Well that's the thing - "using" it would come almost naturally, the continuity as hopef for by the present faithful - outside the context. And with no reuqirement of biological death during the process...
Would also help if people realised how, during typical lifetime, they essentially die many times, with the amount of changes happening and memories lost (we only think we have good memory); something "immortality" wouldn't change much (in some versions, if anything, actually getting rid of it in a way - in the process making it more distant from biological experience, and wished for too)
With "virtual" one that's not much of a problem already;p (but seriously, I really hope the teams working on new lunar rovers now will put their video streams on the web..)
I'm perfectly aware of that tradition (though - too bad it isn't observed the same way in Denmark; would be fun on Bornholm / I have a quick ferry to the place) - but it also doesn't encompass the types of areas under discussion here. Tried hiking & camping on the areas of military installations?
I would have guessed that for somebody on Slashdot the idea of automating tasks with...hold it...computers wouldn't be alien. Oh well...
(or with other people for that matter, which/. also does - you don't have to search the info you get from it, you don't have to formulate all the insight yourself)
Start with Last.fm. One day a month of sorting through recommendations / tags will be plenty. Or Jamendo; its community also does things for you.
Even better, a container (ship) would leak everything stored inside on such timescales. It's probably a good idea to aim at max ~1 thousand years journey - in which case the Universe limits us to absolutely nearest stars, and to some light mode of transport; via embryos for example. Alternatively - use full (advanced & small) industrial base to maintain minicivilization while feeding off comets/etc.; this oen will take really long time.
I suspect most humans, at any given time, will be far too old for organized interstellar journeys, the way we might probably do it (imho) - those young enough will be composed of dozen or so cells, cryogenically frozen. Or even not really existing yet, travelling in the form of egg & sperm bank on a quite small, light & fast spaceship (which would still be an enormous strain to build & launch, but at least plausible; plausible enough also to do it every few decades, maximizing chances of success) with advanced autonomous systems to kickstart the colony (ok, plus maybe some very small human team in hibernation - doesn't change things much)
Embryo colonisation seems to be the most plausible approach with technology that's almost certainly within our grasp, certainly possible within our Universe.
Alternatively, after getting the hang of asteroid mining and colonisation, we should eventually, after who knows how many millenia, spread out into Oort cloud of Solar System. Over time, ever further from the Sun. At some point, Oort clouds of neighbouring stars can be said to basically intersect, in a way. So some of our descendants will make the jump. But that's even further from the scifi idea of interstellar travel... Though it would mirror the way we took over the Earth.
If only politicians were the only thing stopping that humanity thing from cooperating on all those great ideas. At least they surely aren't a reflection of said humanity, nope, no way.
Well, yes - but on the local scale. Like teleoperation of nearby semi-autonomous (doing many tedious & routine tasks by themselves, sometimes requiring direct input) fleet of robots, or some decently autonomous ones within system.
Music is an important activity for people since prehistoric times, with very large portion of populations often doing it to some degree. It was a side actibity. Very few who "made it big" in slightly distant past certainly weren't expecting and in fact didn't have the types of benefits typical today for few big acts from big labels.
It doesn't even matter in the way you seem to imagine it, anyway - fact is, music is being taken away from the control of big labels (the fight is really about this one). That most of new, often great indies won't make it "big" enough for music to be their only source of income...so what?
Being a typist often used to be a decent position in the times of typewriters - and now look at us, typing away without much thought. Should we allow for obsolescence to be heavily legislated?
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Well that's the thing - "using" it would come almost naturally, the continuity as hopef for by the present faithful - outside the context. And with no reuqirement of biological death during the process...
Would also help if people realised how, during typical lifetime, they essentially die many times, with the amount of changes happening and memories lost (we only think we have good memory); something "immortality" wouldn't change much (in some versions, if anything, actually getting rid of it in a way - in the process making it more distant from biological experience, and wished for too)
"OOTPOTUSATFLOTUS"? What was wrong with "kids of the presidential pair"/etc.?
With "virtual" one that's not much of a problem already ;p (but seriously, I really hope the teams working on new lunar rovers now will put their video streams on the web..)
Greenland might be wide open though.
Nope. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Air_Base (even better, that's a base of completelly different country on their territory)
...so it's basically just like within Russia.
Can you do that on entirety of the territory - say, grounds of military installations? That was the context here.
I'm perfectly aware of that tradition (though - too bad it isn't observed the same way in Denmark; would be fun on Bornholm / I have a quick ferry to the place) - but it also doesn't encompass the types of areas under discussion here. Tried hiking & camping on the areas of military installations?
You do know that EU != Europe?
"Her"? How one determines the gender of pet rock? Also, do people still weep for Ceres one and a half century later?
I would have guessed that for somebody on Slashdot the idea of automating tasks with...hold it...computers wouldn't be alien. Oh well...
(or with other people for that matter, which /. also does - you don't have to search the info you get from it, you don't have to formulate all the insight yourself)
Start with Last.fm. One day a month of sorting through recommendations / tags will be plenty. Or Jamendo; its community also does things for you.
Even better, a container (ship) would leak everything stored inside on such timescales. It's probably a good idea to aim at max ~1 thousand years journey - in which case the Universe limits us to absolutely nearest stars, and to some light mode of transport; via embryos for example. Alternatively - use full (advanced & small) industrial base to maintain minicivilization while feeding off comets/etc.; this oen will take really long time.
Don't dismiss battlebears so...recklessly.
Is there any country where you can just hike wherever you want?
I prefer mystery over the possibility it's a Goatse-like thing; with top members of Soviet Politburo, from various times, to boot.
I suspect most humans, at any given time, will be far too old for organized interstellar journeys, the way we might probably do it (imho) - those young enough will be composed of dozen or so cells, cryogenically frozen. Or even not really existing yet, travelling in the form of egg & sperm bank on a quite small, light & fast spaceship (which would still be an enormous strain to build & launch, but at least plausible; plausible enough also to do it every few decades, maximizing chances of success) with advanced autonomous systems to kickstart the colony (ok, plus maybe some very small human team in hibernation - doesn't change things much)
Embryo colonisation seems to be the most plausible approach with technology that's almost certainly within our grasp, certainly possible within our Universe.
Alternatively, after getting the hang of asteroid mining and colonisation, we should eventually, after who knows how many millenia, spread out into Oort cloud of Solar System. Over time, ever further from the Sun. At some point, Oort clouds of neighbouring stars can be said to basically intersect, in a way. So some of our descendants will make the jump. But that's even further from the scifi idea of interstellar travel...
Though it would mirror the way we took over the Earth.
Yeah, if only all of those 14 actually were EU nations...
If only politicians were the only thing stopping that humanity thing from cooperating on all those great ideas. At least they surely aren't a reflection of said humanity, nope, no way.
Since we seem to be goign a bit into what the car would said territory - "NOOO, DON'T CRASH ME!!!...OH, LOOK, A CUSHIONING MEATBAG!!!"?
How did EU suddenly get involved with European Southern Observatory?...
(plus generally, healthy competition is nice & there's a lot of crossparticipation in many projects anyway)
Well, yes - but on the local scale. Like teleoperation of nearby semi-autonomous (doing many tedious & routine tasks by themselves, sometimes requiring direct input) fleet of robots, or some decently autonomous ones within system.
Full autonomy for interstellar.
Celestia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Universe_Atlas , http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/sloangalaxies/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_Sandbox
And communication into the past with not-yet-present robot, it seems?
Music is an important activity for people since prehistoric times, with very large portion of populations often doing it to some degree. It was a side actibity. Very few who "made it big" in slightly distant past certainly weren't expecting and in fact didn't have the types of benefits typical today for few big acts from big labels.
It doesn't even matter in the way you seem to imagine it, anyway - fact is, music is being taken away from the control of big labels (the fight is really about this one). That most of new, often great indies won't make it "big" enough for music to be their only source of income...so what?
Being a typist often used to be a decent position in the times of typewriters - and now look at us, typing away without much thought. Should we allow for obsolescence to be heavily legislated?
At most - sometimes they "exploit" regulation which isn't totally over the top. Yet.