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According to Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, in the future, when manned flights become as commonplace as let’s say trips to distant lands of our home planet, people, going to outer space will be used again acquired capabilities of your body.
These will be mutant astronauts in the best sense of this. definitions. Parmitano believes (or knows) that every person there is a gene that allows the body to hibernate. This gene is currently inactive because it does not contain no need. However, in the future, or scientists will find a way activate it, or the person himself will learn to turn on / off this amazing biological mechanism allowing astronauts to long-distance flights just sleep.
Luke also suggested that over time even more mutant possibilities of astronauts, because for space exploration in our body is much superfluous, but something just doesn’t enough. For example, legs are completely unnecessary, but four-armed a man with a tail would be much more convenient. How will it all be occur, that is, a direct change in the astronauts, Parmitano does not know, but in his firm conviction, this is – inevitably.
Moreover, the ethical issue in this case will be respected, just time changes not only something in technology, in the level of our life, but also in our ideas about the ethics of certain experiments. AND if today interference with the human genome seems to us blasphemous and even criminal (for example, the Chinese scientist He Jianku for such an experiment faces the death penalty), then in this may be commonplace in the future, and mutant people, adapted to one task or another, no stranger than today, citizens with an artificial heart, prostheses of arms or legs, well etc. It’s just that it will be on a completely different level perfection, and therefore ethics …
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