Comments on Next Big Future: Solid state Megawatt lasers for 2012

Let me be the first to warn readers that such lase...

2008-04-16T07:33:00.000-07:00

Let me be the first to warn readers that such lasers are NOT IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to be used for amusement like shining the laser beam on the wall to watch your cats attack it.

I agree that even with the technology available th...

2008-04-15T07:21:00.000-07:00

I agree that even with the technology available there would better things to do than have spaceships have a battle with futuristic weapons.

I was noting that certain technological developments could make the world of the relatively near future appear much like classic science fiction.

AI driving + AGI + fusion/fission power source + lasers and railguns = bolo tanks

Fusor fusion space ships + weapons + metamaterials + in solar system space colonies + terraforming + quadrillion rocks (perhaps 30-100 moon/earth size planets and planetoids + nanotechnology= the world of star trek within the solar system

Plus we can go beyond with extreme SENS and other life extension, rejuvenation, regeneration, gene therapy, ...

Even without an AGI based singularity the technology that could be available very soon looks to be very impressive and provide a shift bigger than moving from horses to cars/planes.

And my home country, Australia? I think we should ...

2008-04-15T03:49:00.000-07:00

And my home country, Australia? I think we should aim for another world of orange plains of fine dust... Titan, of course.

Hi BrianBussard fusor-ships battling it out with f...

2008-04-15T03:47:00.000-07:00

Hi Brian

Bussard fusor-ships battling it out with fusor-powered FELs and rail-guns? Nasty. I hope we do better things with such technology Out There. Let's see a real Space Race, with nations reaching out to every rock in this Solar System. China on Mars, USA on Jupiter, Uganda on Juno, Cambodia on Charon... something more risky and exciting than blasting each other with energy weapons!