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Many have wondered the same. I personally think Brandon Frasier's perspective in the film, "Encino Man," was quite apt.
I doubt she would be able to learn to communicate at all, assuming this hypothetical frozen woman was and adult.
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Indeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
What does it mean for a reanimated woman from 42000 years ago to live a "normal" life in modern times?
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I doubt she would be able to learn to communicate at all, assuming this hypothetical frozen woman was and adult.
Of course she would be able to communicate. Cats and dogs can communicate to us.
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Of course she would be able to communicate. Cats and dogs can communicate to us.
Ok, communicate using complex language. She's not going to be picking up English at even a basic level.
For anyone wondering about previous precedents for reviving frozen multicellular creatures, here's my response to a now-deleted comment: There are shorter-term examples of frogs [0] (up to a few years) and tardigrades [1] (30 years) but I haven't heard of anything on this timescale before. [0] http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-... [1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/18/10785002/water-bear-ta…
From Wikipedia: Tardigrades are considered to be able to survive even complete global mass extinction events due to astrophysical events, such as gamma-ray bursts, or large meteorite impacts. Some of them can withstand extremely cold temperatures down to 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) (close to absolute zero), while others can withstand extremely hot temperatures up to 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C) for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 30 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce. Tardigrades that live in harsh conditions undergo an annual process of cyclomorphosis, allowing for survival in sub-zero temperatures.
So these are probably the oldest living organisms in existence then, huh? I'm not aware of anything that's older than 42000 years, but I'd be amazed to be wrong :)
There are colonial organisms over 40,000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...
If we can do this, hey, interstellar travel!