minus-squareI_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldtoSpace@lemmy.world•The ISS is 'too clean', and it could be making astronauts sicklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 hours agoIt’s a scary word to use, but humanity does need some form of eugenics for space travel. No, not the racial kind. We need to breed resistance to radiation and adaption to low oxygen or low gravity environments. We need to be able to be stuck in cramped quarters around other people for years without eventually killing each other. We need to be able to be cryogenically frozen for long periods of time and then reanimated. None of this is possible without fundamentally editing the genes of humans. We essentially need to evolve into a new species. linkfedilink
It’s a scary word to use, but humanity does need some form of eugenics for space travel.
No, not the racial kind.
We need to breed resistance to radiation and adaption to low oxygen or low gravity environments.
We need to be able to be stuck in cramped quarters around other people for years without eventually killing each other.
We need to be able to be cryogenically frozen for long periods of time and then reanimated.
None of this is possible without fundamentally editing the genes of humans. We essentially need to evolve into a new species.