From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 09:54:33 MST
-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 16:51
Subject: Re: Travelling the Stars
>"Samael" <Samael@dial.pipex.com> writes:
>
>> How about nano sized cradt with a whopping big shield in front of them (I
>> liked the idea in Songs of Distant Earth of using an ice shield as it
>> shouldn't be hard to pick up hydrox elsewhere).
>
>I think you would run the risk of having the shield break up in a
>nasty way - it is hit by a dust mote, and turns into a fireball. I
>prefer Bishop's idea of sending a lot of very small and cheap and
>redundant nanocraft by catapult instead - a few might flame out, but
>enough would survive.
What are we sending out in these nanocraft?
If I want to travel out in one of these these things (obviously PKZipped
down), I'm not sure I want multiple redundant copies going out.
Or are we just sending out nanocraft to set up a habitabler area for us to
inhabit when we get there?
Samael
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