Special Report
Read Special Report “Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans” by our Martin
Rees at https://lifeboat.com/ex/interstellar.tr...t.humans
The Earth has existed for forty-five million centuries — and even
longer timespans lie ahead before the Sun dies. But even in this vast
time-perspective, the present century is special. It is the first when
humans may establish communities away from the Earth. And it is the
first when they may create electronic intelligences that surpass their
own all-round capabilities, and also achieve the ability to bio-engineer
their progeny. In this report, some aspects of this transition are
discussed, along with some even more speculative comments about
“post-human” evolution, and the future of the universe itself.
Shivon Zilis
Shivon Zilis joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board. Shivon
is the Director of Operations at Neuralink, Board Member and Advisor at
OpenAI, and Founding Fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab Incubator.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.shivon.a.zilis
Blog
Liliana Alfair joins our blog team with the post “Scientists Used CRISPR
Gene Editing to Choose the Sex of Mouse Pups” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/scien...use-pups
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A 62-Year-Old Paralyzed Man Sent Out His First Tweet With Brain Chip”
by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/a-62-...ain-chip
“A papyrus reveals how the Great Pyramid was built” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/a-pap...as-built
“A Stadium Sized Asteroid Is Approaching Us This Weekend” by Johnathan
Doetry at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/a-sta...w-nereus
“Ancient Greek drug could cut COVID-19 deaths” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/ancie...9-deaths
“Biochar Carbon Capture And Storage. Lower CO2 & Cleaner Environment To
Better Crops & Lower Costs” by Mark Parkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/bioch...er-costs
“Brain Aging Might Soon Be Reversible” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/brain...versible
“Canon Develops Sensor that Can Shoot Full Color Photos in the Dark” by
Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/canon...the-dark
“Carbon-air battery as a next-generation energy storage system” by Saúl
Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/carbo...e-system
“The chase for fusion energy” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/the-c...n-energy
“China lays out path to become robotics powerhouse by 2025” by Chima
Wisdom Anayo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/china...-by-2025
“Did scientists discover a warp bubble? Crunched up space-time,
explained” by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/did-s...xplained
“Don’t mean to alarm you, but robots are now able to reproduce” by
Muhammad Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/news-...eproduce
“Dr. Björn Örvar, PhD, CSO, EVP, Co-Founder, ORF Genetics — Designing
Plants To Bring Quality Of Life” by Ira S. Pastor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/dr-bj...-of-life
“FDA Approves New Eye Drops that Could Replace Glasses for Millions” by
Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/fda-a...millions
“FDA-Approved Eyedrops Could Replace Your Reading Glasses” by Raphael
Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/fda-a...-glasses
“Fecal Transplant Discovery Could Improve Care for Life-Threatening
Infections” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/fecal...fections
“The Future Technology To Become Immortal” by Sean Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-f...immortal
“Game Theory of Cooperating w. Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Future
Civilizations” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/ander...izations
“Hyundai Motors Will Reportedly No Longer Develop Internal Combustion
Engines” by Muhammad Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/hyund...-engines
“In Astonishing Feat, a New Drug Reversed Paralysis in Mice With Spinal
Cord Injury” by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/in-as...d-injury
“Inflatable Planes Could Search for Alien Life in the Clouds of Venus”
by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/infla...of-venus
“Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination?” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/is-re...nil-seth
“Is Relying Solely On Data From Published Studies A Suboptimal Strategy
For Optimal Health?” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/is-re...l-health
“JWST LAUNCH: EuroMoonMars & Space Renaissance Virtual Event” by Adriano
Autino at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/jwst-...al-event
“Lifeboat Foundation Press Release: Martine Rothblatt named 2021
Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award Winner” by Eric Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/lifeb...d-winner
“Man-made ‘breathing’ leaf is an oxygen factory for space travel” by
Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/man-m...travel-2
“The Metaverse Will Need 1,000x More Computing Power, Says Intel” by
Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-m...ys-intel
“MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040” by Sean Brazell
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/mit-h...-in-2040
“The Most Realistic Humanoid Robot Yet (Ameca Robot)” by Sean Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-m...ca-robot
“Musk Wants SpaceX to Turn CO2 From Atmosphere Into Rocket Fuel” by
Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/musk-...ket-fuel
“New ‘Anti-Aging’ Vaccine Has Increased Mouse Life Spans. Would It Work
in Humans?” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/new-a...n-humans
“Organic Molecules Have Been Confirmed in The Jezero Crater on Mars” by
Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/organ...-on-mars
“Planet 9: Is Earth’s long-lost twin lurking in the outer Solar System?”
by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/plane...r-system
“Raspberry Pi computers head to International Space Station” by Chima
Wisdom Anayo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/raspb...-station
“Samples from Asteroid Ryugu Are Most Primitive Material We’ve Found” by
Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/sampl...ve-found
“The Science of Aliens, Part 8: The Search for Artifacts” by Dirk
Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-s...rtifacts
“Scientists Warn of ‘Alien’ Invasions and the Need for Planetary
Biosecurity” by Jeffrey L. Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/scien...security
“SpaceX will launch NASA’s DART mission to crash into an asteroid soon
and you can watch it live” by Muhammad Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/space...-it-live
“Starship engine ‘crisis’ poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX,
Elon Musk says: report” by Jeffrey L. Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/stars...s-report
“Student Cracks the High-Dimensional Quantum Code — Reveals Hidden
Structures of Quantum Entangled States” by Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/stude...d-states
“Unlike NASA’s X-37 Spacecraft, China Says Its Spaceplanes Will Use
Commercial Airports For Inter-Planetary Missions” by Chima Wisdom Anayo
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/unlik...missions
“Yale scientists restore cellular function in 32 dead pig brains” by
Mishari Al Hasawi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/yale-...g-brains
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