Send your thoughts, images, DNA, and more on the Humanity Chip spacecraft and beam them to the star of your choice. Make history now.
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Our goal is to directly engage all humanity in space exploration. We want to send your dreams and aspirations to the stars! With our basic funding goal of $30,000, we will put your data on a custom spacecraft that will be launched in 2017 initially into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), then to more distant missions to the moon, Mars, etc in subsequent missions. In the future, we intend to offer the Humanity Chip to all spacecraft being launched.
Once we reach our stretch goal of $100,000, we will be able to build a sophisticated ground-based laser and robotic telescope that allows your data to be optionally transmitted via laser to the target of your choice in space. We will then be able to "beam you up" by encoding and sending your data to the stars so you will travel at the speed of light into the universe. In both cases, we will be able to "back up humanity", using the universe as our "cloud" with your images, pictures, text, tweets, video, and DNA! Your data will live forever in the universe. You will be immortalized.
Giving a Voice to all Children - We want to enable every person to have a voice. In this Kickstarter you get your own voice and can give another theirs. All funds raised in this campaign will help enable those around the world who cannot afford to pledge themselves. We will focus primarily on the voices of children from third world countries by direct engagement and by working with schools to have children write/email/tweet as appropriate, which allows us to include them. Your funds will benefit those otherwise not included.
Voices of Humanity is brought to you by the same people that are working on the recently announced laser propelled, first interstellar missions through the DE-STAR project at University of California Santa Barbara and the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funded project Phase I DEEP-IN and Phase II DEIS programs. Professor Philip Lubin is the leading scientist on all of these projects and is a professor at UC Santa Barbara. Travis Brashears has worked with Prof. Lubin on all of these projects and is an Engineering Physics major at UC Berkeley.
Please join us for the maiden voyage of Humanity Chip in 2016. The first Humanity Chip will definitely be a collectors item and we will be offering flight spares for sale in the future. Once we reach our stretch goal this will enable the "Beam Me Up" mode to send your data via laser to the star, exoplanet, solar system object (planet, moon or asteroid), galaxy or black hole of your choice. Imagine your data getting to the Moon in about 1 second or to Mars in about 10 minutes or to the Voyager spacecraft in less than a day or to the nearest star in about 4 years. You data will live forever. Your memories will be immortalized. Data options will include tweets, stories, documents, poems, pictures, movies, DNA sequencing etc. You can sponsor friends and family or entire classrooms, schools or organizations. Makes a wonderful and everlasting gift. Make history - be on the Voices of Humanity Chip.
We come from a very active university research environment that is distinct from our Kickstarter campaign. You can find some of our relevant university research in the links below.
The Voices of Humanity campaign’s purpose is to give a voice to all of humanity and to immortalize those voices. In this way your voice will literally live forever. The Voices of Humanity campaign will send your dreams and aspirations out into the universe. Everyone that wants to participate will be able to participate. No one will be excluded. Our long term goal is to send humanity to the stars first with laser transmitted data and then with directed energy propelled spacecraft that will carry your data as an emissaries from Earth. In a sense we will “back up humanity” and use the universe as our “cloud”. We hope that you will share our vision and join us on this journey.
We want to push towards relativistic flight using directed energy that will enable the first interstellar missions and revolutionize access to space by miniaturizing spacecraft to the Wafer-Scale. By pledging to this campaign you will help enable the technology for relativistic flight and become part of that journey.
This is but the first phase as the Voices of Humanity Campaign is not static. We will grow and evolve as you do. As technology advances we will advance, allowing increasingly sophisticated levels of data to be added and additional Humanity Chips to be launched and new data to be “beamed up”.
Your data is private - All data you upload is private and will not be viewed by us or anyone else. It will not be made public. We will encrypt the data on the Humanity Chip to fully secure it.
In this particularly contentious political year in the United States we are offering a special set of 2016 Political Chip!
Tell us all about your favorite candidates and we will immortalize this election even if many of us want to forget it. We are offering a RED (Republican), White (for independents) and BLUE (Democratic) Humanity Chip. We will launch all three chips AND the chip with the most votes will also have its data “beamed up” to a RED, White or BLUE star of our choice. The Catch: Each side will get their own chip launched with their data on it! BUT whichever side wins (in # of Red/White/Blue pledges) will get their data beamed to the stars as well if we reach our stretch goal!
For those of you that have those "less than happy" thoughts about a candidate, someone or something we are also offering a special BLACK Hole Chip where you can “vent your views” about anyone or anything and we will launch your complaints to be immortalized. IF we reach our stretch goal then we will also beam the entire BLACK Hole Chip's data to the 4 million solar mass supermassive blackhole at the center of our galaxy (Sagittarius A*) to show those thoughts just what you think of them. Your opinion of them will be sucked into the blackhole!
In order to involve as many people as possible we want to provide everyone that tweets our twitter handle the ability to get on the Humanity Chip. We will put your Twitter username onboard the Humanity Chip if you tweet our handle! Additional information beyond this (such as your full tweet) will fall under a pledge category that depends on the type of data you want to put on the Humanity Chip. The possibilities are endless! Let us know if there is something missing and we will work something out with you!
Here is a great example of a tweet about the Voices of Humanity Campaign:
With our research partners that specialize in small spacecraft launches we will launch the Humanity Chip into space! We expect your data will be uploaded onboard the Humanity Chip Spacecraft by the end of January 2017 in addition to all swag being delivered . We expect the launch of the Humanity Chip Spacecraft to be in Q2 of 2017 subject to changes in launching schedule! We are very excited to offer you this unique capability!
Have you ever dreamed of living forever? We all have. We all desire to leave a profound impact with our lives. The Humanity Chip will enable all humanity to speak and to share its visions and desires and place it all on a chip that will be launched into space. You will be able to place your thoughts, pictures, videos and your own unique digital DNA sequence on the Humanity Chip. We intend to update this information and launch these chips at least once per year as well as offer the ability to beam up your information and messages encoded on a laser coupled to a telescope to any known exoplanet, star, moon, planet, galaxy or blackhole of your choice. Imagine sending a message, a birthday wish, a marriage proposal, an anniversary message, a get well sentiment for a loved one to the moon, to Mars, Venus or the nearest exoplanet. The possibilities are endless. You will receive an email so you know when your information was sent out to the target of your choice.
The Beam Me Up mode will take your data and messages and send them with a custom laser communications system coupled to a robotic telescope to the target of your choice or to simply be “backed up” into the universe. This will be available once our first stretch goal of $100,000 is reached. Our group has built many robotic telescopes. We will build a custom system with programming for targeting, calibration sequence control, custom laser encoding electronics, database management software, computer controlled dome, weather and sky sensors etc. Here is the design we will use.
After the launch of our Kickstarter we will do everything possible to get the word out, but we will need your help to reach our first two goals! Our first goal is to raise a minimum of $30,000 for the Humanity Chip to be launched in orbit around the Earth to make the first ever space time capsule sponsored by all of humanity. In order to enable the beam me up mode to send the data to the target of your choice we have a stretch goal a minimum of $100,000 to build the robotic telescope and laser communications system.
Space access has begun to change dramatically with the entrance of the private sector. With companies such as SpaceX paving the way to lower cost space access and with plans for Mars we are quickly entering a new era. It is time to start thinking of going far beyond our solar system but doing so requires a radically new approach. We have done just that with our directed energy propulsion work at UC Santa Barbara with the goal of enabling the first interstellar missions using small wafer scale spacecraft to be sent to Alpha Centauri. We have ignited a passion from our government sector NASA NIAC programs to the private sector. Philip Lubin, a professor in physics at the University of California Santa Barbara, is the leading scientist on these projects. With his colleague, Travis Brashears an engineering physics major at UC Berkeley, we have launched this Voices of Humanity Kickstarter to begin a journey that will take us to the stars with directed energy propulsion. The Voices of Humanity campaign’s purpose is to collect the dreams, visions, images, movies, DNA and literal voices of all of humanity, place them on the Humanity Chip, download them onto our wafer scale spacecraft and launch them in a series of increasingly sophisticated missions that will go beyond any previous mission: to Alpha Centauri. This Kickstarter campaign starts this journey by gathering your data and launching it into orbit around Earth for the first milestone of our vision. This campaign also features a revolutionary way to get to the stars: you will also have the option to transmit your data via laser encoding to the destination of your choice (moon, planet, star, exo-planet, galaxy, black hole) if the $100,000 stretch goal is reached. We will “seed the universe” with you. We hope that you will share our vision and join us on this journey.
See us at www.humanitychip.org
Directed Energy LLC focuses on transformational applications of directed energy for applications ranging from photonic power transmission to relativistic propulsion. We come from a major university environment with more than 4 decades of experience in technology and its applications from terrestrial to space missions. Our vision is to use new technological advances to better humanity through the synthesis of ideas and our core values. Our goal is to make possible that which is currently only a dream for many but whose reality can be realized.
There are many obstacles that we are trying to overcome. Getting the Humanity Chip to space on a launch vehicle and providing for the “beam me up” laser option is challenging. We have spent a lot of time setting up the Voices of Humanity Campaign and it is near it's completion, we just need your help to make this a reality.
When our stretch goal is reached we will be excited to offer you the ability to upload your data to space via our “Beam Me Up” mode in addition to launching the data on a spacecraft.
Our goal is to use the Humanity Chip to create a space time capsule for everyone on Earth and to continue pushing forward to more advanced Humanity Chip options. This is just the beginning of a journey that will take us to the stars and beyond. Please join us to enable this dream for everyone.
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