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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. Insert your own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    telephone sanitizer joke here.

  2. Abandon ship by pardasaniman · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have a slashdotting approaching at nine O'clock Fire the torpedoes Ay Cap.......

  3. Sadly... by dirkdidit · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was no lifeboat or amount of bandwidth that could save their server. God bless its smoldering soul.

  4. The best lifeboat by cscx · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I would have to be shot into space in a lifeboat, it would have to be in a gigantic Bob's Big Boy.

  5. "wipe out humanity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    now there's a thought. more of a long term
    thing though...first we need to focus on more
    immediate goals." - 12 Monkeys

  6. My suggestion... by Moonshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:My suggestion... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny
      I say we just offload all the extremists and morons onto Mars....That should help the longevity of the human race, although I can't speak for the "Mars colonists"
      They'd probably come back and start pushing us around, acting like they're the only planet in the solar system. Look what happened when Europe started sending all its extreemists, nutwhacks and convicts to the 'new world' and didn't expect them to survive.
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    2. Re:My suggestion... by Incon · · Score: 5, Funny

      But there's no atmosphere on Mars! That's an awfully expensive way to kill millions of people!

      I do not think millions of people will die.

      As a long line of Mars movies have educated me, only about 1 to 10 people die because of no atmosphere. Then the hero(es) fixes it all up and Mars has atmosphere. And everyone is saved.

      References to get you started in Mars terraforming
      1. Total Recall
      2. Red Planet

  7. A better idea... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why save humanity? Why not shoot our DNA off into space and hope that some alien race clones us?

    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. Re:A better idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      Why not shoot our DNA off into space...
      I dunno about my DNA reaching escape velocity, i can only get it a good 3, maybe 4 feet.
  8. Steps to Success by ekrout · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  9. Re:One hopes... by Metrol · · Score: 5, Funny

    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*

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  10. be careful by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Funny
    I found this little gem in the "Oceania Project" farewell letter.
    In retrospect, the biggest problem concerning The Atlantis Project was lack of interest. Lack of interest and the fact that its precepts were based in Libertarian politics.

    The two problems concerning the Project were lack of interest and the fact that its precepts were based in Libertarian politics. And a lack of funding.

    The three problems concerning the Project were lack of interest, the fact that its precepts were based in Libertarian politics, and a lack of funding. And an almost fanatical devotion to our cause.

    The four... no. Amongst the problems... amongst the challenges... are such factors as a general lack of interest....

    I'll come in again.
    I'm not sure I'm ready to put the responsibility for saving mankind in the hands of a guy who's seen too many Monty Python sketches.

    (No sense of humor? It's a joke. I'm kidding. The first two sentences are actually in the letter. I added the rest, because it's funny. Ha-ha.)
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