Interesting reads about...

Obviously. This seemed more of a blurb for an article, than a complete story. A couple of paragraphs. then it ended in shout-outs for Numerology and Astrology.

...and I thought I was RID of Microsoft.... "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." (Al Pacino. as Michael Corleone, Godfather III.)

 

Biology is incredibly complex. We fit in here because we evolved to this existence on this planet while it, too, evolved.

It is highly unlikely we'll find another suitable planet where we can just park our spaceship and gambol in their fields, drink their water, and eat the food it produces. The microbes alone might kill us straight away. And terra-forming a planet is a concept way off into the future. The trick won't be to find a planet we can terra-form, nor even getting there. (Hello, generational space travel!). No, the trick will be to make it into something we can live on. Currently, that's the stuff of very futuristic science fiction.

We'd better take care of the planet we're on. It's the only one we know.

(And no, we're not destroying the planet. It will, in the long run, be fine. It's the humans who are imperiled, not the planet.)

 

At best they can hope to clone and then teleport AI versions of what makes us individual as humans (our mental processes, etc.) to other planets, asteroids, moons, or comets, where they can interact with others for eternity. No physical human bodies will thus have to deal with deadly extremes in temperature, gravity, chemicals, gases, electromagnetic radiation, microbial activity, incompatible life forms, or with malevolent pre-existing beings.

It would take a zillionth of a second to arrive on Mars, rather than 4 years after spending a century building an Earth- like atmosphere there. We could even send our AI clones to Pluto!