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Scientists from India have confirmed the existence of water on the lunar surface, an announcement that the pundits claim 'will revolutionize our ideas of lunar exploration.' These same people are saying that, in light of this new data, we could have functional colonies established on the Moon within twenty years.
Bear in mind that these scientists are probably the same ones who have predicted that, within twenty years, technology will have advanced to the point where we can transfer our consciousnesses into artificial bodies.
Basically, in a few decades we'll all be living in synthetic bodies on the moon.
Which, if you think about it, is kinda cool, but also sort of freaky.
I mean, is it just our brains that make us human? If we can transplant our minds into artificial bodies, will we still be human? Or will we become something else? Something more? Something less? What if it makes us into something worse than we already are?
Thinking about it like that, well, the future becomes kind of scary.
Bear in mind that these scientists are probably the same ones who have predicted that, within twenty years, technology will have advanced to the point where we can transfer our consciousnesses into artificial bodies.
Basically, in a few decades we'll all be living in synthetic bodies on the moon.
Which, if you think about it, is kinda cool, but also sort of freaky.
I mean, is it just our brains that make us human? If we can transplant our minds into artificial bodies, will we still be human? Or will we become something else? Something more? Something less? What if it makes us into something worse than we already are?
Thinking about it like that, well, the future becomes kind of scary.
