[drannex]

important part: "and a device to create terran life".

@WalterBright, I've always preferred the idea that to explore the stars the only chance we have at doing so is by bio-growing humans (cloned?), and somehow uploading and downloading a current humans consciousness into the form.

basically 'seeding the universe' since we would just start sending little seeds of human life everywhere. :-)

[stouset]

> "and a device to create terran life“

… and all the devices and nutrition necessary to sustain that Terran life until it can become self sufficient—without the help of preexisting humans to teach them or impart physical skills—on a rock with either no life, inhospitable life, or nutritionally incompatible life.

You might as well call that device a magic wand.

[WalterBright]

> magic wand

With today's technology, sure.

I never thought I'd live to see AI. But here it is.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Clarke

[stouset]

Any sufficiently advanced imaginary technology is capable of performing anything you feel like imagining. That doesn’t make it plausible or convincing.

[WalterBright]

None of my proposal violates any laws of physics.