Bernhard Kuemel said:
Wally W. wrote
Bernhard Kuemel wrote
I'm planning a robotic facility [3] that needs to maintain hardware
(exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years.
For whom?
Did you read footnote [3]. I want to be one of
the frozen, scanned and uploaded humans.
Who will care about *our* data in 1000 years?
Ötzi is about 5000 years old. It would be very
amazing for a lot of people to revive him.
Sure, but its not very likely to be possible.
I hope the same will be true for me in 200 to 1000 years.
I doubt it with 200, or even 1000.
They are more likely to do it with someone who has
managed a lot more than you have, like Einstein etc.
That's pretty well documented now. No need to try the
very difficult to achieve uploading of someone's brain etc.
Nuclear war, economic/ecologic collapse. If an asteroid impact
obscures the sun too much for too long that might deplete my
power/cooling reserves and destroy my body/mind.
But if it gets too bad, there may not be anyone too interested
in uploading what is between your ears, they may well be a bit
busy ensuring their own survival instead.
I doubt it.
The idea is to make it in a remote location of an otherwise rather
stable country, e.g. in an Australian desert. The cryostorage could
be disguised as tomb and the black solar energy collecting walls
could be disguised as tombstones.
Its very likely to be vandalised if you try that route.
A plaque/inscription could say they died
of a very deadly and contagious disease.
No one would buy that line with a place like Australia
because they know you would not be allowed to have
a tomb done like that there if it really was true.
The remains would have been cremated in a medical
facility instead.
Bacillus antracis can survive for decades in the ground as dehydrated
spores, so mentioning that might deter some people.
I doubt it except maybe those so stupid that they don't realise
that it wouldn't happen like that. There are certainly plenty of
those, but there are plenty more that wouldn't buy that claim.
OTOH it might attract others, who want to use it as weapon.
I don't believe that would happen.
Because they would realise it's a lie.
Apart from stable walls I also think about active and passive intruder
defense systems such as high voltage discharges, high energy
microwaves, crushing, stabbing, shooting, nitrogen asphyxiation.
That's completely illegal in Australia and everywhere
else that's even just barely politically stable too.
We could let some voluntarily donated human bodies
and the killed intruders rot after the first door,
That's completely illegal in Australia and everywhere
else that's even just barely politically stable too.
outside the first trap, where there is another inscription
telling the truth about the facility and its dangers.
If anyone did break in and find the corpses, you can be
sure that the word would get out very quickly indeed
and that the authoritys would be round to work out
who had flouted the law so comprehensively and
they would try to work out who had done that and
would eventually dismantle the entire affair and
just dump your body into a public grave once no
one claimed your corpse.
They would certainly realise that your claim
about the unspeakable disease was a lie and
would be able to check if it was someone who
had managed to do what you claimed etc.
I can hardly help the sufferers while I'm in cryo stasis.
Well, I could leave the facility open for everybody to
use and take what they want, but then I'd most likely die.
I trust that mankind will survive.
And the worst result if it doesn't is no worse than
not doing anything except your heirs didn't get
to spend what you wasted on that facility.
I don't know. There is no knowledge.
There is plenty of knowledge that mankind has never even
come close to not surviving over countless millennia now.
Sure, we have certainly invented some stuff since then
which might be a problem, but even nukes wouldn't
result in no mankind at all, even if we are actually
stupid enough to fire them all at each other.
I don't understand your question. What do you mean by
attrition? Can you rephrase your question more clearly?
Uncle Al: Conservation [including knowledge as a resource?]
means somebody else in the future deserves to consume it;
and not them, either.
If it is to be found by ET, they may be unimpressed. They
know how to travel between stars. Nothing in our 1000
year-old archive will help them repair their warp drive.
Humans are impressed by the moon, mars and roman excavations,
which can not repair their vehicles. I think finding ETs is far more
exciting than watching Star Trek. ETs may be different, but I don't
expect to be found and uploaded by ETs.
I don't expect any ETs to show up myself. They've had
plenty of time to do that and presumably it isnt possible.
Tho I spose some red indians might have run the same line
at one time too.
.