From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 12:18:14 MDT
From: Spudboy100@aol.com
>Natasha Observed:
<<Just imagine in the centuries to come when we ice skate the microns to
meters water ice rings of Saturn; skip across the circular highway of the
Sun and leap across its 40,000 asteroids in the Asteroid Belt; sail the
Solar System; and scuba dive the methane and high-altitude photochemical
smog or 9 dust rings of Uranus! Why do we even want to do this? Because
we love the feeling we get from being exposed to the elements and using our
bodies, whatever form or shape they may evolve into, to romp around and
explore.
Natasha>>
>Aren't we more likely to do this in a simmulation experience (replacing
television and movies and video games), rather then a cell-altering
experience that alters tissue? I wonder what alteration might tune cells to
withstand liquid methane, or to sustain its coherence over the solar
surface, against heat, radiation, and gravity? <
>I do remember some of John Varley's science fiction from the 70's and 80's
in which people, permenatly suited, would bathe in liquid mercury.<
I think you have to take my imaginings with a grain of solar dust -:)
But, no I don't think we will only experience our solar System through VR
or other simulations! For goodness sakes, don't you want to travel
off-planet? Hello, posthuman.
Natasha
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