technologies for his aircraft.

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  Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

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  We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation worked with ten other organizations including the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation to launch a new strategic alliance for space development and commerce named the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).

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  Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn’t possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, coronavirus, and Alzheimer’s. Read news and articles about Rosetta.
   
  Considering the poor preparation by world governments for a lethal bioweapon attack, nongovernmental approaches like this may save millions of lives! As our Ray Kurzweil says, “There are tens of thousands who have the knowledge and tools today to create and release a destructive biological virus.”
   
  Join our [email protected] team and change the world!

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  We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation presented the Lifeboat to the Stars award to Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile for their collaborative book Tau Ceti. The authors split the $1,000 prize, and each received a handsome trophy in an hourglass design.
   
  This award honors the best work of science fiction of any length contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.
   
  Coordinating judge was Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, and the other judges were Catherine Asaro, Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Brenda Cooper, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, John K. Strickland Jr., and Allen G. Taylor.

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  Watch our high resolution Doomsday Curve Video!
   
  This video documents that the percentage of humanity it takes to kill all of humanity is decreasing over time and soon a small group of people, or even a single person, will be able to threaten the survival of humanity.