Lifeboat Foundation

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  Our Space Habitats program works to build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.

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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 Rosetta@Home team and change the world!

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  Jill Tarter joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Jill is known for her work on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). She holds the Emeritus and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and has been with SETI since 1984.
   
  Jill’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Jill conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was largely based on her work.

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  Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.

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  Our World News page has information about CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
   
  Read our InternetShield program for solutions!

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  Read our SecurityPreserver program! Learn how we can have technologically-enabled “radical reciprocal accountability” and transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!

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  Watch our new Lifeboat Foundation Introduction Video!

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  We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder of Amazon and will soon be the richest person on the planet. (This is an important quote. Read it!)

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  We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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  Yousin Suh, coauthor of Genetics of Longevity and Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
   
  Yousin's laboratory uses novel technology to investigate the genetic components of aging and aging-related disease using functional genomics approaches, focusing on the identification of gene sequence variation (i.e. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), in candidate genes and the assessment of their potential functional impact on aging-related phenotypes.

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