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Well my remarks do envisage a lot of progress with regards to science and technology but I doubt there are insurmountable obstacles as to this idea. This would undoubtably need a very reliable and secure computer system that would have to contain virtually all of the knowledge that exists on earth that would be relevant to humans and to the task. I agree it is hardly optimal to have humans nurtured by anything other than other humans but needs must! Android machines sufficiently advanced to cope with whatever occurs on the ship and eventually with producing and raising humans is a daunting prospect too but it is not impossible that they could be surrogates for humans in the distant future. I would assume that the intelligence/knowledge of the androids would be sufficient to function with all extra information obtainable from the 'master' machine thus reducing what might seem an impossibility. Providing an equivalent learning environment to that which we might experience on earth is a big challenge too but we are learning all the time about what makes us tick so it's all about ensuring something that works. Although there will be ethical issues I am sure it is something that eventually could be tested beforehand. I would think that quite a large ship would be required to cope with all that humans would need to accomplish this and as it would seem pointless travelling to a planet unless it did obviously have a good chance of supporting life a lot of remote probing would be necessary beforehand. This alone will probably take a long time so there will be plenty of time for things to progress with regards to development. I guess I do tend to trust in technology and what humans have actually achieved so far in order to predict this scenario. I would think that more than one of these 'arks' would be needed obviously. If there was a very real chance that life on earth was really in danger then all other considerations would have to be abandoned if the options were simply as a species do we live or do we die? I am probably very wrong with my ramblings though, lol.
ps Although you might not like the idea we are already learning how to raise some animal species that do not have their parents to raise them so we must be learning a lot from this - granted humans are rather different.
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