Human Place in the Outer Space: Skeptical Remarks

Szocik, Konrad

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“…This paper is part of the tradition of considerations in the philosophy and ethics of space exploration, which assumes that the future of humanity will include increasingly intensive exploration and exploitation of space, which may culminate in the creation of a long-term or permanent habitat in space. The authors list a number of reasons why such a development of events is possible, taking into account environmental reasons, military reasons, political reasons or, finally, the idea of saving the human species in the long term [22,27,29].…”

Section: The Future In Spacementioning

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The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions

Szocik

2023

Nanoethics

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There are good theoretical rationales for considering germline gene editing (GGE) as a recommended and perhaps even necessary procedure for future long-term human space missions. This paper examines the arguments for applying GGE in a hypothetical future scenario where future parents living on Earth make decisions about applying GGE to their future children with the goal of allowing them to participate in space missions. The paper presents an ethical rationale for GGE. The paper also recognizes an area of potential moral controversy that is not so much related to the application of GGE itself, but to the risk of different perceptions of well-being by parents and children that may result in the need for genetically modified children to leave Earth against their will.

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Section: The Future In Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions

Szocik

2023

Nanoethics

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“…Initial models of wound causation and management were developed by the research team based on the data collected in step 5. The team lead has internationally reknowned experience in healthcare, ergonomics methodology and human factors, and includes previous work with other reputed researchers with expertise in cognitive and psychological science and philosophy, ethics and social sciences [46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. The initial WDA was developed by the lead author and refined in several iterations, which included the input of consultant subject matter experts (SMEs).…”

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A Crowd-Sourcing Project to Understand, Prevent and Manage Incidences of Injury and Wounding to Astronauts and Off-Earth Colonists

Cahill¹,

Braddock²

2022

J. Hum. Earth Future

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Recent technical successes of the unmanned Mars 2020, Tianwen-1 and Hope Mars missions have further increased our hunger for space exploration and the possible colonisation of Mars is now firmly on the mid-term horizon. Furthermore, renewed commitment to settle on the Moon is anticipated within the next three years, led by NASA’s Artemis programme utilising the pan-space agency constructed lunar Gateway or Space X’s Starship system. These programmes will necessitate a larger number of astronauts spending longer periods in space and despite rigorous risk identification and mitigation procedures, injury is an inevitable consequence and management procedures will demand efficient and effective implementation. We have employed Cognitive Work Analysis to derive an abstraction hierarchy for reducing the potential for physical injury and managing the consequence of injury in space. We have used a crowd-sourcing approach to cluster factors and themes which may emanate from within or without habitat and consider solution management in the light of current and emerging technology. In addition, we also consider mental fitness as a confounder which may emerge during missions and propose methods for both measurement and management. Doi: 10.28991/HEF-2022-03-03-04 Full Text: PDF

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Anthropocentrism and the Roots of Resistance to Both Human Bioenhancement and Space Colonization

Ćirković

2020

Human Enhancements for Space Missions

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A cartel is usually defined a group of independent actors with heterogeneous goals, whose one common goal is to improve their profits and/or market position by reducing their mutual competition. A special-or not that special at all-kind of cartel are drug or other criminal cartels in which, for instance, crime families gather in order to monopolize black market of prohibited substances, or in order to efficiently control a territory whose government is weak or corrupt. Historical examples of such cartels are the Italian-Jewish-American Mafia (especially after the famous meeting in Atlantic City in 1929, which was attended by Al Capone, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Dutch Schultz, representatives of the Gambino clan, and others; cf. Bernstein 2002); Mexican drug cartels like the Gulf Cartel or the Guadalajara Cartel; or the now dissolved Columbian Cali Cartel. The fight against these extreme forms of organized crime is so difficult exactly because of the strong support of their "clients" as long as the cartels enjoy monopolistic position in either a geographical region or a social stratum. Some totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, such as the fascist Italy or Spain under Franco endeavored to construct a total cartel system comprising all or most trades of the economy. Cartelization exists, however, in the domain of ideas as well-and often has at last as ominous meanings and implications. From sophists in the time of Socrates, to the present-day socialconstructivists on the academic extreme left, thinkers of otherwise heterogeneous bents and interests have joined forces in order to promote particular idea, meme, or the way of thinking, not on the merit of intrinsic value, but on the quasi-Hegelian notion of converting "quantity into quality" and the vernacular "strength in numbers". In the rest of this paper, I wish to briefly defend the following theses: ➢ There is a strong anthropocentric cartel with vested interest in human exceptionalism, geocentrism, and other forms of parochial, self-indulgent, small-scale, and solipsist thinking.

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Human Place in the Outer Space: Skeptical Remarks

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions

The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions

A Crowd-Sourcing Project to Understand, Prevent and Manage Incidences of Injury and Wounding to Astronauts and Off-Earth Colonists

Anthropocentrism and the Roots of Resistance to Both Human Bioenhancement and Space Colonization

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