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August 03, 2022 16:57 GMT
Update date: August 03, 2022 17:30 GMT
British astronomer Lord Martin Reese predicts a future in which humans on Mars will become hominids and robots within a generation or two.
Lord Rees also believes that communication with extraterrestrials would be nearly impossible due to the light-years separating life form between the two planets, noting that “there is no room for quick answers.”
Revisiting the records of Mars
Lord Reese expects, according to a report published by elishean777, that Mars will be colonized in the near future. This prediction is in line with the vision promoted by Elon Musk.
“Let’s imagine that at the turn of the century there are small communities far from Earth,” said Rees. By that time genetic modification and cybernetics technologies will be more advanced than they are today.
“It is expected that genetic modification techniques will be regulated here on Earth, but these intrepid explorers on Mars will have to tweak their own genetic system there.”
He predicted that they “will use all these technologies to adapt to their new environment and within a generation or two they can become a different species, a mixture of flesh and blood and a robot.”
He pointed out that “among the scenarios of the next millennium, some descendants of Mars explorers will become half human and half robots.”
In connection with this idea, other researchers and forward-looking researchers have warned that such settlements on Mars will eventually not only become independent of our species, but also completely independent of Earth, to the point of – perhaps – creating the first interplanetary conflict.
complex rehabilitation
But Lord Reese makes two final observations regarding the immediate future that most futurists like Musk either underestimate or ignore altogether.
For example, the professor asserted that the mass migration to Mars is a “dangerous illusion,” adding, “Dealing with climate change is more of a child’s play than reaffirming a terrestrial rehabilitation of Mars.”
Lord Rees concluded that the term “space tourism” should never be used because it would never be without risks, and said: “It should be called a “space adventure” for people who like big risks, and people who like to free-fly in the air.”
