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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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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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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 time.

Another possibility could involve the use of the Higgs singlet. In which case we could probably call it “Higgs archaeology”. 😉

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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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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 (and who think likewise) and very little if any with people who we dislike or who dislike us.

Why not a fractal-like system? Take a group no larger than five people. That group votes on its own ideas. Present them to a larger super-group that votes on aggregated ideas. Then present those to another larger group, and so on, until all (or most) seven billion vote on the remaining ideas? It would probably be good to have groups consisting of interdisciplinary experts to come up with some ideas.

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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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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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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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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 electrical transformer, we could change it to alternating current (which is what the electrical infrastructure runs on). If those jets contain even a fraction of the energy of normal lightning bolts, we could be talking about enough energy to power a continent.

 

Add some rechargeable metal-air batteries to it, and you could make the power supply steady (or at least steadier) if all of the energy sources aren’t up to muster on bad days (though that’s probably unlikely).

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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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Also, a good deal of phosphorus is probably on seafloors right now. Maybe we could harvest it there too.

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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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