Mae Jemison, Who Was the First Black Woman in Space, Will Now Lead 100-Year Starship Project - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A project to pave the way for humanity’s journey to the stars will be helmed by a former astronaut, Mae Jemison, already a pioneer in her own right. She will lead DARPA’s 100-Year Starship project, the BBC says, citing DARPA documents. Jemison, the first black woman in space, was one of scores of people to submit proposals for DARPA’s ambitious project. It doesn’t seek to build an actual starship per se but rather a program that can last 100 years, and might one day result in one. As DARPA told us last summer, it’s more of a thought experiment than a construction project. The idea itself sparked some other pretty audacious proposals, including one by J. Craig Venter to send human genomes toward the stars and reconstruct them upon arrival. Jemison apparently won a contract for her proposal titled “An Inclusive Audacious Journey Transforms Life Here on Earth & Beyond,” BBC said. Her organization, the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, is already a partner on the project with a non-profit called Icarus Interstellar and a group called the Foundation for Enterprise Development. The details of her proposal are still unavailable, but it was apparently selected after a conference in Orlando last fall that launched a formal government request-for-proposals. The contract, worth $500,000, is designed to seed some type of entity that will take over the next 100 years’ worth of project planning. It’s also unclear yet whether this would be a non-profit or for-profit venture. Jemison, who is also a physician and engineer, left NASA in 1993 after a six-year stint in which she served as science mission specialist aboard space shuttle Endeavour, becoming the first black woman to fly in space. Since leaving the space agency, she has been involved in education and outreach efforts and technology development. Rounding out her resume, Jemison also served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Liberia, is a professionally trained dancer, and speaks Russian, Swahili and Japanese along with English. [B]A die-hard “Star Trek” fan — Jemison has said she drew inspiration from Lt. Uhura — she appeared in a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode in 1993, the first real astronaut to make a cameo in the show. Sounds like the perfect resume to helm something called the 100-Year Starship. [/B] [img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/Mae_Jemison.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/former-astronaut-will-lead-100-year-starship-project[/url] She's kinda cute

My dream of one day to go beyond the clouds and into space still lives on. Hell yeah.

...Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations... to boldly go where no one has gone before.

to boldy use split infinitives like no man has done before

The genome sending one is pretty cool. Not sure how we would deal with the fact that they would be babies when they get there though.

I wouldn't mind letting her launch my rocket, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34072150] She's kinda cute[/QUOTE] Never knew you were into MILFs

Cute =/= attractive. [editline]6th January 2012[/editline] But of course I don't speak for the OP.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;34072535]Never knew you were into MILFs[/QUOTE] If they look like that, why not?

[QUOTE=mac338;34072565]Cute =/= attractive. [editline]6th January 2012[/editline] But of course I don't speak for the OP.[/QUOTE] cute/kyo͞ot/ Adjective: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way. Sexually attractive.

You wouldn't believe how big my designs are for starships. I bet everyone here have been doing this shit since they were 7. It's a fun little "hobby". You know, designing starships.

Everyone is ignoring her kickin rad afro

[QUOTE=minilandstan;34073446]Everyone is ignoring her kickin rad afro[/QUOTE] They aren't. They are just focusing on the kickin' rad afro, [i]down there[/i].

[QUOTE=Pandamox;34072726]cute/kyo͞ot/ Adjective: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way. Sexually attractive.[/QUOTE] It's not used that way quite often though. ex. People don't usually mean they want to bang a cat when they call it cute. Glad to hear DARPA's working on this, about time someone got serious about long-distance manned missions.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;34072535]Never knew you were into MILFs[/QUOTE] Look at her face That's some tight skin you wouldn't expect on a 40 year old

the majority of this thread has been about this lady's physical attractiveness and you wonder why there are few girls on the internet and why none of you can get laid

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34073671]the majority of this thread has been about this lady's physical attractiveness and you wonder why there are few girls on the internet and why none of you can get laid[/QUOTE] That always happens on the first page. Just let us get over the shock of seeing a woman, won't be a minute.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34073671]the majority of this thread has been about this lady's physical attractiveness and you wonder why there are few girls on the internet and why none of you can get laid[/QUOTE] Look at that facial skin! That's what most 40 year olds take botox by the bucketful for [editline]6th January 2012[/editline] [quote]Jemison, who is also a [B]physician[/B] and [B]engineer[/B], left NASA in 1993 after a six-year stint in which she served as science mission specialist aboard space shuttle Endeavour, becoming the first black woman to fly in space. Since leaving the space agency, she has been involved [B]in education and outreach efforts and technology development[/B]. Rounding out her resume, Jemison also served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Liberia, is a professionally trained dancer, and [B]speaks Russian[/B], [B]Swahili[/B] and [B]Japanese[/B] along with English.[/quote] talk about a beastly CV

She sounds like a bit of an under-achiever. I want DARPA to rule the world.

[QUOTE=Pandamox;34072726]cute/kyo͞ot/ Adjective: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way. Sexually attractive.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what you're implying, but you're sexually attracted to big-eyed, furry animals?

J. Craig Venter is the fucking shit. The things he's doing with artificial lifeforms is fucking crazy and brilliant.

I wonder when will some astrophysicist finally tell them that with the speeds that we can even imagine achieving with our technology, even with 100 years of flight time, you don't get anywhere.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34075866]I wonder when will some astrophysicist finally tell them that with the speeds that we can even imagine achieving with our technology, even with 100 years of flight time, you don't get anywhere.[/QUOTE] I'm sure that they as astrophysicists haven't taken current possible acceleration into account i think you should go to DARPA HQ yourself and personally tell them what for

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34075866]I wonder when will some astrophysicist finally tell them that with the speeds that we can even imagine achieving with our technology, even with 100 years of flight time, you don't get anywhere.[/QUOTE] *blink* It's almost as though this organization composed of extremely qualified people led by an extremely qualified person and funded by one of the most innovative organizations [I]never thought of such a thing[/I] oh wait that's stupid, of course they did e.g. [quote]to send human genomes toward the stars and reconstruct them upon arrival.[/quote]

I wish i could give them my brain so that they could put in the clones when they arrive there

It's all research done in sake of "IN CASE WE ACTUALLY EVER INVENTED SOME DREAM PROPULSION WE CANNOT EVEN THINK OF RIGHT NOW". It's like, knowing there will be no snow this winter but going to get a sled JUST IN CASE you got lucky. Notice that there never was an actual target - like - get to planet X - because nobody can really give such plan which would be at least REMOTELY doable. Yes, this research is interesting, and can clearly yield interesting results, but no, it's not "WE ARE GOING TO THE STARS". It's more of "WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO PACK OUR SHIT NEATLY"

How the hell would the humans that grow up inside that even know what to do when they arrive? It would be like neanderthals all over again constructing a new language from scratch and shit when they start getting to the age of comprehending stuff

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34076286]It's all research done in sake of "IN CASE WE ACTUALLY EVER INVENTED SOME DREAM PROPULSION WE CANNOT EVEN THINK OF RIGHT NOW". It's like, knowing there will be no snow this winter but going to get a sled JUST IN CASE you got lucky. Notice that there never was an actual target - like - get to planet X - because nobody can really give such plan which would be at least REMOTELY doable. Yes, this research is interesting, and can clearly yield interesting results, but no, it's not "WE ARE GOING TO THE STARS". It's more of "WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO PACK OUR SHIT NEATLY"[/QUOTE] The first time I gave you benefit of the doubt but you seem to be severely fucking misinformed about this [B]The aim is not to create a starship that can travel to other solar systems in 100 years[/B] instead, the 100yss project is designed to develop a business model which integrates the research collected over the next 100 years to make interstellar travel possible and feasible.

Holy shit. She's 55.

I've heard that being in Space slows down your age for some reason.