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re: Interstellar travel. - I know.
JEKing — (archived)

Would it not be preferable to be 'at home' in space, rather than burdened with the necessity of dragging around a simulation of a terrestrial environment?

Economics will dictate that life support burdens be minimized.

At some point logic, search, pattern recognition, representation, inference, common sense knowledge and reasoning, learning from experience, planning, epistemology, ontology, and heuristics will pass from merely being enhanced by non-human entities to being doiminated by them. I think this progression will outstrip that of the development of technics for space travel and exploration. More bang for the buck will be had in more critical areas of social need (medicine, engineering, law, government), by applying new cognitive powers.

At some point, when space travel becomes a more central concern (near-earth space wars will precede this), it will be implicit economically and socially that voyages will follow a pattern similar to what I have suggested.

Where will be the enjoyment? you might query. It will be there; just not in a form conservative of what is familiar to you.

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