sc
mass communications, ideas of techniques of evolution and the
ecology, and Marxist analysis. challenges of the extra-terrestrial
environment.
I
STEVE FULLER controversial
ence
philosopher and sociologist in the Mon 4tH MAY 12.30PM
field of science and technology
studies.
scIence LAb
JOSIE APPLETON writer and sPAce coLonIsAtIon –
convenor of the Manifesto club. HOME SWEET HOME?
Presented in association with this is a panel discussion about
The Battle of Ideas the uniqueness of our planet and
lab
www.battleofideas.org.uk whether manned exploration of
space is inevitable for the survival
sAt 3Rd MAY 12.30PM of the human race.
Speakers include:
scIence LAb:
DAVID ASHFORD director of bristol
ARtIfIcAL LIfe – It’s LIfe, JUst
Spaceplanes. Co-author of the first
NOT AS WE KNOW IT!
serious book on space tourism ‘Your
This session is truly cutting edge Spaceflight Manual – How You Could
science based on experimental be a tourist in space within twenty
evidence and discusses the Years’, by David Ashford and Patrick
possibility of synthetic life-like forms collins.
being generated in the laboratory
MAREK KUKULA Public Astronomer at
and in silicon and what this means
Greenwich Observatory, specialising
for the human race.
in the study of supermassive black
Speakers include: holes and the evolution of galaxies.
He has 15 years of research including
PROFESSOR GEORGE ATTARD school
two years at the space telescope
of Chemistry, Southampton, whose
Science Institute in Baltimore, home
diverse research activities span the
of nAsA’s Hubble space telescope.
traditional disciplines of physical
chemistry/chemical physics, DAVID KIPPING Astronomer based
materials science, biochemistry at University College London
and immunology. investigating extra-solar planets,
the development of novel detection
PETER BENTLEY Popular science
techniques and astrobiology.
author whose field of interest
includes Evolutionary Computation, JERRY STONE has given lectures on
Engineering Design, Computer Art, space for almost 40 years. He is a
and Artificial Life. fellow of the british Interplanetary
Society and the Royal Astronomical
RACHEL ARMSTRONG sf author
Society, Chairman of the Space
and doctor, who has appeared
education council and a director of
extensively in the media and
the Mars society UK.
at international conferences
speculating on the future of Mon 4tH MAY 5.00PM
humankind, non Darwinian
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