The space fanyboys are gonna hate this but: We should direct all the money firing people into space towards making progress moving our intelligence/consciousness onto “hardware” more suitable for space. Humans are woefully ill-equipped for existing beyond our atmosphere.
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We can get a thinking machine to Alpha Centauri right now given our tech — If it’s a human consciousness ported to a silicon machine that can patiently wait for a couple hundred years to get arrive. (This is some Kurzweil stuff so whatever.)
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Given all that, I think I’ll join the crowd in cheering on some badass rockets shooting into space! :-)
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Replying to @mgirdley
Let’s do both. The fed has got it covered.
5:19 PM - 29 May 2020
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