Space Survival - Bryant McGill

# Space Survival ## Definition **Space Survival** concerns whether life or civilization can become self-sustaining beyond Earth. It separates symbolic presence and temporary missions from autonomous communities or machine ecologies capable of persisting after terrestrial catastrophe. ## Conceptual relationships [[wiki/Space Exploration|Space Exploration]] · [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] · [[wiki/Civilizational Continuity Circuit|Civilizational Continuity Circuit]] ## Martin Rees research route [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] supplies a primary quotation dossier connecting this concept to Rees's work on cosmology, technological risk, machine intelligence, posthuman evolution and deep time. ## Article and collection routes - [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “Travel beyond the solar system is an enterprise for posthumans—organic or inorganic.” > **— Martin Rees**, *20 Big Questions about the Future of Humanity, Scientific American, 2016* [[reminders/Space Survival/Interstellar Travel Belongs to Posthumans by Martin Rees|Interstellar Travel Belongs to Posthumans by Martin Rees]]   > “Will self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it for ever?” > **— Martin Rees**, *2003, Our Final Hour* [[reminders/Space Survival/Can We Build Space Settlements Before It Is Too Late by Martin Rees|Can We Build Space Settlements Before It Is Too Late by Martin Rees]] > “Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life’s long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth, with the single exception of the catastrophic destruction of space itself.” > **— Martin Rees**, *2003, Our Final Hour* [[reminders/Space Survival/Self-Sustaining Life in Space by Martin Rees|Self-Sustaining Life in Space by Martin Rees]]