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hibe and space |
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jb |
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Jan 5, 07 - 2:48 PM |
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HIBE and space--forget it
It takes a whole series of carefully evolved biochemical, structural and genetic changes to create the capacity to hibernate.
Humans do not have those & any changes in our genome in that direction will likely make fundamental changes in brain structures, as well. and are fraught with serious, even dangerous problems.
We're not going to be hibernating humans any time soon without significant and very likely irreversible genetic engineering of humans, well beyond ANY capabilities we have now.
A single change in a single protein can kill an entire human. It's what's called a genetic mutation. We have no way of calculating(millions of years run time on a supercomputer for ONE protein change, alone!), nor do we have the knowledge to calculate, how even ONE such putative change could alter us. And it will likely take dozens of such genetic and biochemical changes, if ever, & possibly several genes new to humans, before we can hibernate.
Hibernation mechanisms are not simple, nor are they understood, nor are they directly transferrable to humans.
What has been found is a trigger for one species of the scores of species which hibernate. It has NO significance to the human race, other than that. It does NOT apply to humans
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