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