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scott_s
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Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "T...
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
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What makes you think that?
scott_s
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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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