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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeff37923" data-source="post: 2479320" data-attributes="member: 26008">I got in my old copies of 2001 Nights last night and one story had an idea that struck a chord in me, Night 4: Posterity . The story is about a Slower-Than-Light colony effort where the colonists were frozen spermatozoa and egg that were combined in an artificial uterus and birthed/decanted should a suitable world be found by the ship.Now, is this idea even feasible? It is certainly possible, but is it feasible in that after a few hundred years a computer controlled machine could combine thawed sperm and ova, then grow that into a fetus and then a human child? Gearhead-wise, I'm wondering how large and what tech level the machine would have to be to be able to do this. Sociology-wise and psychology-wise, I'm wondering what effects this kind of dehumanized birthing process would have on the humans themselves. The initial generation would be the primary one grown, but how would this kind of cultural blank-slate human create their civilization afterwards?Got to admit, I'm not sure if there is a game possible in this or not. I think there is, but I'm trying to get some more free-thinking going on to see where this initial idea branches off to.</blockquote>