Thread: It's the final countdown!
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2017-06-29 , 13:15
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
We can colonize the Universe without any actual human leaving this planet. That would be the most efficient way, both in terms of resources and speed. It has been calculated a number of times that sending a fleet of self-replicating probes would result in the colonization of the entire galaxy in a surprisingly short time - 0.5 to 10 million years, depending on who you ask.
Technically true, but rather pointless exercise unless we became those self-replicating probes, in the sense of full upload and consciousness transfer.
(Actually now that I thought of it, we already are self-replicating probes, just of the wet nanotech type, not the solid-state type...)


Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
We need to stop thinking in terms of the next general election and start thinking about a more long-term future.
Many people do, it just for some reason happens that the so-called decision makers are of the rare breed that has the myopic view
I even think it might be a requirement for the position!