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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by maerF0x0 on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:19PM (#12354101)
Or maybe they'd rendezvous and bring them "up to speed" so to speak ?
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by platz on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:37PM (#12354248)
it would be better to just 'seed' the tiny starshot spacecraft with human embryos that could litter the planet and then develop on arrival.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by jcoffland on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:29PM (#12354595)
Right because human babies let alone embryos do so well on their own.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by platz on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:44PM (#12355498)
that's why we also send self-replicating nanobots along with them.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by jcoffland on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:13PM (#12356766)
For their extensive experience in child rearing.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by platz on Thursday August 25, 2016 @12:04AM (#12356922)
no problem, we train them with a convolutional neural net w/ examples from earth to provide for them. should suffice until about an age of 7 after which they'll just continue to use the nanobots to provide raw materials.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by jdmichal on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:25PM (#12354565)
See James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear. It involves a post-scarcity civilization seeded in much the way you suggest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear

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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by ju-st on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:34PM (#12355031)
Adults from later, faster spacecrafts could raise the babies.
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by bdamm on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:53PM (#12355557)
Why wouldn't they just bring their own? Or make some?
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Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star by platz on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:50PM (#12355527)
we'll also send send self-replicating nanobots
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