With the moon visible overhead, Armadillo Aerospace unsuccessfully attempted to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup this weekend at Holloman Air Force Base. The only competitor of nine ready to go for the event, Armadillo Aerospace, led by John Carmack of Doom and Quake fame, experienced both [...]
A race to space is shaping up in the private industry and once a year the public is invited to see the latest breakthroughs, vehicles, and competitions intended to accelerate this progress. The Wirefly X PRIZE Cup was held October 26 through 28 at the Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA. [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
Frontier Channel will be liveblogging this weekend from Scottsdale, AZ, USA for the 7th Alcor Conference. The three day event will bring together experts in cryobiology, life extension research, and nanotechnology to present the latest information about cryonics technology, politics, ethics, and law. Check out Frontier Channel throughout [...]
[Launch Coverage] | [Commentary]
2:10 AM PST
Too early! But despite the small hours of the morning here I am very excited for the big launch of the Dawn spacecraft planned for this morning. NASA TV playing in Windows Media Player, the oven heating for some waffles, and a groggy yet excited brain…here we go!
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7th Alcor Conference
Hilton Scottsdale Resort, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
October 5-7, 2007
Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.
Third “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” Conference (SENS3)
Queens’ College, Cambridge, England
September 6-10, 2007
Description:
The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal Rejuvenation Research and the Methuselah Mouse Prize), is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat [...]
Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.
The Singularity Summit 2007
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123
September 8-9, 2007, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Organizers: the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)
August 13, 2007 Press Release: “The Singularity Summit to address promise and peril of advanced AI to future of humanity“
Description:
“The [...]