Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility
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Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility
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Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility
#2Poor Teddy Ballgame
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#3Is reanimating these bodies even viable?
What kind of energy waste are we talking about for this fools errand?
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#4Final(?) resting place of FM-2030
Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility
#5Until it runs out of money, that is. Reanimation is nowhere near viable but this facility will have to do something to keep those bodies frozen...or else.
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#6Why not. The chance of them being reanimated is slim to none.
But it'll still be neat to have a preserved 20th century body in the 22nd century or even beyond.
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#7Imagine going through all the trouble to get yourself frozen, only to wake up 200 years later in some post-apocalyptic cannibal's stew pot. Boy would that be embarrassing.
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#8Is reanimating these bodies even viable? What kind of energy waste are we talking about for this fools errand?
As far as I know you need to be dead already to be put in these facilities. So to get them back, we'd have to find a way to resuscitate them after "defrosting". The point of these facilities is exactly to wait for the technology to get them back to life.
One more interesting variation, while illegal, would be to freeze people when they are nearing death. If we could bring them back later, the scheme would have a chance of working if better surgeries and medicines are available. But I don't think we have the technology even for this.
EDIT: wouldn't places where assisted suicide is legal be cool (pun intended) with my proposed scheme of freezing when nearing death?
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#9Final(?) resting place of FM-2030 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030
Heh what a curious person.
Can't help but think his desire to leave behind collective identities has been crushed recently.
All we seem to do these days is reinforce collective identities and vie to join and exclude particular groups and people.
Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility
#10Until it runs out of money, that is. Reanimation is nowhere near viable but this facility will have to do something to keep those bodies frozen...or else.
Just wait till the janitor switches off the power switch. /s