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                                             March 12, 2016

Clearly, moving human bodies around in space is
impossibly expensive, so you shouldn't try.

Space craft would transport "uploads" running
on computer hardware-- along with the AIs that
do what we might think of as doing the Real         I have a mental block with
Work but who I posit would be regarded as no        working on ideas like this
more than part of the plumbing.                     though... they're very
                                                    similar to a story the
In this scenario you've got indefinite life         Toadkeeper was working on.
extension (not to mention copying/forking           Really, I should try to
personalities) so there's no particular need        publish his old story in
for magic instantaneous FTL transport or            some form...
communication, or even high energy time
dilation.  If you prefer "suspended animation",          TOADKEEPER
it's achieved easily by shutting yourself off
temporarily.

Possibly, once arriving at the destination, one
might grow a meat space body to download into--
the practicality of that may seem dubious, but it
probably would help with reader identification,
and in any case we're talking about a people who
essentially do *everything* for esthetic reasons,
because all "practical" needs have become a moot
point.


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