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From: rick_s on 22 Jun 2010 06:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=OawD-t3s0PQ&feature=related

Are we starting to get the picture yet?

They are using a computer already so why do we need quantum computers?
Not just that but almost everyone has the innate ability to use and
create virtual spaces in their own imagination and through the
collective unconscious/subconscious/conscious, they can learn to share
an imaginary space. Have their own virtual Veldt.

So why do we need quantum computers? We want to play with programmable
matter, that has real consequences for the real world.

And we want a Veldt that you can turn off and on with a switch, and that
you can immerse yourself in in a more worldly way, so that you can do
things like Time Travel.

You merely recreate a virtual space based on known historical facts,
fill in the missing bits where necessary, and be able to Time Travel
without the danger of stepping on a butterfly and wrecking your future.

And we want to hunt dinosaurs in the Jurrasic time period, and these
sorts of things.
Now there is a very good story about hunting dinosaurs using time
travel, and it is a radio program, from X - minus one called "A gun for
dinosaur"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gun_for_Dinosaur
Listen to the story here...
http://www.archive.org/download/XMinus1_A/xminusone_560307_AGunForDinosaur.mp3
A ten second download and a half hour story I think.

Great little story. So we want to do that.

Now do we in our little group of people in search of pario, have we done
any of this type of time travel using our abilities to create a virtual
Veldt?
Oh yes. We have. We routinely go back to the time of Cat Ballou, and
ride the rain, in fact we have our own train car, not as fancy as the
rich guy that she shoots but fancy enough for us to dress in period
costumes, and go back and have fun there WITH Cat Ballou, who as you
might or might not know has aged slightly, but we go back to the time
when she looked like Barbarella, so I like going there.

But our virtual Veldt is just a kind of etherial makebelieve on the fly,
partially scripted, and its not the same as downloading a theme and then
going and experiencing it.

Keep in mind we are just doing pure science, so we are just
investigating these possibilities. But anyone can see that this is all
possible today with the current level of technology we have.

So we want to also examine programmable matter in a safe environment.
Before we ever make claytronics we will have examined the consequences
through experimentation in a virtual space.
People are concerned about nanobots. And well there are some real things
about microbes that people have good reason to be concerned about and
nanobots are microbes.

But the ones we will be examining in our programming will be large since
the dots in a dot matrix of a computer are large.

That's good enough for our investigations, others will merely use proper
size scale constructions to examine realistic behaviors in them.

I'm not really paging Dr. Venkman, Bill is a friend of mine and I am
just saying helloooo to him through the network. One of my most favorite
movies is Ground Hog Day. That is a work of genius.

And you know, for a programmer debugging a theme for a Veldt, it is
groundhog day! You have to go through and make modifications, repeating
the show over and over as you change it a bit this way and that.

Still it beats the heck out of actually having to throw a sack of flour
over your shoulders, or rice, or 3 of them at a time and carry them off
a ship to the dock. Debugging a theme in a Veldt would be a good job.

Making a theme for a Veldt, is another fun job.

I don't think I need to explain how we do that because it's common sense
and we do it all the time in other ways, this is just programming for
the holodeck.

Today that's a lot of work, so we will make AI assistants to do a lot of
the grunt work.




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