Disturbing the Universe
July 27th 2009 14:15
It's kind of cool to see a new scar on the face of Jupiter while watching 2010 on the tube. Luckily we are not threatened by a self imposed Armageddon as the characters in the film were but it is good to be reminded of our relative insignificance while some silly people go running about the Western World screaming about how we are destroying the world through climate change and global warming. The world will still be here long after man is gone. And I take no global destruction alarmist seriously unless he spends all his time in China and India where most of the man made pollutants are certain to originate in the coming years. Any global destruction crazy in the west is either an idiot or a socialist who has found the perfect stick with which to strike capitalism repeatedly.
Ah but I digress from my original intent. Some say we should go Mars. Some say we should go back to the moon.
I say we would do neither. Instead we should build a race of super intelligent robots and exile them to dark, cold regions of outer space. The robots would be self replicating. That is to say they would mine materials from asteroids and planets and use those materials to make copies of themselves. In truth, the universe is not a fit place for man nor beast. We would use these robots to terraform--make earthlike--some larger asteroids, the moon and Mars. For starters. They would make it real comfortable for squishy beings like ourselves and we would explore our universe in style. Let creatures that neither sleep nor breath oxygen do all the heavy lifting.
Wiki robots
The shape of things to come
7 ways to control the galaxy
In the mean time we should get on with the business of curing all human, plant and animal diseases and cataloging all life on earth.
Encyclopedia of Life
Wiki EOL
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