From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 22:44:43 MDT
In a message dated 9/8/02 12:39:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Spudboy100@aol.com writes:
>Hard radiation wrecking a carbon-70 based A.I. ? Remember, these
>people (who knows?) are not made out of the deliciously gooey jellies
>and jams that humans are made outta.
I'm very aware of that. With present designs, wetware nanotech
(us) deals with radiation damage far better than Drextech.
>I am not sure why you would limit a super-civilizations interstellar
>potential to cheesy, fusion power? Why not at least consider industrial-
>level antihydrogen production, or perhaps something even more
>technically, prodigeous?
In the end it's all got to come out of fusion power. Assembling the
necessary antihydrogen will be very expensive, and the resulting
reactions generate gobs of very nasty radiation. It may just not
be efficient enough.
>But it is, alas, probably too good to be true
I'm not saying it isn't. But we don't *know* that near-c
civilization expansion is possible. Until them, observing
a slower expansion does not prove natural cause.
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