From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 17:36:30 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
How can you assume that? As I've pointed out a seed for our current
society would be truly enormous. How can you assume a technology
that may not even work will achieve efficiency improvements of 10
orders of magnitude?
### Why do you say gigatons? If you wanted to use today's technology, yes.
But we know that existing, not terribly complicated physical objects
actually do have the 10 orders of magnitude efficiency edge over our current
technology - just look around you in a forest.
All we need is to make the such technologies work in vacuum (or at least
work without heavy shielding which would preclude exchange of matter and
energy). It doesn't look like an insurmountable problem.
Rafal
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