If you want to immigrate to Mars, first change your DNA to become a "Martian"

Immigrating to Mars is a way to solve population and resource problems in the future.

NASA hopes to start manned flights to Mars in 2030. This is an arduous task for astronauts. They must withstand high amounts of space radiation, damage to muscles and bones in a low-gravity environment, and withstand the stress of space travel. risk.

These astronauts will eventually return to Earth and become the pioneer heroes of Mars. Eventually, humans will try to settle on Mars and become "people who don't go home."

For humans, DNA is like a blueprint. The current human genes are very adapted to the earth's environment. However, if we want to live on Mars, genetic engineering may be the key or even a necessary means.

Genetic engineering is not only for Mars missions, but also for future space exploration. Europa, the most likely planet in the solar system to have life, may have a vibrant internal ocean, but the outside is in the center of the radiation belt. If humans rashly land on it, the radiation will directly "explode" the human body.

NASA has begun developing a Europa landing robot. There is still a long way to go before humans land on Europa, so there is no need to consider relying on genetic engineering to make the human body a superhuman being that is "invulnerable to all poisons."

Current genetic engineering cannot produce qualitative changes in humans, but it can help humans improve their "basic ability" to resist radiation.

Mars genetic engineering is not a concept. Scientists have already inserted microbial radiation-resistant genes into human cells in the laboratory. A professor of genetics at Cornell University Medical School is involved in the project and says the effects of genetic modification are not outstanding.

Human cells modified through genetic engineering have improved radiation resistance, but the effect of physical protection and drug protection is not as obvious. Instead of choosing genetic engineering, choosing protective shells and edible drugs can achieve more obvious results.

However, the project also shows that genetic modification may provide some help for survival on Mars.

Compared with the actual effects of genetic engineering, many people are more worried about the moral and ethical issues of genetic engineering.

The earth is a huge genetic treasure house. If this project continues to be researched, it will definitely achieve more outstanding achievements. However, this also means that "modified people" are about to appear. This technology may get out of control in the future. Genes" are further inherited and have a profound impact on human society.

Genetic engineering on Mars currently only involves radiation, but in the future humans will set foot on more dangerous planets. Will genetic engineering be used to create "supermen" at this time?

If humans want to live on Mars, they need to create an environment suitable for survival. If Mars does not have a unique biological system, then human colonists need to create a "Mars ecosystem."

Scientists say that if humans use genetic engineering to adapt to the Martian environment, it means that other organisms will also need to undergo genetic modification, and even humans will need to "create" organisms that can adapt to Mars.

Human beings are going to colonize Mars. If they want to improve their food rations, they must grow crops and raise livestock. In order to avoid the effects of radiation, perhaps all life going to Mars will need to be genetically modified.

Some research teams on this project believe that they can "create microorganisms" and use genetic engineering to create microorganisms adapted to Mars, so that microorganisms can help humans improve the Martian environment in advance.

Many astrobiologists are opposed to the creation of microorganisms, saying that this approach is "neither scientific nor ethical."

For the "colonists" heading to Mars, genetic engineering can protect their lives and allow them to bear lower risks. But this will undoubtedly change the lives of the "colonists". These colonists and the new life born on Mars will be labeled as "transformation."

This is "disrespect" for life, and genetic engineering is so contradictory.

Perhaps humans should not prioritize thinking about genetic engineering.

When we move to a new home, we first need to decorate the new home. When humans colonize Mars, they should first consider transforming the environment, transforming Mars into the earth as much as possible, and reducing the risks to the colonists.

Let the colonists who go to Mars become "human heroes" rather than "transform humans"!