"Transcendent" by Stephen Baxter

SDF — 9/14/2006 1:19:08 PM (archived)

I'm about halfway through... fairly good book so far.

An interesting perspective popped up early in the novel: the idea that 500,000 years in the future mankind will have so thoroughly colonized the galaxy that space will be our natural environment. We will have absolute control of our genetic traits, and developed biological adaptations to handle radiation, vacuum, zero-gravity, and telecommunications.

Does anyone here think it is possible to control genetics that precisely?

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"Transcendent" by Stephen Baxter - SDF - 9/14/2006 1:19:08 PM
- Fermi Paradox is a point against that theory - Sawyer - 9/17/2006 1:48:36 AM
  - re: Fermi Paradox is a point against that theory - phil - 9/17/2006 1:12:00 PM
    - Big galaxy and better things to do with their time - LJK - 9/18/2006 1:00:19 PM
      - Individual intelligence (does not equal) an intelligent species - SDF - 9/19/2006 4:11:20 AM
        
        and more... - SDF - 9/19/2006 4:42:00 AM
- Macrolife by George Zebrowski - LJK - 9/14/2006 2:48:04 PM
  - Underspecification - Adam - 9/14/2006 10:15:24 PM
    - So my descendents couldn't have a biological RF antenna built into each arm? - SDF - 9/14/2006 11:16:31 PM
      - Taxonomy - SDF - 9/15/2006 11:49:25 AM
        
        Equality - SDF - 9/15/2006 12:08:09 PM
        
        All good points - Adam - 9/16/2006 7:03:57 AM
        
        So... - SDF - 9/17/2006 2:08:22 PM
        
        Genes and gene networks - Adam - 9/18/2006 1:28:22 AM

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