Posthumans won’t dog space travel, Nasdaq ponders SL stock exchange, wallaby milk to kill super-bugs…

• 1 – Space Travel: Not for A Billion Years

  “Mind uploading will make space travel useless. If my mind is running at a million times human speed, then the Moon, Mars, and Proxima Centauri look far more distant than they were previously. It becomes pointless to visit them.”

  (tags: distance time subjective upload mind posthuman transhuman exploration interstellar travel space)

• 2 – Anti-superbug weapon developed from wallaby milk

  Good candidate for headline of the month.

  (tags: preventative infection bacteria milk wallaby research health medicine biology science)

• 3 – Amazon Web Services Opens Second Life Site

  “The Amazon islands aren’t quite done yet, Jeff says, but from what I could glean in my visit, they seem to have succeeded in being “very SL-friendly, not overly corporate,” as Jeff says they were intended.”

  (tags: architecture development island Amazon reality virtual metaverse Life Second)

• 4 – Nasdaq boss ponders Second Life stock exchange

  Nasdaq CEO [says] he could imagine opening up a stock exchange in Second Life. “We have actually contemplated it … The first life is hard enough, but we’re fans of it and we pay attention to it and we have thought about it.”

  (tags: economics exchange stock Nasdaq reality virtual metaverse Life Second)

• 5 – IBM Rolls Its Own Virtual World

  “The company is using Garage Games’ Torque Game Engine, a low-cost game platform supporting dozens of simultaneous users (about as many as a single Second Life area).”

  (tags: development platform software IBM reality virtual metaverse internet 3D)