oh great Hacker News Hive Mind, not long ago (in cosmic terms anyway, probably like 4 years ago) there was a link to a short story about<p><pre><code> * young girl on Earth who accepts an invitation to leave the planet shortly before its doom
* girl joins the consciousness that saved her and is basically uploaded into a cosmic computer of sorts
* they can go active or dormant, allowing them to experience the universe in realtime or timelapse along with the billions of other saved minds (earthly and non-earthly)
* something starts gobbling up the distributed nodes that the saved minds occupy
* just before the end of the universe, the girl and her companion get abducted by this unknown thing that turns out to be <spoiler removed>
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Something happened recently that triggered a memory of it and I wanted to track it down. I have googled and googled and googled, but I'm not finding it, so I am finally resorting to this.<p>Can anyone point me in the right direction?!<p>You're the best.
Since it sounds like sci-fi, try posting it to scifi.stackexchange.com , tag 'story-identification' (<a href="http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification" rel="nofollow">http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identi...</a>)
Was it this one?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28novel%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28novel%29</a><p>from this thread on HN<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547249" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547249</a>
The plot sounds very similar to Asimov's The Last Question[1], which is most definitely not the short story you're describing but a very fascinating read nonetheless.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html</a>