• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    So they are now breeding astronauts with hyper-flexible spines and much, much faster reflexes?

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      3 days 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.