From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 23:16:05 MDT
On Friday, July 23, 1999 4:59 PM Mac Tonnies <Alintelbot@aol.com> wrote:
>I don't think this is the _only_ sort of alien technology we should be
>looking for, but it's certainly a good scenario. List members tend to
assume
>that "exotic" ventures like interstellar colonization will necessarily rely
>on all kinds of fancy nanotech, but don't forget that the idea of traveling
>to other stars isn't as exotic as it used to be, in a way. If our history
>had gone just slightly differently (and I'm not refeering to our space
>program, but to world history in general) we might have already sent out
>craft using ramjet and ion proulsion.
Or orion propulsion. (That's dropping nukes out the back to putt-putt
along.)
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
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