>But remember, inner city violence can be rather high. It may be
rather
>unhealthy to live close to the core as long as one is based on
fragile
>chemistry.
perhaps, but at least it would be easier to get to the neighbor's
place...
>Hmm, I think you make a mistake here. If you can travel four or
five
>ly, why not six or eight? And then we are getting some interesting
>neighbors. It is indeed hard to travel interstellar distances, but
if
>can manage them there is no real difference between 4 and 10
>light-years.
i am thinking along the thread of an earlier post that said we extropians
should look to the short term as well as the long term. so i am imagining
an interstellar craft that could be built in the next 100 yrs or so. this
assumes
no opening up wormholes, no impluse engines, etc. with our
paltry technology, there is huge delta between 4 and 10 light yrs. more
later! spike