On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:03:41 -0400, G. L. Bradford wrote:

Neither of you are very good at vision. Most of life on Earth, such as
most bugs and trees, are soft on the inside and have a hard covering on the
outside against the elements.

Those would be lower life forms. "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery;
Ignorance is Strength." Reversion is evolution.


We will be the same except our hardened units

So much for the spontaneous touch of a caring hand, etc.


and exo-skeletal structures we will live and work in, or just move around
outside in, will include better limbs (as many as we need) and also
something not included in all the other quadrillions or more of hard shelled
cells and flora and fauna, remote action (remote robotics).

"Let's have a romantic evening, dear. We'll hold articulated
end-effectors and watch the sunset."

So much for the spontaneous touch of a caring hand, etc.


It is necessary to wear all manner of protection against the cold at
the north pole. Such is not the case in Southern California. Which has
the greater population density? Why?

If you want to settle hostile territory, the north pole is much more
accessible than Mars. And help is a lot closer if you get into
trouble.

Build a working, independent settlement at the north pole. Show the
world that it is a desirable way to live. Then you might find informed
enthusiasm to do the same on Mars.

Today's enthusiasm to colonize Mars seems uninformed, half-baked,
and/or self-serving.


In space colonies, the space of the solar system from end to end can be
rabbit holed (man made from the titanic amount of matter masses)....

Rabbit holed where? The solar system is mostly empty space. How far is
it between rabbit holes?

What fraction of that "titanic amount of matter masses" is metal? As
said better in another thread, how much effort will it take (in a
hostile environment with no low-hanging fruit) to extract and
fabricate that metal into ships, etc.


with all
manner of mobile corridors (ships) connecting the whole in a potential
infinity of possible lanes.

From where to where?


Since there is also a titanic amount of energy pervading all space,

Energy is relatively easy to find. Useful energy is not. We need
useful power (useful energy employed in a useful time frame).

Noting the presence of energy is easy. Doing something useful with it
is not. How will useful power be derived from the "titanic amount of
energy pervading all space"? As said well in another thread, the "how"
will require machinery. Where did that machinery come from? Who built
it? At what cost?


the
enormously greater accessibility to that amount of energy; the enormously
broader frontage space colonies and other in-space mobiles will present to
that amount of energy....

This assumes an infrastructure to gather and use that energy. Who
built it? At what cost?


well money is no more than a token of energy, and
life itself is energy in action dealing in all life's complexity

The point being ...?


(including
expansion and growth, and the increasing divisions -- evolutions and
revolutions -- in life to fill every nook and situation, including
irreconcilably opposed situations, life can fill (to the "Better World"
Utopia's utter and eternal horror)).

The goal being ...?

--
Adam