For all the talk about settling Mars, the Moon, or other extraterrestrial environments, it’s interesting that no one ever seems to mention the fact that reproduction in space has never been attempted.

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s ruthlessly efficient. The queen collects sperm from multiple drones in one flight, stores it for years, and then spends her life laying up to 2,000 eggs a day.

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