From: Alex Michael Bonnici (albonnici_at_vol.net.mt)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 11:55:12 PDT
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Subject: Lifeboat News for 2020 2649 9902 9162
> You are Lifeboat member 2020 2649 9902 9162. Enclosed is your newsletter.
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> LIFEBOAT NEWS Copyright 2007
> ISSUE #55 - 03/01/07 Lifeboat Foundation
> "Preparing for the Future" All Rights Reserved
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> Subscribe at http://lifeboat.com/newsletter.cgi
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>
> VIDEOS
>
> Watch "Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth" at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#bluebeauty
>
> Narration has been added to "Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell"
> at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#the_inner_life_of_a_cell
>
> Watch "Did you know?" at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#did_you_know
>
> Watch "How DNA transcription works" at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#how_dna_transcription_works
>
> Watch "RNA interference in action" at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#rna_interference
>
> Watch "A visual trip through the 21st Century" at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#visual_trip
>
>
> BLOG
>
> Ole Peter Galaasen joins our blog team with his first post
> at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=40
>
> Stevan Harnad joins our blog team with his first post
> at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=38
>
> Our most popular blog entry so far has been "'Doomsday' vault design
> unveiled" by Ole Peter Galaasen at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=41
>
>
> ARC
>
> The Wall Street Journal recently reported at
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117038898506395928.html that we have
> absorbed the Alliance to Rescue Civilization.
>
> Excerpt from Wall Street Journal article: "It was for that reason that a
> few individuals, myself included, started a group called the Alliance to
> Rescue Civilization (ARC) several years ago. Its purpose was to start an
> archive on the moon that would be a continuously updated international
> record of our civilization. That way, if a major catastrophe happens,
> the record would survive. Keeping a record on the moon (and perhaps at
> one of the poles on this planet) would be like backing up a computer's
> hard drive. We would emerge from the chaos knowing who we are in the
> fullest sense of the term.
>
> ARC has been absorbed by the Lifeboat Foundation, a group of like-minded
> people who are trying to make certain that we can survive a truly awful
> world-wide occurrence. They are emphatically not doomsday types. But
> they understand that while no skipper goes to sea thinking the boat will
> sink, they nonetheless carry life preservers and dinghies. That, after
> all, is only prudent. So is starting a self-sufficient colony on the
> moon."
>
>
> SAB HITS 300!
>
> Bud Mishra, coauthor of "Emergency Response Planning for a Potential
> Sarin Gas Attack in Manhattan using Agent-based Models", joins our
> Scientific Advisory Board which hits 300 members!
>
> You can read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.bud.mishra
>
> You can learn about the members of our Scientific Advisory Board at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/board (Obviously the 300 people are spread out
> over many smaller subboards.)
>
>
> REPORTS
>
> Our Scientific Advisory Board members have generated many interesting
> reports recently. They include:
>
> "Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer?"
> by Sylvia Engdahl at http://lifeboat.com/ex/fear.and.space
>
> "AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!" by Robert J. Sawyer at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/ai.and.sci-fi
>
> "Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering" by David Pearce at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/brave.new.world
>
> "Immortalist Utilitarianism" by Michael Anissimov at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/immortalist.utilitarianism
>
> "Neurotechnology and Society (2010-2060)" by Zack Lynch at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/neurotechnology.and.society
>
> "Space: A Moral Vacuum?" by Jeff Krukin at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/space.a.moral.vacuum
>
> "The Strategic Brain" by Natasha Vita-More at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/strategic.brain
>
> "The Third Generation Web is Coming" by Nova Spivack at
> http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0
>
>
> RECENT DONORS
>
> Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
> the last newsletter:
>
> Robert Citron: $300
> Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170
> Brenda Cooper: $120
> Edwin B. Cooper Jr.: $120
> Michael Anissimov: $100
> Anonymous: $95
> Michael Dickey: $85
> Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85
> John Claus: $25
> Adam Dobrin: $25
> James William Taylor: $25
> Otto Valtakoski: $50
> Sylvia Engdahl: $10
> Stephen Fleming: $10
> Fundación Juvinter: $10
> Jeremy Shepard: $10
> Michael Vassar: $10
>
> Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
> pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
>
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