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What execution would you prefer?

Labor camp
- 4 (20%)
List of choices (would you like to be killed by woodchipper, firing squad, gascambers...)
- 8 (40%)
Choose how to die (with restrictions, or course, no "I want to be nuked in the dining hall")
- 6 (30%)
Generic Lethal injection
- 1 (5%)
Electroshock
- 0 (0%)
Life in prison
- 0 (0%)
Other (Specify)
- 1 (5%)
No opinion
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 20


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Author Topic: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion  (Read 341549 times)

Zanzetkuken The Great

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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2400 on: October 22, 2012, 08:17:44 pm »

Hey, as long as there's a chance of me getting fur and ears and a tail, I'm happy.

Do you want your brain transferred via electronic link-up, or removed and surgically attached?
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« Reply #2401 on: October 22, 2012, 08:20:06 pm »

Well, if I were to have my preferred option, I'd have gradually have the functions of my brain cells taken over by nanomachines. To create a sort of seamless upload. The whole philosophical ramifications about purely digital uploading kind of frighten me.
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« Reply #2402 on: October 22, 2012, 08:21:16 pm »

Well, that's out of my department. Have fun with the roboticist nuts...
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« Reply #2403 on: October 23, 2012, 12:25:28 pm »

So you want us to turn your brain in a living computer, then send it into space. I don't take any responsibilities if your brain is wiped out by a small solar flare, or because you downloaded something from the internet.
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« Reply #2404 on: October 23, 2012, 07:27:50 pm »

Well, if I were to have my preferred option, I'd have gradually have the functions of my brain cells taken over by nanomachines. To create a sort of seamless upload. The whole philosophical ramifications about purely digital uploading kind of frighten me.
Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

Philosophical.
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Zanzetkuken The Great

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« Reply #2405 on: October 23, 2012, 07:45:45 pm »

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.
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« Reply #2406 on: October 24, 2012, 11:09:04 am »

So you want us to turn your brain in a living computer, then send it into space. I don't take any responsibilities if your brain is wiped out by a small solar flare, or because you downloaded something from the internet.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE!
B.O.O.Z.E. is a half-biological Super-AI. You will NOT be uploaded to a machine, only back-upped. Those back-ups will be put in a special faraday cage.

But apparantly, this is not about B.O.O.Z.E.

I think me and greatwyrm should work togheter on this.
It's not B.O.O.Z.E., but not bioglados either.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2407 on: October 24, 2012, 11:17:56 am »

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.
That's only one way of teleporting. Ie, the scan things, transmit info and then rebuild you using said information method. Star Trek's teleporters don't work that way, for example.
They really move the matter from point A to B.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2408 on: October 24, 2012, 02:59:45 pm »

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.
That's only one way of teleporting. Ie, the scan things, transmit info and then rebuild you using said information method. Star Trek's teleporters don't work that way, for example.
They really move the matter from point A to B.
As long as our teleporters actually move matter, I vote yes. I don't want a new me every time I want to teleport, that would give me a sad feeling, like the one I got when I learned that's how the respawn machine in Borderlands 2 worked.
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« Reply #2409 on: October 24, 2012, 03:18:38 pm »

Like the fact thatt everytime you teleport, you die? And a copy of you is made? And that on Star Trek, every one dies repeatedly and hope their clone can continue the mission, their entire LIFE, Sucessfully?

This is why I never will be teleported.  I don't care if I have to walk, I am not teleporting.
If it makes you feel better, regular life is like this. You rely on future iterations of yourself to continue in a manner similar to how you work. The you at the start of this had no idea what the contents of this post were, but still wasted the infinitely small period of time it existed to further the knowledge of a future, more refined version of itself in the future.
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« Reply #2410 on: October 26, 2012, 03:40:54 am »

I'd say NO to teleporters. Too risky.
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« Reply #2413 on: October 26, 2012, 12:47:05 pm »

Good news! I'm at the MSI in Chicago and saw something...

At the museum, it was noted as being good for space colonies. The one they had was a cylinder, maybe 4-5 foot radius and under 20 feet long, if my estimates aren't off, and they said it would make all of one person's oxygen and water and half of their food.

So...anyone near Tuscon?
Beg, steal, make or buy?
Which is most practical?

Update: There are two parts to the Living In Space exhibit... and the second is about Mars! It includes lots of stuff, notably a section on landing sites.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The red circles are places that they were thinking of landing the Curiosity, a rover.
Gale Crater is the nearest to Olympus Mons and is "A huge impact crater surrounding a 3-mile high mountain whose geologic layers are from time periods throughout the history of Mars." Downside: the Curiosity is landing there.
There are other sites mentioned, but they're not as neat.

Thoughts?
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Zanzetkuken The Great

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« Reply #2414 on: October 26, 2012, 10:41:22 pm »

Ahem.

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We should use this idea.
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