My vampire hunting homies will recognize this Death from Symphony of the Night.
600 million years, give or take. According to the Wikipedia entry for Ediacaran fauna (one of my favorite faunas ever), the first megafossils show up 610 million years ago, but I haven’t found any other references to back that up. The “Snowball Earth” glacial marine rocks of the Glaskiers formation show up around 595 Ma, with the iconic Drook formation being slightly younger, so I’m curious about how they came up with that number. The Wikipedia page for the Cambrian explosion seems to indicate 580 Ma, the page for the Doushantuo formation cites its base at 595 Ma, but I recall a PZ Meyers post asserted that there is a wide range of uncertainty about these strata.
Vernanimalcula, the possible ancestor of all Bilateria, is dated to roughly 600 Ma.
A big event for the Methuselah Foundation is coming up soon (June 27th) at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. It’s a free event, open to the public. Title is “Aging: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications”. There’s only one catch: you have to register to make sure your place is secured. Here is the invitation from Aubrey:
While I’m in a picture-y mood, here’s one of me with Immortality Institute Executive Director Justin Loew, from the Terasem colloquium in Florida last December.
I got to see my first rocket launch later that day.
Now this is what transhumanism is about! Meeting people and chatting them up!
The shot is of the h+ club at the University of Arizona in Tucson on club day. Click the image for a slightly larger version. From the left: Sybil De Clark, William Andregg, Richard Leis, Simone Syed. Here is a shot taken right after. Here is a picture of me with Simone from Center for Responsible Nanotechnology’s conference in Tucson last year, where I took over 40 pages of notes. All images taken from the h+ club Facebook group.
Andres Colon of Thoughtware.tv just wrote to inform me that this blog was covered on Tele-Vision, specifically G4.TV’s Attack of the Show. I didn’t catch it, so use this thread as a place to post your information or reactions if you did.
First TV coverage ever! Yay!
Here it is:
Brief mention, but still. TeeVee! Can you spot the images from my blog integrated into the starting collage? Can you? My images are there! You see them!
I love how it plays the rock-y music as it zooms in on my boring-ass header. (I kinda like it that way, to scare away people just looking for entertainment.) “Intellectual” site — hm, that’s interesting. Aerogel is not a metal, lol. It’s practically the physical opposite of a metal — setting records for low density and its insulation ability. Maybe he meant material.
The coolest thing in the clip is the collage at the beginning where it shows the mecha I posted. Did anyone else just laugh at this? TV is so funny, the way the announcer enunciates things he says in that standard television manner, with all the pseudo-relevant stock footage running in the background, zooming in-and-out effects, blah blah blah. (I get zero channels on my television, its only purpose is for playing the occasional RPG or fighting game.)
No mention of transhumanism. Oh well, my long-running strategy of posting interesting futurist material to lure people to read about H+ has already worked well, anyway.
Oh well, my long-running strategy of posting interesting futurist material to lure people to read about H+ has already worked well, anyway.
