Wed May 30, 2018, 09:11 AM

HAB911 (7,478 posts)

What humans will look like on Mars

Colonizing Mars might be the best chance to ensure the human species survival in the future. In order to adapt to Mar's hostile living conditions, our bodies will evolve in ways that might end up with a completely new species of human. Following is a script of the video.

When it comes to colonizing new worlds, Mars could be humanity's best option.

But the journey won't be like it was in the past for pioneers like Ferdinand Magellan, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, and Neil Armstrong.

This new frontier will be the most extreme challenge yet. It's not just learning how to survive on an alien planet with less oxygen, a weaker gravitational pull, and more harmful radiation. It's enduring the changes that these extreme conditions will have on the human body manipulating it in ways that we can only begin to imagine.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-humans-look-like-on-mars-2018-5

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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
What humans will look like on Mars (Original post)	HAB911	May 2018	OP
In other words... They will be martians.	Guilded Lilly	May 2018	#1
See: Frederick Pohl's "Man Plus."	GreenPartyVoter	May 2018	#2
"In fact, some scientists think we'd actually develop orange skin, not green."	Javaman	May 2018	#3
In the early days of settlement, a lot of them would look like corpses	DavidDvorkin	May 2018	#4
Colonize Mars? Why?	hunter	Jun 2018	#5
Virtually no one on earth will be taken to Mars	FiveGoodMen	Jun 2018	#6
Unfortunately, that is the ONLY thing that matters to some people.	LuvNewcastle	Jun 2018	#7

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Wed May 30, 2018, 09:42 AM

Guilded Lilly (5,500 posts)

1. In other words... They will be martians.

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Wed May 30, 2018, 09:55 AM

GreenPartyVoter (71,088 posts)

2. See: Frederick Pohl's "Man Plus."

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Thu May 31, 2018, 10:56 AM

Javaman (59,403 posts)

3. "In fact, some scientists think we'd actually develop orange skin, not green."

just too easy.

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Thu May 31, 2018, 12:58 PM

DavidDvorkin (18,472 posts)

4. In the early days of settlement, a lot of them would look like corpses

Exactly like corpses.

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Fri Jun 1, 2018, 06:07 PM

hunter (35,314 posts)

5. Colonize Mars? Why?

What's so special about humans?

If we humans don't screw up to extinction then our intellectual offspring may inherit the solar system and beyond. They may remember us, respect their ancestors, but they won't be "human."

I suspect it's possible to house the equivalent of a human consciousness into something smaller than a dime. Those are the people who will know this solar system.

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Fri Jun 1, 2018, 06:36 PM

FiveGoodMen (20,018 posts)

6. Virtually no one on earth will be taken to Mars

Say, if a comet is heading for us.

The ONLY point in colonizing another planet is to rest happy in the knowledge that something like us will be walking around after we're long gone.

Does that really matter at all?

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Sun Jun 3, 2018, 10:54 AM

LuvNewcastle (15,226 posts)

7. Unfortunately, that is the ONLY thing that matters to some people.

We're all just here to procreate, and we're useless if we don't.

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