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Saturday, February 2, 2013

100 year Starship Symposium -- how to travel to another solar system -- 2012 posting

The 2012 Public Symposium kicked off with a message from President Bill Clinton, Honorary Chair, emphasizing the rewards, challenges, and promise of space exploration. The four day event hosted workshops, panels, and presentations addressing technological and societal issues surrounding interstellar travel. The group of more than 300 talented people represented physical and social sciences, engineering, education, finance, medicine, business and the arts - hailing from the USA, UK, China, South America, Africa, and Australia.

papers & presentations

Warp field mechanics
Travel faster than the speed of light
How textiles and clothing might adapt to longterm space travel
The search for intelligent life outside our planet
SERVIR: a space-based remote sensing for land management
Constitutional law and intellectual property in space
Nuclear propulsion
Organ regeneration
Preparing the next generation for space exploration
The role of organized religion onboard a starship
Red dwarf planets as possible destinations
Video games as solution for personal space in a fixed society

http://100yss.org/symposium.html

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