[ExI] Wanderers

[Giulio Prisco]

Well, if I didn't a family to take care of I would volunteer to go tot
hat prison anytime.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:27 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Anders Sandberg  wrote:
>> The dose of vision for this weekend:
>> http://vimeo.com/108650530
>> (Except that I expect slightly more ambitious bodies too)
>>
>
> Good visuals and words. Viewers universally praised it. Phil Plait
> raved about it.
>
> But it made me sad.....
>
> Viewed from the comfort of my armchair it was a lovely vision.
>
> But then I thought about the reality of living in that vision. Locked
> in a tin box for months or years to get there. Trapped in a metal dome
> on a desert planet. Sealed in a spacesuit to venture outside the dome.
> It would be like volunteering to go to a prison with barren views out
> the window.
>
> To me it emphasized that these places are not for humans. They are for
> our machines.
>
> BillK
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