Stephen Hawking calls for Moon and Mars colonies

From article:

Stephen Hawking called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars in a lecture in honour of NASA’s 50th anniversary. He argued that the world should devote about 10 times as much as NASA’s current budget – or 0.25% of the world’s financial resources – to space.

The renowned University of Cambridge physicist has previously spoken in favour of colonising space as an insurance policy against the possibility of humanity being wiped out by catastrophes like nuclear war and climate change. He argues that humanity should eventually expand to other solar systems.

But in a speech in Washington, DC, US, delivered in honour of NASA’s 50th anniversary in 2008, Hawking focused on near-term possibilities, backing the space agency’s goals of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and sending humans to Mars soon after that.

The Moon is a good place to start because it is “close by and relatively easy to reach”, Hawking said. “The Moon could be a base for travel to the rest of the solar system,” he added. Mars would be “the obvious next target”, with its abundant supplies of frozen water, and the tantalising possibility that life may have been present there in the past.

I can´t agree more with Mr. Hawkings if we are going to survive as a species we need to get our asses to space and as Mr. Hawkings said later in the article.

If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

I know it´s going to be dangerous and lives will be lost but think that we will gain, we will finally be a multi-planetary species.

And 0.25% of the world’s financial resources isn´t that much to ask for if it secures our species survival for another million years.

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Twenty-second century, here I come!

Do you want to double your lifespan?

Soon you might be able too.

From the article:

In this project, the UW researchers studied many different strains of yeast cells that had lower protein production. They found that mutations to the ribosome, the cell’s protein factory, sometimes led to increased life span. Ribosomes are made up of two parts — the large and small subunits — and the researchers tried to isolate the life-span-related mutation to one of those parts.

“What we noticed right away was that the long-lived strains always had mutations in the large ribosomal subunit and never in the small subunit,” said the study’s lead author, Kristan Steffen, a graduate student in the UW Department of Biochemistry.

The researchers also tested a drug called diazaborine, which specifically interferes with synthesis of the ribosomes’ large subunits, but not small subunits, and found that treating cells with the drug made them live about 50 percent longer than untreated cells. Using a series of genetic tests, the scientists then showed that depletion of the ribosomes’ large subunits was likely to be increasing life span by a mechanism related to dietary restriction — the TOR signaling pathway.

Sign me up for extending my life, I really want to live forever and this is a step in the right direction.

I am aware that the earths resources is in danger of being depleted and that over population is going to be a problem, thats why we need life extension because we need to leave this planet and find a second earth somewere else and humans can´t do that right now because we die from old age….

And it´s not like people will stop dying all togheter there is still being hit by a car.

So I´m all for life extension.

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TV actor Jason Beghe´s attack on Scientology + XenuTv is down

American TV actor and former Scientologist Jason Beghe has labelled the controversial religion “destructive” and a “rip-off” in a video interview posted on YouTube.

And here it is.

[Video removed from Youtube by Scientology]

I found a new one.

And they took down the XenuTv channel too

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WOG out.

Review: Thank you for smoking.

About:

The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Taylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick’s greatest enemy is Vermont’s Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick’s son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.

Trailer:

My thoughts:

Okay, this must be one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, it´s both funny, crazy, wrong, entertaining and scary at the same time.

I really think the everyone should see it.

WOG out.

20,113 Page views

Last night (night for me anyway) I passed 20k page views,

I just wanted to thank everyone.

WOG out.