[FPSPACE] Copernican Principle

[Chris Faranetta]

The question of how long human beings will survive is really a trick
question. True unaltered human beings as we know them will probably be
around for another 75 years or so-by my New Jersey boy estimate. My
guess is that we will be able to heavily alter what we feel, see, hear
and smell, and that you will not aruguallbly be able to call beings who
do this human. Plus they, these "next beings" will likely have improved
brain faculty performace also I'm guessing as a result they won't need
to live on Earth, although they will be able to percive that they are on
Earth. What's driving this technology? Games on the internet, constant
improved computing power, the increased density of cities/employment
zones, the rise of tatoos & body pircings, plastic surgury, a constant
up power curve with electronics technology, the rise of developing
nations and changes in the Earth's environment.

That NYT article is written in the same mentaliity as if you asked the
British Empire in 1928 how long they would be a real player on the world
stage.

CF 

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I love to attach numbers to things, but this struck me as elegant but
slightly overblown.  It seems to boil down to: the longer something has
existed, the longer it will probably continue exist.  The implication
that anything new has a short life expectancy is probably supported by
the hardware concepts of burn-in and "infant-mortality" that acknowledge
failures in some fraction of newly-manufactured items.  But I would have
appreciated seeing some predictions being tested that demonstrated the
usefulness of the Copernican Principle.
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 The New York Times made a mistake when they pulled this
 article out of the April 1st drawer nine months early.

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wade [mailto:astronautix at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 9:25 AM
> 
> Intriguing article on using the Copernican Principle to calculate the
> longevity of the human race and justify space exploration:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17tier.html
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wade
> Encyclopedia Astronautica
> http://www.astronautix.com/
> astronautix at gmail.com

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