In a message dated 9/16/00 11:10:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de writes:
<< Sounds good to me. After you fork (keeping a backup copy until you ack
arrival in good shape at the other end) you should be able to cover
interstellar-neighbour hops directly with 0.95 c, or so, if using a
(redundant cloud of, lest you meet a dust grain in transit) gray sail
(made of, say, lightweight carbon truss cloth, operates at 2000 K)
probes driven by a circumsolar microwave phased array, and express you
(stored as lattice defects in a crystal, of a self-repairing (because
of radiation background) molecular memory) upon arrival. >>
The sheer "faith" in electro-magnetic transfer of duplicated, uploaded,
people is astounding. I don't see this as a usable, future technology, until
one can figure out how to prevent distortion via intense radiation, gamma
rays, cosmic rays, and so forth. Gimme' dat old time Neurtrinos, they're good
enough to work.
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