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Only logical way to do space travel efficiently; to send people out of the earth fast enough, and to populate other planets with enough people to guarantee cove
by pvaldes 3y ago
Only logical way to do space travel efficiently; to send people out of the earth fast enough, and to populate other planets with enough people to guarantee covering the loses by accidents (that will happen) and protection from endogamy problems.
Another interesting question (filosophically, biologically and morally) is if artificial wombs could break the boundaries of human pregnancy. Currently is subject to the capability of the body of the mother to sustain a successful parturition without bursting (sorry for the ugly mental image but is like that). The babies can't grow indefinitely inside the mother.
Artificial wombs don't have this constrain. Could this machines extend it for a whole space travel of 1 year, or 1,5 years, or even more, so this children are much more apt to fend for themselves when born? nobody knows.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoI remember a short story like this - AI sentient probe landing on a remote planet after centuries of travel and then gestating eggs and taking on the role of "mother". It ends on a good note compared to most stories of this nature where the AI self-terminates because the kids now adults are ready to the job further.
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoI haven't watched it, but that's supposedly the premise of the scifi TV show "Raised By Wolves". Frozen embryos born and raised by robots.
- pvaldes 3y agonot to mention some discussions in Hacker news that predate both cases (probably, didn't read that history)