[extropy-chat] Darwin Award

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 16, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Morris Johnson wrote:

> From: Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:29:19 PM
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Diaspora was Bluff and the Darwin award
>
>
> At 01:28 AM 5/16/2006 -0700, Samantha wrote:
> > For what are basically economic reasons it will take nanotech level
> > technology to get us into space.  I don't see any way to avoid  
> strong AI.
>
> I encountered this myth regularly when I was working as a  
> consultant for NASA, and it just doesn't hold water.

Depends on what you mean I suspect.  The context of these remarks is  
getting enough of humanity into space and far enough away to end up  
with self-sustaining colonies/outposts that give humanity a much  
better chance of survival.  To satisfy all of these constraints we  
are talking self-sustaining groups of on the order of thousands of  
humans (genetic diversity) preferably relocated outside the Solar  
System or at least in the outer system.  Please tell me what you are  
going to use pre-nanotech to make this a reality.


- samantha

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