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Lifeboat News #111

#111

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 10/01/11. Copyright 2011 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

End of the Year Fundraiser

Our End of the Year Fundraiser has begun!
 
You can get donations made by October 31 •tripled• at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser

Typography

We would like your input on typography issues. If you would like to give your opinion on such issues write to admin@lifeboat.com with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation typography". Don't know what typography is? Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography

Blog

Yasemin B. won last month's blog contest with the post "Space Junk! Environmental concerns!" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/09/space-...concerns
 
She won a free autographed copy of "Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars" (thanks to our Haym Benaroya) and an autographed DVD of "Orphans of Apollo" (thanks to our Michael Potter).
 
This month, anyone who posts to our blog in the space category will be eligible to win an autographed copy of "Missions to the Moon" (thanks to our Rod Pyle) and an autographed copy of "Darkship Thieves" which won the Prometheus Award (thanks to our Sarah A. Hoyt).
 
To get authorization to post to our official blog, write to admin@lifeboat.com with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation blog".
 
You can learn about "Missions to the Moon" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140276...02769806 and you can learn about "Darkship Thieves" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143913...39133980
 
So far, the following people have entered this drawing:
 
Gary Michael Church with the post "Water and Bombs" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/water-and-bombs
 
Steve Nerlich with the post "Astronomers Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/astron...-physics
 
Walter Putnam with the post "Space Renaissance: Dawn of a New Age of Civilization" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/space-...lization
 
Amalie Sinclair with the post "ISDHuB – Supporting for 100 years" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/10/isdhub...00-years

Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson, author of The New York Times best selling science fiction book Robopocalypse, joined our Futurists Board. Steven Spielberg will be directing the film version of this novel, scheduled for a release date of July 4, 2013. (Note that Dreamworks bought the film rights to the book a year and a half •before• the book was published.)
 
You can learn about this book at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038553...85533853

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Anonymous: $130, Brenda Cooper: $120, John J. Grencer: $120, Paula J. Wilson: $120, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Brandon E. Larson: $50, Brian Shiro: $30, Michael Breazeale: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Ronald Amos: $10, Don V. Black: $10, James Bracken: $10, Rebecca R. Cooper: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, George Garrett: $10, Charles Hawk: $10, Alexander Macrae: $10, Aaron Mayzes: $10, Glenn A. Miller: $10, Philip Morehead: $10, Phil Nadeau: $10, Frank D. Smith: $10, Benjamin T. Solomon: $10, Keith Godici: $5, Gissell Gonzalez: $5, Tatiana Gonzalez: $5, John Gutierrez: $5, Paulette Kallas: $5, and Carlos Ingram: Private amount.
 
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.