From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 23:39:35 MDT
Lee observed:
<<Yes, maybe so. But then Damien's point still stands:
nobody's out there watching us now! Not even some
restrained types following a Prime Directive.
Restraining yourself from overrunning everything in
sight is not competitive, though even Greg Egan doesn't
appear to realize it in his SF, (speaking of Diaspora).
Well then, let's get on with it. The universe has been
too cold and too dead for far too long a time.
Lee>>
Lee, unless Kurzweil, and the rest of the cavalcade of AI gurus are correct;
the practicality of sending Bracewell probes, however molecular in size, will
be, as Sir Arthur once stated: The Labor of Centuries. Because interstellar
travel is possible, does not necessarily make it economically viable, or
politically correct. This might serve true even for imaginary SIAI's running
corporations and planets in the next 300 years. Rather, we may go to the next
1000 closest stars (we being Mr. Roboto) and say "Aw screw it! This is enough
raw materials for the next 75 millennia, and durn it, there ain't nobody else
home in the galaxy" (50-100 billion galaxies to go).
Because there isn't anyone close at hand, does not mean there isn't anyone at
all. My hunch (unfalsifiable) is that the nature of space-time, as we and
robot jr. will come to understand it, will be vastly different from what we
are now able to detect. Articles about multiple universes, will seem passe.'
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