From: Danila Medvedev (danila.medvedev@mail.ru)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2007 - 02:27:42 MST
> If no wormhole or equivalent technology allowing FTL data transmission
> is possible, then that very subjective time will put lots of constraints
> on interstallar travel. A 'space empire' spanning a light year would
> have huge trouble maintaining contact with opposite sides of its
> territory: imagine a situation where information the core sends would
My gut feeling is that a superintelligence will easily find a way around
it (not necessarily by inventing FTL travel, but by doing proper
parellelisation).
-- Best regards, Danila mailto:danila.medvedev@mail.ru Russian Transhumanist Movement - the RIGHT kind of future http://www.transhumanism-russia.ru/content/view/120/123/
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