The Lifeboat Foundation


	The Lifeboat Foundation

skwirlinator

7-1-2008 1:22 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/270265b9-ba27-4220-88dd-238a896bfe3b/05286971-3732-4D89-8EBD-AD03E874FCE4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement" href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement" style="font-size: 11px;">lifeboat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifeboat.com/img/AA347EF8-DC39-42F2-AF7B-264149FD9D46" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement"><DIV> 
The Lifeboat Foundation is
a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to 
encouraging scientific advancements while
helping humanity survive
<A href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/programs" class="bluehover">
existential risks</A> and
possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies,
including genetic
engineering,
nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity" class="bluehover">technological
singularity</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement"><DIV>
Lifeboat Foundation is pursuing a variety 
of options,
including helping to accelerate the development of technologies to defend
humanity, including new <A href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/bio.shield" class="bluehover">methods to combat viruses</A>
(such as RNA interference and new vaccine methods), effective <A href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/nano.shield" class="bluehover">
nanotechnological defensive strategies</A>, and even self-sustaining 
<A href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/ArkI" class="bluehover">space colonies</A>
in case the other defensive strategies fail.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeboat.com/ex/mission.statement">We <A href="http://lifeboat.com/invitation2.doc" class="bluehover">invite</A> you to join
our cause!
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