- NASA has demonstrated a process to fabricate telescope-grade mirrors directly from lunar regolith by vapor-depositing aluminum onto a regolith-based substrate, but still requires Earth-supplied aluminum and epoxy; closing the aluminum loop on the Moon is viewed as the next step toward in-situ optical manufacturing.  
- A NIAC-funded proposal to harvest power on the Moon with Crookes radiometers was dismissed after participants pointed out that the devices cannot spin in a hard vacuum and that the author overlooked basic vacuum-physics literature.  
- Kevin Carson’s 2009 C4SS paper “Desktop Manufacturing” was circulated as a foundational text arguing that personal-scale digital fabrication could erode traditional economies of scale and restructure industrial competition.  
- Channel members debated whether fully automated, near-zero-marginal-cost production will collapse price signals, concentrate profits among resource owners, and ultimately force most consumers onto government stipends.  
- The FDA’s reclassification of piracetam from dietary supplement to prescription drug—mirrored by similar moves in New Zealand—sparked discussion of DIY racetam synthesis and the broader tension between regulatory safety and open-source cognitive enhancement.  
- Upcoming transhumanist gatherings announced include GOGBOT (Netherlands, Sept 9-12), Bionics & Nanotech Forum (Colombia, Sept 30), Mormon Transhumanist Association (Utah, Oct 1), TransVision 2010 (Milan, Oct 22-24), and the H+ Summit (Los Angeles, Nov 5-7).  
- Lockheed Martin released “Eureka Streams,” an open-source enterprise social-media platform built on OpenSocial, prompting disappointment that the defense contractor’s first open-source contribution was “yet another social-media tool.”  
- A public archive of SL4 and early transhumanist IRC logs, plus documents such as the Methuselah Foundation press kit and Michael Vassar’s “Flexible Automated Manufacturing” paper, was made available at http://acceleratingfuture.com/sl4/.  
- Ben Goertzel’s Novamente LLC has folded most of its proprietary AI work into the open-source OpenCog project, signaling a strategic shift toward community-driven AGI development.  
- Amateur rocketry discussions covered 3-D-printed stainless-steel engines (moving from porous Shapeways prints to denser DMLS parts), the lack of flight data for clustered micro-rocket arrays, and Copenhagen Suborbitals’ upcoming sea-launched attempt.