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

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Craig Venter Live via Webcast

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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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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 on Earth Arks last June

Leary published Terra II, the first "it's feasible" book, in the Spring of "1974" , before O'Neill's first non-fiction possibilty article in August 1974. Leary did it out of prison...called Terra II. The main idea is to get backup copies of mini-Earths in orbit around the Sun. Or just SpaceColony Starships to move around in. O'Neill established that the surface of planets is a lousy place for industrial civilization. Better to be at L-5 where un-recyclable pollution can be dropped into the Sun for plasma recycling...
Sample 1977 page 3 from Exo-PsYchoLogic by JJ>>

http://livedigital.com/content/417428/u329

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/

http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/

Paul Kanter/Jefferson StarShip! (get it! - Star Ships!!) Tim Leary, Gerald O'Neill, L-5 Society, CoEvolution Quartetly, Stewart Brand called for the same in early 1970's

"Hawking: Man must live on new planets or die out," he warns.

Er, nice one. But easier said than done, eh, Steve?

"Science fiction" must become "science fact", declaims the revered prof, because Earth is at grave risk of going kaput, due to disasters "such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of".
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=Hawking&btnG=Search+News

In 1969, O'Neill's students confronted him with his profession's entanglement with the military-industrial complex, atomic weaponry, and environmental destruction. In response O'Neill designed a course—"Physics 103"—that aimed at studying physics that could produce peaceful solutions to the world's problems. Soon the students were engaged in calculating what it would take to build a colony in space. This colony was supposed to be free of military purpose, in ecological harmony, without atomic pollution or other suspicious industrial activities, and helpful to the well-being of the earth (including the needs of the inner cities). This assignment resulted in two articles that appeared in Nature and Physics Today in 1974. "Careful engineering and cost analysis shows we can build pleasant, self-sufficient dwelling places in space within the next two decades, solving many of Earth's problems," O'Neill argued. The idea was to use material resources on the moon to fabricate a grand space station located at one of the points of gravitational equilibrium between the moon and the earth. The station was to be complete with mountains, lakes, and small-town communities. Moving heavy manufacturing to the moon could relieve the earth from polluting industries, and a grand space station could ease population pressure. Such a space station, O'Neill argued, was "likely to encourage self-sufficiency, small-scale governmental units, cultural diversity and high degree of independence." It was to be an Arcadian ecological community rooted in managerial principles.39

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The articles raised eyebrows among physicists. According to O'Neill, however, the space colony was not a far-fetched idea in view of the Spacelab program NASA successfully carried out in three missions between 1973 and 1974. Thanks to a series of public appearances, O'Neill soon became a physics celebrity, receiving "thousands of letters" from the broader public about the space colony. The fact that he was interviewed in Penthouse may indicate that men were especially fascinated (see Fig. 3).40

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/10.2/anker.html

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