RE: PLUTO, Our Future Home

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 19:28:58 MDT

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    Party of Citizens writes

    > ...any guestimates as to how much rocket power it would
    > take to move Pluto out of orbit and take it for a spin?

    Now that's more like it! Looking over the posts in this thread
    I am appalled to see that extropians generally concur with the
    view (that I thought had been left behind) that life is embedded
    in the universe as a kind of add-on, much as in pre-relativity
    physics matter is sort of added on to a pre-existing space and
    time. (Quite the opposite: matter is an *integral* part of
    space and time, or spacetime, and life will had DRAMATIC
    consequences for cosmology and the physics of our universe.)

    I thought that extropians were warm to the views of Dyson (1979),
    Barrow and Tipler (1986), Deutsch (1997), etc., that life was
    physically very important to the future of the universe. To
    simply assume as a default the (to me) preposterous notion that
    in some *billions* of years from now the Earth will be incinerated
    by an expanding sun without us doing anything about it is really
    a backward step in our thinking, almost atavistic.

    See Robert's http://www.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians/0301/0425.html

    and my http://www.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians/0305/7649.html for

    additional details.

    Lee



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