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What happens to the surrogate AI mothers and fathers? after the kids have matured. I am quite sure the kids will figure out quite soon that some of these things are not like the others. Do they disappear, vanish, sent to the annals of the mystery history. Sounds like a new religion in the making.

Thank you for the nomination.:smile: Congrats to all the winners.:partytime: To the mentors keeping the site running smoothly.:bow: And Greg for the vision that came alive 😻

which are composed of protein and chitin Your answer is in there somewhere. The laying down of the components has to have some electrical or chemical offset that produces the coiling. Probably not from the helicity at the nano scale of assembly. Cellulose does the same twisting for plants - is...

Is it this that you are getting at: 1. The interactions between individuals is as much as from learned experience as from being inbred. 2. Learned characteristics may supercede those inbred, so as to allow amicable relationships. 3. Learned characteristics result from interactions with peers and...

And in line with your thought of unknowns, navigation. Light might take a straight path from A to B. A space ship on the other hand ....

As they say, the only sure thing in life is death and taxes.:smile:

Cameflage would guard against the Cylons mistaking you for a copy of the Battlestar Galactica. And confuse them to no end, as you are leaving Earth rather than returning. :wideeyed: :wideeyed: Had to throw that in as a breather for all the seriousness going on.o_O

The Drake equation is in the wiki reference in Post, as part of the writeup explaining what the Fermi Paradox.

Biomes are rarely discussed for generational ships, at least I have not seen much. Organically its all about what crops to grow. Who knows, might need the swamp and marsh creatures including the dreaded mosquito to be included in the food chain, or the whole ship or colony collapses. That's why...

That is considered directed panspermia. The original question of abiogenesis still remains. The assembly clean rooms for spacecraft have been found to contain bacteria resistant to UV, cleaning agents, and whatever else is thrown at then. Whether these new species of bacteria are 'space...

I gave no idea what the minimum size of humans would be necessary to have a viable self sufficient community on Mars, so yeah, I don't take him seriously either with the tin can proposal of limited living space.

Cost overruns may get it cancelled in the end.

No. And not hand wavy on human nature. Look at all the casinos that people go to to win big time, knowing its a scam. Once some colonies on moon, Mars, or wherever pan out, if they do, the generational ship thing tagged as being the 'next step' for the future, people that buy in, whether to...

I so feel the same way. But the Mars colony is being proposed and discussed as if it ( the engineering ) is a done deal by the proponents that have the money, and supposed knowledge Complications? What complications? We have to get off earth and expand into space to survive. To me that is just...

Why? Just add engines to the earth then and tow it then. You too are missing the insane proposals that some human will make, and get support for if conditions are in their favour.