Professor Stephen Hawking wants mankind to go to another Solar System. Sounds fabulous! Could it be a job for Project SWORD and SpaceX? Seriously, how could we ever travel that far?
Either build something big enough to sustain several generations until it arrives under conventional reaction propulsion or wait until we get clever enough to manipulate spacetime and overcome the light barrier.
Perhaps, in a millennium or so, we can download our mental selves onto a tiny bot and send the package across the universe with a bit of dna for cloning at the other end. Would we even notice the difference?
ha ha! sounds like 3D printing humans Arto! That has got to be the name of my next novel 'Our mental Selves'! Love it. I imagine whoever goes to Alpha Centauri will travel in the Hawking Express!
Either build something big enough to sustain several generations until it arrives under conventional reaction propulsion or wait until we get clever enough to manipulate spacetime and overcome the light barrier.
ReplyDeleteIt's the nano-bots that will do the trick, if we are to believe today's news
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Perhaps, in a millennium or so, we can download our mental selves onto a tiny bot and send the package across the universe with a bit of dna for cloning at the other end. Would we even notice the difference?
ha ha! sounds like 3D printing humans Arto! That has got to be the name of my next novel 'Our mental Selves'! Love it. I imagine whoever goes to Alpha Centauri will travel in the Hawking Express!
Deletedont hold your breath, noone alive today will ever see sign of it!
ReplyDeleteSpeak for yourself, I aim to live forever or die trying (as someone in Blake's 7 once said!).
ReplyDeletenanoo nanoo!
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