Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time?
Anyone that hasn&#x27;t yet, check out Black Mirror on Netflix. It has a lot of ideas in it that I am surprised to see in a show in 2016.<p>I love Elon Musk but I think he is solving the wrong problem when it comes to making human beings a space faring species. The fragility of human flesh is the barrier to colonizing space. You can try to solve this problem by wrapping it in a contained atmosphere or wait a thousand years and send humans to Mars in a different kind of space ship. One made of metal and silicon that can recharge its batteries so long as it has a line of sight on a distant star.. maybe as the article says: &quot;a robotic body [standing] roughly two millimeters tall&quot;<p>The greatest challenge we face is keeping this incubator called Earth alive long enough for us to develop the technology to abandon our flesh. But I imagine if that day ever comes what it means to be human will have been destroyed in the end anyways.