- 04 Feb 2018 18:51
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Theories on how to move human beings throughout the Universe have focused on cryogenics and faster-than-light travel to move existing human beings throughout the universe;
Removing ourselves from the equation, could there be other ways we as a species could conquer the Universe? Theory: Launching hundreds of thousands of automated drones to potential hospitable worlds throughout the galaxy. Drones equipped with AI specifically programmed to carry digitally-stored genetic data of human beings and all other plants and animals to outer worlds, and on successful arrival, develop, raise, and educate several generations of human beings until they become a mature and self-governing colony. Drones would include all of existing human knowledge, science, art, history, and philosophy.
The drones would be able to travel at a small fraction of the speed of light, but can travel theoretically indefinitely until a hospitable planet can be found. Existing humans on earth could one day visit these pre-established colonies once we have developed the technology to do so. Drones may not arrive at a hospitable planet until long after humanity has destroyed itself, but the drones act as seeds propagating new human colonies throughout the Universe in search of new fertile worlds. Potentially millions of years after humanity has ceased to exist, it could be reborn thousands of times in thousands of locations separated by vast distances in space.
We may soon have the technology to do this, but would we want to? What would the potential consequence be? Does our need to exist and proliferate as a species extend to unknown worlds where we may never visit?
Removing ourselves from the equation, could there be other ways we as a species could conquer the Universe? Theory: Launching hundreds of thousands of automated drones to potential hospitable worlds throughout the galaxy. Drones equipped with AI specifically programmed to carry digitally-stored genetic data of human beings and all other plants and animals to outer worlds, and on successful arrival, develop, raise, and educate several generations of human beings until they become a mature and self-governing colony. Drones would include all of existing human knowledge, science, art, history, and philosophy.
The drones would be able to travel at a small fraction of the speed of light, but can travel theoretically indefinitely until a hospitable planet can be found. Existing humans on earth could one day visit these pre-established colonies once we have developed the technology to do so. Drones may not arrive at a hospitable planet until long after humanity has destroyed itself, but the drones act as seeds propagating new human colonies throughout the Universe in search of new fertile worlds. Potentially millions of years after humanity has ceased to exist, it could be reborn thousands of times in thousands of locations separated by vast distances in space.
We may soon have the technology to do this, but would we want to? What would the potential consequence be? Does our need to exist and proliferate as a species extend to unknown worlds where we may never visit?
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