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Re:Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens by wazoox on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:18AM (#3381168)
The main obstacle for me seems to be that by entering the VR, you're actually getting your chances to reproduce down to exactly zero. By the way, a good book on this subject is "the machine stops" from the early 1900s...
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Re:Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens by aamar on Thursday December 22, 2011 @01:01PM (#3382539)
If that is a priority, you can reproduce manifoldly inside the VR. Why disprefer those children? It's possible to make the simulation run as long in subjective time as the outside universe.

Thanks for the book tip. For curious others: The Machine Stops, a story by E. M. Forster: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

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