>I love the idea of giant space ships streaking at great speeds across the >universe as much as any SF fan, but the more I think about it the less likely it >seems to me. What I picture is nano machines able to travel economically at >speeds close to C. Obviously a human isn't going to hop aboard a nano machine, >but if the tech employed in Kiln People (which I haven't read yet so I am >assuming here) is ever a possibility we might be able to give our consciousness >a ride on one.... > >-- >Doug > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I just joined the list last night after finding a reference to it on a page about the now mothballed (??) Startide movie. Of the 40 or so posts added overnight this is the only one that I would have thought is especially relevant to the list. Are the discussions usually more or less David Brin / Science Fiction orientated or are they always about bad language and the situation in the middle east? As for giant space ships streaking at great speeds through the sky I have a couple of comments. First an unoriginal one. If it was possible it should of happened by now, unless of course intelligent life is very rare, and we are it in this corner of the universe. I'd imagine that in one way or another we ourselves have at least a 5% chance of colonizing the galaxy in the next few million years. What I was thinking, is that given the Andromeda Galaxy is larger than our the chances of intelligent life evolving there a few tens of millions years earlier than here would seem to be good. Has any one given any thought to the best way of trying to detect a galaxy spanning civilization in Andromeda, for each of the possible colonization scenarios possible. (Big space ships, nanotech, etc.) Regards, Wayne Eddy Mildura, Australia.
