From: Billy Brown (ewbrownv@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 00:03:31 MDT
On Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:26 PM, O'Regan, Emlyn
[SMTP:Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au] wrote:
> Isn't there supposed to be a new ice-age coming? Why don't we just go
> somewhere cold? Maybe colonise mars?
A cold environment would help a little, but not much. You're still talking
about a limit of maybe a couple of kilowatts for the entire body. The
solution, of course, is to re-engineer the entire body to tolerate higher
temperatures and put in a high-efficiency cooling system.
> Actually, is that the way to colonise mars? Fill our bodies with lots of
> excellent nano-stuff, which improves us immensely & keeps us warm.
Its not a bad approach. I'm pretty sure you could build a human-looking
body capable of surviving any environment we've contemplated colonizing.
Of course, by the time we can do that we'll be playing with uploading and
distributed consciousness systems, so we're not exactly talking about
augmented humans anymore.
> Now if they'd only give off oxygen as a by-product...
No problem, we'll just implant a radioactive dacay battery in your abdomen
to power the CO2 splitter. ;-)
Billy Brown
ewbrownv@mindspring.com
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