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"The Songs of Distant Earth" by Clarke had a sorta-third option, where we sent out ships with just frozen embryos, and some automation which in theory kept infa
by bpodgursky 6y ago
"The Songs of Distant Earth" by Clarke had a sorta-third option, where we sent out ships with just frozen embryos, and some automation which in theory kept infants alive long enough to watch videos / and other automated "parenting" material to get them to adulthood and kick-start civilization.
Of course... this was to avoid an extinction-level event, is assumed to have failed on 95/100 attempts, and was even in-universe acknowledged to just be the best of a number of catastrophically bad options.
But, a sorta-kinda solution.
- yummypaint 6y agoThat's a pretty solid idea actually. Have robots build everything and then grow the people as the last step. This could actually be doable in this century with continued incremental improvements in computing and robotics, which we're already working on. No need for propulsion breakthroughs or hypersleep. From the perspective of people on earth, it doesn't matter that much because it's such a long term project that no-one will be alive for both the launch and the landing anyway.
- brutt 6y agoWe can just send seeds, and in just few dozen million years they will form new civilization. It's dirt cheap.