From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 21:04:52 MDT
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, S.J. Van Sickle wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> > Imagine days of lying in the sun out on the deck, bungee jumping off of
> > end of the deck, etc.
>
> Can tell you never worked aboard ship. Lying in the sun, huh?
>
> More like chip and paint in the sun.
*Actually* my father did own a sport fishing boat and I *do*
remember spending a significant amount of time under it or
on it as a child (from say 8 yo to 14 yo) performing exactly
the maintenance you describe. Made me hate boats. But I'm
willing to offset that hate if it provides an Extropian enclave.
Besides, are you suggesting that a 100+ extropes with extreme
technical abilities could not define a set of robots to deal with these
issues in this day and age of robotic dogs, robotic faces, robotic
insects, etc. As I recall, I think I've seen someplace that one
can now by a robotic vacuum cleaner -- painting can't be that
much more difficult.
A dumb robot with good Vis & IR sensors should be able to do
a much better job than a human with respect to removing unbonded
paint and applying new paint to a proper depth.
Go ahead, slap me across the cheek with your other pinkee finger...
Robert
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