(July 23, 2015 at 7:15 pm)Rahul Wrote: Once our technology is sufficiently advanced we can freeze zygotes and ship them off with our ships. When they are within 20-30 years of the planet we defrost those suckers, incubate them with artificial wombs, and have humanoid robots take care of them and raise them. Educate them with holograms and whatnot. Imagination is the limit.
Still, we should give up on worrying about planets to colonize and build our own version of the death star. Without the death though. Maybe life star, Eh? No worries about traveling far distances, no weather patterns to worry about, no tectonic plates rumbling all over the place messing everything up, wayward meteors/comets zinging us, etc.
What a terrific plan. With current technology, it would take just short of 50 million years to reach this particular planet. But I want to be fair, so let's assume there's a tremendous technological breakthrough, and we can shave 90% of that travel time. I can't even begin to imagine a technology that would keep zygotes viable for 2 million years (if I could, I could also imagine a technology that would get us 1400 light years by next Wednesday).
Your notion of building an artificial world has a touch more merit, but - aside from the mind-boggling cost - you'd still have most of the problems associated with a terrestrial planet.
I'm afraid that, after all, imagination is not the limit.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
