<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>On Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:38 PM Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> wrote:</div><div>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:</div><div>>>> Eugen Leitl wrote:</div><div>>>> There won't be any space settlers. All the settling and processing</div><div>>>> will be done by solid state.</div><div>>></div><div>>></div><div>>> I find that statement profoundly offensive. It implies that some agency will</div><div>>> exterminate all other forms of life and modes of existence. If you don't see</div><div>>> what I'm getting at, swap out "solid state" with "the Aryan race".</div><div>></div><div>> You are just looking for that old ax to grind.</div><div>></div><div>> The point is that monkeys are harder to ship to the
asteroids and to</div><div>> other planets than "solid state"</div><div>></div><div>> It would be the same kind of obvious to say "farming of the seas will</div><div>> be done by fish"</div><div><br></div><div>But we were talking about settlers -- not processing stuff. In other words, yes, it might be that asteroid mining happens via solid state only -- not humans (and no felids either). But do you if no humans will ever settle off world permanently?</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <br></div></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dan<br> See my SF short story "Residue":<br>http://www.amazon.com/Residue-ebook/dp/B00BS3T0RM/ -- US<br>http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- UK<br>http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- Canada<br> <div
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