[ExI] Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection

[Giulio Prisco]

On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> Resurrecting the preserved may be possible eventually, but how do you even begin to resurrect those who are lost to entropy: buried and decayed to bones, cremated, et al?  There's not enough information remaining, not even for historical simulations (for the small minority we even have names for, and anthropologists who have studied this issue can cite many cases of modern scholars - equipped with the best understanding available at the time - thinking they knew how ancient people lived only to find out they were completely wrong about major aspects).
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> If there is no way to do a thing, it matters not if it ought to be done.  Pleas to the contrary are like all those military strategists who say we ought to implement maneuver warfare in space so things for them can be just like on Earth, utterly ignoring fuel and delta-v limits (and the cost and logistical burden of constantly refueling satellites) that prevent it, as well as dismissing what few solutions (such as solar or plasma sails) might get around that problem.
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How many times have scientists smugly stated the impossibility
in-principle of things like knowing the chemical composition of stars
(and there are countless other examples)? What is really impossible is
knowing what will be possible. If there's no way to know that there's
no way to do a thing, then *the only thing that matters* is that it
ought to be done. Future scientists and engineers will find out how.

> On Mon, May 5, 2025, 3:55 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection, revisited. God wants
>> us to use science and technology to resurrect the dead.
>> https://www.turingchurch.com/p/nikolai-fedorov-and-technological
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