Came to this planet via biological tubal entery device 50 earth solar rotations ago. I have not yet suceeded in devising adequate escape pod other than biological functioning shutdown. This may not lead to anything other than total shutdown of mechanism and is only recomeded in dire emergency. I have heard of gravitational escape mechanisms that crudely place the biological mechanism into primitive low gravity environments which have the drawback of being extremly hostile to the continued existance of the biological mechanism without cumbersome protective shielding. All of the existing mechanisms are very hard to produce and demand a highly regimented social regime on the planets surface, and fairly severe demands upon the resources of the planet.
On the whole the devices so far developed are largely inadequate for the purpose envisioned.
The suffering that results in the small gains of knowledge so far are not worthwile. I would recomend the pursuit of alternate technologies, perhaps biological transferance mechanisms that do not requre the cumbersome mechanical shielding mechanisms and the burning of immense quantities of carbon molecules in explosive mixtures. I would recomend the exploration of subconsious thought transferance devices powered by REM mental states and the capturing of images contained therin with heightened neural-electonic imaging devices. - Gary Rumor
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Perhaps through SETI we shal learn better methods of mental communication and forego the fruitless exploding of dangerous fossil fuel powered rockets in our attemts to boot strap ourselves into space.
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