Quietly watching developments with the terrorists. While cruising news info, came across a short, verbal editorial about that subject delivered by BBC anchor Andrew Neil on the show This Week. It must be our common cause, our battle cry. Google Andrew Neil Rant. He nails it.

Disgusted at what humans do to humans, I once again long for the day when I can be transferred to digital form. Been uncomfortable in this body much of my life so I won't be missing much. Once digital, I expect I will be integrated within a protective shell capable of neutralizing the hazards of deep space.

We need to get off this planet. We need a quest for more resources to find and use. We need elbow room. We have to stop killing one another over space and/or ideas. We need to realize that we are closer to any human being—no matter color or beliefs—than we are to things of non-earth origin.

Is it time to start getting ready for the transition? (Consider on regular basis? An index in the virtual library? I’ll call it: Things I will do when digital.)

An idea that popped into mind as a result of reading about brown dwarf stars:

I would get educated to understand infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. I imagine that could take considerable time but digital me has possible eons to learn if needed. I will then outfit my machined exoskeleton with infrared sensors. (I envision a central unit of near indestructible material housing the intellect surrounded by any variety of machines, each designed for specific environments. In space, size won’t be limited so just add the pieces (functions) we want—giant physical subroutines. Some function-units—like propulsion systems—could be building size.) I would use my new knowledge and my infrared array to go off to learn about brown dwarf stars and roles they play in the grand scheme of things.

Not sure why, really. Seems like it could be interesting to experience something that at “dwarf” status is still 15 percent bigger than Jupiter and up to 75 times heavier. That’s one heck of a dwarf. What will it be like to hang relatively close to one of these monsters and watch it rotate? What will I hear if I tune my electromagnetic wave scope to sound-wave frequencies? Will I be able to see theorized rainstorms of molten iron? (Going to need a way to extend vision by many orders of magnitude.)

Scientists say brown dwarfs abound so let’s start finding them. Where are they and what are they doing? I’ll bet we have young PhDs who are looking right now but it is still so early in the gaining-basic-knowledge phase that there’s room for everybody who wants to look.

I know equipment that I’ll be wanting to add to myself—a digital snail hiding in a shell—but this leaves the question as to how upgrading will be achieved. How will the equipment be funded? How will I be paying for the upgrades? Seems likely that just like today everybody will choose his or her own way to pay: cash in some stocks, sell a house, even funding sites like Kick Starter. As a digital entity, I will have no need for most of the physical assets I now have so that will be transformed into cash. (We will consider digital backup later.)

Maybe my path to achieving a voyage through the cosmos, will be to start by being a mining freighter. Retrieve asteroid of valuable metal and sell for upgrade to even bigger machine with greater capabilities. Upgrade until me/ship attains self-sufficiency. Branch out from mining to exploration and resource assessment.