Resistance the radiation? I can finally walk through plutonium like I’ve always wanted to
Yeah. Space suits are soooooo 21st century. ;)
honestly, I’m not sure I would put colonizing mars near the top of my priority list.
Just saying.
Now there’s a great idea.....but be real...it’ll never happen.
What could possibly be found on Mars to make it worth Mankind’s effort to get there? I know engineers like to do these projects just to prove it is possible.
Like the old question to the climber:
Question..Why do you climb this mountain?
Answer..”Because it’s there.”
If it’s because some think we may need to evacuate Earth at some point, then let’s start ‘small’, beginning with our own Moon.
My favorite micro-beast
Naah . Just send Democrat Congress critters and senators. They already had it done
Naah . Just send Democrat Congress critters and senators. They already had it done
When we find a planet that is at the extreme edge of the ‘goldilocks zone’ that is also financially feasible to colonize, it would probably be reasonable to genetically tweak the colonists in a way that allows them to be a bit more comfortable while living there. A little more tolerance to heat if the planet is closer to it’s sun or maybe slightly larger lung capacity is the air is thinner. Any of those are reasonable.
What could possibly go wrong?
I support instead an armada of robotic space tugboats sent into the oort cloud to begin pushing ice comets towards Mars to increase it’s mass and water content.
Then we need to wrap the planet in a coil of metal and turn it into a giant electromagnet to protect from radiation.
Man is never going to Mars because its cost prohibitive....especially with $6T national debt levels.
If we are going to modify DNA, can we make women less insane and more agreeable?
The best part of conquering the unknown, is that we do it
in our own frail, god-given /or/ evolutionary, bodies.
I wouldn’t be so quick as to categorize a DNA modified space
explorer as ‘human,’ even if we did the splicing ourselves, but you may feel differently.
“..one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
takes on an altogether altered meaning, no?
“Less human than human” could be our new mantra?
Just something to ponder, my freepkins.
Available atmospheric oxygen: Mars, almost none; Antarctica - roughly 20%.
Available surface water: Mars, almost none; Antarctica - it’s everywhere.
Available food sources: Mars, none; Antarctica - seals, penguins, fish and the like.
Available resources: Mars, who knows; Antarctica - how much ice you willing to move?
Ability to get there: Mars, keep dreaming; Antarctica - got a boat?
Average temperature: Mars, about -80 degrees F; Antarctica, -76 degrees F - and rising, if you luck into some global warming.
Yeah, let’s all go to Mars.
I will NEVER inject myself with a DNA-altering substance and you shouldn’t either. The Mark of the Beast is coming and will be packaged in some desirable way, but once separated from the human gene pool, all hope is lost. Jesus came as a human and died as a human. Only humans can be saved as we are all genetically linked. Break the link and break the ability to be saved.
On another note, studies have shown that altering the DNA is not stable and can have permanent and unsuspected results.
Bad idea!
I have been saying multiple times on a couple science blogs that humans, as we presently know ourselves, will not colonize Mars.
Humans cannot live outside in the Marian environment without a “spacesuit” or something similar, and humans are not going to live as “colonizers” in protected enclosures above ground, below ground or in caves. That might have been fine for Neanderthals or earlier, not humans.
Mars will be for human scientist explorers, only, and their stays will be limited. That, and robotics, drones, satellites and such will satisfy the human need to explore. There is no driving need for genetic modifications of humans. It is only something that satisfies utopian scientific fantasies, not humanity.