I was thinking about this earlier and i actually came up with something that could work. Instead of trying to keep humans (and whatever else life you plan to send there) for thousands of years (i don't think the life support system would work that long) wouldn't it be a better idea to simply send something like seeds (like artificial wombs to make genetically engineered humans, etc) ?You could use laser propulsion to speed the spacecraft up but you https://vintologi.com/threads/establishing-humanity-on-other-planets.3767/
That's like seeds of life from NGE
The physics is sound but feasibility remains contingent upon future advances in mentos cladding technology.
>Would my space colonization plan work>My plan>MyKEK, it thinks it invented the idea. How cute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonizationIt has also been WIDELY used in science fiction for a long long time. >Sci-fi movies and series featuring human embryos in space for colonization includeAlien: Covenant (2017), where a ship carries 2,000 colonists and over 1,000 embryos to a new planet, and the TV series Raised by Wolves (2020), which centers on androids raising human children from embryos on a new world. Other examples include Interstellar (Plan B) and Tides.Often a small human crew travels with the embryos but AI and robots can do it just as well. The movie 'I Am Mother" is about a robot AI hatching and raising human embryos but it's based on Earth but the concept could easily be done in space.
>>16919352Why the FUCK would we want to colonize other planets?
This isn't your idea its been discussed a lot. The main problem with it is the technology doesn't exist and no one has tried colonizing space yet so who's to say what it will look like.
>>16919479I don't think its exactly a bad one though. I've done some thinking about this too and each star system probably contains enough matter and energy for a civilization to do whatever they want. Really the only thing that would need to be traded between planetary systems is information or energy, which includes most of the things we care about like genetic material, minds, culture etc. If they want to trade energy if they need the power of more than 1 star but that could be done with very advanced mirrors. Crucially both of these are massless and travel at the speed of light so the only starships you need are the seed ships.
>>16919386That wikipedia article failed to mention the second important point which is genetic engineering which will likely be needed for it to work.
