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woleium • yesterday at 8:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As far as I’m aware, the science at the moment says that we cannot reproduce in space, so unless we send embryos that are raised by the machine machines it’s likely impossible


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JumpCrisscross • yesterday at 9:44 PM

> the science at the moment says that we cannot reproduce in space

It absolutely does not. We don’t know if mammals can reproduce in space because we haven’t done those experiments yet. The closest we’ve come is culturing mouse embryos for four days on the ISS [1].

[1] https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mouse-embryos-grown-space-japa...