From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 20:12:11 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Amara Graps wrote:
>
>
>>yes, of course you can run any simulation you want, but to be
>>accurate, it must be based on data+theory and checked against
>>more data.
>>
>
> True, but if you can disassemble planets, you can certainly
> assemble them. So you can conduct any number of experiments
> to get any data you want.
This does not follow. I can take apart a great number of things
that I cannot necessarily put together without more knowledge
and better equipment than I have. And these aren't even complex
highly interactive chaotic systems like a planet, especially one
with a balanced biosphere. Even starting on earth recreating a
biosphere in an area where it has been destroyed is exceedingly
complex. We do not fully understand that process to say the least.
>
> I can construct a proto-Europa around a Jupiter mass black
> hole and run the experiment for several gigayears and still
> have the mass of Jupiter to use as useful computronium...
> Most of it gets fed into the fusion reactors but the
> ~10 M_earth of heavier material at the core is really
> usefuls stuff. No need to spend a lot of money now
> sending a probe to Europa when the same funds could
> be better spent accelerating the development of
> planetary dismantlement nanobots.
>
Sometimes you are a very scary man.
- samantha
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