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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2483914" data-attributes="member: 3649">Sure, I see no problem with it being able to do that. Once you get to the point where you can do such things and have been doing them for a sufficient amount of time to work out the kinks it shouldn't be any more difficult than some of the more automated car assembly lines we have now. The birthing process itself probably shouldn't have any effect at all on the babies producced from it, even if they are handled by robots afterwards. It's what happens after birth that will screw them up. If they just want to find a planet to continue the human race, then they just grow a few hundred thousand people and seed them on a terra-compatable world and hope things work out. A few hundred thousand years later, they'll have a civilization and humanity will go on.  Now, for a viable colony afterwards... it depends on how good they are with computer-aided learning, how intelligent the ship AI is (and they would almost have to have a true artificial intelligence to pull this off), and a few other factors. A person raised by machines probably won't be very 'human' but they will be functional to a degree. Enough to create a colony and the basic infrastructures. Human psychology will take care of things later, perhaps, though it might take several, several generations. And they'll probably still be very alien to the people of Earth. If they are sending just eggs and sperm I guess they haven't discovered a way for an adult to travel in suspended animation. Maybe it only works for, say, a few years. A STL ship will usually take decades to cross the gulf of space, so shipping adults isn't viable. If you want to get really far out, I've read stories involving memory transfer using RNA. I don't know if that's been discredited or not now, though. You could pump a few of your early babies with that, effectively destroying their base personality and replacing it with the person who donated the RNA. Whether or not memories and knowledge could be transmitted that way, who know? If they have brain-taping, where they can make a computer copy of a person's memories and mind and personality, then you're golden. You just download copies into the first two dozen babies or so, quick-grow them to adulthood and let them raise the rest of the kids as they are decanted. That way you have a ready-made human colony.</blockquote>

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