[ExI] Alpha Centauri

[Pete Nicholls]

It is important to remember that it will be trans-humanity, adapted and adaptable intellectually to the necessities of 'bleak airless rock', educated with that purpose as a foundation.
 
I'm not suggesting 'zombies but that there could be rewards of some other form, a virtual nirvana for part of the journey, cities named after them...on home planet and new...we all have our price.  
 
The real point is that we should be educating for this now...not spending resources; both physical and cereberal on our, rather pitiful past. I love history, enjoy the built environment, wish to see continuity on earth but for all our exploration of this planet and ourselves we seem to have lost the risk of high adventure. Engendering the inquisitive spirit to 'seek out' and all that would focus purpose and be somewhat more exciting than the pseudo excitement generated by 'olympics', celebrity culture etc. The real job of the present interested parties is to get out there and promote and educate. Ideas like 'X' Prize are great but to tap the greatest resource we have; ourselves we need to push everything down the public education ladder to the bottom and grow it from there.
 
PeteN
 
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:19:35 +0100
> From: pharos at gmail.com
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Alpha Centauri
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:19 PM, David Lubkin wrote:
> > Colonize the asteroid belt. One rock at a time. When you need
> > elbow room, expand to the Kuiper Belt. From there to our Oort
> > Cloud. From there to Alpha Centauri's Oort Cloud. And out to
> > the rest of the accessible galaxy.
> >
> > One rock at a time outward, until we get there. No new rocket
> > systems. No MNT. No uploading. Just the tech to survive without
> > a nearby star and to reach the next rock. Civilization is always
> > just a rock or three behind, so if your ship is on the fritz, you can
> > call AAA.
> >
> > I'm not saying that's what I expect or want. I *am* claiming that
> > it's a workable route to the stars with relatively small improvements
> > in tech over today. And without a trillion-dollar project.
> >
> 
> I think 'workable route' is not the best description.
> Perhaps a better description is 'just within the realm of possibility,
> if all other options fail'.
> 
> It is a very long-term option, so likely to be side-stepped by other
> developments.
> 
> Our populations won't want to go and live on a bleak airless rock in
> the asteroid belt. So there must be many other changes going on to
> make this feasible. Selecting the future line which would make this
> the best option appears to me to discount many other more likely
> future paths for humanity.
> 
> 
> BillK
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