Editing Interstellar travel (section)

==== Transmission of minds with light ====
[[Mind uploading|Uploaded human minds]] or [[AI]] could be transmitted with laser or radio signals at the [[speed of light]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Michio Kaku foretells humanity's extraordinary future |website=[[NBC News]] |date=2 March 2018 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/michio-kaku-sees-amazing-things-our-future-except-those-scary-ncna851226 |quote=We're going to have the Human Connectome Project map the human brain before the end of this century, I think. We're going to put the connectome on a laser beam and shoot it to the moon. In one second, our consciousness is on the moon. In 20 minutes we're on Mars, eight hours we're on Pluto, in four years our consciousness has reached the nearest star. |access-date=20 December 2021 |archive-date=20 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220134353/https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/michio-kaku-sees-amazing-things-our-future-except-those-scary-ncna851226 |url-status=live }}</ref> This requires a receiver at the destination which would first have to be set up e.g. by humans, probes, [[self replicating machines]] (potentially along with AI or uploaded humans), or an alien civilization (which might also be in a different galaxy, perhaps a [[Kardashev scale#Type_III|Kardashev type III civilization]]).