News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by samuel on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:54PM (#13717683)
Why humans? People are concerned about the survivability of human species, and it's certainly a noble goal, but at this point it's outside or technological reach. Preserving life, in the other hand, could be doable. We «just» need to take some prokaryotic cells to one of those planets, assuming they have the right environment, and in some million years you have a complete ecosystem...

Assuming also, of course, that there is not life there already.

Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by nilson on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:11PM (#13717810)
The whole idea of digitizing humans is silly. It would lead to spooky action at distance. For example what if when humans are digitized you send it to two different machines? Which one would be the real you?