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jksmith
on March 8, 2009
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Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "T...
Maybe the universe is a closed system, but reaching the "Singularity" before we reach maximum entropy is probably more likely.
scott_s
on March 8, 2009
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Our "plate" is probably not all of the known universe. We may never leave this solar system.
jksmith
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Which makes for another interesting issue. Some Packlid may be reading this and thinking, "What do you mean "we" human?" Kurzweil may still (already) be proven right, whether we make it happen or not. Just some whimsy for thought.
GHFigs
on March 9, 2009
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What makes you think that?
scott_s
on March 10, 2009
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Charles Stross, a science fiction writer, has an interesting essay about the difficulties involved:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
His conclusion is that it's unlikely, and I agree.
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