Re: Location, Location, Location!


"Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t"; <rem642b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:REM-2006dec28-017@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Jonathan" <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The properties of evolution strongly imply a population will
eventually adapt to its environment.

No. The properties of evolution strongly imply that a population
will go extinct. Only a very small fraction of populations survive
to found longlasting clades, even without mega-disasters like
asteroid/comet crashes or deep-ocean methane releases. Then those
mega-disasters wipe out 50-90% of those would-be-survivor populations.


We're talking entirely different time scales. Intelligence provides
an unprecidented ability to adapt. If /we/ can't make it then
nothing can. If we can't make it /here/, we can't make it
anywhere.


IMO the most urgent thing to do (other than prevent immediate
terrorist attacks and stop spam) is to build a space-based
infrastructure so that we have the *capability* of preventing an
asteroid/comet crash (deflect it away) or global warming (erect a
sun screen, perhaps just a lot of solar-power satellites near
Sun/Earth L1) or global economic collapse due to petrolium shortage
(install solar-power systems in space, first in Earth/Lunar system
but eventually near Earth/Sun L1 per above dual purpose).


I agree. And this is why I favor solar power, especially in space.
Because it can kill two primary and impending threats with one stone.
The energy crisis and climate change. Space solar power would
also need an extensive space infrastructure and low cost to orbit
that would help address the other major threat, collisions with neo's.

In addition, this triple play that space solar power potentially has
would also make for a persuasive and inspirational pitch to
the public and Congress for far more funding.

That makes space solar power... a homerun.....imho.


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