Open Space 99: Would Alien AI Be Friendly to Us? And More...
In this week's live QA, I answer questions about the source of the Earth's water, what happened to Theia after it collided with the Earth? And can we hope for alien artificial intelligence to be peaceful?
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It seems that you are confident that we are "close" to solving the hardware issues necessary for our species to enter space safely and economically for the long term, at least long enough to establish space habitation and manufacturing on the moon, Mars and the asteroids. Do you believe we are as close to overcoming, or at least avoiding, the deleterious ill effects of long term exposure to the space environment upon the human body? Is there reason to believe that we will will be able to tolerate many months or even years in space? I know that prediction of what advances in medicine will occur is not in your ballpark, but are you aware of anything on the horizon in that field which will significantly mitigate the problem?