[ExI] Nikolai Fedorov and technological resurrection

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, May 6, 2025, 12:06 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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)?
>

This does not appear to be such a case.  We know what would be needed for
true resurrection, and know that - barring time travel - it is gone in such
cases.

There exist possibilities that we can envision that we know are not
possible, at least in the formulation envisioned.  For example,
accelerating in the normal fashion from slower than light speed to faster
than light speed in this universe (thus all the proposed shortcuts that are
not impossible).

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