From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 17:13:43 MDT
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:51:08PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> Such a gosh darn friggen waste -- take a clever engineer like Spike
> and I'm absolutely certain that he could figure out something extropic
> to do with all that matter and energy. Mind you it did happen 2
> billion years ago and spike wasn't around back then -- but still --
> it seems to be a crime to waste such resources.
>
> Interestingly -- if there is a decline in such events in close
> proximity to us (i.e. more up-to-date (potentially "evolved") galaxies
> that could be evidence that the ETIs are getting a handle on
> managing these resources more productively.
Lots of xenospikes doing something clever. A lovely thought!
Hmm, exactly *what* can we use a gamma ray burst for? Seems a bit
excessive to power a M-brain or even my quark-brain. Slow down the
collapse of the heavy objects and use it as a generator to light up the
galaxy ("exnerism is transhumanism and electricity" as branch-ind
45-Ninel-Xagyg put it as the new NGC 6554 ultra-power system was
inaugurated). Spacetime engineering? Making cosmic strings? Launching
expeditions for other inflation bubbles?
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