The Great Devourer of All wrote:Fusion drives operating under the assumption of sufficiently developed high thrust and specific impulse designs as well as constant acceleration over a long period of time get you to Alpha Centauri in under two decades. Hardly worth sending embryos instead of live people, or for that matter people in cryostasis or relativity-induced 'stasis'.
FTFY
Also, the "frozen embryos" was a joke. A kind of jab at cold-war era ideas of interstellar travel.