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[[Category:Memes]]
A term coined by writer James
Blish (from the Greek, grow anywhere),
this is the philosophy of
adapting humans to live and work
in hostile environments. The benefits
of pantropy are reduced life-support
costs and, if long-term
colonization is planned, greater
psychological stability. The latter
comes from making people feel
they can live comfortably in an
alien environment, rather than risking
quick death if the supporting
infrastructure breaks down.

The pantropy meme has
caught on in space. Here, functional
radical modifications
designed for Martian, Lunar,
and microgravity habitats are
common. Having extra arms,
a prehensile tail, or skin and
lungs capable of surviving
sudden pressure loss is useful in
space. There is a certain social distance
among the human-appearing
majority on Earth (who may
include millions of parahumans, but
who usually possess invisible
enhancements to intelligence,
health, and longevity), the radical
transhumanists, and the spacers for
whom significant gene altering is
fact and necessity of life.

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