I've got it ! This is how we will colonise space !

[mistermack]

What would happen, if we found a way to keep people alive, for hundreds, or even thousands of years?
The world would be hugely overpopulated in just a few years. ( It is already ).

But there is a way to get over it, and to colonise space as well.
In just a couple of hundred years time, we will be able to remove a person's brain, and fit it inside a robot-like body, and keep it healthy and connect up to all the necessary control systems.

What you have then is a human who can live perfectly well in zero gravity, who requires just a tiny bit of nourishment, and who can also survive on planets which have much higher gravity.
Basically, the main requirement would just be an energy source, and solar panels and onboard nuclear generator could provide that.

You could send them to Mars, or the various moons of the planets, or even to other solar systems.
And they could take with them eggs and sperm in huge quantities, enough to populate a planet or new solar system with new life of all sorts, including humans.

[mistermack]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You need to read Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang."

[mistermack]

You need to read Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang."

Damn, whenever I have a brilliant idea, someone's always got there first.
Lucky I didn't pay for a patent.

[Atheist-Lite]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

It'd be simpler to design a virus which killed off everyone with obesity or too tall. The surviving 'new-hobbits' could colonise space and drive really small cars at a fraction of the cost today.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

So, you're suggesting we send a group of senile robots to colonise another planet for us?
What could possibly go wrong...?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Stairs?

[Audley Strange]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

It'd be simpler to design a virus which killed off everyone with obesity or too tall. The surviving 'new-hobbits' could colonise space and drive really small cars at a fraction of the cost today.

Get 'em out by Friday, right?

Right. I don't even need to look man.

[Audley Strange]

We are more likely to go the digital route, in which case we could do some panspermia type geewhiggery by launching clusters of frozen eggs in small gestation craft somewhat akin to that thing they stuffed Superman into in the Steve Reeves movie.

Hah! Not Steve, Chris.

[mistermack]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

So, you're suggesting we send a group of senile robots to colonise another planet for us?
What could possibly go wrong...?

Well, it makes sense.
The biggest problem with space, is the lack of gravity, and the way it would affect your bones and muscles. If you haven't got any, then no problem!

Anyway, I've always thought that space would be ideal for the elderly. What could be nicer, than going to Mars, or the Moon, when you get old and knackered. You would have a new lease of life, with the lower gravity. And even if you were bed ridden, the Moon would be the best place. No more bedsores, when you only weigh one sixth of your earth weight.

Spinning space stations would be even better. You could have any gravity you like.
The outer part would be the same gravity as the Earth, and as you moved in towards the centre, the artificial gravity would get less and less, down to zero at the centre.
So you could just choose how much you would weigh that day.

All perfect for the elderly.

[Atheist-Lite]

If, and it is a very big if, we return from the technological induced global civilization collapse we're rapidly approaching then the answer is for some future civilization, unconstrained by ethical considerations holding back innovation, to combine the human nervous system with a jellyfish like exoskeleton comprised of novel bio-materials that can withstand the rigors of space. To obtain the ideal form may take some experimentation and there will be few willing volunteers. Still that isn't a problem when todays moralists are all dead.

[Clinton Huxley]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

So, you're suggesting we send a group of senile robots to colonise another planet for us?
What could possibly go wrong...?

Well, it makes sense.
The biggest problem with space, is the lack of gravity, and the way it would affect your bones and muscles. If you haven't got any, then no problem!

Anyway, I've always thought that space would be ideal for the elderly. What could be nicer, than going to Mars, or the Moon, when you get old and knackered. You would have a new lease of life, with the lower gravity. And even if you were bed ridden, the Moon would be the best place. No more bedsores, when you only weigh one sixth of your earth weight.

Spinning space stations would be even better. You could have any gravity you like.
The outer part would be the same gravity as the Earth, and as you moved in towards the centre, the artificial gravity would get less and less, down to zero at the centre.
So you could just choose how much you would weigh that day.

All perfect for the elderly.

Assuming they survive the high-g launch.

[maiforpeace]

What I forgot to mention is that this plan is for when we can keep people alive for so long, that their own bodies just crumble. So having your brain fitted into a robot body would be an improvement in lifestyle.

It can be done. It will be done. The Daleks did it years ago.
Perhaps we could improve on the voices a bit now, though.

So, you're suggesting we send a group of senile robots to colonise another planet for us?
What could possibly go wrong...?

Well, it makes sense.
The biggest problem with space, is the lack of gravity, and the way it would affect your bones and muscles. If you haven't got any, then no problem!

Anyway, I've always thought that space would be ideal for the elderly. What could be nicer, than going to Mars, or the Moon, when you get old and knackered. You would have a new lease of life, with the lower gravity. And even if you were bed ridden, the Moon would be the best place. No more bedsores, when you only weigh one sixth of your earth weight.

Spinning space stations would be even better. You could have any gravity you like.
The outer part would be the same gravity as the Earth, and as you moved in towards the centre, the artificial gravity would get less and less, down to zero at the centre.
So you could just choose how much you would weigh that day.

All perfect for the elderly.

I would sign up in a heartbeat if they had nursing homes on the moon.

[Clinton Huxley]

Pretty expensive for people to go and visit their elderly relatives....

[Rum]

Pretty expensive for people to go and visit their elderly relatives....

Undo-able in fact, much to the relief of many! A reason it could just catch on!