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To: rbg81

As a lifelong science fiction reader, I think there are a lot of interesting possibilities. However, I don’t think panicky end-of-us-all speculation is necessary or helpful. We survived the Black Death. We’re a tough species.

I remember when the oceans were going to be the next great frontier for centuries to come. Well, they’re still there.


13 posted on 05/07/2017 5:33:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("We tend to retreat into cheap moralizing when economic realities become uncomfortable.")
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To: Tax-chick

Another thing is that, if we did colonize space, we would probably split into another species before long. It is also possible that every planet we colonize would have a different variant of the human specifies. You would definitely see humans evolve for space travel.

And that is from the biological perspective. We could also self-evolve by fusing with machines. Arthur C. Clarke (who was a tremendous visionary) also thought that eventually we would become the equivalent of cyborg spaceships.


35 posted on 05/07/2017 6:44:10 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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