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it would be better to just 'seed' the tiny starshot spacecraft with human embryos that could litter the planet and then develop on arrival.
by platz 10y ago
it would be better to just 'seed' the tiny starshot spacecraft with human embryos that could litter the planet and then develop on arrival.
- jdmichal 10y agoSee James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear. It involves a post-scarcity civilization seeded in much the way you suggest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear
- jcoffland 10y agoRight because human babies let alone embryos do so well on their own.
- platz 10y agothat's why we also send self-replicating nanobots along with them.
- ju-st 10y agoAdults from later, faster spacecrafts could raise the babies.