Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀

Founding Faculty @uaustinorg | Space Biologist @inspiration4x @polarisprogram | Solving the bottlenecks of human spaceflight to make humanity multi-planetary

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

New in @theammind:

Freedom in space won't emerge by default. It has to be engineered into the systems that sustain life.

Microgravity, radiation, closed life support. Every constraint of off-world living pushes toward centralized control. The first durable space societies risk becoming ruthlessly optimized systems where dissent destabilizes survival and exit is impossible.

Those foundational architectures will persist for generations. We get one chance to build them right.

A case for why the American political project belongs in orbit, and what it will take to keep it alive there.

Link in comments.

[Dr. Eiman Jahangir @DrEJahangir]

Had the privilege to give a keynote for the Torchlight Summit. The weekend consisted of giving biologic samples as part of the follow up to the Space Omics study that looks at changes in biological factors, and specifically gene expression with space flight and other extreme environments. Also caught up with other astronaut colleagues who shared great insight regarding their spaceflight - Sian Proctor @DrSianProctor, Victor Hespana, Rob Ferl, Hayley Arceneaux @ArceneauxHayley , Chris Mason @mason_lab & Chris Sembroski @ChrisSembroski

What are your thoughts on Space Omics?

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

@BenLamm @colossal Congratulations!

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

@jamespoulos .@uaustinorg

[Jason Scharf @Jason_A_Scharf]

This weekend at the Torchlight Summit, I had a fireside chat with @ArceneauxHayley on the changing question of “Who gets to be an astronaut?”

Thanks @EliahOverbey & @costofglory for the invite.

I’ve now interviewed 2 of the 4 Inspiration4 astronauts. @rookisaacman up for it?

[Joshua Baer ⚙️ @JoshuaBaer]

Torchlight Conference today. The future of higher education is being built right here in Austin.

[Grant Anderson @Granttdh]

@CommanderMLA That’s why @ParagonSDC was started in the first place 33 years ago next Monday. And ECLSS is still often the “Rodney Dangerfield” of spacecraft subsystems. I’m talking about that at https://t.co/PBLNeKqnzO on Friday morning.

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

"Human nature is not going to change. But the parameters of human life will—and dramatically. The question is how, in this unprecedented scenario, we can make the American way of life one of the things we carry with us [to space]." – @EliahOverbey, UATX Professor of Bioastronautics and Torchlight Summit Organizer @theammind

[The American Mind @theammind]

This weekend, @UAustinOrg will be hosting the Torchlight Summit, bringing together thinkers and doers to discuss how Western values will survive the space age.

Read more about the summit, and the questions behind it in @EliahOverbey's latest https://t.co/bNq4Rv9k4i

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

Thrilled to announce Grant Anderson as our Torchlight Summit keynote.

Grant co-founded Paragon Space Development Corporation -- the company that builds the life-support and thermal-control systems keeping astronauts alive. Paragon hardware has flown on every major human spaceflight program since 1999: Orion, the Space Shuttle, the ISS, Soyuz, and Mir.

Freedom in space won't emerge by default. It has to be engineered into the systems that sustain life. Grant spent decades building those systems. His keynote, The Final Frontier of the Human Condition, takes up the question at the heart of this summit.

[Grant Anderson @Granttdh]

I am excited to be the keynote speaker at the Torchlight Summit in Austin on Friday. Humanity is venturing off-planet more and more. But how will it effect us? Tickets are still available for those interested in joining the discussion. https://t.co/PBLNeKqVpm

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

@cblatts Ironically, ChatGPT can help you with that.

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

What to carry forward, what to modify, what to reject.

This is the work of the Torchlight Summit at @uaustinorg, and it's the work of every generation that wants to keep a free society free.

Thanks @theammind for the feature.

[The American Mind @theammind]

“What are the political and institutional consequences of life beyond Earth, and how can we shape them before they solidify?”

@UAustinOrg's @EliahOverbey introduces the Torchlight Summit to bring thinkers together to ask how to preserve freedoms beyond our planet.

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

https://t.co/McCXJiiZLx

[Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀 @EliahOverbey]

New in @theammind:

Freedom in space won't emerge by default. It has to be engineered into the systems that sustain life.

Microgravity, radiation, closed life support. Every constraint of off-world living pushes toward centralized control. The first durable space societies risk becoming ruthlessly optimized systems where dissent destabilizes survival and exit is impossible.

Those foundational architectures will persist for generations. We get one chance to build them right.

A case for why the American political project belongs in orbit, and what it will take to keep it alive there.

Link in comments.

[James Poulos @jamespoulos]

Looking forward to talking about imperial frontiers and the law of unintended synthesis

[Pablo Antonio @PabloAntonio]

With Greco-futurism, I'm asking the question "if the ancients had our technology, what would they build?"

If engineering is applied physics, then architecture is applied philosophy.

And the ideas behind Greco-futurism are growing.

Register to the Summit this weekend bellow.

[Pablo Antonio @PabloAntonio]

Austin, TX. This weekend.

With talks from @costofglory @jasonjoyride @jamespoulos @EliahOverbey

https://t.co/ncZJRAYog9

[:~# @yashevde]

Super excited to take part in the Torchlight Summit at UATX later this week!

I was originally slated for my usual beat on Spacecare and startups, but the other speakers and topics inspired me. So, l’ll be waxing philosophical a bit to talk about using Weltschmerz as rocket fuel:

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

"When humanity expands beyond Earth, we have to get the foundations right."

— Torchlight Summit Organizer & UATX Prof. of Bioastronautics @EliahOverbey

[Jason Scharf @Jason_A_Scharf]

The question of who can be an astronaut is rapidly changing.

At the Torchlight Summit, I’ll be interviewing @ArceneauxHayley in a conversation titled “Breaking Barriers in Human Spaceflight.”

We’ll look at the shift from specialists to trained civilians to the everyone era.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

Legacy academia will go the way of legacy media.