<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 16, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Morris Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">From: Keith Henson <<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</A>><BR> To: ExI chat list <<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A>><BR> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:29:19 PM<BR> Subject: [extropy-chat] Diaspora was Bluff and the Darwin award<BR> <BR> <BR> At 01:28 AM 5/16/2006 -0700, Samantha wrote:<BR> > For what are basically economic reasons it will take nanotech level<BR> > technology to get us into space. I don't see any way to avoid strong AI.<BR> <BR> I encountered this myth regularly when I was working as a consultant for NASA, and it just doesn't hold water.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Depends on what you mean I suspect. The context of these remarks is getting enough of humanity into space and far enough away to end up with self-sustaining colonies/outposts that give humanity a much better chance of survival. To satisfy all of these constraints we are talking self-sustaining groups of on the order of thousands of humans (genetic diversity) preferably relocated outside the Solar System or at least in the outer system. Please tell me what you are going to use pre-nanotech to make this a reality.</DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>