[ExI] Lack of interest

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 09 May 2008, hkhenson wrote:
> Stop right there.
>
> Look I *founded* the L5 Society.  If there is anyone who is going to
> defend going after ET materials it's me.

Yep. :)

> The problem is paying for it.  As Freeman Dyson noted in _Distrubing

I don't see how that's a problem. We created money. It's our monster.

> the Universe_ the cost of going into space is 10,000 times to high
> for us to do it on our own.
>
> That means we have to figure out a way to get there on things (like
> energy) that other people want.
>
> The problem with extra terrestrial resources is that we are not going
> to be able to make a case before funding sources for them.  The time
> line is too long and the risk is too high in the viewpoint of funding
> sources.  That's just the way it is.  Phil Chapman commented on this
> recently.

Hey, funding is always nice.

> I don't think humans will get into space in significant number pre
> singularity and afterwards who knows?  But unless the singularity
> comes in the next few years, the energy crisis is going to cause
> billions of people to die.  I can make a case for replacing oil with
> solar power satellites lifted by rockets in less than a decade.  I
> can't make a case for asteroid resources.
>
> If you want to convince me you can, put numbers on your proposals.

I need to put numbers on my exponential growth proposals. That's one of 
the manufacturing projectst that I am doing. No numbers yet, but a 
demonstration is coming out soon of the way it all works. 

http://heybryan.org/exp.html

- Bryan
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