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Author Topic:   Interstellar Travel - Possibilities and Human Physiology
Straggler
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Message 23 of 63 (504155)
03-24-2009 8:40 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by DevilsAdvocate
03-24-2009 8:35 PM


DNA
Hi DA
How about robotic interstellar missions carrying the with them the technological ability to populate the eventually found hospitable planet with humanity?
A sort of DNA "ark".
Would that be a worthwhile endevour or are we just creating aliens of the future?

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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days)
Posts: 10333
From: London England
Joined: 09-30-2006


Message 25 of 63 (504159)
03-24-2009 8:52 PM
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03-24-2009 8:47 PM


Re: DNA
Hey Straggler,
Good to hear from you again.
And you!!
How is the time "on ship" going?
Straggler writes:
Would that be a worthwhile endevour or are we just creating aliens of the future?
Interesting concept, though I think much of humanity would be very wary about this proposition.
Yep I think so too. Hence the gist of my question.
Is being part of humanity as we understand it an intrinsic link to the planet we know and love? Or is it just DNA?
Would make a great sci-fi story though!
Isn't Bluejay an SF writer............?
How bout it Bluejay?

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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days)
Posts: 10333
From: London England
Joined: 09-30-2006


Message 28 of 63 (504168)
03-24-2009 9:35 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by DevilsAdvocate
03-24-2009 9:08 PM


Calling Bluejay!!!
I am doing well and will be transferring back to a ship (specifically a precommissioned ship) here in about a week. I also just found out that I was selected for Chief Warrant Officer and will be moving on to bigger and better things.
Congratulations!!!
However, I will try to add the little knowledge I have to further the scientific cause on EvC whenever I can.
Please do!
Good question. I think our understanding of humanity is tied up with our relation with the life on this planet as well as the environmental conditions that Earth entails. If humans evolved on a different planet, with different conditions, and a different global ecosystem, I think we would indeed be different both culturally and psychologically. Just my thoughts.
I think a strain of humanity having evolved according to your scenario would probably have a different sense of ethics (we can't even agree to a common moral code here on the earth between cultures and nation states).
I could not agree more.
Simply transferring the biology of humanity to another far off place would, I think, not necessarily result in anything that particularly resembled humanity in so many ways that we take for granted.
Straggler writes:
Isn't Bluejay an SF writer............?
Is he? That would be great to get his take on this.
I think so. I have titled this post to get his attention!
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

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