<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">There's nothing like putting things in perspective! This presentation from our annual stream of the ACC Awards certainly does that. As humanity, or whatever supersedes it, moves off-planet, one thing is for sure, to communicate they will be using DTN protocols as pioneered by the <a href="http://ipnsig.org/"><b>Internet Society InterPlanetary Networking SIG</b></a>. Lord Rees himself was in the news today, having a go at Elon Musk for "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/be-wary-of-elon-musk-despoiling-the-vault-of-heaven"><b>despoiling the vault of heaven</b></a>." <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "Today, Sunday December 29 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the fourth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature ‘On The Future Prospects for Humanity‘ – a presentation by Astronomer Royal Lord Ma" </span>
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