Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility • Hacker News Board

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

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Post by qbrass » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 7:33 AM UTC

qbrass wrote: post #60

glimshe wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 chan…

They already do that.

(thought this was an edit not a reply)

They basically have you fill your bathtub full of ice, pop some downers then jump in the tub.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

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Post by Simulacra » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 11:29 AM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #10

Simulacra wrote: post #5

Until 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

Six months ago this would have been sarcasm but now, no. This is an extremely good point given what happened. I am still baffled how the janitor did that, could do that, knew to do that, and was even in a position to unplug.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

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Post by MengerSponge » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #26

cyanydeez wrote: post #25

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Yeah, id probably still think a artic locale like Iceland would make more thermal sense. But Arizona is definitely the kind of place where this type of scam is profitable. Until the maintenance bills come.

Why? It doesn't take exponential effort to cool a space. It's linear. The difference between Arizona and Iceland to get to cryo temperatures is a rounding error.

Thermal radiation goes by the fourth power, (Stefan-Boltzmann law for blackbody radiation), so a few degrees does make a meaningful difference, but because it's a scam it's much safer to be based in a locale with friendly law enforcement.