From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 00:24:41 MDT
A SuperMind Singularity would certainly overtake the Plutonium-powered
spacecraft plodding along at under 1% the speed of light, even if the Bill
Joy-ites had 100 year lead time. Why? Because the Joy-ites would have to
occasionally stop the craft for maintainence to both the hull and reactor. A
continuously reliable, Singularity craft would ride, unimpeded for decades of
centuries.
Why would you wish to out-run a Singulairty anyways? If you like what Hans
Moravec said about such a singularity, the afterward of such and event would
leave its component beings far better off, then before being occulted.
In a message dated 6/12/2002 1:17:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
spike66@attbi.com writes:
> This is a possibility: that there really are no magic discoveries
> in physics yet to be conceived, that there are no terrific
> shortcuts to space travel, that Newton's laws really do
> hold true always and forever. But the Singularity is
> coming, and we do not know what will happen when
> it does. With today's tech and sufficient motivation,
> we have a faint hope of surviving an attempt at the
> crossing to the nearest star. spike
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