/sci/ - Science & Math

OK /sfg, time to stop fagging around and start addressing the proverbial elephant in the room:

While everybody willfully embraces, or at least discusses the latest memes to get to space and colonize other planets, how come nobody seriously dares to suggest we start investing in research to genetically modify the human DNA to give future colonists a leg up to adapt to foreign environments like in micro gravity and on other planets? Why always this gay assumption that those who go out there MUST come back to Urf instead of adapting and specialize and stay out there as a long term plan?
Biotech made so much progress but it's always
>muh ethics
while we all know that e.g. everyone would choose the healthier fetus as his offspring if given the choice with stuff like in vitro fertilization. On top of that specialization already takes place since millennia proven in sports like marathon running.

So how do we take off those shackles of hypocrisy and actually let ALL wheels touch the track to get this fucking train to get to other planets?