{"id":5394,"date":"2012-09-26T01:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:49:49","slug":"on-leaving-the-earth-like-forever-bye-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/on-leaving-the-earth-like-forever-bye-bye","title":{"rendered":"On Leaving the Earth. Like, Forever. Bye-Bye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=5394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5396\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"\">Technology is as Human Does<\/span><\/strong><br \/> When one of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s top future strategy guys starts dorking out on how we\u2019ve gotta at least begin considering what to do when a progressively decaying yet apocalyptically belligerent sun begins BBQing the earth, attention is payed. See, none of the proposed solutions involve marinade or species-level acquiescence, they involve practical discussion on the necessity for super awesome technology on par with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kardashev_scale#Type_II\" target=\"_blank\">Kardeshev Type II<\/a> civilization (one that\u2019s harnessed the energy of an entire solar system).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"\"><strong>Because Not if, but <em>WHEN<\/em> the Earth Dies, What\u2019s Next for Us?<\/strong><\/span><br \/> Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=675263cbea-UA-946742-1&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Kurzweil AI<\/a> and have a read of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nss.org\/about\/bios\/garretson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lt. Col. Peter Garretson\u2019s<\/a> guest piece. There\u2019s perpetuation of the species stuff, singularity stuff, transhumanism stuff, space stuff, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Moravec\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Children<\/a> stuff, and plenty else to occupy those of us with borderline pathological tech obsessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=675263cbea-UA-946742-1&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">BILLION YEAR PLAN \u2014 KURZWEIL AI<\/a>]<br \/> [<a href=\"http:\/\/csat.au.af.mil\/blue_horizon\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. AIR FORCE BLUE HORIZONS FUTURE STUFF PROJECT<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is as Human Does When one of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s top future strategy guys starts dorking out on how we\u2019ve gotta at least begin considering what to do when a progressively decaying yet apocalyptically belligerent sun begins BBQing the earth, attention is payed. See, none of the proposed solutions involve marinade or species-level [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,14,38,12,20,37,7,9,64,8],"tags":[1020,1021,637,2140,2131,2142,2130,2133,2141,2127,2129,1019,2149,2128],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-cosmology","category-defense","category-engineering","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-lifeboat","category-military","category-singularity","category-space","tag-anthrobotic","tag-anthrobotic-com","tag-asteroidcomet-impacts","tag-cosmology","tag-defense","tag-engineering","tag-existential-risks","tag-futurism","tag-human-trajectories","tag-lifeboat","tag-military","tag-reno-j-tibke","tag-singularity","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57098,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/57098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}