• New transcripts from BioHack the Planet 2019 were posted: Josiah Zayner’s “State of the Union,” Daria Dantseva, Glybera, Aubrey de Grey on “Ageing as a Disease,” and David Hewlett on “Biohacking Hollywood” (all at diyhpluswiki/transcripts/biohacktheplanet/2019/).

• Discussion of MIT study showing that “star” researchers’ deaths open up new scientific directions, framed as evidence that established hierarchies can block innovation.

• DARPA issued an urgent call (deadline 30 Aug 2019) for access to university-owned or commercially managed underground tunnels/facilities for classified experimentation, interpreted by participants as potential next-gen propulsion or cloaking research.

• Debate over cryonics credibility: participants argued that small-cell freezing (e.g., sperm, C. elegans memory retention after vitrification) is only a partial proof-of-concept; whole-brain vitrification remains unvalidated and current cryonics protocols are speculative.

• SENS research agenda defended: the seven categories of aging-related damage have remained unchanged since 2005, but critics still label the program “nonsensical”; defenders claim the categories are now mainstream in biogerontology.

• Julian Savulescu’s talk “Unfit for the Future: The Urgent Need for Moral Bioenhancement” was highlighted, raising the prospect of compulsory moral enhancement to manage existential risks.

• New DNA-based in-vivo cellular recording technique published in Molecular Cell (Cell Press) was shared as a tool for real-time lineage and event tracking inside living organisms.

• Links to technical optics papers: SPIE proceedings on “Explosive embossing of holographic structures” and OSA guide “How to (Maybe) Measure Laser Beam Quality” were circulated for DIY holography and beam diagnostics.

• GitHub project dice2seed (SCBuergel) introduced as a method to convert dice rolls into BIP-39 seeds for secure offline crypto key generation.

• Rob Carlson’s on-stage defense of the FDA was criticized by channel members as counter-productive to rapid longevity and bio-innovation deployment.