<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 December 2011 02:19, Joseph Bloch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seculartranshumanist@gmail.com">seculartranshumanist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would agree about the generation ship comment ("tomorrow" being an<br>
obvious rhetorical flourish). It's certainly possible that such a<br>
thing could probably be done in a reasonable amount of time, say 10-20<br>
years (less if there were some imminent global catastrophe), if there<br>
were a global consensus to do so and a realistic destination.<br></blockquote></div><br>Let us say that we could start building it (or building what is necessary to build it) tomorrow. The real requirement would be a massive reallocation of our current civilisational priorities.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>