tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post1016226011469593635..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: Overheard: on space travelPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-30341460665426438672011-11-29T21:32:05.219-05:002011-11-29T21:32:05.219-05:00Here are my 2 abstracts: http://hjufvvhjbj.blogspo...Here are my 2 abstracts: http://hjufvvhjbj.blogspot.com/2011/11/jmvhjv.html<br /><br />I hope I win. I can almost guarantee that my ideas are the most unique of the 1s submitted (they were even open to non-profits btw). Anyway, since they are presented from a business perspective, there's actually a lot more to add and nuances/factors that I left out.Zadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503202929776307367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-81670620034708590282011-11-24T04:35:20.869-05:002011-11-24T04:35:20.869-05:00I see it more as "rational suicide." The...I see it more as "rational suicide." The evidence presented seems to support the choice of discontinuing space travel, but in the end it's a short-sighted view (like rational suicide). It's too expensive, we're not getting results that wow everyone, we don't have the technology to imitate science fiction. It just seems like it's not worth it. <br /><br />Of course, that's not to say it isn't. It just seems that way.Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04293493961449934648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-31548755600625234202011-11-24T00:39:48.929-05:002011-11-24T00:39:48.929-05:00Life evolves to be just barely smart enough to get...Life evolves to be just barely smart enough to get by. We've needed to invent a cheat at each step of the way to improve ourselves: language, writing, empirical evidence based science, automated databases... we can make computers copy any process we can enumerate consciously, but our subconscious is a huge part of thought process.<br /><br />Maybe we'll fall and survive. We've come back from dark ages before.<br /><br />Maybe the transhumanists are right; I can at least hope our non-human descendants get out there.<br /><br />Maybe it does not matter that in 1,000,000 years nothing I do will have mattered. I can just hope.Spritelesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11311065156418943262noreply@blogger.com