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I think it's highly unlikely that we'll be able to move off this rock and survive, much less thrive. We are super-duper fragile. Space is extremely inhospitable
by PopsiclePete 9y ago
I think it's highly unlikely that we'll be able to move off this rock and survive, much less thrive. We are super-duper fragile. Space is extremely inhospitable, living on a space station for prolonged periods of time would wreck our bodies, potentially habitable planets are light-years away, and it's in our nature to be short-sighted.y
Perhaps one day our technology will advance to where we can create some kind of AI or AI/Human hybrid with a non-fragile body that can withstand zero gee and space radiation, but then you get into this deep existential thought of what it even means to be "human". I mean maybe Humans were never meant to colonize space, maybe our "job" as a species is to "create" a species that can, though.
I love this stuff.