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Re:Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’ by Chathamization on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:19PM (#21995903)
I wouldn't be surprised if we develop brain uploads sometime in the next 400 years, at which point the focus on trying to recreate earth-like environments anywhere will look silly.

There's probably a lot of other advancements over the next few centuries that we can't imagine. Our current view of space colonization is probably going to have as much of a connection to the future as the Tower of Babel had to the Apollo program.

Re:Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’ by ppeetteerr on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:45PM (#21997418)
The concept of identity might change as well.

If your biological brain is you (to you only), then a digital copy is not you, it's a clone of you.

Also then, the only immortality we can hope to achieve is through those head jars so famous in Futurama.