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12592589 No.12592589 [Reply] [Original]

What's a good way of shipping live monkeys from a planet orbiting one star to a planet orbiting a different star?
You need food, water, radiation shielding, meteorite shielding, medical facilities for any damage to the monkeys and repair facilities for any damage to the ship. Is it better to carry spare computer parts or a complicated photolithography/3d printer device? If the latter, what if it breaks down? Also, the acceleration profile for the ship is restricted by monkey fragility.

>> No.12592598

Make a ship that is a life-sustaining ball and let them live on the surface. They'll populate the ship, and when it gets to the destination you reconstruct the original 5 monkeys from DNA obtained from the ones that are still alive.

>> No.12592610

>>12592598
So an AI-driven bunch of rockets attached to a hollow asteroid? Will nothing smaller even work?

>> No.12592633

>>12592610
It needs to hold its own self-recycling atmosphere

>> No.12593012

>>12592589
does this work irl?

>> No.12593173
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>>12593012