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- From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands))
- Subject: Re: future space travel
- Message-ID: <C0qJ7y.Cwu@wm.estec.esa.nl>
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- Organization: European Space Research and Technology Centre
- References: <19463@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan11.150737.29688@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:47:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.150737.29688@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary
- Coffman) writes:
- |>We like to think that life is infinitely adaptable, but what it
- |>adapts
- |>*into* may not be recognizably human or even terrestrial under extra-
- |>terrestrial conditions. A long term space habitat could clarify the
-
- With all of the talk recently about saving endangered species, why not
- create a few from
- scratch? Sure there will be mutations from the Homo Sapiens norm, much
- as the various
- races on Earth have adapted (in minor ways such as skin tint), but these
- mutations will
- allow the evolving species to survive easier in its new "natural"
- environment.
-
- So, if we decide to send man into space to live, don't expect him to
- come back looking
- as he did when he left. Besides, if we can't find another intelligent
- species in the neighborhood,
- we may as well make one.
-
- Hugh
-
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