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And where were the left-handed ones seen?

I have never seen anything like that. Fascinating. Are all the right-handed ones on the same side of the equator? Just asking. :oldbiggrin:

A related question here, with some citations you might find informative. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-causes-the-asymmetry-in-a-symmetrically-developing-organism.1083555/ (Please ignore all the fat-fingered typos. Good lord! I count five in one paragraph!)

Yeah. And roll it down the aisle during take-off.

Gotta confess, I was outraged when the airline I was on suddenly decided to seat me near a dog. I am highly allergic. But that was nothing compared to my apoplexy when I found was not even in a carrier. It snapped at anybody walking by. What was I to do? If I had raised a stink, I am pretty...

And don't forget: storage means they got physically taken out of their rightful place, put in a box, transported, set down (and then left unsupervised for a period time where things might have happened, or not, you can't be sure) - and then picked up, pulled out of a box, transported, and put...

So does "AI can breed, birth, nurture and raise humans to a functional, aneurotic adulthood without any human interaction" count as a "real" project solution built on "sound engineering"? I thought real projects with sound engineering was what we were aiming for. Otherwise it's "sci-fi", no? If...

And you see the creation, birth and raising of humans without any human interaction as a more tractible solution than any spaceship carrying humans? OK. Utterly apples and oranges. Those men were already human for their entire childhood and much of their teen years. (Not to be glib about our...

To be clear: because I'm not sure you're agreeing or disagreeing. You see an AI raising 500 or so (toddlers, six year-olds, twelve year-old tweens, eighteen year-olds - all of them unique individuals) to be functional, well-adjusted human beings - who can, say, ponder about the stars stirring...

Really? Do you think that AI birthing and raising children to adulthood to become non-neurotic human beings in the utter absence of any human interaction - is not the very farthest of all futuristic sci-fi? Only with this idea. It's the farthest-flung of all the ideas here.

Sure. Like every other technology, "it's right around the corner". But you take it so much farther. We're not talking about tissue generation here. We're talking about raising human beings from birth through potty-training, speaking, relationships, etc, to highly-skilled adulthood in the...

OP: welcome, but this is not the best place for paradigm shifting. It's On the list: #19

One more thing. Almost missed this: "colonizing a distant planet" is not the specified goal of this thread. What we are talking about here - what we have been talking about all along - is humankind expanding into the cosmos. Colonizing a planet is only one way to do that. I was pretty...

Not at all. I'm saying PeroK is attempting to use "traditional sci fi" speciously, as if it only applies to solutions he doesn't find plausible - and asserting that the whole thread can be divided into "plausible" and "sci-fi". I object to that (in case that is not obvious). Name a solution...

Which is all well and fine to bolster your opinion. But you step into the realm intellectual arrogance when you declare your idea is based on solid foundations while others' ideas are relegated to "sci-fi tradition". I find that offensive. I am not mocking anything - any more than you are with...