{"id":90257,"date":"2019-05-04T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/109-bruce-damer-on-the-origins-and-future-of-life"},"modified":"2019-05-04T01:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T08:22:53","slug":"109-bruce-damer-on-the-origins-and-future-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/109-bruce-damer-on-the-origins-and-future-of-life","title":{"rendered":"109 \u2013 Bruce Damer on The Origins and Future of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E-Q-7tw1ecI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Damer is a living legend and international man of mystery \u2013 specifically, the mystery of our cosmos, to which he\u2019s devoted his life to exploring: the origins of life, simulating artificial life in computers, deriving amazing new plans for asteroid mining, and cultivating his ability to receive scientific inspiration from \u201cendotripping\u201d (in which he stimulates his brain\u2019s own release of psychoactive compounds known to increase functional connectivity between brain regions). He\u2019s about to work with Google to adapt his origins of life research to simulated models of the increasingly exciting hot springs origin hypothesis he\u2019s been working on with Dave Deamer of UC Santa Cruz for the last several years. And he\u2019s been traveling around the world experimenting with thermal pools, getting extremely close to actually creating new living systems in situ as evidence of their model. Not to mention his talks with numerous national and private space agencies to take the S.H.E.P.H.E.R.D. asteroid mining scheme into space to kickstart the division and reproduction of our biosphere among\/between the stars\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanity.net\/109-bruce-damer-on-the-origins-and-future-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Damer is a living legend and international man of mystery \u2013 specifically, the mystery of our cosmos, to which he\u2019s devoted his life to exploring: the origins of life, simulating artificial life in computers, deriving amazing new plans for asteroid mining, and cultivating his ability to receive scientific inspiration from \u201cendotripping\u201d (in which he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}