Would you be excited somewhat if you found there were aliens all around? Would you wonder where they came from? Well you might be surprised to find out that in the future there maybe, but they will not be real aliens you see, they will have been created by us and be like us and even part of us. In the future we will make human like beings out of our own DNA, which will not require as much food, oxygen and sleep for space travel.
They will be us and like us, but more adapted to the potential issues needed to deal with the conditions on other worlds. They will live longer, be smarter and have changes made in their mitochondria DNA to be able to walk on the Surface of Mars for instance or handle the cold on other planets. We are at the point now where we can almost do this and probably within a few decades it will be so. Many Science Fiction authors have thought here and now NASA agrees that it maybe necessary for logistic reasons on long Space Flights to do this.
Some people due to religious connotations and beliefs are bothered by this, however it maybe our only chance to move beyond this little oasis and blue marble spinning around to get to another world, which is currently beyond our technological realm. We should be thinking here, as this could be a very good thing.
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