Re: Travelling the Stars

Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:42:26 -0000

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From: mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com> Date: 10 December 1998 20:26
Subject: Re: Travelling the Stars

>A more fundamental question would seem to be: *Why* would you want to go to
>the stars?
>
>Survival, resources, curiousity maybe, but there aren't many reasons to
>go through all that trouble if you don't have to. Once you start to talk
>about the kind of powers we discuss here, stars are little more than balls
>of hydrogen gas wastefully burning themselves up. Why not dismantle them
>for fuel and live in mobile habitats in free space?

Curiosity. When we have the resource to do pretty much whatever we want, we end up in a leisure society.

Why not go and have a look to see what's out there?

Samael