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An Interstellar Lifeboat for Humanity
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. :)"
telephone sanitizer joke here.
We have a slashdotting approaching at nine O'clock Fire the torpedoes Ay Cap.......
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There was no lifeboat or amount of bandwidth that could save their server. God bless its smoldering soul.
If I would have to be shot into space in a lifeboat, it would have to be in a gigantic Bob's Big Boy.
now there's a thought. more of a long term
thing though...first we need to focus on more
immediate goals." - 12 Monkeys
We would need a Beowulf cluster of these to save humanity.
I say we just offload all the extremists and morons onto Mars. We'll call it the "Get Off Of Our Planet" (GOOOP) project. That should help the longevity of the human race, although I can't speak for the "Mars colonists". :D
Remember the Neil Young song?
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Oh fuck I just broke the DMCA. Sorry, Neil.
Seriously, this theme has been around in modern media. The genesis project from Star Trek, that crappy Don Bluth film, etc. In a lot of sci-fi's the earth is a dump and most people live elsewhere, like in Cowboy Bebop. Sci-fi's are often uncannily accurate at predicting the future.
Call me a crazy hippy, but in a lot of ways the Earth is a life form and we are like it's organs. If the meaning of life is to reproduce, then wouldn't terraforming and colonizing a new planet be the ultimate form of reproduction?
-73, de n1ywb
www.n1ywb.com
I have a better name for it though... how about Titan After Earth? Yeah, that would be a cool name. Wait...
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Either that, or hope that when we go bye-bye, the next smart Earth race brings us back Jurassic Park style in hopes there's a storm and we escape our cages.
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1) Create Web page about your spaceship idea
2) Get your server Slashdotted and spend all your money recovering the data from the dead hard disks
3) Project Lifeboat comes to a screeching halt due to lack of funds
4) Die miserably on Earth
Oh the humanity! It wasn't supposed to happen like this. [fade out] Happen like this. [fade out] Happen like this...
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... the Lifeboat project. An attempt to create a spaceship for the purposes of saving the human race from the singularity predicted by Vernor Vinge.
A good idea.
But if it's The Singularity they want to dodge it's probably a bit early to start. As The Singularity approaches the cost of such a venture will drop like a rock. (Of course, like buying a computer you have to stop waiting and plunk down cash SOME time. In this case, preferably before something breaks. B-) )
Now dodging other stuff (like an extinction-level event such as a comet-head impact) should not wait until the incoming comet is sighted.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
that'd sell a lot more seats!
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Obviously their systems work!
With the end of the world right around the corner the population of the planet would be clammering to get to their site. The server obviously auto ejected itself into orbit after what it perceived to be massive panic on the web.
If only more nitwit sites had features like this... *sigh*
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
Kill all the scientists.
"Lots of talk about nanotech accidents and biological accidents wiping out civilization"
It is "civilization" that created these threats and now the threats might destroy "civilization"...The Irony....
Completely off topic I just hope none of the Back Street Boys or 'NSYNC are on the same Space Ship I am on.
I don't know about you guys, but I'll be joining up with the gaians. Lets face it, if we get stuck on a continent with two other factions, I'm going to want to have those mindworms on my side.
All of those people waiting on SETI@home to find something intresting will finally be able to pick up an intelligent lifeform signal.
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But can they save their servers?
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