RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unfolding Universe (discovery channel)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> More than likely a majority of us will eventually live 
> off-world in some
> sort of ship/cities. The needed materials can be claimed from 
> planets that
> we wouldn't find convenient to actually put cities on but 
> we're probably
> more likely to just build the cities as huge moving colonies. 
> Of course
> also likely is that by the time we have that many people we would have
> already become educated enough to hack our own species so 
> that we can live
> in most any enviroment. Bionanotechnology and all that jazz.

That would be interesting.  Of course, that greatly compounds the population
issue.  If we have that good of biotech, we would try for immortality.  If
nobody ever dies, and we don't give up procreation, population can do
nothing but rise almost endlessly.

> More interesting to me is how we'll communicate over such distances. I
> find interesting these projects that are trying to communicate
> point-to-point across any distance using some form of quantum 
> theory. I
> don't really understand it but it sounds awesome. If they 
> ever get that to
> work that would mean we could have an Internet spread clear across the
> Universe with no noticable communications lag anywhere.

Orson Scott Card actually used a reasonable one of these in his "Enders
Game" series.  The current theoretical technology involves splitting up
subatomic particles, which seem to vibrate in sync with each other,
instantly, and irregardless of distance, even after being separated.
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