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Lifeboat News #239

#239

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 06/01/22. Copyright 2022 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Lifeboat Strategy

By James Blodgett
 
Our human future could be very good or very bad. We might settle the reachable universe, we might live forever, or we might go extinct. What we do right now might make the difference.
 
I have said that, when addressing existential risk, giving up and hiding under the bed is usually not the best strategy. However, sometimes it may be best, because strategy sometimes backfires.
 
Chasing existential opportunity could be an existential risk too, because it could fail to work and eliminate the opportunity. This column tries to replicate the talk a football coach gives to his team before the big game: “Get out there and win!” Big guys trying to clobber each other—what could possibly go wrong? Because of this, the University of Chicago abolished its football team in 1939 (and reestablished it in 1963). First do no harm. But if we want to improve a situation, it is impossible to totally eliminate the possibility of harm. At least think about, and be careful about, possible side effects.

Pride Month

In celebration of Pride Month, Inara Tabir, one of our board members, is fundraising to pay for her transition surgery. We donated.
 
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Building Musk’s Path to Mars

Read Special Report “Building Musk’s path to Mars” by our John Strickland at https://lifeboat.com/ex/building.musks.....to.mars
 
To the public, the media and even some of the space community, the last year for SpaceX has not seemed to be progressing that fast. However, right before our eyes, what Musk calls “stage zero”, the complex launch tower and associated platform and tank farm, was being designed and built and is now almost ready to support launches. Steady progress has been made in the production of and design improvements to the two main space vehicles, the Starship stage and the Super Heavy booster. The capacity to build more vehicles at Boca Chica is shortly to be four times larger, as a much larger high bay building nears completion.

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/the-9...the-moon
 
“A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient” by Sean Brazell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/a-can...-patient
 
“A greater world is possible! Adriano V. Autino presents his book” by Adriano Autino at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-gre...his-book
 
“A Promising Method for Life-Detection” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/a-pro...etection
 
“A researcher’s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-res...rm-owned
 
“About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?” by Ken Otwell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/about...rich-why
 
“AI system inspects astronauts’ gloves for damage in real-time” by Shahriar Mahmud at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/ai-sy...eal-time
 
“An already-approved drug could help repair the brain after a stroke” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/an-al...a-stroke
 
“Are NFTs Bad for the Environment?” by Steve Nichols at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/are-n...ironment
 
“Blood Test #3 in 2022: Supplements, Diet” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/blood...nts-diet
 
“Bold Biotech Startup Set to Bring TIGER and ZEBRA Meat to Your Dinner Plates This Year” by Jeff Myers at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/bold-...his-year
 
“Could We All Be Martians?” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/could...martians
 
“Cybernetic Theory: Interpretive Model of Everything We Call the Universe” by Alex Vikoulov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/cyber...universe
 
“Directly Imaging Exoplanets with Dr. Thayne Currie” by Alan Jurisson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/direc...e-currie
 
“Energy Dome launches world’s first CO2 battery energy storage facility” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/energ...facility
 
“Exploring Space with NASA Astronaut Victor Glover (Live from the Smithsonian)” by Alan Jurisson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/explo...thsonian
 
“The first fully automated mind-controlled Human arm” by Heather Blevins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-f...uman-arm
 
“First human patient injected with revolutionary cancer-killing virus” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/first...ng-virus
 
“Fmr. Marine Elliot Ackerman: Ukraine Has a Three-to-One Advantage | Amanpour and Company” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/fmr-m...-company
 
“Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX will reach Mars by 2030! But why must we become multiplanetary?” by Ron Friedman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/gwynn...lanetary
 
“Ironic! Norway is Building a Massive Wind Farm to Boost Oil Production” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/ironi...oduction
 
“Is Aging Reversible? A Scientific Look with David Sinclair (Clip from a TEDx) (S/T en Español)” by Andrés Grases at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/is-ag...-espanol
 
“It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth” by Eamon Everall at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/its-o...er-earth
 
“MIT joins a major startup backed by Bill Gates to build a viable fusion machine” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/mit-j...-machine
 
“NASA InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Runs Down (News Audio + Visuals)” by Alan Jurisson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/nasa-...-visuals
 
“Neil deGrasse Tyson Reacts to Elon Musk Buying Twitter” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/neil-...-twitter
 
“New laser-drilled filter can remove microplastics from wastewater” by Liliana Alfair at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-l...stewater
 
“New transistor could cut 5% from world’s digital energy budget” by Chima Wisdom at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/new-t...y-budget
 
“Organic Transistors Explained. Printing CPUs at Home. What is Smart Skin” by Ken Otwell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/organ...art-skin
 
“Power to the Players” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/power...-players
 
“Science rejuvenates woman’s skin cells to 30 years younger — BBC News” by Jimmy Quaresmini at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/scien...bbc-news
 
“Scientists prove diseased blood vessels communicate with the brain” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/scien...he-brain
 
“Space hotel with artificial gravity will be in orbit by 2025” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/space...-by-2025
 
“Starship 24 ready to fly to orbit!” by Adriano Autino at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/stars...to-orbit
 
“Technological innovation is spurring evolutionary changes. Here’s how humanity may look 10,000 years from now” by Len Rosen at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/techn...from-now
 
“Tesla Model Y with new 4680 cells shows impressive potential for faster charging” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/tesla...charging
 
“These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/these...bacteria
 
“This pistonless engine runs on hydrogen and revs to 25k rpm” by Claudio Soprano at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/this-...-25k-rpm
 
“Top 20 Awesome Robot Animals” by Ovie Desire at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/top-2...-animals
 
“Towards The Cybernetic Theory of Mind | Part V of Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind Documentary” by Alex Vikoulov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/04/towar...umentary
 
“Transparency on demand: A novel process can render artificial materials transparent or even entirely invisible” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/trans...nvisible
 
“Using an Endemic Virus as a Gene Therapy for Life Extension” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/using...xtension

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