[rottndog]

I was gonna say, a couple of thousand square kilometers of sail surface area could collect a massive amount of solar wind--We'd be screaming along.

BTW, with reincarnation, don't we have to be a little careful about getting more people the old fashioned way?

Oh, I guess that's what the parachutes and Peopleseed colonies are for.

[NicknamedBob]

Reincarnation, like fusion, is one of the technologies still under development.

We shouldn't count on it until it is proven. (Besides, as I document in my fourth book, "Reaction!" -- there are some, um, "hazards" to the process.)

I'm putting my chips on reliable technologies like Nuclear Fission, rotational artificial gravity, growing foods in near Earth-like conditions, and good solid metal to protect us.