21 May '17 15:16>
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-zealand-space-nation-stars.html
Originally posted by twhiteheadWell, compared to New Zealand.....
Great news. The more the better. However someone in the article says:
""So far, it's only superpowers that have gone into space," said Simon Bridges, New Zealand's economic development minister. "For us to do it, and be in the first couple of handfuls of countries in the world, is pretty impressive."
Then later in the article it points out its a private ...[text shortened]... :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefaring
Unless he thinks North Korea is a 'super power'?
The post that was quoted here has been removedThat idea is really on the table. If we want to go into interstellar space, intelligent robots could theoretically handle the job of decanting newly grown human infants and animals too, then educate the children when on course for some sun with a known set of habitable planets, perhaps a thousand year long trip. So you freeze the fertilized eggs and you don't need a near infinite amount of food stores, just enough for the children to grow up and take over the job of starting a civilization on the new world. So the robots would have all the history of Earth to teach the young ones who the first generation would grow up without the benefit of humans but the second gen would have humans to teach them. A lot of room for stories in that situation, eh.
The post that was quoted here has been removedI am just projecting possibilites. You are bringing up subject about engineering problems that need to be solved before any kind of undertaking like that could be done. There are not only fertilized eggs needing to be frozen but seeds and literally millions of those and thousands of species and fish and land animals too.