Space-faring humans will become Cybermen, says top astronomer

A race of “Cybermen”, resembling Doctor Who’s famous foes, will exist for real in the future, according to Britain’s top astronomer. Lord Martin Rees predicts that the first settlers on Mars, and other planets, will reengineer their bodies to cope with hostile conditions found in deep space.Lord Rees, who is Astronomer Royal, says humans will eventually evolve into a new species of super-powerful beings combining genetic and cyber technology.

And if ET exists, he is also more likely to be detected in an advanced electronic form than in any organic phase of existence.

In the season finale of Doctor Who, which concludes on Saturday, the Doctor stumbles upon the genesis of the original Cybermen aboard a vast spaceship escaping a black hole.

Lord Rees, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, told the Starmus -read more