[extropy-chat] Voyager 1 (possibly) at the boundary of the Solar System

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> >>  There are some indications now that the Voyager
> 1
> >  > has reached the Heliopause.
> >  >
> >>  If this isn't  a reason for a massive
> >  > party/celebration of the humans on this planet,
> I don't know what
> >  > is....
> >
> >Getting the first colony ship to the heliopause?
> >Sure, this is great news, but so was Apollo 11.
> 
> 'We' (our machines) are entering interstellar space.

This is true, and there's still a lunar rover up on
the Moon.  But I'm restricting "we" to the
self-replicating, self-designing subset of our
machines for this purpose.  (Granted, the present
capability for self-design is very primitive compared
to what we can imagine, but it's nonzero.)