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Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System
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: Received: 1 November 2024 / Approved: 4 November 2024 / Online: 5 November 2024 (10:55:01 CET)
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Sun, T. Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System. Preprints2024, 2024110147. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0147.v1
Sun, T. Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System. Preprints 2024, 2024110147. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0147.v1
Sun, T. Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System. Preprints2024, 2024110147. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0147.v1
APA Style
Sun, T. (2024). Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0147.v1
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Sun, T. 2024 "Sending Astronauts Created by Synthetic Biology and AI with Plant Characteristics
to Exoplanets：A Consideration for Humanity's Future Beyond the Solar System" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0147.v1
Abstract
Based on the fact that the solar system will eventually be destroyed and that humans cannot travel to the nearest habitable exoplanet within a lifetime, this article suggests sending synthetic biology- and AI- created astronauts with some plant characteristics to the closest habitable exoplanet. The paper assesses the potential impact of this future technology on various aspects of human society, including scientific, ethical, and cultural dimensions. As long as these astronauts with some plant characteristics possess human consciousness, it is irrelevant whether they are hybrids of carbon- and silicon- based life forms. They will carry on the human heritage on exoplanets. Humanity has two survival options. The first option is the Martian migration program led by Elon Reeve Musk, which is both visible and realistic. It could provide an immediate option for human continuation and expansion, although it may not help us escape the future burning of the Sun during its red giant phase. The second option involves directly sending astronauts with some plant characteristics beyond the solar system. Escaping to Mars still does not free humans from the risk of extinction. We must strive with all our might; otherwise, humanity will be forever trapped within the solar system, awaiting the inevitable helium flash to come...
Keywords
Red giant; Helium flash; Synthetic Biology; AI; Astronauts; Society
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biology and Biotechnology
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