An idea has occurred to me. The Fermi paradox basically says that the probability of intelligent life in the vastness of the universe is considered to be high but our observations of the night sky have not yielded any evidence. We have not yet proven even the presence of primitive life on other planets. There is an idea that intelligent life could develop artificial intelligence. And the artificial could destroy it. But this is projecting our own experience and anxieties on alien life that we haven’t yet found. Also to explain the silence of the universe, some construct ideas that the alien AI could be dormant and not interested in expanding.
Anyway, Elon dreams of building a city on Mars. And that would be difficult. A lot of science and technology would have to put into making long term habitation on Mars possible. Mars is a brutally inhospitable place, compared to it the Gobi desert is a paradise. Lower gravity, unbreathable atmosphere, huge sandstorms, and besides the dust on Mars is toxic.
Can you even use Martian soil to grow plants? Would you need to bring your own substrate from Earth? Will plants even grown in reduced gravity? And could we achieve adaptation through genetic engineering? And in this way, we are creating extraterrestrials that will no longer be 100% human. Aren’t aliens in popular science fiction humanoid already? Or perhaps the AI will be extraterrestrial. Robots will be far better suited to work in inhospitable space environments. They already are.
