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This 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.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we're already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well hopefully we don't ever get to an orbital habitat fully owned and controlled by anything except a representative government. But we do need to get off this rock and humans are bad at long term planning. But we're uniquely good at. "OhShitOhShitOhShit, we need to engineer something right now!"

And yeah I realize that's close to brinkmanship, but really I'm just confident we could do it if we were properly motivated.