[extropy-chat] Mars media coverage in Venezuela

Thu May 13 01:56:50 UTC 2004

Dear ExI friends,

     I just wanted to share with you the excellent recent media 
coverage for a young Venezuelan astronaut who was sponsored by the World 
Future Society Venezuela (presided by me:-) that just participated in a 
Mars simulation in the Utah desert.

     Some of us think that this is an excellent way to promote 
transhumanism in a positive extropian way (the astronaut is also one of the founding 
members of the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association, with Santiago Ochoa 
and myself:-)

     Since Natasha, Giulio, Mike and others might agree, I only 
wanted to let you know of what we are doing in terms of pushing 
transhuman memes around here. We did the same two years ago with nanotechnology (we were the first to talk about it seriously in Venezuela:-) and we have 
similar plans for artifical intelligence, robotics and biotechnology... 
just keep tuned...

     Extropically yours,

La vie est belle!

Yosi (www.cordeiro.org) 

Caracas, Venezuela, Americas, TerraNostra

From:  "Gregorio Drayer" <greg.drayer at unsgac.org> 
Date:  Wed May 12, 2004  7:49 pm
Subject:  Fw: MDRS media coverage in Venezuela
To:  "Jose Cordeiro" <jose_cordeiro at yahoo.com>

FYI, dear professor.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Muscatello"
To: "Sami Rozenbaum"
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: MDRS media coverage in Venezuela

Hi Sami,

Thanks very much for letting us know how successful you and Greg have
been in getting media coverage of his mission in Utah. I have been very
impressed with Greg. His enthusiasm, his bright smile, and technical
accomplishments are quite notable and I expect him to be very 
successful
in his career. I hope to meet him some day in person, perhaps at the
Mars Society Convention.

Gus is setting up a link to media coverage on the MDRS web site and he
should include the ones you have provided.

You and Greg should use the high level of visibility that you have 
right
now to start a Mars Society Chapter in Venezuela. You should contact
Patt Czarnik (pattczarnik at hotmail.com) for information on how to do
that. I am excited to hear about the interest in Mars exploration in
Venezuela. It shows that there are millions of people throughout the
world that want to see humans explore Mars, sooner rather than later.
Perhaps it would be valuable for you and Greg and as many people as you
can get together to send a letter to President Bush and the U.S.
Congress to show that there is support for humans to Mars outside the
U.S. and to tell them that it would inspire children and young people
throughout the world, not just here. There is more info at
http://home.marssociety.org/outreach/political/usa/ and
http://thomas.loc.gov/ on how to contact the President and the
Congress. Perhaps Robert or Patt could tell you who the most important
Senators and Representatives would be to contact. Emphasize that a U.S.
humans to Mars program would be an important contribution to improving
the image of America to the rest of the world since our image is in
pretty bad shape right now. President Bush's Moon/Mars Inititative
needs all the support it can get right now.

Best of luck in all your future endeavors.

On to Mars!
Tony

Sami Rozenbaum wrote:

> Dr. Robert Zubrin
> Mr. Tony Muscatello
> Mr. Gus Frederick
>
> Dear Sirs:
>
> My name is Sami Rozenbaum. I am a Journalist in Caracas, Venezuela, 
as
> well as lecturer at the Humboldt Planetarium in this city. Since I
> read *The Case for Mars* I have been a follower of the Mars Society's
> activities.
>
> For many years I have been a friend of Gregorio Drayer, Chief 
Engineer
> of Crew 28 at MDRS-Utah. When he was selected for the mission we
> decided that I would act as the *correspondent* of Crew 28 in
> Venezuela, so I started sending special reports to all my friends in
> the media. During the mission I issued 7 reports and 6 special 
addenda
> with pictures, including special *exclusive* comments and unpublished
> pictures sent by Gregorio. As a result, MDRS and Greg got ample
> coverage in the press, radio and TV. You can read all my reports at
> http://www.futurovenezuela.org/Marte.htm
>
> I am proud of what Greg achieved, and also of having
> been able to publicize the Mars Society.
>
> The press coverage appeared in the national dailies EL UNIVERSAL, EL
> NACIONAL and EL NUEVO PAIS, as well as ZETA magazine and some 
regional
> newspapers as EL SIGLO in the city of Maracay (unfortunately, only EL
> UNIVERSAL and the electronic daily VENEZUELA ANALITICA are available
> for free in the net). Greg was also interviewed for several radio and
> TV outlets.
>
> The following is a list of the articles published as a consequence of
> my reports, to this date:
>
> April 1, EL NACIONAL: Venezolano en Marte (Venezuelan in Mars), page 
B-15.
>
> April 2, EL UNIVERSAL: Venezolano a Marte (Venezuelan to Mars), page
> 2-5. http://www.eluniversal.com/2004/04/02/02255F.shtml
>
> April 4, EL UNIVERSAL: Reto espacial para un venezolano (Space
> challenge for a Venezuelan citizen), page 2-8. EL UNIVERSAL. April 4,
> 2004: http://www.eluniversal.com/2004/04/04/04208B.shtml
>
> April 13, EL NACIONAL: Venezolano empezo exploracion simulada de 
Marte
> (Venezuelan started simulated exploration of Mars), page B-11.
>
> April 14, EL NACIONAL: Vivir en Marte (To live in Mars), page B-14.
>
> April 21, EL UNIVERSAL: Mision espacial exitosa (Successful space
> mission), FRONT PAGE and page 2-5.
> http://www.eluniversal.com/2004/04/21/21205E.shtml
>
> April 21, EL SIGLO: Criollo en la NASA (A national citizen in NASA,
> THIS TITLE WAS INACCURATE).
>
> April 23, ZETA magazine: Mi marciano favorito (My favorite Martian),
> page 66.
>
> April 28, VENEZUELA ANALITICA: Venezuela, no te rindas! (Venezuela,
> don't give up!), 
http://www.analitica.com/va/politica/opinion/4643818.asp
>
> May 10 (today), EL NACIONAL: Un ingeniero venezolano ensayo la
> experiencia de vivir en otro planeta (A Venezuelan engineer
> experienced like living in another planet). Page B-11.
>
> And more will follow, as several Journalists are
> contacting Gregorio and myself in order to make interviews.
>
> I don't want to end this message without letting you
> know that I felt as part of Crew 28. During those two weeks I lived
> every success and every problem at the Hab, every equipment failure,
> every storm, every EVA. All crewmembers became a kind of close 
friends
> as I read their reports every night, and as I prepared my own reports
> until 2:00 am. This was a very special time. Thanks for the
> opportunity you (unknowingly) gave to me. If there is something I can
> do in order to help your activities, just tell me.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Sami Rozenbaum

La vie est belle!

Yosé (www.cordeiro.org) 

Caracas, Venezuela, Americas, TerraNostra

---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20040512/5c96f5eb/attachment.html>