[ExI] Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen Hawking Message-ID:

[Adrian Tymes]

Short of re-engineering humans (including uploading, which is
"re-engineering" onto a silicon substrate), add sufficient radiation
shielding to reduce background radiation aboard to background
radiation levels at Earth's surface.  10 microseverts per day, was it?

This requires quite a bit of mass, but moving quite a bit of mass
through a zero-g environment is far simpler than many other things we
discuss on this list.  We're talking "large asteroid" range, far
smaller than even the Moon, so this could be done with today's
technology (though it would cost in the millions or billions of
dollars).
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:16 AM William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My question about living in space:  what do you do about the radiation for the long term?  Did you ever read Lois McMaster Bujold?  Her space living humans were designed with four hands, not needing legs in space.  Quaddies.
>
> bill w
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:15 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Or just upload people to suitable hardware. I think this will be the
>> long-term solution.
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR
>> > Ballard
>> > Subject: Re: [ExI] Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen Hawking
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>> >
>> >
>> > >...Yes, I think if we go to space sooner, it will become more of a physical
>> > impetus to create post-human forms, because it will be so obvious we need
>> > them.
>> >
>> > >...SR Ballard
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ja.  If we get sufficiently advanced in genetics, we could do selective
>> > breeding of humans, only with a cool twist.  Perhaps we could selectively
>> > breed humans with minds like the genetic parents but with small spindly
>> > bodies more suited to reduced gravity and limited resources of an L5
>> > station.
>> >
>> > spike
>> >
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