My Interview with Scientific American Now Online

My recent interview with Scientific American, regarding human evolution off-of-Earth, is now available online.. Plenty of people dislike the concept of humans migrating from Earth, but I see it as an insurance policy for civilization and our species. If someone delivers cheaper and more reliable space access than we have had in the past 50 years -- and it appears that will occur as more inventors are engaged in private space-access development -- then eventually I think we will be colonizing space, yielding that insurance policy. One recent reaction to my article and interview is awfully wrong about how human evolution works, and I'll be replying to them presently. For the moment, here is their reaction, filed under 'Crap Futurology'! I expect more resistance to--and misunderstandings of, both evolution and space colonization ideas--than acceptance of them. That is fine with me. I think they're stuck in old ideas. Some old ideas -- e.g. mutation, migration, selection and drift shaping evolution at every generation -- are fine, as they've been shown to be facts. But others, e.g. 'humanity will never be able to colonize space' are not facts, but only premises. I'll press on :p