From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 16:27:29 MDT
...perhaps if easter island residents had spent their time and resources
developing their island's capacity to sustain them, and not building giant
stone sculptures, they would still be around.
...and offhand i would wager that colonization of the moon might happen
within 50 yrs, mars in 100 yrs, and other systems perhaps within 200yrs.
one big issue is controlling gravitational effects limiting acceleration of
spacecraft.
...we seem to be in a discovery-fest these days revolving around
infrastructure -> bio-tech & biology, computer science, and other tools
which will easier permit such grand undertakings as space exploration and
colonization. without mastering these first, subsequent missions would
surpass earlier attempts so significantly that we'd have the sad example of
one interstellar program surpassed 10 fold by another program launched 30
yrs later. it would be pretty depressing to be on a 25 yr interstellar
journey and hear in a years old communique that a new program will be
launching another ship that blows your technology away, and has already
passed you by.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Erik Aronesty" <erik@zoneedit.com>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: "Church of Virus" <virus@lucifer.com>
Subject: Re: virus: Re:That hell-bound train
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:46:23 -0400
Another explanation : “island theory”. Look at what happened to Easter
Island.
If there's overpopulation, and the system cannot sustain the people,
sometimes the system can break down.
Most likely, we will need to begin populating another planet within the next
50 years, or we will suffer from “stagnation”.
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