In the future, robots we’ve programmed may evolve and multiply on distant planets.
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The robots are ‘born’ via 3D printer, and recycle themselves upon their ‘death’.
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The race may be on to send humans to live on Mars, but is it worth the effort – and the spend – when we have our own problems to deal with on Earth.
Artist’s concept of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars.
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Musk dismisses one of the main technical challenges of being on the Martian surface: the temperature.
Colonising other planets may be possible, but does that mean we should?
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Interplanetary colonisation was once the stuff of science fiction but now there are plans to colonise Mars. How have film-makers and writers dealt with our rapacious Anthropocene age?