Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Drexler on immortality, source of nano books. Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 21:50:48 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 24 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes: >although that takes trillions of years. But SEVERE energy problems would >confront you in only a few hundred billion... Perhaps there is some extremely >A more mundane problem (by comparison) is the fact that the local star >is going to eventually burn out. Of course, it will fry us first before >it sputters out. We have maybe 50 million years before the temperature >starts to get uncomfortable (according to the most recent research of which >I am aware). However, even we primitives can imagine possible ways to But the latest evolutionary models of the solar system seem to indicate that in fact the Solar Constant has been increasing for the last billion years or so, altering drastically the ecosphere. The strange thing is that the bio- sphere seems to have some kind of feedback mechanism to combat this. Gaia? -- Mike Rogers, 6.3.3 TCD, D2, Eire. | Greater love has no more than this; mike@maths.tcd.ie (UNIX => preferred)| Than to be laying down one's life mike@tcdmath.uucp (UUCP=>oldie/goodie)| For friends. msrogers@vax1.tcd.ie(VMS => blergh) | Yeshua ben Josef [Hardly Gaia. Assuming that some long-term change is actually happening, simple evolution is plenty to explain the adaptation of the ecosystem. After all, that's what evolution is about in the first place. --JoSH]