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PUBLIC SUBCONSCIOUS IS SPACE-PRIMED. "Back before we had smartphones and internet apps, we had assumptions about what life would be like in the 21st century. We assumed flying cars. We assumed (thank you Jetsons) robo-maids. And, most of all, we assumed space colonies." http://lnkd.in/dxsGCMs View in LinkedIn

XENOPREGANCY. "Another potential application of ectogenesis is the possibility of xenopregnancy. Inter specific pregnancies ... Involve an embryo or fetus and a uterine carrier belonging to a different species." Among other applications is the possibility of de-extinction. http://lnkd.in/d5zP7hX View in LinkedIn

AN ALTERNATIVE TO SPACE for misguided doomsday eternalists wanting an ultra-vanishingly minute second chance. "November 30, 2013 ... A vast steel sculpt, 8 by 8 by 8m, was lowered deep into the Pacific Ocean ... will be stored into the Marianas trench ...11,000 meters down ... It’s going to be full of human blood and hair samples, DNA." Sign up anybody? http://lnkd.in/dUGA_WB View in LinkedIn

"INEVITABLE": ARTIFICIAL WOMBS. "Humanity inevitably will return to the egg via “artificial wombs” that allow women the same gestating liberty as birds in the air. Critics of “ectogenesis” abound, but we’re convinced of its advantages. Synthetic uteri will spawn exciting freedoms for both genders." http://lnkd.in/dFhGRK3 View in LinkedIn

"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