[ExI] Transhumanism and Space Exploration, with Talmon Firestone

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Freels
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Transhumanism and Space Exploration, with Talmon
> Firestone
> 
> Isn't it time for someone to break out the midgets to Mars plan? "No
> modification necessary!"
> 
> 
> > - should we re-engineer humans to help them adapt to different
> > environments and not just space (ie Mars)?


Kevin waves the bait.  Whenever one is tempted to ridicule this idea of very
small people to Mars, just keep repeating to yourself like a mantra: 

The mass of a mission to Mars scales as the cube of the linear dimension of
the astronaut.

spike