There are two ways to make an interstellar crossing. Terrans and Lunarians went from the Solar System to the Alpha Centaurian system in cold sleep. However, for the evacuation from Demeter to Amaterasu, they:
downloaded;
remained inactivated en route;
took their genome specs;
had new bodies grown for them by Amaterasu Mother;
had their minds reloaded into the new bodies.
However, the new body is a copy. The mind in the new body is a copy of the download which was a copy of the original mind. Therefore, the original bodies and minds remained on Demeter. What did they do? Suicide before the planetary collision or acceptance of death in the collision? These issues are not addressed.
Sf raises more questions than it answers.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Again, I would have favored settling the Alpha Centauri with O'Neill habitats, which means the grisly questions you raised being moot.
When it comes to STL interstellar space travel I vastly prefer the NAFAL spaceships seen in STARFARERS. No need for such unsatisfactory/dubious alternatives as cold sleep or downloading/uploading of human personalities.
Ad astra! Sean
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