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Old 12-27-2024, 01:38 AM   #1709 (permalink)
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...self-directed robots to locate the place and prepare it for habitation, while frozen embryos are sent to the new location...
That's why I recommended Accelerando. It's got IIRC an interstellar ship with 63 individuals DNA or something, the size of a Coca Cola can*. Then it gets weird.

It's been years since I read it.

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The alien router, orbiting a 3-light-year-distant brown dwarf star named Hyundai +4904/-56, is visited by the spacecraft Field Circus, a Coke-can-sized mass of computronium propelled by a Jupiter-based laser and a lightsail. Amber and 62 others have uploaded themselves to become the virtualised crew.
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