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Microbes are thought to be able to survive interplanetary journeys. The idea is to genetically engineer microbe "carriers" imbued with human eggs/sperm/DNA and genetically programmed to grow into factory organisms upon contact with certain elements (water, oxygen, nutrients). Billions of such carriers
could be launched into the galaxy with very little energy. The factory organism is an animal/plant that beings life as a carrier microbe, grows into an artificial womb, and matures into a life-giving home for its child occupants by year 10. Imagine human children emerging from the few, but still many, successful eggs on distant worlds.
(?) Inspiration
Pre-Embryonic_20Astronauts
[the porpoise, Apr 13 2016]
Story
http://www.baen.com...ters/star_child.htm
As mentioned in an annotation. [Vernon, Apr 14 2016]
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// Imagine human children emerging from the few,
but still many, successful eggs on distant worlds.// |
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I have tried to imagine it, and it's a nightmare. |
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It's a nightmare, but I like it anyway. |
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Olaf Stap!edon suggested something very similar in 1930 but maybe
this idea inspired him. |
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The "inspiration" appears to have been deleted. Perhaps it
was because that Idea wasn't so original, after all (per a
story I linked, and will link again, here --it's a good story!). |
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Sorry P, yes, I took the "Pre-Embryonic Astronauts"
idea
down as having been baked. |
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Got some un-baked variations of the idea I'm toying
with though. |
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I think I've seen Stapledon around here, so maybe he did
lift it. Damned artists and their stealing ways. |
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Yeah this is probably baeked in sci-if. Haven't read the
story yet [vern]. |
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It takes more than a womb (spacefaring or otherwise) to
chaperone a newborne to a point where it can fare for
itself. |
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[the_porpoise], the help file says " baked - a snarky way of saying "widely known to exist". " |
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I think what you mean is " preheated ". Although the spelling "baek" is related to a common Korean surname and a style of Taekwondo, if that's what you were getting at ;-) |
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/Imagine human children emerging from the few, but still many, successful eggs on distant worlds./ |
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I imagine them moistly lying around for a short while, hoping for milk, then succumbing to the elements. I am going to imagine something else now. |
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Yea, I'm missing the robotic / automated parenting
and education part that my idea had. (and other
ideas before it) |
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Even if you keep them alive, you can't expect them
to know what's going on. They'd be like "Who are we,
how did we get here and why are we all dying?" |
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If they could speak, which of course they couldn't. |
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It's possible that some wide-ranging wombs would be
intercepted by aliens, who would track them back to Earth
and then assimilate us. |
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Or grow them up, be impressed at how awesome and easy to train they are, and breed a human army. Who conquer them, and subsequently show up and conquer us. But they realize that earth folks are super good looking (well, the ladies are) and plus there are places with excellent food and so they refrain from killing us all. 500 year later the result is a bunch of alien words and 2 extra letters in the English language. |
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Everything is a SF premise to me these days, it seems. I like the space legions of the Khan showing up to conquer a new world but being coopted by the people and aspects of the new world as above. At the end it is revealed that this world seeded earth with its sentient species in the first place. |
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