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Thread #148865 Message #3462651
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
07-Jan-13 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seen any bad films recently
Subject: RE: BS: Seen any bad films recently
I know that if comes from Texas, the commercial aspects will be exploited. :-)
"a different atmosphere, biochemical milieu, gravity field, radiation flux"
You just described Pandora, the moon where the Avatar story took place. The earthlings brought things they couldn't source locally and presumably processed local consumables, such as air and water for their immediate needs. Jake Sully was adapted for the environment, the rest used technology such as the breathing masks.
" So we've got a number of choices: take everything we need with us including, the ability to reproduce all that stuff indefinitely; terraform the alien world (a task likely to take millenia); physically modify ourselves. Surely the last one (if it's in any way feasible) would literally change us (or some of us). "
More animal protein and growth hormones in the food have done that already right here on good old earth. On average we are taller and have better teeth than people a hundred years ago. Who knows what GMO's will do. Not to mention all the little RF radiating computing devices we carry around. But people will still be eating, sleeping and reproducing in the foreseeable future.
People will still be greedy, jealous, selfish, heroic, kind and loving. Human nature will not change. The memes and themes, archetypes and stereotypes, the tropes and dope of storytelling will not change.
As for the species being wiped out in 2000 years, I don't think so. We are way too adaptable. If the planet is here. We will be here.