[ExI] Meat v. Machine

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Dec 31 05:53:30 UTC 2010


On 12/30/2010 9:51 PM, spike wrote:

> We perhaps could downscale the clock speed
> so it is working only one trillionth the speed it is capable of running, so
> the 4 million year trip would go by in an acceptable perceived 4 years?

That's not the problem (there's thousands or millions of others with you 
in the star sliver), it's the isolation from the Borg back home, where 
all the good stuff is being done and you're out of touch by subjective 
millions-fold. Slowing yer clock down would make it worse.



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