The sole has no mass and it matters the most for a living creature. The thought came to my mind while I was thinking about death. I know the idea is not new and there are lots of text on the subject. I wanted to look at the subject from an engineering point of view.
The problem with an interplanetary journey is the transfer of mass between long distances. What if we could transfer the soul and the body separately. I like to develop feasible ideas based on science. This one is just a sci-fi brainstorming for my mind that I wanted to share.
Scientists study what makes an organic material turn into a living organism. If there is a promising development on the subject, then it would be a different story to transport humans between the planets. Of course, it would be initially tested on micro-organisms and small living creatures such as insects first. Transporting nonliving organic material over a long duration is not difficult. Keeping something alive over a long journey causes all the problems. Some may propose hibernation, however even that is not easy. Some animals can hibernate up to three years. Quite enough time for most of the space odyssey.
Before sending a human or a chimpanzee to Mars, sending a hibernating Garden Snail or Australian Eastern Pygmy Possum may make more sense.
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