From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 15:11:47 MDT
xgl writes:
> to me at least, there is no question that given sophisticated
> nanotech, we would be _able_ to turn the solar system (the galaxy even)
> into a terran breeding ground in an astonishingly short time. however, i
> thought samantha's original point was that once we have such power, we may
> not _want_ to waste it so profligately.
You try to stop me. And de Garis in Belgium, T. Resnick from Prague,
and Nishige-san from Tokyo, and Svarti Prabdabhati from Madras, and...
Of course, all the hundred thousands if not millions of people in the
know will never, ever even contemplate the possibility of doing
something this outrageous. An extremely probable scenario.
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