These findings introduce yet another argument for not restraining the human species to a single, fragile world, one menaced not only by Earth-crossing asteroids and comets but by geological processes that are, if anything, much more beyond our technological control. A robust human expansion into nearby space continues to be good long-term insurance, as the fractious history of Earth continually insists.
Wasted Nothing
byproducts of interconnected turing machines.
November 1, 2007