And, you know, I think this is a perspective shift. It's not that our technologies they provide access, they allow us to create pieces of creative work.

Suddenly, we humans, a recently arrived species no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature, have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

And it's very empty. The vacuum there is one million times less dense than the highest vacuum that our best technology on Earth can currently create. So that's how different a typical place is from this place.

Using our current technologies, no but if we develop and rapidly adopt new technologies that are within our scientific reach, yes.

In 2002, we started a new institute, the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, where we set out two goals One, to understand the impact of our technology on the environment, and how to understand the environment better, and two, to start down this process of making synthetic life to understand basic life.