Comments on: Stargate Atlantis: Colonizing The Galaxy

By: Dave R

Dave R — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:38:40 +0000

Vernor Vinge wrote about this exact scenario in his short story “Long Shot”.

By: edward balcsik

edward balcsik — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:25:58 +0000

“even 1 percent is far beyond our present abilities.” Putting 200 people 25,000 feet above the earth would have been far beyond our abilities a hundred years ago. Not to say it would ever make sense to expand the resources required to send a huge ship bouncing around the galaxy, just that looking at our present abilities and understanding as something final seems a little absurd or arrogant.

By: Chas

Chas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:12:55 +0000

I had that same idea some years – robot nursemaids caring for humans birthed from artificial wombs whenever they encountered habitable worlds. Course, I was just riffing off James Blish fantastic idea from his stories and books (Cities In Flight) about humans colonizing the universe.

By: Ian Parker

Ian Parker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:22:52 +0000

What about a nanotech Von Neumann machine with less stringent environmental constraints?

By: John Milton

John Milton — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:37:11 +0000

So… essentially become a virus? A macro-virus? What is our need to colonize the entire galaxy? Are we that narcissistic that we think we deserve every part of this galaxy and therefore can pollute and destroy it as well, like we have done to ours? This is the worst, most sickening idea I’ve ever read. Whatever happened to the need to explore that drives advancement to do such? This eliminates that desire. Why would we want to do this if we could never meet these people? What is in it for us…to keep the species alive?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:24:54 +0000

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/god.html

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:49:31 +0000

Great like land developers and urban sprawl here on earth isn’t bad enough?