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ru1138 replied to the topic The Fermi Project in the Conversation Big Ideas 10 years, 6 months ago
The main reason to have the probes replicate Erik is to ensure that further destinations can be reached and that there will be replacements for them in case some fail.
And those are all good point Geoffrey Landis. I just thought the idea would be worth mentioning here.
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ru1138 started the topic The Fermi Project in the Conversation Big Ideas 10 years, 8 months ago
There has been recent news of a project to develop self-replicating robots.
Assuming that the current trends in miniaturization and materials science continue; then it’s possible that the hardware necessary for a self-replicating robot could eventually be incorporated into a device weighing only a few grams.
Where am I going with this?…[Read more]
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ru1138 replied to the topic restoring the ocean's ecosystems in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 2 months ago
This sounds like a good idea. One thing: we’d need to figure out how to build the food web the right way; else we’d just be wasting time.
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ru1138 replied to the topic Augmented Reality and Quantum Archeology – Resurrect dead loved ones? in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 5 months ago
Note that the term “Quantum Archaeology” is frequently used to indicate hypothetical technologies for reviving people who have NOT left a lot of information behind, for example people who died hundreds of years ago. “Quantum” indicates that these far-future super-technologies may have something to do with quantum weirdness, entanglement across…
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ru1138 replied to the topic A Billion Year Society in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 7 months ago
You’re quite right Geoffrey Landis. Although this is an interesting idea to ponder. Maybe a person who is more adept at writing fiction could work it into a story.
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ru1138 started the topic A Billion Year Society in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 7 months ago
I was inspired by this post over at KurzweilAI.
What’s to guarantee our survival over the next billion years? I’ve been pondering the possibility of a billion year society to help guide humanity over the next billion years.
What would such a society be like? For starters, it would probably be unwise to make it a government body. Rather, I think…[Read more]
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ru1138 replied to the topic A big idea to create the moonshot ecosystem! in the Conversation The Moonshot Ecosystem 11 years, 8 months ago
I can put a positive spin on things here too, there’s seven billion people in this world, and each of us really only is designed to (or NEEDS to!) care about a couple of hundred of them, right? So it kind of stands to reason that we should be able to design a system that lets us spend most of our time with people we think are absolutely amazing (…
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ru1138 replied to the topic What are some interesting science fictional concepts in economics? in the Conversation Inspiration 11 years, 8 months ago
I’d say that a resource based economy is interesting. Though a transitory period hasn’t been sketched out for such a thing.
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ru1138 started the topic DIY as a way to solve problems in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 8 months ago
There might be a lot of promise in the DIY community for solving problems that face mankind. But I think there are impediments keeping the community from reaching its full potential. I don’t have a list, but maybe one is restrictive patents and subsequent patent trolling (encourage an open source license that still allows the patent holders to…[Read more]
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ru1138 replied to the topic Augmented Reality and Quantum Archeology – Resurrect dead loved ones? in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 8 months ago
I’m skeptical that such a thing could work. Decomposition destroys any brain tissue after, what? A few months? How can you bring back the dead if their brains are gone?
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ru1138 started the topic Cellular nutrition in the forum
But what will we eat? 11 years, 9 months agoA little bit of news from Next Big Future that I thought you guys might find interesting.
Cellular based precise nutritionI’m a bit skeptical due to the fact that a corporation is claiming this, but if it turns out to be true it would be big.
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ru1138 replied to the topic Avoiding Peak Phosphorus in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 9 months ago
That’s interesting Mr. Elser! I looked around and found this, which currently has a link about interest in phosphorus recovery from wastewater on the front page.
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ru1138 replied to the topic The Tall PowerTower in the Conversation Tall Tower 11 years, 11 months ago
I like these ideas. If we combine the energy harvesting concepts you’ve outlined we could generate a lot of energy.
About the blue jets. I believe that’s a direct current. If we use the top of the tower as an […]
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ru1138 replied to the topic Inspiring Fictional Universes in the Conversation Inspiration 11 years, 11 months ago
I agree with several on the list. I’m not sure about the others because I haven’t read much or any of their material.
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ru1138 replied to the topic Avoiding Peak Phosphorus in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 11 months ago
Also, a good deal of phosphorus is probably on seafloors right now. Maybe we could harvest it there too.
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ru1138 started the topic Did apathy lead to stagnation? in the Conversation The Moonshot Ecosystem 11 years, 11 months ago
I wonder if that is true. If so, then I have a theory: corporate news. When you’re in a competition between another media conglomerate and find that bad news sells better, the natural inclination is to include as […]
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ru1138 replied to the topic Longer than lifetime projects in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 11 months ago
Those of you who are interested in this topic might want to read this.
https://www.kurzweilai.net/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan
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ru1138 started the topic Avoiding Peak Phosphorus in the Conversation Big Ideas 12 years, 2 months ago
Phosphorus is important as it is a nutrient for all life (can’t have sugar or nucleic acids without it). But there’s a problem, sometime over the next few decades we may reach peak phosphorus. After the peak, […]
