157th National Academy of Sciences
Dear NAS President Marcia McNutt, Professors Maria Zuber, George Church, Victor Dzau, Alton Romig, and All,
Thank you for your extraordinary NAS, NAM, and NAE panels this past weekend. I'd like to bring to your attention a millions' dollars grand challenge idea, namely that of a single realistic virtual earth / universe for everything - for all your panel presentations' science, and further research, and in a myriad of other ways. Think Google Streetview with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate at the cellular & atomic levels, and with species and individuals, and conceptually with Minecraft / Second Life for group build-ability, Lego robotics, and avatar bots too, but realistic. This would involve building, for example, one realistic virtual earth with individual organisms' genetics for aging reversal research - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ RealisticVirtualEarthForLongev ity?src=hashtag_click and https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR?src=hashtag_click (see, too: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182013815308705792?s=20) with, for example, experimental animals, in something conceptually like Google Poly (which is a library of virtual objects), for clinical trials (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)), and for actual-virtual, physical-digital tele-robotic surgery for the proposed mission to Mars in the 2030s, as we map and model for further research the trillions upon trillions of stars in a single realistic virtual universe/galaxies at the atomic level. The millions' dollars grand challenge idea is to build this, eg see Marc Andreessen's article here:
1 #RealisticVirtualEarth - it's time to build this - for EVERYTHING #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate etc https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/ its-time-to-build/ -https:// economicstrategygroup.org/wp- content/uploads/2019/12/ Maintaining-the-Strength-of- American-Capialism-Can- Innovation-Policy-Restore- Inclusive-Prosperity-in- America.pdf MIT: https://technologyreview.com/ 2020/04/25/1000563/covid-19- has-killed-the-myth-of- silicon-valley-innovation/
@WorldUnivAndSch ~
( https://twitter.com/ scottmacleod/status/ 1254069035206979585?s=20 )
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In many ways one could see this single realistic virtual earth/universe/galaxies as vast data set real estate in unparalleled ways, which, eureka, is 'minable' or buildable in infinite ways, and potential for trillions + of dollars. Please see the related #RealisticVirtualEarth hashtags on Twitter. How best to develop single realistic virtual earth / universe / galaxies further as a millions' dollars grand challenge idea? And how might we best communicate further about this?
Thank you for your consideration of this millions' dollars grand challenge idea. And I send my deepest condolences in this most difficult time, Professor Tully, as well. And thank you so much for making available online, in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic, these amazing National Academy of Science, Medicine and Engineering panels. (I have broached a number of related ideas recently with MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html). Please let me know your thoughts about this.
Sincerely,
Scott GK MacLeod
- Founder, President, Professor
- MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with MIT OCW in 4 languages, and planning major online universities in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, with wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages.
- WUaS is planning this realistic virtual universe / earth as STEM field sites, and as classrooms
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1 #RealisticVirtualEarth - it's time to build this - for EVERYTHING #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate etc https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ - https://economicstrategygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Maintaining-the-Strength-of-American-Capialism-Can-Innovation-Policy-Restore-Inclusive-Prosperity-in-America.pdf MIT: https://technologyreview.com/2020/04/25/1000563/covid-19-has-killed-the-myth-of-silicon-valley-innovation/ @WorldUnivAndSch ~
1 #RealisticVirtualEarth - it's time to build this - for EVERYTHING #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate etc https://t.co/zvKSQ892tx -https://t.co/YWVsopy5oP MIT: https://t.co/wNpX9TlqcS @WorldUnivAndSch ~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1254069035206979585?s=20
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National Association of Science: President's Address
Marcia McNutt's Annual Address to Members>
http://nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/presidents-address.html
> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @ cell/atom levels
National Association of Science: President's Address— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 25, 2020
Marcia McNutt's Annual Address to Members>https://t.co/iCC1cC4PCK >https://t.co/uCwNenr0H8 ~https://t.co/XRjNeRGSwE in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @ cell/atom levels
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1254073265435246592?s=20
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NAS President's Address
https://youtu.be/lHW3kqHcQXI
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/presidents-address.html
Book and Author Talk
https://youtu.be/eZ0EKnLDWPc
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/book-talk.html
COVID-19 Update
https://youtu.be/wQaK2JS0Kc4
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/covid19-update.html
Grand Challenges in Science
https://youtu.be/IL6NkCw5D3U
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/symposium.html
>
36:00 mins
Longevity
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/ RealisticVirtualEarthForLongev ity?src=hashtag_click
NAS 2020 Awards Ceremony
https://youtu.be/SkSfD4bq_i8
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/awards.html
NAS President's Address
https://youtu.be/lHW3kqHcQXI
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/presidents-address.html
Book and Author Talk
https://youtu.be/eZ0EKnLDWPc
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/book-talk.html
COVID-19 Update
https://youtu.be/wQaK2JS0Kc4
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/covid19-update.html
Grand Challenges in Science
https://youtu.be/IL6NkCw5D3U
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/symposium.html
>
36:00 mins
Longevity
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/
NAS 2020 Awards Ceremony
https://youtu.be/SkSfD4bq_i8
http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/events/annual-meeting/nas157/awards.html
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Grand Challenges in Science
Panel 1
https://unfoundation.org/ media/ambassador-elizabeth-m- cousens-to-join-united- nations-foundation-as-deputy- chief-executive-officer/ - sjiwani@unfoundation.org
Panel 2
https://www.economics.
https://profiles.stanford.edu/
Panel 3
Awards' panel
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- 415 480 4577
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Marcia McNutt
@Marcia_McNutt Apr 30
My friends, hurry up
! @scottmacleod @wHwu4n3wjJRSVTc @mlleech @JoanWennstrom @A0Alsabbagh @VandekerckhoveJ @EduardoCetlin @jo_hardin47 @CKingNASEM @AdamFagen
My friends, hurry up— Marcia McNutt (@Marcia_McNutt) April 30, 2020
!@scottmacleod @wHwu4n3wjJRSVTc @mlleech @JoanWennstrom @A0Alsabbagh @VandekerckhoveJ @EduardoCetlin @jo_hardin47 @CKingNASEM @AdamFagen pic.twitter.com/mjt8FJTef1
https://twitter.com/Marcia_McNutt/status/1255942714958495750?s=20
https://twitter.com/Marcia_McNutt/status/1255942708830576640?s=20
Thanks so much to President Marcia McNutt at the National Academy of Sciences for Tweeting this - in reply to my email above, in part, I think.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
https://slate.com/technology/2016/10/there-are-2-trillion-galaxies-in-the-universe.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-reveals-observable-universe-contains-10-times-more-galaxies-than-previously-thought/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
https://slate.com/technology/2016/10/there-are-2-trillion-galaxies-in-the-universe.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-reveals-observable-universe-contains-10-times-more-galaxies-than-previously-thought/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
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