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"THE 100 YEAR STARSHIP (100YSS) is a joint U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant project to a private entity. The goal of the study is ... to create a business plan that can last 100 years in order to help foster the research needed for interstellar travel." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Year_Starship View in LinkedIn

HUXLEY'S ARTIFICIAL UTERUS. "In Huxley's dystopian future, children are grown in artificial wombs before being decanted into the world. It described a centrifugal pump that kept a liquid of hog's stomach extract and fetal foal’s liver moving over the placenta and driving it through a synthetic lung and waste product filter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus View in LinkedIn

SPACE OR BUST IN 100 YEARS. "Despite the mind-boggling distances involved, DARPA has just awarded funding to form an organization whose aim is to make human interstellar travel a reality within the next century. DARPA awarded US$500,000 in seed funding to the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence to form 100 Year Starship (100YSS), an independent, non-governmental initiative." http://lnkd.in/de4XsYN View in LinkedIn

MALE PREGNANCY. "Robert Winston, a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, told London's Sunday Times that "male pregnancy would certainly be possible" by having an embryo implanted in a man's abdomen – with the placenta attached to an internal organ such as the bowel – and later delivered by Caesarean section." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy View in LinkedIn

REALITY CHECK: AIR TRAVEL IS NEW. "Space settlement needs inexpensive, safe launch systems to deliver thousands, perhaps millions, of people into orbit. If this seems unrealistic, note that a hundred and fifty years ago nobody had ever flown in an airplane, but today nearly 500 million people fly each year." http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Basics/wwwwh.html View in LinkedIn

SPACE COLONIES ON THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION. "33% of Americans think humans will build long-term space colonies in the next 50 years." http://lnkd.in/dc-6nVq View in LinkedIn

SPACE COLONIZATION OPTIONS are clear, given the vast distances involved. No. 1: "Beam me up Scotty" (instant teleporting); No. 2: Deep frozen embryos and artificial womb; No. 3: Robotics instead of man; No. 4: Deep frozen sperm and eggs and artificial womb. Next? View in LinkedIn

SCIENCE FICTION and futurists have turned to the problems of extraterrestrial colonization with an eye on quiescent human embryo transport to these distant locations. Many level-headed scientists have stated that future extraterrestrial colonization by man is inevitable. You might be surprised by the number of people focused on this topic. View in LinkedIn

THE WOMB EPIGENOME.“Placenta has a completely different landscape in its methylome from other adult tissues. What the placental landscape does, and why it’s different from other tissues, is still a big mystery." http://lnkd.in/dSPZZQN View in LinkedIn

ANIMAL EMBRYO FARMS. "Globally, it was reported in 2012 that 699,586 bovine embryos were collected from superovulated cows, and 443,533 bovine embryos were produced via in vitro fertilization procedures." http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/management_and_nutrition/embryo_transfer_in_farm_animals/overview_of_embryo_transfer_in_farm_animals.html View in LinkedIn