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happypeachsludgeflower · 1 year

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I’m not really one to enjoy proving other people wrong. Simply knowing they’re wrong and I could is usually enough for me, (i.e. my dad’s insistence that Spock and Kirk are straight when we ALL know they’re not),

but last night I was given the immense satisfaction of explaining to my step father why his opinion was wrong is such detailed that the Asshole Who Knows Everything actually said, “You’re right.”

I shall be lording it over him for the rest of existence.

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#he tried telling me that robots could be trained to take frozen fertilized human eggs thousands of light years away to a #planet that could sustain life and then grow the humans and suscessfully raise them to adulthood to then populate the planet #now on paper I’m sure it’d sound like a good idea that’d work #HOWEVER #there’d need to be A LOT of eggs sent and the likelihood of the eggs surviving that long frozen is so fucking small #there was a lady that froze all her eggs and they all died after 10 years #a women is born with about 1 million eggs and has around 500k to 300k left by the time she hits puberty and rapidly looses them as she ages #let’s say the women had around 200k in her early 20’s when she froze them all. ALL OF THEM DIED IN 10 years #a human population NEEDS at minimum 500 individuals to repopulate without genetic drift and 80% would need to be female #technically you could repopulate with 50 but inbreeding would cause a genetic drift to the point of possibly not being human anymore #also all the eggs would have to survive LIGHT YEARS to another planet #you’d have to harvest trillions and trillions of eggs fertilize and freeze them and hope that at least 50-500 survive long enough to make it #and hope that 80% ish of the survivors are female #and b) that planet might be life sustaining when the light first traveled here but it could have sustained a e.l.e. at any point #from then to when the ship gets there and could uninhabitable by then #so now you have to hope that the planet is still life sustaining when the ship arrives #and if all of that somehow goes right???#c) now you have to hope the robot doesn’t hallucinate #you have to hope that you prepared for every single eventuality and taught the robot common sense #because ya you can program a robot to do a lot but teaching common sense IS HARD #and you basically have to cross your fingers and hope you didn’t forgot a single little minor detail that’s actually vital to success #robots are dumb okay #they are the perfect example of high intelligence no wisdom #science #science fiction #rambles #info dump #the tags got out of hand sorry

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