<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Anissimov</b> <<a href="mailto:michaelanissimov@gmail.com">michaelanissimov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Can anyone make sense out of this?<br><br><a href="http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7241">http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7241</a></blockquote>
<div><br><br>I'll leave the physics comments to the physicists. I'll comment from a practical point that unless one of these (hyperdrive based spaceships) can easily (&cheaply!) be built *Mars won't be there*.<br><br>
Mars is probably #2 (after the asteroids) for solar system bodies to be disassembled as soon as the technology becomes available. As sending the nanorobots there to start disassembly is relatively cheap (compared to say setting up a human colony) I would expect it to start much sooner unless some international solar system regulatory authority comes into existence which physically prevents people (& corporations) from executing such projects [1] .
<br><br>I'll also comment that *if* hyperdrives are feasible and can be developed by a presingularity development stage advanced technological civilization it makes the Fermi Paradox a *much* larger problem. (I.e. the observational fact that nearby stars (and galaxies) haven't been colonized (and taken "dark) implies that intelligent life (and ATC) are *much* harder than most astrobiologists would currently tend to believe.
<br><br>Robert<br><br></div>1. I consider there to be a significant non-zero probability that one path through the singularity involves police state(s) or AI overlord(s) effectively imprisoning its population to prevent non-state ("world") managed solar system development (or interstellar travel).
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