From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 12:46:32 MDT
Unfortunately, I don't have time to read all these posts. We all have our
positions on the old FP. It's hard to get around the nanoprobe absence and
the probability that we are only about a sixth of the way towards the big
ceiling up there (spiking up).
I doubt Bill's assertion about sitting on the porch for amortal sentients,
self-evolving or otherwise. Dancing on the porch, hey. Porch one day,
lookout tower the next, as well.
Re:
> On Sun Aug 03, 2003 02:41 am Lee Corbin speculated:
>
> > I fear that they would! In less than a thousand years, the Earth
> > will probably be at the center of a civilization expanding at
> > the speed of light. By the same token, if there ever are
> > aliens in the skies of Earth, they will be from a civilization
> > (when they left it) about a thousand years ahead of ours.
Personally, I think in two dozen years the Earth will be at the local centre
of a civilization that has instantaneous travel to any open section anywhere
in our universe, and aliens will be cruising around here and there (they're
certainly not doing it right now). Nothing currently scientific about such
assertions of course, although for me they flow from the Fermi stuff.
Still, in principle such instanteous travel for those who like to get places
quickly would be the best possible concept, just as controlled statis or
extropy are great options. (As opposed to say time travel, which in
principle is not great where it results in non-consensually altered
neurological systems.)
Towards Ascension
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In Celebration of the Techno-Rapture
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