Uploading Life: Send Your Personality to Space. Sociologist W.S. Bainbridge, observing that the prospects for enhanced space exploration are waning, proposes founding a cosmic civilization without flying human bodies to the further reaches of the galaxy. If we start archiving personalities, it’s a good bet the technology for high-fidelity reanimation — into humans, clones, cyborgs, robots or other lifeforms suitable for the alien environments in which they find themselves — will develop. We should begin sending such ‘Starbase archives’ throughout the galaxy. “By offering the stars to people living today, the second wave of the spaceflight movement would

be spurred into being, Bainbridge said. The future demands a powerful, motivational force to

create interplanetary and interstellar civilizations, he said, and a new spaceflight social movement

can get us moving again.” Others propose merely disseminating our genetic code and a way to cultivate life on its arrival elsewhere.