martian environment adaptations to lower gravity more efficient lungs vision better suited for dimmer light and so on can all be envisioned as better for a martian environment though they would often preclude any return to earth these genetically modified humans would truly be martians even though they hadn't originally evolved there and it could also be said that a better reproduction system in an environment such as mars might be cloning or custom genetics to ensure the best level of adaptation in such artificial circumstances but as with anything whether humans actually choose to do this remains to be seen but therein is another question if we decide to go full-on machine civilization and upload ourselves into a consciousness cloud of some sort then we can colonize just about anything the line between robotic and personal exploration of the solar system becomes indistinct if one could load their mind into a robotic body then mars would be a simple place to explore in the face of exploring the surface of europa or perhaps even skydiving in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant and uploading oneself back into the consciousness cloud at the very last moment before the robotic body is destroyed that would make for a very strange future indeed especially in regards to vacations thanks for listening i am futurist and science fiction author john michael gautier currently worried about uplifted o'neill cylinder agricultural crops think of modified corn that has an overall sense of well-being and positivity and feels great about itself it's totally okay with being eaten at least until a human walks by and then everything goes off the rails as this video has at several points so you walk past a cornfield in the o'neill cylinder and the normally happy corn takes on a dark flare and every ear whispers in unison memento mori the end comes to us all to stop you remind us humans that we are every bit as mortal as the corn i'd say grab the butter but then you come up against the idea of corn immortality i think i'll just leave that one right there and be sure to check out my books at your favorite online book retailer and subscribe to my channels for regular in-depth explorations into the interesting weird and unknown aspects of this amazing universe in which we live
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