PLANET
is going to be a difficult journey for this writer. Perhaps this is why I have
put it off for some time, because Armageddon is a hard topic for humans to
face. With an ice comet from the Kuiper belt, directly inline to destroy Earth,
all human inhabitants have been told they have to vacate Earth by their World
government. The need has unleashed von Neumann probes, those self-replicating robots
that are “seeding” the galaxy with terraform, which is, changing the new chosen
planet’s surface and climate to be like Earths.
Logistic questions
have arisen:
How will all the billions
of Earth’s inhabitants leave? Could they go in digital data streams? Or on
ships?
Is the Kardashev scale
for categorizing civilizations a good choice? A three level advancement or a
five level advancement?
Okay, I admit, that’s a
very interesting part to be thinking about, and one I truly relish. I
hope you will find a little time to follow me on this journey as I report back
what I learn and how it all unfolds. I will mainly discuss the scientific and
philosophical questions that arise for me, rather than excerpts from the actual
book.
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