{"id":1887,"date":"2013-04-25T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2013-04-28T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:50:53","slug":"starship-century-symposium-2013-may-21-22-uc-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Starship Century Symposium 2013 &#8211; May 21 &#8211; 22, UC San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an announcement for the <a href=\"http:\/\/imagination.ucsd.edu\/starship\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">Starship Century Symposium 2013<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Starship Century<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"overview\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Is this the century we begin to build starships?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Why go to the Stars?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Can we?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Should We?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>May 21 &#8211; 22, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new <a href=\"http:\/\/imagination.ucsd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination<\/a> in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists address the challenges and opportunities for our long\u2010term future in space, with possibilities envisioned by: Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John Cramer and Robert Zubrin.<\/li>\n<li>Science fiction authors Neal Stephenson, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey Landis and David Brin discuss the implications that these trajectories of exploration might have upon our development as individuals and as a civilization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> April.28.13: The leader of a project at NASA Johnson Space Center who is investigating the possibility that warping space to achieve faster than light travel (see article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2013-03\/warp-factor\" target=\"_d\">Warp Factor &#8211; Popular Science<\/a>) will present an update at this meeting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/2013-starship-congress-speaker-announcement-dr-harold-sonny-white-warp-field-physics-an-update\/\" target=\"_d\">2013 Starship Congress Speaker Announcement \u2013 Dr Harold \u201cSonny\u201d White: \u201cWarp Field Physics: An Update\u201d &#8211;\u00a0 Icarus Interstellar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an announcement for the Starship Century Symposium 2013: Starship Century Is this the century we begin to build starships? Why go to the Stars? Can we? Should We? May 21 &#8211; 22, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starship Century Symposium 2013 &#8211; May 21 &#8211; 22, UC San Diego<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-ur","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2476,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2476","url_meta":{"origin":1887,"position":0},"title":"Starship Century &#8211; anthology book and symposium on interstellar flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Starship Century -\u00a0 Toward the Grandest Horizon\u00a0 is an anthology project of Gregory Benford , professor of Physics at UV Irvine and a noted science fiction writer, and his brother James Benford, president of Microwave Systems. 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