[ExI] Gold

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG at verizon.net> wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>>
>>> or wherever will likely mean that space enterprises and space settlers
>>
>> There won't be any space settlers. All the settling and processing
>> will be done by solid state.
>
>
> I find that statement profoundly offensive. It implies that some agency will
> exterminate all other forms of life and modes of existence. If you don't see
> what I'm getting at, swap out "solid state" with "the Aryan race".

You are just looking for that old ax to grind.

The point is that monkeys are harder to ship to the asteroids and to
other planets than "solid state"

It would be the same kind of obvious to say "farming of the seas will
be done by fish"

whatever, I just remembered that I am unlikely to convince you.