- Discussion of whether current technology already allows human embryos to be incubated outside the womb after only a few weeks, with kanzure countering that umbilical-cord management and the need for precise chemical signaling remain unsolved problems.  
- Crockwork asks why there has been “no movement on the purely-chemical-nutrition front,” highlighting a perceived stagnation in developing artificial-placenta or extracorporeal gestation systems.  
- Archels shares a live-stream link for an informal Human Brain Project status update: https://flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?eMAt=189&SgD=x.  
- Google’s open-source silicon initiative is noted: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/unleashing-open-source-silicon.html.  
- Fenn points out that Andreas Olofsson (formerly of Parallella) is now running the DARPA POSH program for “provably secure” open-source hardware: https://www.darpa.mil/program/posh-open-source-hardware.  
- Maaku observes that “provably secure” software has a long record of high-profile failures and argues that hardware faces the same formal-verification pitfalls plus additional manufacturing and process-level attack vectors.