[dogscoff]

I read a book Last year called (I think) Schild's ladder. It had a nice idea- automated probes were sent to distant worlds to terraform them. When they arrive and have finished the terraforming, they build/grow human bodies. Then the humans transmit their personalities/ memories/ intelligence as data (at light speed) to be downloaded into the new body. Meanwhile the old body goes into stasis to await its owner's return.

Damn wierd book, with some seriously heavy (and at least partially made up, I think) science.