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What about the birds and the bees?

The birds and the bees
The birds and the bees

Embryo space colonization concepts involve various concepts of delivering the embryos from Earth to an extrasolar planet around another star system. The most straightforward concept is to make use of embryo cryopreservation. The technologically more challenging but more flexible scenario calls for just carrying the biological means to create embryos; that is, various samples of donated sperm and egg cells.

The basic concept is that upon arrival of the embryo-carrying spacecraft at the target planet, fully autonomous robots would build the first settlement on the planet and start growing food. Thereafter the first embryos could be unfrozen or created using sperm and egg cells.

In any event, one of the technologies needed for the proposal are artificial uteri. The embryos would need to develop in such artificial uteri until a large enough population existed to procreate by natural biological means.

en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonization

Colonization using generation ships would be far too expensive to be practical. Also, seeds from trees and crops can also be frozen.

That method can be used for other mammals. However, since their eggs are too large to survive freezing, is there any way to have birds and honeybees? It seems a shame if a new colony can’t have birds and honeybees.

What about the birds and the bees?
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