5mo ago

The thousands of people that boarded the warp gate everyday didn't mind the 4.2 year journey since they weren't actually conscious for it.

Unfortunately, it also took us 4.2 years to receive the message explaining that the far end of the portal had broken.

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Strong The Jaunt vibes
- Forgot I read that one until I read the synopsis lol
  Ricky had it coming.
  
  Yeah fuck that shit head Ricky.
- My main inspiration for this one!
Meh, they'd never know anything went wrong. They'd just stop.
My first thought was to the Three Body Problem book trilogy. Excellent sci-fi novels.
just clone yourself, or save a copy of your consciousness at the point of departure? and if you don't like the idea of that then cope and seethe and die from a trivially solvable issue.
- Conservation of information would like a word with you
  
  well it can suck my dick because i don't care if i end up 5 atoms different, i end up 5 atoms different every single day anyways. There is no amount of identity crisis stuff you can throw at me that i cannot simply counter with "well i don't care, that's fine".
  Never give an optimistic nihilist socialist access to cloning technology because they will just do this:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2FS7pZAnc
  
  Well, it can have a chat with Phineas Gage then. We don't need literally every atom in exactly the right place, for the brain to work.

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