Humans? Nope. Some kind of actual AGI that doesn’t care about long time scales and can be lashed to a metal rich asteroid and flung out of the solar system? Still probably not, but it could maybe make it to some interesting intra-galactic destinations.
This is basically the foundation for Stanislaw Lem’s book The Cyberiad. What if robots built robots that write poetry and fight robotic dragons and travel the stars.
Humans? Nope. Some kind of actual AGI that doesn’t care about long time scales and can be lashed to a metal rich asteroid and flung out of the solar system? Still probably not, but it could maybe make it to some interesting intra-galactic destinations.
This is basically the foundation for Stanislaw Lem’s book The Cyberiad. What if robots built robots that write poetry and fight robotic dragons and travel the stars.
Also the Bobiverse books. Human brain uploaded to a machine and strapped to an engine to sail the stars where stuff happens