-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 19:54
Subject: Re: Travelling the Stars
>"Samael" <Samael@dial.pipex.com> writes:
>
>> From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
>> >I prefer Bishop's idea of sending a lot of very small and cheap and
>> >redundant nanocraft by catapult instead - a few might flame out, but
>> >enough would survive.
>>
>> What are we sending out in these nanocraft?
>>
>> If I want to travel out in one of these these things (obviously PKZipped
>> down), I'm not sure I want multiple redundant copies going out.
>
>Why not? Finally a conversation partner one can get along with! :-)
>(I'm only half-joking, I'm seriously thinking of forming The Anders
>Collective)
There's a marvellous Asimov song (possibly called "Clone on the Range") about the possibilities of having a clone of the opposite sex.
>> Or are we just sending out nanocraft to set up a habitabler area for us
to
>> inhabit when we get there?
>
>Send them out to grab an asteroid, put up an assembler and antenna
>dish and wait for your radio transmission. That way you can travel
>more safely.
I hate to think how many parity bits I'd want before I'd radiotransmit myself across the cosmos. And imagine waiting for a pacekt transmit from the base station.
Samael