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ideas from reading /life in the frozen state/.
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:35:52 -0700 |
parents | 04394e3857e2 |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Thu Sep 04 16:03:29 2014 -0700 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Sun Sep 07 21:35:52 2014 -0700 1.3 @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 +- mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars 1.8 + (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic 1.9 + poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an 1.10 + extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in 1.11 + increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy 1.12 + start to a terraforming process. 1.13 + 1.14 - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we 1.15 might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies 1.16 at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of