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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6659304" data-attributes="member: 177">I think this still qualifies as humans making the crossing.&nbsp; You have humans at either end, so unless they teleported, they must have crossed the intervening space. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Same goes for cyborgs.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;This is the one that I question.&nbsp; We are talking efforts to create a machine that are, quite frankly, akin to reaching the technological singularity.&nbsp; The cost would be... astronomical (pun intended).&nbsp; The time to get payoff on that investment would be long compared to the lifetimes of nations.&nbsp; The information would have to be ... stellar in order to make the expenditure worthwhile, especially given that much of the information would turn up to be academic, without any practical application for humans.And I'm saying this as a person who *loves* science.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6659304, member: 177"] I think this still qualifies as humans making the crossing. You have humans at either end, so unless they teleported, they must have crossed the intervening space. :) Same goes for cyborgs. :p This is the one that I question. We are talking efforts to create a machine that are, quite frankly, akin to reaching the technological singularity. The cost would be... astronomical (pun intended). The time to get payoff on that investment would be long compared to the lifetimes of nations. The information would have to be ... stellar in order to make the expenditure worthwhile, especially given that much of the information would turn up to be academic, without any practical application for humans. And I'm saying this as a person who *loves* science. [/QUOTE]

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