Posted on 09/14/2009 8:06:10 PM PDT by Saije
Lately I have been looking at the moon and wondering if it will someday kill me. If I live another 50 years (which is entirely possible) I assume I will eventually be a robot, having shed my old skin and bones body and uploaded a scanned and digitized version of my brain to a machine. My fellow robots and I will live among the meat people for eons until the moon's orbit degrades, either gradually or because a meteor gives it a nudge, and Earth is annihilated in the collision. You might say I worry too much. But I've successfully avoided death so far, so I say I worry just enough.
Because of this impending moon problem I have been planning an exit strategy. By the time the moon starts heading our way I imagine we'll have the technology to send me into space in an escape rocket, searching for a habitable planet. I could power down my robot brain so the trip isn't so boring.
But even if this plan works it will be lonely when I find my new planet. And then there is the issue of the 400 billion meat people and fellow robots I leave behind, including my hot robot wife, Shelly, and the rest of my robot family. I want a solution for them too. Sure, I could reprogram my brain to not care, but that's not how I roll.
Unfortunately, I assume there would be no practical way to build and launch enough rockets for everyone to escape, at least not in time...
We need a better plan than that, and it goes like this: Once we have the technology, we begin scanning and digitizing everyone's brain routinely, perhaps once a year during regular physicals. By then I'm sure we'll have universal planetary healthcare...
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A gifted writer.
Nah, drink maybe.
There is of course an ounce of truth to the Killer Moon theory. On or around October 9th, of this year NASA will blast the Moon with the EDUS rocket and the LCROSS.
Of course this will cause a catastrophic siesmic event on the Moon that will send all of us flesh and blood robots into the ultimate challenge for our survival.
Life will never be the same.
Welcome to new earth. The real question is did they bring the bible with them or write it to try to ensure their new Earth didn’t turn to the dark side?
>In other words, there’s a good chance this plan already happened and you’re a robot living on New Earth. You’re only programmed to believe you are human.
LOL - Mr. Adams is a fun read.
Which was the whole Matrix thing right? Sort of.
I suppose it’s okay until they discover the ‘meat people’ evolve into spirits, much higher than robots.
But what they should really be afraid of is....rust.
Not to worry... We are losing the moon. It is getting farther away instead of coming closer. In a few million years the Earth will have no moon.
I understand Al Gore will use that for his next crisis.
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