Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo

Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by meekrohprocess on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:38AM (#25285781)

Could be a good sci-fi plot. A sleeper ship full of time-delayed embryos crash-lands on an alien planet, and the people are left to grow and develop a civilization with only a ship's computer to nurture and guide them.

Sort of like Lost meets Lord of the Flies.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by rlpb on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:53AM (#25285872)

This happens in The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, in so far as it is set in a civilisation that started this way.

Except that there was no crash landing - it was an intentional method to colonise other planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonization

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by el_benhameen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:44AM (#25285815)

I haven’t watched it yet, but I believe this is essentially the plot of HBO’s “Raised by Wolves”.

E: Of course by the time I typed this, there were several other people already commenting the same thing. We’re all unique snowflakes!

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by dgrin91 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:12AM (#25285977)

There is a fun game called Seedship that plays on this idea a bit: https://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play/index.html. You play as a ship AI, trying to make the best decisions you can for the cryogenically frozen humans inside, trying to find the best new homeworld.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by Thorrez on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:01AM (#25285905)

That sounds like the movie I am Mother.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by mereg0 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:42AM (#25285803)

That's very close to the plot of the very recent "Raised by Wolves" series.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by chrisco255 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:51AM (#25285861)

The plot of Horizon: Zero Dawn (video game) has some elements of this.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by skinkestek on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:19AM (#25286018)

I remember a friend of mine tell me about a similar plot from a radio broadcast series in the 90ies: two humans raised by the computers of a stranded spaceship.

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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by paranoidrobot on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:43AM (#25285809)

There's at least a few books like that, though I can't name the ones I've read. I'm sure it's 2-3.

The TV Show Raised by Wolves is essentially this too.

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