From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 14:31:25 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Max M wrote:
>
>>I love the space program as much as the next guy. But I don't think it
>>is the area where reasearch money are best spend these days.
>
>
> We have to take the elimination of humanity *much* more seriously
> than the elimination of parts of it.
It's a bit of a gamble. But I would say that it's nessecary anyway.
Sending to few people into space will not help anything. It's too
dangerous a place. And probably will be until nanotech.
> I don't know whether it is generally known, but my read of Eric Drexler's
> literature and development history is that cheap access to space was
> one primary reasons he pushed to develop nanotechnology.
Oh yes!
I have an old and tattered book on my bookshelf "Gerald O'Neil -
Rumkolonier" (Space Colonies), which was my bible when I was around 10
years old.
In it, O'Neil tells about this young grad student that helps him build
mass acellerators in the summer vacation. His name is Erik Drexler.
To my amasement, when I read about Nanotechnology for the first time in
an issue of Analog, years later, the very same Eric Drexler is mentioned
again as the inventor of this new idea.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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