Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Making Oxygen on Mars - NASA’s Breakthrough EXPLAINED" video.

  1. well, isn't the air we breath on earth entirely recycled, i mean, never mind the beginning of time, our atmosphere has been around for, is it 13 billion years? everyone's peed in it. the water i mean.
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  2. my pet theory goes like this. it's going to be hard to terraform a planet, mars has no magnetic field for one thing, you generate atmosphere, it blows away. and we need to colonise now, not in a hundred years, and, we can't even terraform earth. what we already have, and what we are already doing, is modifying humans, prosthetics, robotics, DNA and genetic engineering, AI - robots and cyborgs. it will be easier to make humans fit the environment (hmm, does that sound like evolution?) rather than fiddling with the environment. which brings me to part two: speed of light. it may be that we can't get around space travel, other than manipulating space itself, if you're moving near the speed of light you're going to hit something, besides, i think it will be easier (relatively of course) to bend space - if aliens have done this then they have no further need of "regular" space, or planets even, i think advanced alien races are immaterial. we will never "see" or "hear" them. what do you think? leave a comment below. oops, sorry, thought i was at home there for a moment. ------------------------------ in addition, and i say this often, we have no problem handing over the planet to our children, we expect to pass away and our kids take over, and very few people have a problem with that, but, as long as robots don't actively start removing us (!), why not hand over to robots? surely they will just be the next step in human evolution, i mean it's hard to define what "life" is in the first place, does it have to be totally biological? the fly in the ointment is that we can expect at some stage to have very long lives, if not immortality, if david sinclair gets his "ten years younger" pill going, then that would be a step to demonstrating immortality is possible, then we might compete with AI and robots... anyway, robots in factories meant i could do more art, and now AI is doing my art i can go back to the factory.....
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