Nasa Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight

Re:Nasa Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-l... by scottie_m on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:11PM (#19639789)

Agreed. Genentic engineering will probably be helpful, but first we do as you say, have to know what to engineer for. Then of course we’ll have a kind of speciation event and we’ll risk having a kind of genetic apartheid based on people who work in space vs. planetside. It could get sci-fi dystopia levels of ugly if we don’t work to prevent those outcomes.

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Re:Nasa Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-l... by wongarsu on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:54PM (#19640111)

We already limit astronauts and many other professions based on genetic properties: height, tollerance to high g-forces, eyesight etc. Even things used as health indicators like resting blood pressure are influenced to a significant degree by genetics.

I think we will survive adding a few more genetic properties to the job requirements, especially since jobs on planets will vastly outnumber jobs in outer space for the forseeable future.

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Re:Nasa Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-l... by wil421 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:07PM (#19640963)

Sounds like Gattaca. It a very slippery slope when you start to genetically engineering people.

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