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Wed Feb 28, 2007, 5:49 PM
What if we pack in a capsule DNA from all the species in this planet including human and along with it a computer with AI. The AI will be responsible to navigate the capsule to a distant solar system or perhaps another galaxy, once there it should be able to locate a suitable planet to land and occupy.

The capsule will release the seeds of our civilization in the unknown yet familiar with earth planet. Similar to what may have happened to earth million years ago. The only difference will be that the human DNA will have one genetically embedded psychologically need, the need to research and build a "Time Machine" and travel to a holy destination with it.

Therefore after many thousand years of natural evolution an entire civilization will work and live trying to create this "Time Machine", the chances of actually building it will be dramatically better than from our civilization.

The smart factor about this experiment is that if it works the results will appear instantly once the capsule is ready to takeoff from our planet. The coordinates on the capsule have as a holy destination the date of the takeoff and the central square downtown as a location.

So if we just figure out how to embed into DNA various psychological needs and have a fully working AI computer we can start experimenting.


Happy to hear your thoughts on the matter of the above text or on the matter of how insane am I.

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:iconakaderyl:
Middling-average level insanity...

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:iconmindbendian:
I see no flaw in this plan unless when they return there hostile then we would just be ground zero for there weapons

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:iconanemovatis:
That will be a very interesting twist. :)

I'll try to think a safety measure for that.

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:iconanemovatis:
Do you recommend an asylum?

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:iconopacus-somnium:
This could be done with other kinds of research, too. Something like...oh, faster-than-light travel. Plant the seeds for a civilization to become completely devoted to the development of faster-than-light travel and leave a message with the AI saying, "When you figure it out, come see us HERE!" with the location of Earth included. We could seed all kinds of little civilizations devoted to different kinds of study. One to develop a cure for death, etc. That'd be awesome.

Or you could just be crazy. Or maybe you're preparing to write an epic science fiction novel. Or both. :D

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:iconanemovatis:
That is exactly the concept. I am very glad you got it right. :)

Indeed it is a very good epic science fiction material. But I believe I cannot do it alone and I am searching for co-writers.

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:iconakaderyl:
No...the crazies are already out in society...you blend in quite nicely.
ESPICIALLY on the internet!

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:iconalmightybob42:
i problem that i could see... what is the AI misundertands and makes an army of genetically altered clones of humans, amking them come back and kill us? or if a hostle civilization finds it and does the same thing? nice idea, but that's what i would do if i found a capsule like that...

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:iconmindbendian:
good luck with that i mean if there advanced

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