2026-01-27:
Humanity’s Survival
No more other issues left, worrying for humanity surviving.
Stephen H. told us that we need to colonize a second planet, but that dream feels so far away that even S. Hawking got tired of waiting.
Mars colonization is still very distant, and no one knows how long we will have to wait. While rockets are evolving quickly, the progress is not revolutionary enough to make Mars shuttles a common thing anytime soon.
Meanwhile, automation, robots, and AI are undergoing a technological revolution right now.
I’m curious what humanity will achieve first: space shuttles to Mars, or autonomous human cloning farms.
One extra colony is good — but what if humanity starts sending backups of itself before space travel becomes practical?
There’s no need to fly for 10 light-years with thousands of people if you can just send a transport container. It lands by parachute somewhere, expands, and begins printing people.
Or imagine a giant dinosaur hits Earth and kills everyone — but on the Luna, within 15 minutes, humanity begins restoring itself from backup. Once the first group of people is ready, they jump from the Luna back to Earth with parachutes and recolonize the planet.
Recover the civilization, make the Matrix!