lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comlemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square147fedilink
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThere’s always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoNot the way I’d want to spend the rest of my life, that’s for sure.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoEh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren’t setting up altered carbon.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoYou’d have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you’d exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I’d rather die.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoI already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoYou’re not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoAir yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoIn a market economy. I’d never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.
There’s always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.
Not the way I’d want to spend the rest of my life, that’s for sure.
Eh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren’t setting up altered carbon.
You’d have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you’d exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I’d rather die.
I already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.
You’re not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.
Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.
In a market economy. I’d never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.