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People such as Elon Musk believe well colonize the red planet entirely and become a two-planet species.
It could also be far more complex than NASA or SpaceX has actually considered.
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But colonizing a harsh world is about more than just not dying.
And lots of em.
This is because of a fascinating aspect of evolutionary growth called horizontal gene transfer.
According to Davies, some scientists believemostof the human genome is derived from viral sources.
In other words: humans are still evolving.
Its possible our further evolution will require access to viruses that modify our genome over vast periods of time.
And, typically speaking, a virus is only harmful to the host it evolved to attack.
So, space virusesprobablyarent harmful to humans.
But what happens when an alien virus and an Earth virus start mixing things up?
And what happens to humanity when we leave our Earth viruses behind?
Heres hoping the people authorizing these projects are listening to more than just billionaires and engineers.
