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Instead of pressing for settling on other planets to insure humanity's survival past earth, perhaps we should press for "child factories" so that advanced civilizations can advance beyond the point they have in the past, where in the past they were limited by their member's loss of interest in having babies.

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I wonder how much of it is risk aversion, the possibility of having a child that is retarded or severely handicapped or criminal is a frightening prospect many people.

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