Lifeboat News #246

Greg Bear Memorial

Our Greg Bear unfortunately passed away. Greg was previously President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and was husband of our Astrid Bear.

Greg was Consulting Judge for our Lifeboat to the Stars award and he contributed to Lifeboat Foundation’s Visions of the Future which reached #1 under “Hot New Releases in Science Fiction Anthologies” on Amazon. As an accomplished science fiction author of over 50 novels, Greg received five Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards. He even helped the government prepare for attacks of the future, working with our Arlan Andrews and Jerry Pournelle.

Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....ses.away

Cities in Space® 2023

Cities in Space® 2023 will be held March 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM CST in Austin, Texas.

Our Janet Ivey, Holly Melear, Haroon Oqab, Jeff Smith, and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.

Learn more at https://steam-space.org/student-competi...ace-2023

Longevity Summit 2022

The Longevity Summit 2022 will be held December 6–7 in Novato, California.

Our Stephanie Dainow, Matt Kaeberlein, Morgan Levine, Matthew “Oki” O’Connor, and Marco Quarta will be speaking.

Learn more at https://longevitysummit.io

Books

Read the first contact science fiction book “The Angrelline” by our Pete Bonasso at https://amzn.to/3Ua1ZBR. This is a sequel to “Portals”.

Read “Becoming Off-Worldly: Learning from Astronauts to Prepare for Your Spaceflight Journey” by our Laura Forczyk at https://amzn.to/3hjm1Lo

This book includes a forward by our Frank White.

Read “Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through Nanomedicine” by our Robert A. Freitas Jr. at https://amzn.to/3NDmvbo

You can also read this 700+ page book for free at https://www.alcor.org/docs/CryostasisRe...2.11.pdf

Read “ES 1 – Fall: EggShell” by our Alex Thatcher at https://amzn.to/3EJYYmz. Kamron Armour, an A.I. created from the mind graft of a human from the 21st century, is brought back online 50,000 years later by a human with no name except Man O’ War. This “Man O’ War” appears, impossibly, to be a friend from the 21st century, somehow, still alive.

Read “Fender the Fall: A Sci-Fi Novella” by our Roy Christopher at https://amzn.to/3h9kJCB

Read “Meat Market: 13th Anniversary Odd Edition” by our Alex Thatcher at https://amzn.to/3EECymv. In one generation, our society’s technology, morals, beliefs and fundamental place in the universe changed drastically. With lifespans becoming longer and technological gains coming quicker, terms and definitions being redefined weekly, if not daily, what might occur in the next generation?

Read the first contact science fiction book “Portals” by our Pete Bonasso at https://amzn.to/2BNM9Wo

Read “The Random and Fluctuating World: Celebrating Two Decades of Fluctuation and Noise Letters” coedited by our Laszlo Kish at https://amzn.to/3zTEIvF

Read “Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement” by our Jacob Haqq-Misra at https://amzn.to/3gbrnbu

Blog

Al Karaki joins our blog team with the post “NoWhere to EMIT, NoWhere to HIDE” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/nowhe...-to-hide

Jeff Kendall joins our blog team with the post “Age of the Androids” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/age-o...androids

Sara Negar joins our blog team with the post “World’s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/world...days-old

Frank Schueler joins our blog team with the post “Mike Kope at Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mike-...mit-2022

Recent interesting blog posts include:

“Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/attra...covid-19

“Beer Ingredient May Inhibit Clumping of Alzheimer’s Protein” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/beer-...-protein

“Cancer vaccine could be ready for use by 2030, say BioNTech founders” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/cance...founders

“Dead stars covered in space debris could reveal the origins of planets” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/dead-...-planets

“ESA SOLARIS: Wireless Power Beamed Down From Space” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/esa-s...om-space

“First Experimental Proof That Quantum Entanglement Is Real” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/first...-is-real

“France’s Nuclear Reactors Malfunction as Energy Crisis Bites” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/franc...is-bites

“Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle” by Saul Morales Rodriguez at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/gamma...l-puzzle

“Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/googl...-playing

“Greg Bear, prize-winning sci-fi author and Comic-Con co-founder, dies at 71” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/greg-...es-at-71

“Honeybee swarms generate more electricity per metre than a storm cloud” by Liliana Alfair at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/honey...rm-cloud

“How scientists want to make you young again” by John Davies at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/how-s...ng-again

“Huge, unusually powerful explosion in space just detected by scientists” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/huge-...ientists

“Is the Higgs boson the first step to a ‘Star Trek’ transporter?” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/is-th...nsporter

“‘Killer Robots’ Are Already Here. They Just Don’t Look Like You Think” by Saul Morales Rodriguez at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/kille...ou-think

“Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 1st flight after major software update” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mars-...e-update

“Mathematician Yitang Zhang Confirms Partial Solution to Riemann Hypothesis” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mathe...pothesis

“NASA returns to the Moon: Orion Spacecraft completes lunar flyby” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/nasa-...ar-flyby

“New cancer CRISPR treatment sees patients’ immune system attack tumors” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/new-c...k-tumors

“New Metal Lungs Boosted Mammals’ Respiratory Efficiency” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/new-m...ficiency

“New system retrofits diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/new-s...hydrogen

“Nobel Prize: Quantum Entanglement Unveiled” by Saul Morales Rodriguez at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/nobel...unveiled

“Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating ‘Borgs’ Have Been Assimilating Earth’s Microbes” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/not-s...microbes

“Phase 3 clinical trial: Brain cancer vaccine shows promising results” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/phase...-results

“Physicists predict the novel entangled states on programmable quantum simulators” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/physi...mulators

“Present And Future Exist Simultaneously, According To This New Theory” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/prese...w-theory

“Researchers Develop a CRISPR-Based Therapy That Penetrates Solid Tumors” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/resea...d-tumors

“Researchers discover a way to extract more than 95% of uranium from seawater” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/resea...seawater

“Roger Penrose: ‘Consciousness must be beyond computable physics’” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/roger...-physics

“Scientists are struggling to figure out how space transforms our gut microbiome” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/scien...crobiome

“Scientists Just Witnessed One of the Most Powerful Cosmic Explosions Ever” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/scien...ons-ever

“Scientists Reproduce Fascinating, Powerful Material Found in Meteorite” by Josh Seeherman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/scien...eteorite

“Severe depression eased by single dose of synthetic ‘magic mushroom’” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/sever...on-eased

“Taiwan is turning unused metro stations into vertical farms” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/taiwa...al-farms

“Teleportation Is Here, But It’s Not What You Think” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/telep...ou-think

“Tesla now can produce cars with just a few massive parts with MIT’s innovative 3D-printed metal” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/tesla...ed-metal

“That Our Body Has A MEMORY OF YOUTH Has Been Proved | Dr David Sinclair Interview Clips” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/that-...ew-clips

“This is how close we are to biological immortality” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/this-...ortality

“Three subtle signs could give aliens away to astronomers” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/three...ronomers

“Twitter Reveals ‘NFT Tweet Tiles’ in Order to ‘Impact’ the Social Media Experience” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/twitt...perience

“What Underpins Exceptional Longevity?” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/what-...ongevity

“Why We Need a Human Base on the Moon” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/why-w...the-moon

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