From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 11:09:28 MDT
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Chris Fedeli wrote:
>
> Has anyone else been watching this series?
I've caught two of them.
> At some points I had to contain my laughter. Not that they
> were saying anything wrong, but the production has such a
> made-for-kiddies feel to it.
Yep. The earlier one on "uploading" that had Hillis &
Kurzweil in it was better.
I thought the education part regarding whether bacteria
can be transmitted across space was pretty good. Anyone
who puts "Deniococcus radiodurans" into the public
vocabulary definately gets points in my book.
The ETI/space exploration discussion (the last 2-3 minutes)
seemed pretty tame, coming down in the middle --
- we should go into space so we don't become extinct
- if we are alone it may mean intelligence isn't the
great thing we think it is
- if we aren't alone, where are they?
That was how I heard it.
Robert
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