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Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 22 Oct 2001 04:19:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel technique
> first - the solar system's gonna get unlivable way before the death of the
> universe. But (IMO) we're gonna be history way before that.
How do you figure?
In part it depends on your definition of "we". Humanity has "stopped
evolution" recently, and is poised to "take control of evolution" with
genetic engineering of ourselves. I say "we" are what we make ourselves
into, but others might say as soon as there is genetic divergence it's not
us any more. I'd bet anything that we will not be the same genetically in
100,000 years. But still human nonetheless.
But I'm pretty confident that unless the luddites get their way we will be
colonizing this solar system soon enough (within a hundred years) and will
be colonizing nearby ones shortly after that (within a thousand years) even
if it has to be done non-FTL.
I'm betting intelligence is rare and so we've got lots of room to expand
into, probably thousands and thousands of systems, which reduces the
likelihood of a catastrophic extinction to nil.
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