The meaning of life

For life it takes a few elements that make up DNA (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus).

It seems that some form of life will always survive, even after the disintegration of the Earth. The elements after the disintegration of the Earth disperse in space and could potentially be the source of new life.

For some reason, life (the cycle of creation-reproduction-decay) is created when there are favorable conditions for it. Evolution is a process of improvement and better adaptation to the prevailing conditions.

It may seem that the goal of humans is to survive and prepare for the worst scenarios. Ideally, if we reach a higher level of civilization (type III civilization on the Kardashev scale). 

But is it really so important for life to keep its most advanced form? We need it to be able to understand our universe. We need to preserve all information so we (future life forms) can extend it to absolute maximum and understand what's going on. But is this information so important? Maybe the process of learning and evolving is enough?

Elon Musk's mistakes?

Hero

Elon Musk is one of the most inspiring men in the world. He is an example of entrepreneur that doesn't think only about money. It's not his main goal. Money are just resource he needs to reach higher goals. He is a real super hero, surpassing all comic book ones.

As a big fan of him, I need to admit that not all of his ideas are rational for me. He makes bold statements which are usually avoided by scientists or domain experts. Usually it's a sign of ignorance 

SpaceX and Mars colonization

I've found interesting article that wraps up the idea and related problems How and why SpaceX will colonize Mars.
It seems that humans are designed to live on Earth - it took some time to evolve to our current form. Everything tells us that it's impossible to survive on other planet. Maybe designing new life and sending it to Mars and wait could work? Maybe by changing our DNA we could create improved version of human, basically a martian.

Electric cars

Are Toyota engineers stupid? In some case fuel cells seem to be more reasonable choice. There is no place for few different solutions?

For any enthusiast of clean energy, it should be desired to develop as many promising technologies as possible to increase chances of success.

(post written in 2016)