[FPSPACE] Fw: [SALT] Cosmic life (Martin Rees talk)

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

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> From: LARRY KLAES [mailto:ljk4 at msn.com] 
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> From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
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> Subject: [SALT] Cosmic life (Martin Rees talk)

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> We can be certain that we are not the 
> culmination of life forms here, because we are less than halfway 
> through the Sun's lifespan.  In the six billion years to come, there 
> are likely to be creatures as far beyond humans as we are beyond 
> microbes, and science as far beyond our present understanding as 
> quantum theory is remote to a chimpanzee.

 Well, well, well - it took evolution three billion years or so
 to manufacture a creature as perfect as Mike Tyson!

 It's unlikely that evolution will be allowed time to develop a
 Tyson 2.0, since human bio-engineers will much sooner feel
 competent enough to meddle with life. 

 In short, let's expect a multitude of Frankenstein monsters,
 cyborgs, and chimeras over millenniums to come.

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark