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Because it would be hugely expensive to supply and maintain unless it produced something valuable that could not be done on Earth.Jim777 said:Why not build a HUGE space station off planet earth.
Because it would be hugely expensive to supply and maintain unless it produced something valuable that could not be done on Earth.Jim777 said:Why not build a HUGE space station off planet earth.
The colony ship needs to produce colony ships.rootone said:Because it would be hugely expensive to supply and maintain unless it produced something valuable that could not be done on Earth.
Jim777 said:A HUGE Space Station/Colonizing Space Ship
The difference for Earth is that the conditions were just right for us to survive with very little conscious effort. Our nature has been to 'improve' things and it has worked in as far as the human population has increased and increased. Nonetheless, I think it is still true to say that we rely more on what Earth is doing for us than on what we are actually doing. Our agriculture only works because farming has replaced existing species of flora and fauna to produce more food than was available from the indigenous organisms of a few millennia ago. The rest is still 'laid on' for us.anorlunda said:SF writers will point out that we already have one of those, called Earth.
I think you have said a mouthful there.sophiecentaur said:Any other environment in the form of a massive spaceshipor a nearby planetwould need more work than most people could imagine,
sophiecentaur said:The difference for Earth is that the conditions were just right for us to survive with very little conscious effort. Our nature has been to 'improve' things and it has worked in as far as the human population has increased and increased. Nonetheless, I think it is still true to say that we rely more on what Earth is doing for us than on what we are actually doing. Our agriculture only works because farming has replaced existing species of flora and fauna to produce more food than was available from the indigenous organisms of a few millennia ago. The rest is still 'laid on' for us.
Wow. That's adding another few millennia, I would think. I could never say never about such a development but I would have to ask why and what would be the advantage? We're back to the old body / mind dissociation thing. Unfortunately (for proponents of the split), the more they look into memory and consciousness, the more we seem to be tightly associated with our bodies.anorlunda said:that our future must abandon biology.
sophiecentaur said:That's adding another few millennia
[PLAIN]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity said:[/PLAIN]
At the 2012 Singularity Summit, Stuart Armstrong did a study of artificial general intelligence (AGI) predictions by experts and found a wide range of predicted dates, with a median value of 2040.
yes. It carries with it all the caveats that come with the singularities in our Physics.anorlunda said:singularitize (do you like my new word?)
Jim777 said:Why not build a HUGE space station off planet Earth and then another and then another, if survival and colonization are the goals.