From Hillary Shaw, Newport, Shropshire, UK
Carl Zetie suggests we “send 100 million sperm and eggs, not 100,000 people” to colonise an alien planet, but leaves the story of raising the offspring to others (Letters, 15 March).
You would need a machine to provide food, made in situ, for the resulting infants, and much more. They may see it as a sort of God. But as years pass, a Reformation-like split might develop, with some breaking away from the machine to develop better technologies.
It could all lead to an advanced society that will explore the universe and maybe find a quaint, primitive, less-developed world inhabited by creatures like themselves, but less sophisticated. We will make great pets for them.
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