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#1 2007-09-29 15:34:40
- farmountain
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Re: Designer Humans
A lot of discussion in the forums is about how to change Mars completely to suit us, how to build perfect habitats to support us how we are, the expensive engineering to get us there.
Changing ourselves seems the obvious answer. My options for a designer human:
To survive lower gravity:
+ A circulation system that doesnt expect gravity.
+ bones that dont decalcify
+ thinner bones
To survive lower atmospheric pressures
+ bigger lungs
+ straight through breathing like birds ..haha
+ a valve in your throat which closes automatically in case
of accidental decompression.
To survive radiation.
+ Some insect genes for selective chitin covered limbs, or at least torso to protect the organs.
+ Cholorphyll in your skin so if your rover runs out of food, you can just lie in the sun to await rescue
Any other ideas... if we can breed bees without stings, glow in the dark cats etc.. then some things would be quite easy even in the short term.
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#2 2007-10-07 08:18:21
- Terraformer
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Re: Designer Humans
Two reasons Against.
Moral: Genetic Engineering humans brings up the yuk factor in nearly everyone.
Technical: We are no where near that level of sophistication yet. There could be unforseen defects. We aren't even a level 1 civilisation yet.
Use what is abundant and build to last
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#3 2022-02-01 16:13:44
- RobertDyck
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Re: Designer Humans
Posts go here about genetic engineering humans for space.
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