Rocket scientist Ben Haldeman is on a mission to create a blueprint of life on Earth (from sacred plants to animal and human DNA) and send it out into the universe.

In conversation with Nick, Ben introduces his astronomical venture LifeShip, the Noah’s Ark of the new space age, that has already sent the genomes of 500 species into the cosmos.

The intention? To back up Earth and spread life to the stars. The dream? To populate new worlds with these seeds of earthly life, consciousness and culture.

Tune in as Nick and Ben uncover the magnitude of this mission, and the giant leap of expansive opportunity and existential inquiry that LifeShip is launching humanity into.

Ben Haldeman

Ben is a space entrepreneur involved in companies at the intersection of space, longevity, biology, and consciousness. He is founder of LifeShip, a community space movement with a mission to spread the seeds of life to the stars. LifeShip’s first mission is a DNA seed bank time capsule on the Moon. LifeShip’s products allow people to preserve and propagate their DNA, story, and digital twin avatar across space and time. Ben was an early engineer at Planet Labs where he designed the camera used on hundreds of satellites to record our changing planet. He built a global network of dozens of robotic telescopes to find new exoplanets at LCOGT. In grad school at UC Berkeley, Ben built instruments to look for life on Mars.

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Show notes:

• 00:03:45 - Receiving a transmission to send seeds to the stars
• 00:10:23 - Introducing Lifeship: the Noah’s Ark of the New Space Age
• 00:16:20 - Making space exploration accessible
• 00:21:28 - Rippling life into the universe, from a capsule the size of a coin
• 00:27:23 - A democratized, decentralized movement for humanity
• 00:31:51 - The importance and responsibility of continuing life beyond Earth
• 00:41:06 - The roadmap from here? Earth guardianship, personal growth and human legacy.
• 00:51:59 - When the universe teases you with alternative life paths

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