Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!WATERMAN@USC-ECL.ARPA From: WATERMAN@USC-ECL.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: inter-stellar travel Message-ID: <16338@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 13:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16338 Posted: Thu Feb 2 13:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:23:07 EST Lines: 17 re: inter-stellar(inter-galctic??)travel: has there been a recap lately of current thinking about possible propulsion+life-support systems for inter-stellar flight? Is the 1950's idea about using the world's supply of h-bombs out of the running now? then there was the interstellar gas gatherer idea and the laser idea and ..... ... . If a-i research/cognitive studies research gets as far as being able to map consciousness into a digital-silicon-brain, then one could in fact travel at the speed of light! Slow scout ships would go out and set up 'mind-trans- ceivers' at various places of interest. Then to go there, Mr. John Q. Siliconhead would just have his entire consciousness broadcast to the transciever at that place. He would get there in no time at all !!! Then he would just be booted in a duplicate material housing and be on his way strolling on the beach on planet x.! -e.s.(waterman@ecla) -------