X-Message-Number: 9945
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:05:06 -0400
From: Bozzonetti <>
Subject: Re: # 9914 How long is the time to come ?

How long is the Future ? Re: # 9914.

T. Donaldson wrote some time ago in # 9914:

>The future consists of much more time than our historical past ---
>anyone's historical past. Not only that, but once suspended, there
>is no physical reason why you must be revived as soon as possible.
>If I miss the 21st and 22nd centuries, but am revived in the 23rd,
>how will that matter to me when I reach the age of 1000? So, Saul,
>you will be 1200 years old, and I will be 1000. Big deal.

 I am always surprised by the short time range of most people. There is at
least one Holocarpus franklinii tree in Tasmania 30 000 years old. Using
its genes would give us at least 10 per cent of that life expectancy or 3
000 years. That could be done in 20 - 30 years. Who think today about such
a longevity ?

        Uploading is The solution for a longuer time, longevity is then
only limited to the technical civilization duration. I think technology
will be there for at least one billion of years, not  100, 1 000 or one
million. I think too there will be some way to control and not destroy the
Earth ecology and extend our future up to the limit of stable Sun burning,
five billions of years from now.

        More: We may use chaos at the Galaxy level to send small stars
grazing the Sun surface and stir it. That would extend its stable life to 6
trillions of years. Black dwarfs may be sent on a collision course to it
and give it a new store of hydrogen. That could expand the future well
beyond 60 trillions of years, an epoch where all stars in the sky will have
burned up in an incredibly long past.

        The end of time is not for the years to come!

        Yvan Bozzonetti.

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