• MIT researchers published a broad-spectrum antiviral strategy against rhinoviruses (common cold) in PLOS ONE (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022572); the finding was already a year old at the time of discussion.  
• Channel members debated technical and legal tactics for mass-liberating pay-walled literature, including bulk scraping, browser-plugin “relayers,” EZproxy credential reuse, watermark stripping, and Selenium-driven automation to cache papers in a darknet repository.  
• Bryan Bishop released “pyscholar,” an open-source Python scraper (GitHub: kanzure/pyscholar), and noted that publishers embed hidden, encrypted watermark objects in PDFs that can be removed.  
• Participants estimated the yearly corpus at ~1.5 million papers (~1–2 TB) and proposed repurposing Zotero’s community-maintained per-journal JavaScript scrapers to run server-side, enabling instant fixes instead of waiting for 30 000 Firefox plug-in updates.  
• EU Future & Emerging Technologies projects—FuturICT, Robot Companions, and the Graphene Flagship—were identified as €1 B transhumanist-relevant funding opportunities.  
• NASA’s Space Technology Roadmaps were linked to the open-source SKDB concept for automated, space-rated manufacturing and logistics, with discussion of 3-D printing a lunar base using in-situ resources: Fresnel lenses from polished lunar-metal mirrors to sinter regolith, stereolithography, and contour-crafting to bootstrap additional printers, with electronics as the main non-printable component.  
• Shared archival links included the 1977 NASA Space Settlement Design Study, Freitas’ 1980s self-replicating lunar factory archive, and a page on lunar stereolithography (settlement.arc.nasa.gov, islandone.org/MMSG/aasm, freeluna.com/mdmfg.htm).