Planetary Terraforming Strategies (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Terraforming
It is possible we might run simulations on rotating habitats back here too and have good results before the ship arrived as destination. Most immigrants out of our solar system were not coming directly from Earth but had come from some rotating habitats built into an asteroid or moon or orbiting Earth. We also should not ignore that while we keep talking about making artificial gravity by spin, many future humans might be adjusted to follow lower gravity or even microgravity. Consider it is entirely possible we will experiment with and succeed in making human intelligent dogs, dolphins, chimps, cats, whichever,. Or hybrids of like a werewolf or something more arcane like a brilliant jellyfish or squid.
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