[ExI] The irony of funding and non-funding transhumanism

[Adrian Tymes]

Yeah, I know.  We applied.  8 proposals, all denied.  (There are some who
are suspecting this is yet another case of preselected winners, where those
who weren't in before the project was announced had no chance of funding.)

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 20:42, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > One moment I'm looking over a proposal for a H+ DAO, seeing all the
> signs that it is hype and will not fund any actual new technology, though
> the effort itself will likely achieve its requested funding.
> >
> > The next moment I'm talking with some colleagues about an idea for a
> living CubeSat - a demonstration of a created organism in space, actually
> intended as a science project to advance the state of the art but perhaps
> justified as an orbital garbage collector (something that can eat space
> debris) - and noting it is unlikely to reach the attention of anyone who
> would actually fund it.
> >
> > What's a fellow to do?  Spike, anyone, any suggestions?
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> The Pentagon is funding companies to develop orbital garbage collectors.
>
> <https://www.space.com/space-force-space-debris-orbital-prime-plan>
> <https://spacewerx.us/space-prime/>
> Quote:
> US Space Force's 'Orbital Prime' project aims to attack space debris
> by recycling or removing junk
> By Elizabeth Howell published February 06, 2022
> The military branch wants to test on-orbit systems within two to four
> years with it Orbital Prime project.
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> BillK
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