From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 18:29:32 MST
Assuming that this isn't a hoax (some fact and reference
checking would make sense here), then the idea of sending
ones DNA out of the solar system on a solar sail propelled
probe could be very interesting.
See:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7824
and
http://www.TeamEncounter.com/index_static.html
Now when I first read this I got quite excited.
Wow, I can send my DNA out on a probe and perhaps someday
in the future scientists on another planet will be able
to clone me. But then I thought, wait a minute, what
if the probe ends up crashing into some planet with
some primordial soup and ends up evolving into a Klingon
like species that someday in the future decides to
use their point source singularity weapons on the
Matrioshka Brain around the sun into which humanity
has evolved and into which I just happen to be uploaded.
Is this really a good idea?
Should we start a protest site now?
Robert
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