Transhuman Singularity

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Their is a new movie out call "Moon" which I recommend watching before it leaves the theater. Some critics think it is too slow with not enough action, but what do they know about good science fiction with a real story.

Admittedly Moon is all those things, as well as lonely. However, I found myself thinking about the movie days after watching. For me that means I really liked it.

I won't tell you what happens, since there are enough reviews out there to tell you that, but if you like thinking science fiction, just watch it. I would say this is similar to other psychological science fiction such as "Solaris". So if you liked that one, you'll probably like "Moon".

Outer Space can be a lonely place, even the dark side of the moon, when you only have yourself and a robot as company.

-Michael Blade

I'm back with the answer! You may ask what is the question?
Well, the question is my fellow human, How does humanity survive long enough to go to the stars?

Research Indicates Fermi Paradox may limit expansion...

Advanced Civilizations can function within limited resources for exponential growth. The Fermi Paradox makes one other assumption which may not be true. This assumption is that humans as they expand will consume more resources. What if they could expand without consuming so many resources, as well as travel outward among the stars in a virtual way?

Hypothetical "science" fiction like proposal would be to digitize humanity (we already are going in that direction) upload our consciousness and physical bodies into cyberspace, hence Second Life, social networks, digital broadcasts, genome project, group intelligence through Internet.

Then afterward, expand outward and only instantiate a physical presence when necessary, mostly using robot remotes, shielding for our digital environs and expand outward to the stars. Populate a planet only when it has advantages for survival and move onward, eventually maybe mastering instantaneous travel through high energy wormhole physics, if possible. Unless this takes us to alternate realities, which we are always selecting in the now through our very actions (if you ready on in the blog you'll get me).

Somewhat simple really, once we acquire the technology, whole races could travel on viral expanding "microstarships" to the stars, time dilation could be used to slow down the cpu cycles on the starship so that the perceived journey for consciousness would be short.

To fully pursue some new ideas and possibilities, I will need to suspend writing on this blog.

So, I really hope you enjoy all that I have already written and the videos here, its free for the reading and viewing to those who have a deep imagination and appreciation for science fiction. Ideas that might not be so far from this reality or another.    This is my unique contribution to humanities survival, technological evolution and ultimate hopeful transcendence.

Drop me an email if you like what you find here, or meet me in Second Life or Viradu.com virtual reality space at a communicated designate time.

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-Michael Blade, a.k.a. Michael McAnally

Star Trek 2009 is in a parallel universe, and owner Paramount pictures, and director J.J. Abrams are very pleased, I'm sure.

Before going into this review, I have to say I liked the movie (so a big thumbs up for sure!).    I have no problems with the new cast, they are all very believable, but fortunately being a Trekkie of old variety, and watching the original show (with Kirk, Spock, Uhura) and my Dad at the "age of eight years" (the American television series ran three seasons from 1966 to 1969); a few things are really amiss.

I've made a list of them, one which you can add to as well, simply comment at the end of this blog.

If you know anything about the original series, you'll understand what follows, if you don't, then your a "New Trekkie", that is cool fan.    Certainly someone who is younger than myself, and hey that's really OK!    Because the Star Trek universe created originally by Gene Roddenberry is all about a positive universe, with a positive outlook.    Hence the good guy always wins.

Although, I have to admit being a little confused about the destruction of planet Vulcan, unless you plan on bringing it back?!    Some cool scenes there.    The rest of the movie is quick editing I've come to expect from Hollywood.    But what is up with that "shinny new multi-color glint" I see in a lot of shots, nice but over-done.    Some what like I was starring into the red-eye-laser of Locutus of Borg.

Everyone is included, even Winona Ryder is Spock's mom in this movie.    This includes supposedly a new bad Romulan named Nero (after the failed Roman emperor, I'm sure) from a parallel original "Prime Spock" universe (as I notice in the closing credits Leonard Nimoy). Real nice touch.

So that you know I'm a fan of Time Travel, my favorite time travel episode is “The City on The Edge of Forever”.    But I have to ask, what the hell is “Red Matter”!
And how, does that really create a black hole singularity?    Inquiring physicists would like know, I'm really sure about that . . .    But then I think it's just a movie, another one in fact in the Star Trek Franchise.

Differences between "Original Star Trek Universe" and "New (start) Star Trek 2009 Universe":

Planet Vulcan never destroyed.
Spocks Human Mother never dies on screen, or in series.

New Fact: Spock programming Kobayashi Maru test.
Uhura never had a thing for Spock, that was Nurse Chapel (Bones's original medical assistant).
   If anything, she kissed Kirk, not Spock! (often referred to as the first interracial kiss on US television)    There is that parallel universe again . . .

-Michael Blade

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According to some physicists time travel is presently impossible because we don't have mathematics that actually describe or predict that possibility.

Others say that it would take too much energy which we can't produce, understand, and control right now.

So what if physical body time travel was prohibitive, but informational time travel was more feasible or possible?    Sending particles back in time, or back to nearly identical parallel universes might be possible with future energy physics?    Or maybe it occurs naturally right now at a quantum level?    Who or what might receive them?

Well maybe the answer might be time machines for receiving future information might exist already naturally in nature, maybe inside our own brains.    Sure, why not?    Evolution might even find a way to use it.

What if precognition in some individuals is really information leaking backward from a future parallel universe.    I mean if you take away the separation of events "in" time, you have everything, past, present, future, happening simultaneously in the same space.

Space-time becomes space and time with the overlapping possibilities. Now add other dimensional realities, bi-bifurcations of multiple possibilities in the same space.

So time gives meaning to events and possibilities, even across nearly identical realities.

Without time, everything is "now", a special kind of now.    A now that never moves forward, but that is whole and complete in all of it's potentialities (possibilities).    Some of us, might be better suited naturally to tuning in on that "infinite potential now".

Just a radical thought . . . if you became good enough at sensitive receiving or "guessing the possible future", could you then select out various realities from the "now"?    Or is that just the definition of non-scientific superstition?    Or superposition now?    And hence, everything I just supposed is nonsense?

Suppose you had decided to watch the video first.    Or have popup blockers enabled on your browser.    Or didn't notice the link.    Would you be in a different universe than the same nearly identical you who had not?    What would be the impact on you, on others, because of that simple 3:09 minute difference in time?    And what is the other you thinking right now?!

-Michael Blade