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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Planets galore!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:52 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>I pitched the notion to a group of aerospace engineers on 4 November 2011.<br>Their unanimous response was "huh?" Followed by some quick calculations to<br>show that yes it is theoretically possible, followed by what the hell<br>difference does it make, what we can do 20 million years from now?<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Those engineers were confused because your pitch lacks sufficient examples of in-flight entertainment and similar amusing distractions. Perhaps you could spend a bit more time on the computational power in terms of modern metrics - like how many Blue-Ray DVD-equivalences you could store or how many Library of Congresses (LoCs) you can transfer from one side of the M-Brain to another each second. Whether you propose that the amount of speed (per conscious entity) is orders of magnitude faster than humanity is currently operating or opt instead for the 20 million years to one subjective hour so you don't get bored on the way... it's personal preference. It'd be the cruise of a lifetime... or several million lifetimes...<span style='color:#1F497D'> Mike</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Very much to the contrary on all points Mike. This scheme provides the ultimate in-flight entertainment and amusing distractions: everything we have now and everything we will develop in the next 20 million years. Life goes right along as before, evolving, uploading, whatever we want to do, completely transparent to the users down here other than it obscures some of the light from the distant stars. I wouldn’t like that part, but most people seldom or never go out on a clear night and look up anyway. These tragic lost souls miss out on the sheer awe and wonder of it all, the mind boggling openness of the endless cosmos, WOW! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But this notion is an example of a process that in principle could continue even if we go retro and become something about halfway between a current human and a chimp, ook ooking around in the trees and fighting over bananas. The MBrain could quietly drag us along, and deposit nodes as we pass the next star, so that our mind children will continue outward and onward, with or without us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>