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[–] gbzm@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You should read Firefall, by Peter Watts.

In which they do do that, in a way that is simultaneously the most absurd you've ever read, and the most hard sci-fi credible. Mostly so they can hibernate iirc.