[extropy-chat] Suicide the Green way

[Robert Bradbury]

On 11/19/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> So then cluey ones, how do we get DNA strands in a form that can be
> launched
> and separated into individual strands?  And if so, will light pressure be
> sufficient to push them away from the earth and sun?  Without breaking
> them
> to pieces?  How high would we need to go?  Are there any alternatives,
> such
> as putting a facility into solar orbit, reading our DNA here, synthesizing
> a
> copy of it there, and launching gently from that vantage point?


Ok, I hereby certify Spike as a "god".  Gods are  not recognized by their
answers but by whether or not they ask the right questions (solutions are
easy, questions are hard).

So, in answer to the questions (I'm doing the easy part)...

The individual strands question becomes moot in the light of the functional
translation question.  Do you have actual information content and does it do
something?

Light pressure is not important.  Survival of the information content is.

The information content is useless without a reader (this is an interesting
perspective from an extropic standpoint).  So, spike you not only have to
preserve the information but you have to translate it into a form which does
something with it -- i.e. you have to define (and drive?) a path forward.

La de da de da "We have upteen gazillion bits of Anders and Eliezers minds
"on ice", we can resurrect them at any point in time, of what use is such a
retroperspective given the currennt state of the universe?"

Robert


Robert
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