X-Message-Number: 14639 From: Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:42:27 EDT Subject: Re: will cryonauts be exploited in future wars? > David Stodolsky wrote: > > People will be needed for practical tasks, like exploring the Galaxy. > Once the expense of getting into orbit is reduced the race will be > on. Evidence suggests that we will be competing with alien > civilizations. The surface of all planets and natural satellites in the solar system is near 3600 times the Earth surface (counting deserts and oceans) There may be up to one trillion small worlds in the Kuiper belt and the Oorth cloud beyond Pluto. Each could give as much raw material to build a a space city as envisionned by Gerard K. O'Neill some years ago. All of that open a large expansion area without risk of alien encounter. As I have said before, the Fourier transform of the time between two civilization on Earth put our nearest competitors well beyond the local galactic group, at best on the other side of the Virgo cluster, 100 millions of light year aways. So it is very unlikely that we confront with anybody in our own Galaxy. We have 200 000 000 000 stars for us only. I think "us" in that context in not the humain species, it is the Earth ecosystem or more precisely the species group who master technology. In few years, there will be the possibility to link brain and computer or other information processing systems. Most mammals and birds would then qualify as technological species. The same thing applies to ET: If we establish a contact someday with such a civilization, it will be run by a full range of species and will be a complete ecosystem, not a single "nation", race or species. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14639