<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 10:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-2344724059806307695WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Space shmace: there is mre than enough of everything down here and lower, if we somehow spawn centiproles, in which we live on the centimeter scale rather than the meter scale. Most life on this planet does exist at that scale and smaller. We are way up here at the big end of the spectrum. Think about it.</p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">C'mon spike... once we get over the biological squishiness, space is only big because of a limited view of time. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You want or need something at the center of the galaxy (like gravity or extra stellar fuel, whatever) and don't want to experience wait times getting there? Just notice 1 subjective clock tick per >1 objective (universal?) clock tick. You already had this idea with auto-autos... commute time is less burdensome if you no longer need attention dedicated to actual driving... i believe your alternate was amorous activity with fellow passengers. Space ships will likely have copies of everyone you've ever cared to take with you, so similar distractions apply. The barrier to everyone having copies of everyone else is a matter of social custom/taboo, literal laws (officiated taboos), and zero-sum energy requirements. I'd suggest with the rest of the spacetime to fuel reality creation that we might find new energy too, but you drew a line at hard scifi... so we'll defer that thread until one of us is a successful black hole farmer juicing yesterday's mass for tomorrow's energy. Is there a physics level analog for biology's Krebs cycle? Gotta be, right?</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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