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- justinx0r, on 05/15/2008, -1/+27WWT is awesome. Microsoft really outdid themselves on that.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+13Colonizing other stars is a pretty ludicrous idea for the next fewthousand years. But no worries, there is enough real estate in the solar system to construct millions of equivalent earth surfaces by tearing apart asteroids. Then we can start with the small moons and rip those apart and build billions of 10 mile habitats housing tens of thousands of humans in near paradise like conditions.
However - we won't. Before all this comes to pass we will have figured out how to upgrade human bodies to be tougher than a T800 terminator and a whole lot smarter. The human state is a miserable state - frail, flawed, diseased, dying. We can build substantially better alternatives, maybe even upgrade existing specimens (including you who are reading this - IF you want to) to live for centuries.
The silly SciFi notions of generation ships travelling to stars are so outdated. In a fewhundred years a halo of habitats with humans will slowly spread outward in the solar system into the kuyper belt, capturing fleeting sunlight using massive reflective surfaces. Then eventually these habitats will drift into the void, in ever spiralling orbits - until they escape the solar system altogether, drifting from cold barren interstellar asteroid to comets to the occasional dark planet. And it will take thousands of years but eventually these interstellar islands will drift to new star systems or send out a spore cloud of nanoid probes.
Even worse, many who are reading this may be there, as software constructs. You may not be a single you then but a subroutine emulating a massively expanded version of your pathetic 21st century self, running on many computronium substrates. You may indeed travel to many stars in the galaxy, personally. But not in Starship Trooper or warspace driven vessels. - WriterSD, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8Note: You may need to refresh the screen after you first click on the link to see the full story. I had to do this, but it might also just be my computer. :-)
- Risingashes, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10The potential gains for a corporation from colonising and exploiting a whole new planet could potentially make it the most powerful entity on Earth for decades to come.
I'm uncertain on whether to root for a government or a corporation to be the one with access to the resources of the universe. - breadfred, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Keep burying. I can hardly see you anymore.
- fixty, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World.
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club - jm1234567890, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5It is "you're"
- cmoreland, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5I want a Mechwarrior Dropship stocked with a Lance of Omnimechs. Give it to me and I promise I'll be nice to the colonies.
/nerd - frankingeneral, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4I too I had to refresh in order to see all the text.
- yaosio, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7Here's the actual quote. "When starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home..." lying about the content of an article is not very nice.
- frankingeneral, on 05/15/2008, -3/+8At this point I think Google is more trustworthy than our government...that's scary.
- ShaneMcDeath, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Good post, but you can't possibly imagine what we will be capable of in a few hundred years, nevermind a few thousand.
- Bukowsky, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4nope... its just your computer. It loaded just fine for me.
- repairman2003, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3He must not be a very good programmer if he can't figure out how to use a matrix. It's not that hard to write your own matrix class
- chanop, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4Is google going to fake a moon landing FTW?
- briguymaine, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4there was a story on digg yesterday about a high speed train that isn't going to be built in California. So if we can't even get our ***** together to build a train on Earth, how are we going to colonize a whole other planet? Please...
- RayTracer85, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3VS is a gem , you are talking out of your ass.Impossible to work with matrixes , are you kidding me?
- purplehaze420, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I was mildly impressed when MS came out with this, never saw it coming, it seems like they are much better at writing apps then an OS. (ms word suite, msn messenger, both solid!... Can't think of too much more?)
- Jektal, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Well, it is a summary, so paraphrasing seems appropriate. But a "...headed toward a [Google]-discovered planet..." might have been better technically.
- briguymaine, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4right on. I like gmail, would I use a government run email service, probably not.
- GoEKniGhtofNi, on 05/15/2008, -7/+9space should be open to anyone, not only to people running Windows ->
Google wins! :-) - Jektal, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2You think it'll be easier to construct planets from multiple asteroids than to find another planet that we can put a base on?
I'm not suggesting we're going to magically terraform another planet into being Earth 2, but I think with enough resources and time we could definitely build a habitat on even Mars (not that we'd have any particular -reason- to) - JasonCox, on 05/15/2008, -3/+5Google discovered planet? Yup, I can see it now...
*SS AdWords enters orbit of gPlanet XI [beta]*
Larry: Prepare the laser beam, we need to carve 57 ads into the surface before the day is over to remain profitable.
Sergei: Dont we need to index this planet first, I mean-
*a chair hits the front of the ship with a loud thud*
Larry: What was that?
Sergei: It looked like a chair...
Larry: Bring the ship about, 180 degrees.
*SS AdWords turns around to see a large cube in the distance*
Larry: Oh not! It's Ballmer! he found us!
*The Micro-Cube begins firing more chairs*
*Ballmer appears on the viewscreen*
Ballmer: Prepare to be assimilated! Resistance is futile.
Sergei: You can't do this! There are laws!
Ballmer: The EU doesnt exist in space so go f*** yourself.
*fade to black as more chairs begin to pumel the SS AdWords*
(written by an MS fanboy) - WriterSD, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2"Not to be outdone, Google early this spring joined MIT scientists who are designing a satellite-based observatory -the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)." Should it say "partially Google discovered planet?" Summarizing isn't lying. :-)
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Just remember to take all the lawyers, political analysts, tv cooks, and television sanitation engineers first. make sure all the really useful people get it ready for the rest of us.
- bjs3171, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3is this article implying that these companies may be taking preliminary steps toward actual space shuttle building?
- sb66, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2yes I'm quite happy not to digg you up.
- 471776, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1My gay what?
- Hockey13, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Why did you include the #more on the end of that link?
- musntSurfatWork, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2I hope they don't land on a Blue Sphere Of Death.
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Not planets - HABITATS :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder
And yes, a millions of these are, if well-implemented
- safer than planets
- less radiation issues than planets
- more ecologically safe than planets
- more comfortable living than planets
- a LOT more economically feasible than planets
- more sustainable than planets
And they sure make better use of all the matter involved. Google dysonsphere :) - pdxa4, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2guess I must be gay....
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1yea, so long as the advertising dollars on earth hold up
what dribble. - lennybird, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7FVjATcqvc - Michio Kaku on types of civilizations.
- Jektal, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1No, just that they're funding the research used to find the places to send rockets and shuttles to.
- buffyangel108, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1"Which planet would you like to visit today, sir?"
"I'm feeling lucky..." - bloggeragent001, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Interesting story for me.
- Modestexcuse, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Mirror????
- fx666, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1I was using the UNIX AIX version of C++ and had no problems working with the matrix es. If you have plenty of time on your hands you could write your own matrix class, but I did not have that luxury. Engineering programmers are always overworked, unlike their counterparts who work with financial applications.
- postalblowfish7, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1both of these services suck. desktop software is still the only practical solution for serious or just even just curious astronomers.
- mydave, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0For me new information and very interesting story. and the pic looks amazing.
http://rpgworld.ath.cx/saves.html
http://sooslic.com/?id=673
http://toyotaemployeepricing.com/
http://shpe-sac.org/scholarships.htm
http://search.ashtech.info/world - CommissarVlad, on 05/15/2008, -2/+1Wow could someone please make a macro of this?
- blumpyX, on 05/15/2008, -3/+2same thing happens on mine, refresh doesn't fix it.
buried as unreadable - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -3/+1"they may well be headed toward"
they may as well not and you're talking *****. - fx666, on 05/15/2008, -7/+2Anyone who can beat Microsoft to the punch is welcome. I used to work as an engineering C++ analyst/programmer and I know how bad Microsoft's version of C++ is. It is impossible to work with the matrix es, which makes it unsuitable for engineering applications. ***** Bill Gates!!!
- secondwheel2, on 05/15/2008, -11/+6if you don't digg me up, then your gay
- TheCommentator, on 05/15/2008, -12/+3What a waste of my knowledge capacity.
Completely fabricated garbage.
Dugg even further to allow a deep bury.
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