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Re:It’s time to claim your piece of the final frontier by pekk on Monday January 18, 2016 @03:05PM (#10926551)
Okay, so we decide that we are our art, and now we are shooting jazz CDs to Mars. Or other art, sent to other places where there is no audience. What then? Why? The logical conclusion of this thinking seems to be that we really have no business in space at all.
Re:It’s time to claim your piece of the final frontier by lisper on Monday January 18, 2016 @03:12PM (#10926583)
Well, it's hard to lay out a complete agenda for this program in an HN comment. But the vision I had in mind looked more like colonies of self-reproducing artificially intelligent robots than a bunch of CD-ROMs.
Re:It’s time to claim your piece of the final frontier by zardo on Monday January 18, 2016 @04:57PM (#10927305)
Of course, part of the reason for wanting to be on multiple planets in the first place, is how wrong things can go when you have the technology for that.