[ExI] Interstellar travel

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 11:19 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 11:13 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> With the runup to the singularity (at least the AI part) underway, it
>> may be time to start thinking about visiting the galaxy.
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> How about visiting the other planets?
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Done that.  Got the tee shirt.  (At least our robots have.)

>> I wrote about this back in 1990.  I don't think there have been any
>> new ideas since.  I think it is clear that full-capacity
>> nanotechnology will exist before anyone leaves the solar system.
>> (Accelerando explored this theme.)
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> Will there likely be 100,000 or more people living off of Earth (simultaneously/at any one moment, not just the total who've ever been off-planet) before full-capacity nanotechnology becomes generally available?

The future is impossible to predict, but I really doubt it.  I don't
think there is time for substantial human presence in space before
nanotechnology.

Keith
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