Nicholas Kirschman. Teacher, robot educator, old soul. More Star Trek than Star Wars. Only person known to love Dune on its original release. More Akira than The Ghost in the Shell. Believes George Takei is right 99.9% of the time. Imagines himself as the Man in the High Castle. Thinks cats are better for space exploration but that humans would prefer little dogs on Mars. More Philip K. Dick than Robert A. Heinlein. Feels that Windgrove's Chung Kuo would be the greatest film ever - even more than Jodorowsky's Dune. "The spice must flow."
Sessions in which Nicholas Kirschman participates
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Where is Everybody?: The Rare Earth Hypothesis Gateway Center - Ballroom A
- 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | 50 minutes
- Fermi's question is part of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and led to the Drake Equation. A variation on this question i...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Just How Close is The Technological Singularity? Gateway Center - Ballroom A
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 50 minutes
- In mathematics, you get a singularity when you divide by zero; in astrophysics it's known as a Black Hole; in our technological society, The Future...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- A Moon City: Competition or Collaboration? Gateway Center - Ballroom A
- 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 50 minutes
- Google Lunar XPRIZE and the Moon Village are two different approaches for exploring the Moon and developing a permanent city. “The $30M Google Luna...
- Panel
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- 41 New Discoveries About the Universe Since Archon 40 Gateway Center - Ballroom A
- 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | 50 minutes
- One year, 365 days. How can we have learned 41 new things about the Universe in just one year? An example is the finding of the first known syst...
- Panel
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Citizen Science: Discovering Our Own Universe Gateway Center - Ballroom A
- 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | 50 minutes
- Today, there is more science to be done than people to do it! From an overabundance of data to a desperate need for distributed data collection, pe...
- Panel