sYnthetic Biology! Craig Venter! talks Live webcast 7PM west coast

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Craig Venter Live via Webcast

This Seminar will be broadcast live via webcast during the event.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

7:00 PM

Herbst Theatre

401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102

37.7792, -122.42

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Education

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The Long Now Foundation presents Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention - with Craig Venter

Few people in history have expanded the capabilities of science and technology as profoundly as J. Craig Venter. Life on Earth is about to be fundamentally altered by the creation of a totally synthetic organism, an artificial species genetically encoded from scratch by scientists working under Dr. Venter. Do not miss what he has to say about the implications of this watershed moment.

February 25th, (MONDAY)
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm (duration ~1.5 hours)

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Hawking reiterates Leary's Terra II proposal from 1974...

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Humans must colonize other planets: Hawking
Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:45 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems traveling there using "Star Trek"-style propulsion or face extinction, renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking said on Thursday.

Referring to complex theories and the speed of light, Hawking, the wheel-chair bound Cambridge University physicist, told BBC radio that theoretical advances could revolutionize the velocity of space travel and make such colonies possible.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out," said Professor Hawking, who was crippled by a muscle disease at the age of 21 and who speaks through a computerized voice synthesizer.

"But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe," said Hawking, who was due to receive the world's oldest award for scientific achievement, the Copley medal, from Britain's Royal Society on Thursday.

Previous winners include Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

In order to survive, humanity would have to venture off to other hospitable planets orbiting another star, but conventional chemical fuel rockets that took man to the moon on the Apollo mission would take 50,000 years to travel there, he said.

Escape the Womb Planet!: It's about Time! DNA Rules!

Remember the Jefferson Airplane porting over to the Jefferson Starship, Frances Crick began speculating that we may be StarSeed! Seeded planets?.... Tim Leary wrote the update of the Bible, called the
Starseed Series: StarSeed, neurologic, Terra II, Exo-PsYchology, Info-Psychology....outlining the Project....then
SMI_2LE! , now the latest implementaion of trying to escape the Womb Planet