I recently bought a high powered microscope. My girlfriend joked about being able to watch our sex cells combine, but could not figure out any way to dispose of our new blastocyst that didn’t leave us both feeling very uncomfortable.<p>Now we have an answer!<p>This was not a serious conversation, but the ethical dilemma of such an interesting and relatively doable home science experiment was interesting to explore in theory.<p>Science is truly opening up more and more opportunities to make a real mess of ethics and societies guardrails.
Yup, the only really economically viable way to send thousands of people to other planets. Travel as millions of frozen sperm and ovules and build a population in-situ. You can compensate the loses and unavoidable fatal errors detawning some boxes and making more people each time an emergency arises until having a stable population aware of most possible faux pas in the new environment.<p>The alternative to pack enough food for 14 or 18 years for each unhabitant is to pack enough food for a travel of several generations and maybe more than 100 years, and make an human habitat for dozens or thousands of people, and this would be logistically much more complicated.