NASA has found 7 earth sized planets around a single star outside our solar system!

[SvennoJ]

bonzobanana said:

SvennoJ said:

Imo looking for earth like planets to colonize is also thinking too much along our 21st century tech level. By the time we can reach ot that far we likely won't be restricted by little blue/green marbles anymore for survival. We're like cave man looking for any decent distant caves for future generations. I mean why would an AI raise fragile human beings from DNA once there. As a pet project? Hmm where's that AI hiding out nowadays...

They would be programmed to raise human beings as their purpose  and once enough have been created they would start naturally reproducing a larger human colony and I guess that may be possible with robots in the future too. Manufacturing robots that can replicate themselves and other machinery needed for colonisation. I can't see much being transported from this system to a far away system and the time period would be so huge anyway that by the time they get there the people who sent the colonisation craft would be long gone.

I'm thinking more along the line of once we have working AI, we'll also be close to transferring human consciousness or replicating it closely enough. Why sail all accross the ocean to settle in a cave. Why go back to fragile forms when the universe is open to explore without such limitations. It would be like putting a little zoo down on a planet.
Ofcourse there will be traditionalists, like we have Amish societies right now, yet growing humans on a distant planet seems kinda pointless once robotics and AI advance far enough to actually be able to do that.