Good point. We'll need to send some robot mothers too.
That gives you step -1 of "invent general-purpose AI that can completely replace a human". If you've got that, why not just send the robots by themselves?
Why not just send rocks? The concept is the migration of the species, ie the fulfillment of genetic imperative. If you aren't interested in that, the rocks will be fine without us.
yeah instead of taking rocks from space, send rocks into space lol
You might want to read the “Glacier” short story by Alastair Reynolds in the “Galactic North” anthology.
Not if Anne Hathaway's there to raise them.
The world will be scary when we get to the point where we can implement an Anne Hathaway bot that's not in the uncanny valley. The world will be even more frightening when we have the beta Hathaway bots and they're still in the valley.
No, I meant actually sending a series of clones of Anne Hathaway, each of which raises another clone of Anne Hathaway until the target planet is reached. The first generation would, of course, be the actual Anne Hathaway.