Sounds fascinating...but it won't happen from this country anytime soon, we can't even keep the lights on or fix pot holes in our cities, let alone get a space vehicle to Mars.
Sounds fascinating...but it won't happen from this country anytime soon, we can't even keep the lights on or fix pot holes in our cities, let alone get a space vehicle to Mars.
So how were things in this country when we went to the moon? Pretty much the same, but there's less racism now and more rights for women, and insanely powerful computers. The technology is here, we at the least can get things there. If one was to launch a bunch of pre-fabbed buildings down to the surface, I suppose that could help set up a sustainable(ish) base for further exploration or at the very least give a place to recover/reload/refuel the rockets.
I think Mars may be closer, in technological terms than one might think. Rather than changing the planet to fit the human it seems much easier to change the human to fit the planet. Maybe even inevitable.
Have you seen the wearable robots they're playing with in Japan? And then you look at the Mind Machine Interfaces we've been doing that can take the image from a camera and feed it into the brain, the things that let monkeys control robotic arms just by thinking about it and letting the machine learn which bits of the brain light up when it's thinking about certain things.
It is my belief and hope that we're moving towards an integration of man and machine.
Going into space for any great length of time almost necessitates we shed the majority of our organic bodies. Maintaining a brain is much more efficient than an entire body. Machines don't atrophy the same way either. It would make colonising nearby planets much more practical.
And as for deep space, there is some chance that we will eventually be able to re-write our own genetic code so that our brains don't decay with age. Couple that with mind machine interfaces and we could be starships; with inputs directly to our senses we could dream away the voids between the stars.
What dreams would such creatures have; would it be a harder or more loving eye that cast itself across the first sunrise on those new worlds?
I think Mars may be closer, in technological terms than one might think. Rather than changing the planet to fit the human it seems much easier to change the human to fit the planet. Maybe even inevitable.
Have you seen the wearable robots they're playing with in Japan? And then you look at the Mind Machine Interfaces we've been doing that can take the image from a camera and feed it into the brain, the things that let monkeys control robotic arms just by thinking about it and letting the machine learn which bits of the brain light up when it's thinking about certain things.
It is my belief and hope that we're moving towards an integration of man and machine.
Going into space for any great length of time almost necessitates we shed the majority of our organic bodies. Maintaining a brain is much more efficient than an entire body. Machines don't atrophy the same way either. It would make colonising nearby planets much more practical.
And as for deep space, there is some chance that we will eventually be able to re-write our own genetic code so that our brains don't decay with age. Couple that with mind machine interfaces and we could be starships; with inputs directly to our senses we could dream away the voids between the stars.
What dreams would such creatures have; would it be a harder or more loving eye that cast itself across the first sunrise on those new worlds?
I'm wondering if some kind of bio-engineering would be better. For some reason I just can't see myself trusting a machine to keep me alive 24/7. Genetically modify human beings to be simply all around stronger and less fragile and it would be easier to send them flying around all over the galaxy. You'd still have to deal with the problems of supplying air, water, and food of course but I imagine people would be more comfortable with genetic modification then plopping brains into a robot.
I mean personally I like my fleshy self. Unless the robot will be capable of perfectly mimicking the human body(albeit, with added bonuses), I'm not interested. I want to have all of my senses intact, want to be able to feel pain even. It's all a part of being human to me.
You could also just make warp, that would solve long distance travel problems.
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