Great, and rats will become super adapted to space. Then they'll become endemic to any space habitats humanity builds. Terraforming planets sounds more plausible than not ending up with rats and cockroaches.

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JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> and rats will become super adapted to space

That would be great! It would strongly imply humans, over cycles of reproducing in space, would too. I suspect, unfortunately, we'd have to iron out some kinks first [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8675004/

	▲	littlestymaar 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> That would be great! It would strongly imply humans, over cycles of reproducing in space, would too. Animals in their natural habitat and humans (especially with modern healthcare) are responding very differently to environmental pressure: we would need to accept a high infant and child mortality rate to be able to evolve. And the humans having a much longer lifetime and a much smaller amount of descendant means that even without technology we would evolve orders of magnitude slower than rats.

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eru 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Rats can be pretty tasty.

And: if rats can survive somewhere, it's a pretty small step to make it survivable for humans.