Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams
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Date	2018-10-05 18:28 +0000
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In article <730dfd4d-540b-4ade-9b61-83921846047e@googlegroups.com>,
 <mcdowell_ag@sky.com> wrote:
>On Friday, October 5, 2018 at 3:22:39 PM UTC+1, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Sorry to Crush Your Dreams, But We're Not Colonizing Space Anytime Soon
>> 
>>
>https://www.tor.com/2018/10/05/sorry-to-crush-your-dreams-but-were-not-colonizing-space-anytime-soon/
>> -- 
>> My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
>> My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
>> My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
>
>A good deal of Science Fiction can be read as a hymn to the benefits of
>diversity: we could learn from other cultures. An alien viewpoint might
>see a solution to a problem that no human could find. So for a long time
>I thought "If we can't meet aliens, can we create them?" If Science
>Fiction is correct, this would be a strategic advantage. I can think of
>one way of creating aliens from different cultures. The quote goes "The
>past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

Nitpick: "the past is another country."  And the narrator, now
getting on in years, is thinking about the days of his youth.

 We have
>enough information to recreate cultures that raised geniuses: there is
>good evidence on the backgrounds of Darwin, Galton, Maxwell, and others,
>and they come from a distinctively different era - but one sufficiently
>technological that they wouldn't be completely lost in the modern world.
>
>But on further reflection, it all falls apart. These people did come
>from a different culture, 

This is the whole point.  We have people from different cultures
right now.  

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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[tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-10-05 14:22 +0000
  Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-05 08:01 -0700
    Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-05 10:08 -0600
  Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2018-10-05 09:02 -0700
    Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-05 18:28 +0000
      Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 13:00 -0700
        Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-05 13:10 -0700
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-05 13:42 -0700
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 13:54 -0700
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Joe Bernstein <Kdeurama@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 22:52 +0000
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-10-08 07:01 -0700
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-10-06 09:49 -0700
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-05 14:22 -0700
        Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams smw <smw@trm.encs.concordia.ca> - 2018-10-11 04:58 +0000
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 06:06 -0700
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-11 13:23 +0000
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-11 10:16 -0700
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-11 17:26 +0000
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 20:59 -0400
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-11 23:04 -0700
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 20:18 -0400
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-11 21:03 +0000
  Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 17:57 -0500
    Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 19:57 -0400
      Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 19:22 -0500
        Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 19:30 -0500
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 22:37 -0400
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-10-06 02:46 +0000
        Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 22:36 -0400
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 22:05 -0500
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-06 04:26 +0000
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-05 21:55 -0700
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-06 13:56 +0000
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-10-06 07:18 -0700
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 09:37 -0500
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-10-06 05:07 +0000
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-10-05 23:59 -0700
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 12:07 -0400
          Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-10-11 21:03 -0600
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 23:31 -0400
            Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 13:25 -0500
              Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 13:54 -0500
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 20:23 -0400
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 21:17 -0500
                Re: [tor dot com] Sorry to Crush Your Dreams J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-13 00:04 -0400

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