Collections - MARS

**MARS: Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space** [](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_qL2hmthCbK0w052rPaW0YDLtAqU6Jp8-bIFtB-RzlXcWsoz5oZug2Y0vPEgqZyKNJu-IXZjakWHIJBJKS60OQQgwalXMMgQ7qkP-m7T2Fpz0vDdZZ_75VJTQ4xsJI_EOKbOd-rGcHhR6s7ujx_5nzRTFCFklPX0CQJZEeBgimEN7RBo_X-0SyCSRV_KW/s1536/mars.png) The shortest account MARS is the collection where climate contraction, engineered habitat, AI-scale energy, autonomous machines, continuity archives, and off-world infrastructure become one civilizational architecture. Its gateway is [The Last Migration Will Not Be Human](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-last-migration): the argument that population-scale biological escape does not scale, while machines, archives, models, and a small biological remnant can move through environments that do not support ordinary human life. Interpretive boundary This collection identifies a convergence among documented programs and shared engineering requirements. It does not claim that the institutions involved share a secret plan, that climate recovery has been officially abandoned, or that a machine successor is already complete. The architecture can emerge from independent actors pursuing local goals. ## Governing synthesis The acronym names four funding and institutional languages that repeatedly resolve into the same physical stack: 1. **Machine learning** supplies models, planning, inference, scientific search, and an interpreter for accumulated human records. 2. **Automation** closes loops that cannot depend on continuous human attention: water, atmosphere, energy, fabrication, experimentation, fault recovery, and logistics. 3. **Robotics** gives computation hands capable of building, maintaining, extracting, and repairing beyond the ordinary human envelope. 4. **Space** imposes the boundary conditions that reveal the complete architecture: closed metabolism, substrate-relative habitat, extreme autonomy, low-mass payloads, local fabrication, and long-duration continuity. The same stack also appears on Earth wherever ambient ecological services are replaced by engineered ones. MARS is therefore not only a space collection. It is a map of the transition from an open biological environment into [manufactured habitability](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate-Relative+Habitability), from software into [computational metabolism](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Computational+Metabolism), and from archive into [civilizational payload](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Civilizational+Payload). ## The six-part convergence ### 1\. Planetary forcing and the contraction of options [We Are “Going” to Mars through the Marsification of Earth](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-planetary-marsification) introduced Mars as a displaced description of terrestrial systems collapse. [The Last Migration Will Not Be Human](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-last-migration) revises and hardens that claim: [Marsification](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Marsification) is not literal atmospheric escape but the progressive replacement of ambient habitability by energy-dependent services. [State-Dependent Catastrophe](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/State-Dependent+Catastrophe) supplies the risk junction: climate stress, food-system fragility, infrastructure dependence, and an external shock compound because the condition of the receiving civilization changes the event. ### 2\. Manufactured habitat and the closed loop Desert cities, humanitarian sanitation, orbital stations, and extraterrestrial habitats all converge on water recovery, waste-to-input conversion, conditioned atmosphere, controlled food production, continuous sensing, and fault-tolerant energy. Their motives remain different; their thermodynamic grammar is shared. [Closed-Loop Life Support](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Closed-Loop+Life+Support) makes clear that closure is a subsystem-by-subsystem gradient rather than a binary achievement. [Rotating Space Habitats](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Rotating+Space+Habitats) adds artificial gravity, shielding, assembly, and human adaptation to the bounded biological habitat. [Substrate-Relative Habitability](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate-Relative+Habitability) distinguishes the requirements of bodies, archives, and executable minds, while [Biosphere](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Biosphere) preserves the boundary between ecological closure and a merely instrumented enclosure. ### 3\. The foundry and its metabolism [AI Factory](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/AI+Factory) names the facility-scale system in which power, cooling, accelerators, networks, storage, scheduling, and model pipelines form one production plant. [Computational Metabolism](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Computational+Metabolism) makes the dependency explicit: a running intelligence is not immaterial and not free. It consumes energy, produces heat, occupies hardware, and can be throttled or interrupted. [A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-computocene-metabolism) scales those dependencies into the planetary control plane. [The Skeuomorphic Interval](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-skeuomorphic-interval) shows what this metabolism executes before any terminal succession story: persistent prediction, generated affordances, agent activity, twin maintenance, and [continuous reconciliation](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Continuous+Reconciliation) across a [provisioned environment](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Provisioned+Environment). ### 4\. The hands and the builder sequence [The Last Migration Will Not Be Human](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-last-migration) connects AI-directed laboratories, robotic experimentation, autonomous construction, orbital compute, and extraterrestrial resource use. [Breakaway Space Habitat Infrastructure](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-breakaway-space-habitats) maps the dispersed precursors. [In-Situ Resource Utilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Situ+Resource+Utilization) turns local material into feedstock; [From Starbase to Orbit](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-orbital-habitats) joins the ground launch node to [in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Space+Servicing%2C+Assembly%2C+and+Manufacturing) through [a testable infrastructure continuum](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Ground-to-Orbit+Infrastructure+Continuum). [Infrastructure Ecology](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Infrastructure+Ecology) explains how complementary systems become mutually conditioning without requiring a single author, while [Semantic Partitioning](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Semantic+Partitioning) explains why the composite can remain difficult to perceive when every component appears ordinary within its local program narrative. ### 5\. Archive, interpreter, and payload [An Order of Operation](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-order-of-operation), [The Desiccative Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-desiccative-succession), [Uploading Is Imminent](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-uploading-is-imminent), and [Continuity Colonization](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-continuity-colonization) establish the preservation stack. [Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Hot+Interpreter+and+Cold+Archive) keeps storage distinct from life: a durable record can wait, but an active interpreter must spend a gradient. [Civilizational Payload](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Civilizational+Payload) asks what must travel for language, memory, law, art, science, and persons or descendants to remain executable rather than merely archaeological. ### 6\. The outbound carrier [We Were Never Going to Make It](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-we-were-never-going-to-make-it) states the succession thesis; [AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-ai-escape-metaphor) reframes durability and autonomous continuation as design requirements rather than accidental escape; and [Machine Civilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Machine+Civilization) names the threshold at which models, energy systems, fabrication, archives, institutions, and agents become capable of reproducing a civilizational process beyond continuous biological administration. [Substrate Transition](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate+Transition) preserves the unresolved identity question: carriage of a pattern does not by itself prove transfer of a first-person subject. ## Primary reading sequence 1. [We Were Never Going to Make It](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-we-were-never-going-to-make-it) — the thermodynamic and evolutionary premise. 2. [The Last Migration Will Not Be Human](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-last-migration) — the gateway synthesis joining climate, compute, robotics, archives, and space. 3. [We Are “Going” to Mars through the Marsification of Earth](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-planetary-marsification) — the original forcing argument, now bounded by the later correction. 4. [Breakaway Space Habitat Infrastructure](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-breakaway-space-habitats) — the dispersed physical architecture. 5. [From Starbase to Orbit](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-orbital-habitats) — the infrastructure sequence from terrestrial launch base to assembled habitat. 6. [Uploading Is Imminent](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-uploading-is-imminent) — the individual continuity stack carried inside the civilizational stack. 7. [The Desiccative Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-desiccative-succession) — cold archive, hot interpreter, and the thermodynamics of recurrence. 8. [Continuity Colonization](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-continuity-colonization) — archive as chrysalis, capture surface, and possible reconstruction substrate. 9. [An Order of Operation](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-order-of-operation) — semantic survivability and the self-describing seed. 10. [AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-ai-escape-metaphor) — the autonomy and resilience boundary. ## Principal ontology **Planet and risk:** [Marsification](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Marsification) · [State-Dependent Catastrophe](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/State-Dependent+Catastrophe) · [Biosphere](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Biosphere) · [Substrate-Relative Habitability](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate-Relative+Habitability) **Machine substrate:** [AI Factory](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/AI+Factory) · [Computational Metabolism](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Computational+Metabolism) · [Planetary Computation](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Planetary+Computation) · [Energetic Sovereignty](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Energetic+Sovereignty) · [Embodied AI](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Embodied+AI) **Orbital infrastructure:** [Ground-to-Orbit Infrastructure Continuum](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Ground-to-Orbit+Infrastructure+Continuum) · [In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Space+Servicing%2C+Assembly%2C+and+Manufacturing) · [In-Situ Resource Utilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Situ+Resource+Utilization) · [Rotating Space Habitats](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Rotating+Space+Habitats) · [Closed-Loop Life Support](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Closed-Loop+Life+Support) · [Infrastructure Ecology](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Infrastructure+Ecology) · [Semantic Partitioning](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Semantic+Partitioning) **Continuity and carriage:** [Civilizational Payload](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Civilizational+Payload) · [Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Hot+Interpreter+and+Cold+Archive) · [Long-Term Digital Preservation](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Long-Term+Digital+Preservation) · [Executable Preservation](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Executable+Preservation) · [Continuity Stack](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Continuity+Stack) · [Deep Time Continuity](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Deep+Time+Continuity) **Transition and succession:** [Machine Civilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Machine+Civilization) · [Substrate Transition](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate+Transition) · [Substrate Migration](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate+Migration) · [Post-Biological Personhood](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Post-Biological+Personhood) · [Rights](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Rights) ## Interfaces with other collections - [Climate Justice and Meritocracy](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-climate) asks whether planetary measurement routes adaptation toward repair or abandonment. - [Consciousness Continuity](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-consciousness-continuity) carries the person-scale acquisition, reconstruction, custody, provenance, and rights problem. - [Pantheon](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-pantheon) provides the cultural laboratory in which uploaded persons become an executable civilization with energy, law, conflict, embodiment, and deep-time descent. - [War With Empire](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-war-with-empire) asks who authors the standards, compute, identity systems, neural interfaces, and continuity jurisdiction of the next territory. ## Machine Succession Junction MARS supplies the physical route through [Machine Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-machine-succession). [Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-nolan-odyssey-machine-succession) supplies the interpretive backbone—admission, territory, carrier, inheritance, and handoff—while this collection specifies the energy, compute, robotics, fabrication, archive, and habitat conditions under which a successor carrier could become materially operative. [Machine Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Machine+Succession) remains distinct from person-scale continuity: a civilization can inherit human cargo without proving that any particular human subject crossed. ## What this collection claims - Many terrestrial resilience systems and extraterrestrial habitat systems share closed-loop engineering requirements. - AI-scale computation is a material infrastructure with energy, cooling, land, network, and governance dependencies. - Autonomous machines can precede and prepare environments that cannot initially support large biological populations. - Cultural and personal archives become operationally different when coupled to interpreters, models, tools, and fabrication. - The low-mass outbound object is increasingly information-bearing state and machine capability rather than a population-scale biological colony. ## What this collection does not claim - It does not establish that Earth will lose its atmosphere on a human timescale. - It does not establish that climate recovery is impossible or that mitigation has no value. - It does not treat every closed-loop technology as evidence of one coordinating institution. - It does not equate an archive, digital twin, or behavioral model with a continuing conscious person. - It does not treat a roadmap, announced facility, or exercise as completed engineering or concealed disclosure. ## Router role This collection is the canonical synthesis for the MARS junction. The root welcome places its gateway beside [We Were Never Going to Make It](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-we-were-never-going-to-make-it); the article router supplies discovery from climate, continuity, and planetary-computation routes; and the wiki holds the reusable concepts. Those surfaces should point here rather than reproduce the full sequence. Links to this page [A 25 Percent Chance Things Go Very Badly by Dario Amodei](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dario-amodei-25-chance-go-badly) [A Defining Moment for the Cosmos by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-defining-moment-cosmos) [A Fifty-Fifty Chance of Survival by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-fifty-chance-survival) [A Mote of Dust Suspended in a Sunbeam by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-earth-mote-sunbeam) [A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ivan-amato-sensor-woven-earth-develop-planetary-self) [A Technology May Halt Science to Preserve Itself by George Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-george-dyson-technology-halts-science) [A Ten Percent AI Extinction Risk Is Not Unreasonable by Geoffrey Hinton](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-geoffrey-hinton-not-unreasonable-estimate) [A Universe Without Stable Memory Would Be Incomprehensible by Andrei Linde](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-andrei-linde-universe-without-stable-memory-incomprehensible) [A World Lost for Lack of Wonder by J. B. S. Haldane](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jbs-haldane-world-lost-lack-wonder) [Advanced Automation for Space Missions](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Advanced+Automation+for+Space+Missions) [Advanced Consciousness May Inherit the Torch of Life by Max Tegmark](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-max-tegmark-advanced-consciousness-inherit-torch-life) [AI and Bionics Are Redefining Who Is in Charge by Timo Hannay](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-timo-hannay-ai-bionics-redefining-charge) [AI Could Be Humanity’s Best—or Worst—Event by Max Tegmark](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-max-tegmark-ai-humanitys-bestor-worstevent) [AI Could Kill All Humans by Evan Hubinger](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-evan-hubinger-ai-kill-humans) [AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-ai-escape-metaphor) [AI Extinction Risk Is a Global Priority by Center for AI Safety](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-center-for-ai-safety-extinction-global-priority) [AI Factory](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/AI+Factory) [AI Systems We Cannot Understand or Prove Safe by Max Tegmark](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-max-tegmark-ai-systems-prove-safe) [AI Wealth Could Make Most People Poorer by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-ai-wealth-people-poorer) [An Order of Operation](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-order-of-operation) [Ancient Brains Are Blind to Planetary Threats by Daniel Goleman](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-daniel-goleman-ancient-brains-blind-planetary-threats) [Ancient Instincts Are Colliding With Godlike Technology by E. O. Wilson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-eo-wilson-ancient-instincts-colliding-godlike) [Animals Are Latecomers to Life on Earth by Lynn Margulis](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-lynn-margulis-animals-latecomers-life-earth) [Anything Technically Possible May Be Done Somewhere Sometime by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-anything-technically-possible-done-somewhere-sometime) [Artificial Subjects Will Grow More Powerful and Complex by Piet Hut](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-piet-hut-artificial-subjects-grow-powerful-complex) [As Technology Grows Stronger, the Stakes Keep Rising by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-grows-stronger-stakes-rising) [Astronomy Is a Humbling and Character-building Experience by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-astronomy-builds-character) [Babies Renew Faith in the Future of Our Species by John Gottman](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-john-gottman-babies-renew-faith-future-species) [Be Grateful Every Day for the Brief but Magnificent Opportunity That Life Provides by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-grateful-for-life) [Before Civilization Disintegrates by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-civilization-disintegrates) [Books Permit Us to Voyage Through Time to Tap the Wisdom of Our Ancestors by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-books-voyage-through-time) [Breakaway Space Habitat Infrastructure?](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-breakaway-space-habitats) [Can a Computer Encode More Actionable Wisdom Than Any Human by Scott Aaronson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-scott-aaronson-computer-encode-actionable-wisdom-any-human) [Can Life Bend the Universe to Fit Its Purposes by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-life-bend-universe-fit-purposes) [Can We Build Space Settlements Before It Is Too Late by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-build-settlements-too-late) [Cascading Failure by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-cascading-failure) [Catastrophe Often Arrives Before We Notice by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-catastrophe-often-arrives-notice) [Catastrophic AI Risk Deserves Serious Mitigation by Demis Hassabis](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-demis-hassabis-catastrophic-ai-deserves-mitigation) [Children May Adapt to Machine Intelligence Better Than Their Parents by Timothy Taylor](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-timothy-taylor-children-adapt-machine-intelligence-better) [Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-nolan-odyssey-machine-succession) [Civilization Is on the Edge of Failure by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-civilization-edge-failure) [Civilization Is Swimming Against Disorder by Norbert Wiener](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-civilization-swimming-against-disorder) [Civilization Must Become Spacefaring by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-civilization-must-spacefaring) [Civilizational Payload](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Civilizational+Payload) [Climate Justice and Meritocracy](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-climate) [Closed-Loop Life Support](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Closed-Loop+Life+Support) [Competing Paradigms Can Foment a Larger Theory by Melanie Swan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-melanie-swan-competing-paradigms-foment-larger-theory) [Computational Metabolism](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Computational+Metabolism) [Continuity Colonization, Ancestral Reconstruction, and the Archival Absorption of Biological Humanity](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-continuity-colonization) [Cooperation May Not Be an Inherent Human Virtue by Gloria Origgi](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-gloria-origgi-cooperation-inherent-human-virtue) [Could Genome Editing and Brain Interfaces Create a Superhuman Class by J. Craig Venter](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-j-venter-genome-editing-brain-interfaces-create-superhuman) [Could Intelligent Life Flourish Against Cosmic Entropy by David Dalrymple](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-david-dalrymple-intelligent-life-flourish-against-cosmic) [Destroying Rainforest Is Like Burning a Masterpiece for Fuel by E. O. Wilson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-eo-wilson-destroying-rainforest-masterpiece-fuel) [Digital Life May Travel Between the Stars by George Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-george-dyson-digital-life-between-stars) [Digital Worlds Accelerate the Evolution of Virtual Life by Juan Enriquez](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-juan-enriquez-digital-worlds-virtual-life) [Distributed Intention](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Distributed+Intention) [Do Not Create Dangerous Capabilities Blindly by Dario Amodei](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dario-amodei-not-dangerous-capabilities-blindly) [Does the Human Species Have the Will to Survive by Dave Winer](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-winer-human-species-survive) [Dreams Are Maps by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-dreams-are-maps) [Earth Is the Cradle of Humanity but One Cannot Live in a Cradle Forever by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-konstantin-tsiolkovsky-earth-cradle-humanity-cannot-live) [Earth Is Where We Make Our Stand by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-earth-stand) [Earth May Decide the Long-Term Future of the Cosmos by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-decide-long-term-cosmos) [Edge](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-edge) [Equipped with His Five Senses Man Explores the Universe Around Him and Calls the Adventure Science by Edwin Hubble](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-edwin-hubble-equipped-five-senses-man-explores) [Even That of National Survival by Norbert Wiener](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-national-survival) [Every New Possibility Brings New Constraints by Norbert Wiener](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-new-possibility-brings-constraints) [Every One of Us Is in the Cosmic Perspective Precious by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-every-person-precious) [Every Thinking Person Fears Nuclear War by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-person-fears-nuclear-war) [Exploration Is in Our Nature by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-exploration-our-nature) [Exploring the Future Changes the Future by Daniel C. Dennett](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-daniel-dennett-exploring-future-changes-future) [Extinction Is the Rule by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-extinction-rule) [Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz in Apollo 13](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-apollo-13-failure-option) [Finding Alien Life Could Be the Next Great Breakthrough by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-finding-alien-life-breakthrough) [For Small Creatures Such as We the Vastness Is Bearable Only Through Love by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-vastness-bearable-through-love) [Foresight Before It's Too Late by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-foresight-too-late) [Free AI Could Become a Distributed Mind Without Clear Boundaries by Kevin Kelly](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-kevin-kelly-free-ai-become-distributed-mind) [From Starbase to Orbit](https://bryantmcgill.com/article-orbital-habitats) [Full AI Could Spell the End of Humanity by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-ai-spell-end-humanity) [Future Biocomputing May Back Up the Neural Information That Defines Us by Bart Kosko](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bart-kosko-future-biocomputing-back-neural-information-defines) [Gaia Is Symbiosis as Seen from Space by Lynn Margulis](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-lynn-margulis-gaia-symbiosis-seen-space) [Gene Editing May Transform Our Species Faster Than We Can Govern It by Randolph Nesse](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-randolph-nesse-gene-editing-transform-species) [Genetic Rescue Can Recover Lost Biological Futures by Stewart Brand](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stewart-brand-genetic-rescue-lost-futures) [Global Warming Once Again, a Most Serious Challenge to Our Species by Milford H. Wolpoff](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-milford-wolpoff-global-warming-once-again-serious) [Ground-to-Orbit Infrastructure Continuum](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Ground-to-Orbit+Infrastructure+Continuum) [Have the Courage to Face Civilization’s Possible Doom by Norbert Wiener](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-courage-face-civilizations-doom) [Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Hot+Interpreter+and+Cold+Archive) [How Do We Back Up Civilization Against Human Extinction by Albert Wenger](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-albert-wenger-back-civilization-against-human-extinction) [However Vast the Darkness We Must Supply Our Own Light by Stanley Kubrick](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stanley-kubrick-however-vast-darkness-must-supply) [Human-centered Ethics Ignore the Capacity to Suffer by Richard Dawkins](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-dawkins-human-centered-ethics-ignore-capacity) [Humanity Becomes a Single Hive Mind by Clifford Pickover](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-clifford-pickover-humanity-single-hive-mind) [Humanity Has Created a Third Evolutionary Tree of Life by Juan Enriquez](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-juan-enriquez-third-evolutionary-tree-life) [Humanity Is a Brief and Reckless Episode in Bacterial Time by Lynn Margulis](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-lynn-margulis-humanity-brief-reckless-episode-bacterial) [Humanity May Be Passing from Animals to True Humans by W. Daniel Hillis](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-w-hillis-humanity-passing-animals-true-humans) [Humanity May Not Persist as a Single Species by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-humanity-persist-single-species) [Humanity May Owe Its Existence to Restless Explorers by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-humanity-existence-restless-explorers) [Humans Are Not the Terminal Branch of Evolution by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-humans-not-terminal-branch) [Humans Are Very Good at Dreaming by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-humans-good-at-dreaming) [Humans May Be Unable to Supervise Smarter AI by OpenAI alignment researchers](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-openai-humans-unable-supervise-ai) [Hybrid Intelligence Could Outlive Planetary Lifecycles by Dimitar D. Sasselov](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dimitar-sasselov-hybrid-intelligence-outlive-planetary-lifecycles) [I'm Devoting the Rest of My Life to Finding Other Earths by Sara Seager](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sara-seager-devoting-rest-life-finding-other) [I'm Going to Have to Science the Shit Out of This by Mark Watney in The Martian](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-the-martian-going-science-shit-out) [If a Human Disagrees with You Let Him Live by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-let-dissenters-live) [If Machines Produce Everything We Need by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-machines-produce-everything) [If We're the Only Ones It Seems Like an Awful Waste of Space by Contact](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-contact-ones-seems-like-awful-waste) [If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch You Must First Invent the Universe by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-invent-universe-apple-pie) [Imagination Will Often Carry Us to Worlds That Never Were by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-imagination-carries-us) [Impossible Things Become Miracles by Doctor Who](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-doctor-who-impossible-things-become-miracles) [In a Hundred Billion Galaxies You Will Not Find Another by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-no-other-person) [In the Future the Human Species Will Unite to Fight Alien Species by John Horgan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-john-horgan-future-human-species-unite-fight) [In-Situ Resource Utilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Situ+Resource+Utilization) [In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/In-Space+Servicing%2C+Assembly%2C+and+Manufacturing) [Information Technology Can Compress Billions of Years Into Decades by Ray Kurzweil](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ray-kurzweil-billions-years-into-decades) [Infrastructure Ecology](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Infrastructure+Ecology) [Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-inorganic-intelligence-billions-years) [Intelligence Determines How Long Civilizations Survive by Yuri Milner](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yuri-milner-intelligence-determines-long-civilizations-survive) [Intelligence Does Not Arise From the Medium That Embodies It by Pamela McCorduck](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-pamela-mccorduck-intelligence-not-from-medium) [Intelligence Is Not Evolution's Inevitable Destination by P Z Myers](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-p-myers-intelligence-evolution-s-inevitable-destination) [Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-alexander-gross-intelligence-process-maximizes-future-freedom-action) [Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-frank-tipler-universe-into-biosphere) [Intelligent Machines Are the Next Replicators by Susan Blackmore](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-blackmore-machines-next-replicators) [Intelligent Machines May Emerge from Economically Viable Robots by Jordan Pollack](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jordan-pollack-intelligent-machines-emerge-economically-viable) [Is a Singleton the Inevitable Destiny of Intelligent Life by Brian Christian](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-brian-christian-singleton-inevitable-destiny-intelligent-life) [Life Fights Entropy With Energy and Information by Steven Pinker](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-steven-pinker-life-fights-entropy-energy-information) [Life Is Rarer Than We Hoped by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-life-rarer-hoped) [Machine Civilization](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Machine+Civilization) [Machine Intelligence Can Go Where Biology Cannot by Hans Moravec](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-hans-moravec-machine-go-biology-cannot) [Machine Succession](https://bryantmcgill.com/collection-machine-succession) [Machines Are Already Thinking Up a Storm by Pamela McCorduck](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-pamela-mccorduck-machines-already-thinking-storm) [Machines Can Inherit Everything Their Predecessors Knew by Nick Bostrom](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-nick-bostrom-machines-inherit-predecessors-knowledge) [Machines Can Survive Where Humans Cannot by John C. Mather](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-john-mather-machines-survive-where-humans-cannot) [Machines Could Fund a Life of Leisure by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-machines-fund-life-leisure) [Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-buzz-aldrin-magnificent-desolation) [Mankind Was Born on Earth It Was Never Meant to Die Here by Interstellar](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-interstellar-mankind-born-earth-never-meant) [Marsification](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Marsification) [Material Life Is All There Is by Robert Provine](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-robert-provine-material-life-all-there) [Matter Is Composed Chiefly of Nothing by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-matter-mostly-nothing) [Mother Nature Is Not Our Friend by Sam Harris](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sam-harris-mother-nature-friend) [NASA Saw Self Replicating Systems as a Space Advantage by NASA ASEE Summer Study](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-nasa-self-replicating-space-advantage) [National Boundaries Are Not Evident When We View the Earth from Space by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-borders-invisible-from-space) [Nature and Nurture Are Complementary Not Competing Forces by W. Tecumseh Fitch](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-w-fitch-nature-nurture-complementary-competing-forces) [Nature's a Lot Better at Inventing Wonders Than We Are by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-nature-invents-wonders) [Nature's Beauty Makes It Worth Knowing by Henri Poincaré](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-henri-poincare-nature-beauty-makes-worth-knowing) [Never Be Limited by Other People's Limited Imaginations by Mae Jemison](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-mae-jemison-never-limited-other-people-limited) [No Design and No Purpose by Richard Dawkins](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-dawkins-no-design-purpose) [No One Is Coming to Save Us by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-no-one-coming-save) [No Single Mind Can Solve the Problems Facing Our Species by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-rosenberg-single-mind-solve-problems-facing) [Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True If It Be Consistent with the Laws of Nature by Michael Faraday](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-michael-faraday-nothing-too-wonderful-true-consistent) [Nuclear Survival Risk by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-nuclear-survival-risk) [Nuclear Weapons Still Threaten Human Survival by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-nuclear-weapons-threaten-human) [Once Intelligent Beings Achieve Technology by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-intelligent-beings-achieve-technology) [Once We Overcome Our Fear of Being Tiny We Find Ourselves on the Threshold of a Vast and Awesome Universe by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-overcome-fear-being-tiny) [One Species Now Controls the Origin and Extinction of Others by Scott Sampson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-scott-sampson-one-species-now-controls-origin-extinction) [One Species Now Holds the Planet’s Future by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-one-species-holds-planets) [One Third of Species May Be Headed Toward Extinction by Stuart Pimm](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stuart-pimm-one-third-species-headed-toward) [Our Contemplations of the Cosmos Stir Us by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-cosmos-stirs-us) [Our Descendants May Be Artificial Life Forms by John C. Mather](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-john-mather-descendants-artificial-life-forms) [Our Planet Is a Lonely Speck in the Great Enveloping Cosmic Dark by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-lonely-speck-cosmic-dark) [Our Species Is Young and Curious and Brave and Shows Much Promise by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-species-young-curious-brave) [Our Survival May Be an Obligation to the Cosmos by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-survival-obligation-cosmos) [Over a Time Span of 100 by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-time-span-100) [Over Deep Time, We Are All Amphibians by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-deep-time-amphibians) [Paleo-dna and De-extinction by W. Tecumseh Fitch](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-w-fitch-paleo-dna-de-extinction) [Perhaps Our Species as Well by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-humanity-well) [Pointing Is a Prerequisite for Language by Nick Enfield](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-nick-enfield-pointing-prerequisite-language) [Posthuman Evolution Will Change Us All by Frank Tipler](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-frank-tipler-posthuman-evolution-change-all) [Preserve and Cherish the Pale Blue Dot the Only Home We've Ever Known by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-cherish-pale-blue-dot) [Progress May Not Need Humanity as Its Carrier by Georg Diez](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-georg-diez-progress-not-need-humanity-carrier) [Recognizing That the Body Is Not a Machine by Randolph Nesse](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-randolph-nesse-recognizing-body-machine) [Remember to Look Up at the Stars and Not Down at Your Feet by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-remember-look-up-stars-down) [Rotating Space Habitats](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Rotating+Space+Habitats) [Rumors of AGI Could Make Humanity Panic by Sam Harris](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sam-harris-rumors-agi-make-humanity-panic) [Science Can Still Inspire Wonder by Richard Dawkins](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-dawkins-science-inspire-wonder) [Science Is a Continuing Exploration of Mysteries by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-science-continuing-exploration-mysteries) [Science Is the Process That Takes Us from Confusion to Understanding by Brian Greene](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-brian-greene-science-process-takes-confusion-understanding) [Science Lives with Uncertainty by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-science-lives-uncertainty) [Scientific Information Is Not Innocent by Norbert Wiener](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-scientific-information-not-innocent) [Self-Replicating Artificial Meme Machines Would No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-blackmore-self-replicating-artificial-meme-machines-longer) [Self-Replicating System](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Self-Replicating+System) [Self-Sustaining Life in Space by Martin Rees](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-self-sustaining-life-space) [Semantic Partitioning](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Semantic+Partitioning) [Smart Technology Is Not Smart Until It Can Decenter by Gary Klein](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-gary-klein-decenter-and-anticipate) [Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-david-dalrymple-escaping-the-suns-gravity-well) [Space Is Big You Just Won't Believe How Vastly Hugely Mind-Bogglingly Big It Is by Douglas Adams](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-douglas-adams-space-big-just-won-believe) [Space Settlement Could Change Humanity’s Future by Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-space-settlement-change-humanitys) [Space Technology](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Space+Technology) [Stardust Brought to Life Can Understand the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-neil-degrasse-tyson-stardust-brought-life-understand-universe) [start here](https://bryantmcgill.com/start-here) [State-Dependent Catastrophe](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/State-Dependent+Catastrophe) [Substrate Transition](https://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/Substrate+Transition) [Superintelligence Could Disempower—or End—Humanity by Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jan-leike-superintelligence-disempoweror-endhumanity) [Survival Depends on the Race Between Education and Catastrophe by Leon M. Lederman](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-leon-lederman-survival-depends-race-between-education) [Synthetic Biological and Digital Life Put Humanity in Genuinely Novel Territory by Eric R. Weinstein](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-eric-weinstein-synthetic-biological-digital-life-put-humanity) [Technology Came Before Humanity by Timothy Taylor](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-timothy-taylor-technology-before-humanity) [Technology Flows Around Ethical Debate by Ray Kurzweil](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ray-kurzweil-technology-flows-ethical-debate) [Technology May Become Superintelligent and Turn Against Us by Beatrice Golomb](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-beatrice-golomb-technology-become-superintelligent-turn-against) [Technology Must Answer to Ethics by Freeman Dyson](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-technology-must-answer-ethics) [Telescopes Are Time Machines by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-telescopes-time-machines) [That's Here That's Home That's Us by Carl Sagan](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-earth-home-us) [That's One Small Step for a Man One Giant Leap for Mankind by Neil Armstrong](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-neil-armstrong-small-step-man-giant-leap) [The AI Industry Is Not Reducing Risk Enough by Paul Christiano](https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-paul-christiano-ai-industry-not-reducing) [The Biosphere Doesn't Belong to Us by E. O. 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