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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 19 March 2015 09:58:00AM *  0 points [-]

People are working on going to Mars. AFAIK, the main barrier is the cost.

Back to the original question, I can imagine where to start with evolving intelligence, but I'd need much more than a petabyte. (although, actually flops are more important than bytes here, I think)