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ideas from reading /life in the frozen state/.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:35:52 -0700
parents 04394e3857e2
children 8bf12217d0fa
files org/ideas.org
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     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