Cryogenic preservation of reproductive material is well developed technology. Add an artificial womb and android minders/teachers, and send em off into the void!
Once they get to planet X and things look viable, a scout unit gets defrosted and raised, and if things go OK on the planet, turn your eggscicles into colonists who never asked to explore space.
These people will be real weird, because of course we're doing a huge amount of harm that will manifest epigenetically and mentally, what with having no mother carry or care for them, only robots to emulate... A trial run would be in order, (not extrasolar), because their psychology is a major weak point.
A great big lead-or-equivalent shielded American football shaped thing would be the ship design, with an exhaust port for whatever propulsion it has. Also, its own magnetic field to help shed incoming radiation. Crew would exist in a relatively tiny space in the middle, the better to protect them from incoming micro-or-macro meteorites and all that gross radiation. Massive and hard to push? Yes. But fancy might not make it.
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Reply to How would we get about traveling through deep space? by MysteryMystery305
Cryogenic preservation of reproductive material is well developed technology. Add an artificial womb and android minders/teachers, and send em off into the void!
Once they get to planet X and things look viable, a scout unit gets defrosted and raised, and if things go OK on the planet, turn your eggscicles into colonists who never asked to explore space.
These people will be real weird, because of course we're doing a huge amount of harm that will manifest epigenetically and mentally, what with having no mother carry or care for them, only robots to emulate... A trial run would be in order, (not extrasolar), because their psychology is a major weak point.
A great big lead-or-equivalent shielded American football shaped thing would be the ship design, with an exhaust port for whatever propulsion it has. Also, its own magnetic field to help shed incoming radiation. Crew would exist in a relatively tiny space in the middle, the better to protect them from incoming micro-or-macro meteorites and all that gross radiation. Massive and hard to push? Yes. But fancy might not make it.