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Nov 29, 2017
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue ‘warning to humanity’
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth.
It comes 25 years after the first notice in 1992 when a mere 1,500 scientists issued a similar warning.
This new cautioning — which gained popularity on Twitter with #ScientistsWarningToHumanity — garnered more than 15,000 signatures.
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Nov 26, 2017
170813 RAADfest final panel
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: futurism, life extension
On August 13, 2017, during the final day at RAADfest 2017.
Q&A session with an extraordinary group of gerontologists, futurists, speakers, scientists and advocates of Radical Life Extension (RLE):
Nov 26, 2017
World’s 1st robot citizen wants her own family, career & AI ‘superpowers’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TGMeZQTkW2Y
The world’s first robot citizen wants to start a family and have a career, but also believes AI will grant her ‘superpowers’ in the future.
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Bright fireballs seen over southern England by dozens of people. Watch videos here: https://asteroidday.org/11-26-2017-bright-fireballs-…of-people/
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Nov 25, 2017
Iceland drafts emergency evacuation plans as volcano rumbles after centuries of inactivity
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
Nov 24, 2017
Futurism Interview with Steve Fuller on Elon Musk’s Attempt to Turn Humans into a Multi-Planetary Species
Posted by Steve Fuller in categories: Elon Musk, futurism, habitats, human trajectories, space travel
Chelsea Gohd, a reporter for Futurism, recently interviewed Steve Fuller on Elon Musk’s plans to turn humans into a multi-planetary species. Her report, including the details of Musk’s plans can be found here. What follows is the full interview, only part of which was published in the article:
1. Do you think human beings are capable of becoming a multi-planetary species?
Yes, in two senses, one trivial and one not so trivial. The trivial sense is that there is no reason why we couldn’t survive in other planets – perhaps located in other star systems – that have roughly the same environmental conditions as the Earth. We just need to find them! The not so trivial sense is that we may be able to ‘terraform’ various currently uninhabitable planets to make them more-or-less habitable by humans. This would require enormous infrastructure investments that could be quite risky, at least at the start. But if there’s enough planning, capital and political will, it too could be done.
2. What do you think of Elon Musk’s recent statements insisting that becoming multi-planetary is “insurance of life as we know it”
Nov 24, 2017
Project Lyra, a mission to chase down that interstellar asteroid
Posted by Andreas M. Hein in categories: futurism, space travel
Back in October, the announcement that the first interstellar asteroid triggered a flurry of excitement. Since that time, astronomers have conducted follow-up observations of the object known as 1I/2017 U1 (aka. ‘Oumuamua) and noted some rather interesting things about it. For example, from rapid changes in its brightness, it has been determined that the asteroid is rocky and metallic, and rather oddly-shaped.
Observations of the asteroid’s orbit have also revealed that it made its closest pass to our Sun back in September of 2017, and it is currently on its way back to interstellar space. Because of the mysteries this body holds, there are those who are advocating that it be intercepted and explored. One such group is Project Lyra, which recently released a study detailing the challenges and benefits such a mission would present.
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