Speculations are that in a mere 25 years it will be technically feasible, ethics aside, to susscesefully germline edit an embryo to possess regeneration capability comparable to that of the venerable Axolotl. How phenomenonal would life be like free from the constraints that acute and chronic injury and disease impose. Lose a limb? Patience and rest, it'll come back. Stroke or heart attack? Patience and rest. Bully knocked your tooth out? Patience and rest. Covered in acne scars? Dont worry kid, its temporary, you're a regen afterall! Chin up. It would essentially be a speciation event. Wild it's not being discussed more commonly.
>>17005011what about those of us that are already born, are we just screwed?
>>17005011>Speculations are that in a mere 25 years it will be technically feasible, ethics aside, to susscesefully germline edit an embryo to possess regeneration capability comparable to that of the venerable AxolotlSays who? We're still struggling with basic tissue engineering, and we may not even have that down to pat in two and a half decades>>17005095You can still edit the genes of an adult, but if you want structural changes you will need to pay someone to grow an organ and transplant it into you
>>17005011You would probably wanna put such a thing behind a firmly controlled and well-tunable gene switch though...
You call it phenomenal, reality calls it necessary for space travel.That is unless of course you would want us to create shitty biomechanical creatures to do it all for us while you just sit at home - hoping that what's being done is actually going to connect back to our lives in any meaningful way...But yeah, you'd need this kind of environmental resistance to handle the rigors of space travel. So I welcome it - with all its pros and cons.
>>17005121>create shitty biomechanical creatures You write like an LLM. But, creating biomechanical organisms to handle all the responsibilities of an astronaut would require a level of technological sophistication far, far beyond merely gene editing humans.
>>17005109>Says who? The startup looking for investor money.
>>17005177Sounds about right
