On Monday 08 September 2008, okerdavid wrote:
> Seems to me that space expansion is the only way to make our nano-
> future safe as far as I can tell. I could go on and on about the
> other benefits of human expansion out into space like overcoming
> human's social propensity for becoming dogmatic which I would think
> has been proven throughout human written history as a danger to
> humanity . . . since after all, Humanity is the technologically
> dependent species. Out in space, if a given space colony gets
> ideologically split, they can split and go their separate ways;
> those who are wrong with run into problems with themselves like the
> way the Catholic Chrisitan church went through three bloody
> revolutions during the dark ages.

You might be interested in a few projects aimed towards this, like the
Artemis society or Project Virgle.

http://oscomak.net/
http://google.com/virgle
http://openvirgle.net/
http://heybryan.org/exp.html
http://sugarshot.org/ (joking sightly less than Virgle)

The main reasons for doing it are other than nanotechnological safety
concerns / fearmongering, but that works too. Good luck.

- Bryan
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