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An Interstellar Lifeboat for Humanity

Posted by michael on from the women-and-children-first dept.

cravey writes "From the people who brought you the Oceania project so many years ago comes the Lifeboat project. An attempt to create a spaceship for the purposes of saving the human race from the singularity predicted by Vernor Vinge. Lots of talk about nanotech accidents and biological accidents wiping out civilization, but it has a neat picture of the ship. :)"

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  1. Sometimes SF weenies cheese me off. by peterb · · Score: 4, Flamebait


    Look, meat puppets, you are PART OF THIS ECOSYSTEM, you are stuck here in the mud with the rest of us. You are never leaving this planet, at least for any appreciable length of time. Ever. So how about taking some of the energy you put into escapist fantasies and focus those gigantic brains of yours on improving what we've got, instead of running away from our problems, huh?

    -Peterb
    PS: That goes for you escapist religious freaks, also. Same disease, different symptoms.