Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: kamk@uunet.uu.net (Wrath O' Kahm) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: try Megascale again Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 01:28:23 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 29 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article hkhenson@cup.portal.com writes: + + "a long enough lever... + + Some years ago [James E. Lovelock] calculated that the ability of this planet + to compensate for the rising output of the sun will fail within the + next 50-100 million years. Without intervention, the Earth will + become a post-biotic planet, which David Brin speculates may be a + common fate ... [thus leading to a discussion of various + ways to move the Earth, move or regulate the Sun, or get a new Sun -kk] Why not just replicate the Earth somewhere more convenient? ;-) -- Kameran Kashani kamk@sco.com The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. uunet!sco!kamk [Anywhere the materials are available and conditions are sanguine, earth will in a sense already have been replicated long ago, by the time the original is in serious jeopardy. ... I trust everyone realizes that this conversation is completely tongue in cheek, since 50 million years is a time scale on which it seems fairly silly to speculate about "who" or "what" will be around doing the thinking at the end of it... --JoSH]