We can start colonizing other planets right now. All you need is a space ship full of frozen embryos, shoot that up into space. The space flys around until it detects a planet capable of sustaining human life, it lands, fertilizes the eggs. Raises them with milk or w/e and BOOM planet colonized. Might be seen as child abuse, and the humans might be all like wtf is going on? But it's perfectly capable with today techs :) Who knows maybe that's how we got here~~~

Um you can't do any of that. First off we dont have the technology to get to exoplanets at the moment. And having a ship that could fly around from planet to planet is just out of the question with current technology. Secondly. You cant just grow babies like that. They need to be in an actual womb. Also embryo implies that the egg was already fertilized. And lastly trying to raise a group of humans from babies with no human intervention would just end horribly. Babies are -blam!-ing stupid. They would be dead in seconds.

[quote]First off we dont have the technology to get to exoplanets at the moment.[/quote] Uhmm.. yes we do. We have the Voyager floating around in space don't we. Anyway the ships are going to be completely self sufficient (fire and forget). It's going to manned by computers and AI, so it won't matter if it takes billions of years to find a planet. We won't ever know if it works, but we CAN build a self sustaining craft with it's own AI, and no... we won't be able to communicate with it. [quote]And having a ship that could fly around from planet to planet is just out of the question with current technology.[/quote] Well it's not going to take off and land, it's just going to float around and scan, and hopefully avoid any space hazards. Computers will be able to analyse planets by just by looking at them, (that's what we do here on Earth). If it looks good it'll land. Probably won't be able to take off again tho. [quote] You cant just grow babies like that. They need to be in an actual womb. Also embryo implies that the egg was already fertilized. [/quote] Artificial wombs aren't something made up, they are a very real and very plausable invention. This idea goes off the fact you can't freeze a human and bring them back to life, (so Deep Space travel for them is a no no). But you CAN freeze an embryo and bring IT to life :D [quote] And lastly trying to raise a group of humans from babies with no human intervention would just end horribly. Babies are -blam!-ing stupid. They would be dead in seconds.[/quote] The AI's gonna look after them, yea i know that sounds F'd up, but how else would you do it? Machines would havto be the mother/father/teacher of the babies... not sure how that would work out.. but "eh" i'm sure it can be done :)

Ok. So launching a craft into space and hoping it hits something suitable is probably the worst idea ever. Space is extremely empty. Also what AI? Our current AI can at most learn hiw to play games and be corrupted by teenagers on the internet. It is in no way capable to raising babies.

[quote]Ok. So launching a craft into space and hoping it hits something suitable is probably the worst idea ever.[/quote] Yea that's the only problem with it.... No one can guarantee it'll ever find anything, but it MIGHT!?!?! Remember its all computers, it can take it's time, what's a couple billion years to a computer?

When can we build the tech to go further into space Maybe into other galaxies