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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 450750" data-attributes="member: 6929">OK, so it seems rad resistance can be enhanced genetically simply through metabolic devices. What about great big lead plates on your skin? Human bones are partially made of calcium, which is a metal. It won't be impossible to engineer people to have metal armour either.And it is, in fact, possible to modify organisms after gestation. Several instances of gene therapy using viron vectors have occured over the past few years, mostly correcting defects in the organs of young children. And they've been largely successful. This isn't germline modification, but somatic modification; it doesn't affect all the tissue in the organism. Isn't that interesting? You could program your left hand to grow fur and your right to grow feathers with this technology.And on another note...Two hundred years ago, it was thought that travelling faster than thirty miles an hour would kill you. One hundred years ago, it was thought that one particle couldn't be in two places at once. Today, we think that we can't travel faster than light. A hundred years from now, how many laws of physics will we be able to break? Serious question. The prospects of merged-spin particle meshing have had me excited for years now; that's what most teleporting machines currently use. I say 'currently' because people have been teleporting particles for years now; it's only a matter of time before someone builds a macroscopic wormhole generator. Now THAT would revolutionise... everything. (It's theoretically limited by the speed of light due to synchronisation problems, but hey, for the person going through it's no problem.)The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. (That's a quote from someone, I forget who... Hoyle?) While there may be limits, humans have a good track record of finding ways around them. I don't think it's a good idea to say that we CAN'T do something, rather that we can't do something YET.So I'd guess that, yes, we or our descendants will travel to see other Earth-like worlds eventually. We just need to get back that old can-do attitude. America went to the moon, not because it made sense, but because they could. And three cheers for everyone who still looks to the sky and thinks, 'Soon!.</blockquote>

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