From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 06:22:43 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> "Life is neat, and all, but hanging around verbatim for a billion
> years? Seem to get awfully stale after a few kYears, if everything else
> stays as is."
Avatar Polymorph answered:
> Forget a few kYears. Think a few bYears. Drexler does.
Backed up with the certainty of bYears, maybe one should start to think about generous
"temporary jobs" like learning all the languages of the Islamic cultures and translating
the most important thinkers of the enlightenment (let's say two dozens of books), so
regular Muhammad in Bhagdad can make up for letting some more reason and sunshine in his
fundamentalist mind. I`m sure you would find a sponsor like the UN for this gigantic
enterprise.
After approximately 100 years of learning languages and translating enlightenment books
you might be fed up with paper and might want to dig up all the human bones in all the
African deserts, extract DNA samples and try to find out who the hell your
greatgranddaddy *really* was - 3000 years of wasting sponsor money? And still no end of
eternity in sight. Sigh...I guess, we should start to honestly think about jobs like
these so people won`t be scared of a billion years of living.
humania
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