<html><head></head><body><span data-mailaddress="rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" data-contactname="Rafal Smigrodzki" class="clickable"><span title="rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">Rafal Smigrodzki</span><span class="detail"> <rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com></span></span> , 4/9/2014 12:15 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" title="mailto:anders@aleph.se" class="mailto">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Or even better, move the galaxies closer together!<br>............. <br>> but getting into the core of Laniakea should be fairly easy. <br> <br>### I absolutely love the immeasurable hubris of this thought! Where our esteemed predecessors in futurism may have dreamed of sending a starship or two to boldly explore the heavens, you say we will reach out to the stars and make them do our bidding! *We* will compose the harmony of the spheres!</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yup. You would have loved my lunch talk at the institute today where I laid out some of the math - and got interrupted by engineering improvements from the audience.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">And you say it will be easy :)</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Actually, next week my colleague Stuart will actually present a joint paper called "It's Easy to colonise the Universe". </div><div><br></div><div>(Of course, around the office we do joke about that "in a while" right now seems to mean "in a trillion years" and "nearby" means "within a few megaparsec".)</div><div><br></div><div>My own long-term survival paper will be posted when it is presentable; still have to work out some astrophysics and logic. It is titled "That is not dead which can eternal lie" and gives a scientific basis for believing in something like Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. They are waiting for the background radiation to be right. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote><br>Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>