I think in the long run, say 500+ years, human colonization would not involve live humans or even frozen embryos. What good are embryos for the first 20 years anyway?
It will involve databases of DNA and bodies of adult humans mapped at molecular level. These can be stored in compact data storage that takes up next to no room, require next to no power, and have extremely loose temperature and environmental requirements.
When the ship arrives, robotics will prepare the site, mine the necessary raw material, create generations of terraforming machines. When the planet is sufficiently terraformed, robotic fabrication facility will be built which will then assemble full grown,fully function, fully preprogrammed adult live humans from biochemical raw material. These will be totally preprogrammed with all the knowledge, experience, and all other oroduxtsnormally gained through nurture by having all resulting neural pathways directly made in their final form.
They would then be able to immediate function and interact as if they had a whole lifetime of training and preparation behind them.
It will involve databases of DNA and bodies of adult humans mapped at molecular level. These can be stored in compact data storage that takes up next to no room, require next to no power, and have extremely loose temperature and environmental requirements.
When the ship arrives, robotics will prepare the site, mine the necessary raw material, create generations of terraforming machines. When the planet is sufficiently terraformed, robotic fabrication facility will be built which will then assemble full grown,fully function, fully preprogrammed adult live humans from biochemical raw material. These will be totally preprogrammed with all the knowledge, experience, and all other oroduxtsnormally gained through nurture by having all resulting neural pathways directly made in their final form.
They would then be able to immediate function and interact as if they had a whole lifetime of training and preparation behind them.
