Colonization of the Solar System & Beyond

[Doug Pensinger]

Curtis wrote:

>
> I'm pretty new here too ... I haven't seen anything of this kind of
> conversation. But maybe sci-fi has moved on a bit beyond merely banal
> spaceflight -- perhaps the topic had become a bit too commonplace, and the
> genre as a whole has moved onto other more sophisticated foci?
>

Tout au contraire.  All is Brin, as the saying goes.  Please feel free to
discuss anything and everything you wish to.

And welcome to the list to both yourself and Wayne.

As for colonization of the solar system, I'm not sure how it will play out,
but I think that one way or the other humans will colonize or at least
explore the solar system, pre or post singularity.  The way I picture it, a
person could sublime without impacting his/her human life.  Not only that,
but it would be possible to make physical copies of yourself wherever you
wanted them to be (given the necessary resources and compatible environment.

The staple in SF that I think is doomed is the ship that transports physical
humans from place to place.  Here I picture trancendant individuals able to
transport themselves at near light speed to wherever they wanted to go
without the need for a protective environment.

Doug