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'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets

Posted by timothy on from the ok-use-the-wormhole-to-get-the-printer dept.

Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer on the NASA JPL's Curiosity rover mission, believes that to send humans to distant planets, we may need to do one of two things: look for ways to game space-time—traveling through wormholes and whatnot—or rethink the fundamental idea of 'ourselves.' 'Our best bet for space exploration could be printing humans, organically, on another planet,' said Steltzner."

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  1. The Songs of Distant Earth by Crash24 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Aside from the whole organic-3D-printing-of-entire-humans angle, this isn't a new idea. Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth features an extraterrestrial colony of humans descended from machine-grown progenitors.

  2. Re:Out of his discipline by Wraithlyn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Anybody that says Elon Musk is "all talk" is a fucking moron.

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    "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson