Remember how you read those issues of Silver Surfer from the ’60s and reflected long and hard about the possibility of pacifism when all an intergalactic traveler encounters was warlike aliens? The mad scientists at Darpa want you to put those musings to work on its most cosmic project yet.
Darpa recently launched a program called the 100 Year Starship, which is exactly what it sounds like: an effort to achieve interstellar flight by the year 2111. This is Darpa, so they’re dead serious. They also recognize that 2011-era technology probably isn’t good enough to forecast the state of the art over the next 100 years.
But technology isn’t sufficient for an effort as epochal as reaching other galaxies. That’s why they’re holding an open symposium on the implications of interstellar travel in Orlando come September. And they want you to submit your thoughts.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/nerds-darpa-wants-your-advice-on-interstellar-flight/
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