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Michael Penn
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Life as a matter of self-replicating strands of nucleic acids appeared on earth fairly early in cosmic terms and possibly could have already appeared in countless places all over the galaxy, let alone universe. And life itself seems to be almost impossibly durable. However, human life is so, so, so very much not. We are, like other highly evolved life-forms, inextricably tied to our place of origin, and in extremely limited ways. Our only hope -- just a dream, a fantasy, really -- is to survive long enough to evolve Star Trek style into beings of pure consciousness... or something. 
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I was most intrigued to learn DNA existed before life. Life happened almost accidentally, as DNA strands scooped up organic molecules as armor.
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Probably a variant of the Avatar model is the way we go, if we do go: genetically modify ourselves to the environment of the place, not modify the environment to suit ourselves. Minus the remote control.
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The extreme enginerring challenges that come from space travel have provided us with so many inventions and innovations, I cannot discourage the effort of attempting this journey, though I fear the first attempt will be disasterous.
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>> ...modify ourselves... <<

Most likely the sooner we humans can do that just to survive on earth, the better -- for us, anyway.

(A little tiny microcosmic for instance: I recently smashed the living daylights out of my shin and likely have some mild infection at the wound-site, and I need to take some precautionary antibiotics now for a week. Who knows what would've happened to me 100 years ago?)
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