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9Nov/0714

Hop Aboard the Cryonics Express!

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  1. …that would be murder!

  2. Futurama.

  3. Ah. Thought it might be from the look of it, but wasn’t sure.

  4. If it said you can solve all your medical problems by freezing them, they might be onto something.

  5. Has a human or animal been successfully unfrozen yet? That would be my criterion for taking this seriously.

  6. Use your own brain to figure out whether it should be technologically possible, in principle, to revive a cryonics patient.

  7. There are some species of frogs that freeze in the winter, thaw out in the spring and are able to survive the whole thing. They have special chemicals in their cells that act like antifreeze. So Nature’s already found a way of doing it…

  8. Michael (A.): You can help with this (i.e., probably provide more detail…), but: Wasn’t a mouse frozen—albeit NOT to liquid nitrogen temp—about 3 or 4 yrs ago, suspended in that state for *several* HOURS, then revived? And didn’t the same group then do it with a beagle dog? Or is that urban legend (so to speak…)?

    If this is true then progress is indeed being achieved…And, of course, now there’s vitrification…

  9. Yeah MCP, I heard that did happen, although I can’t track down the reference. I know that a cat has been taken down below freezing point and then revived, but I think it had brain damage and died shortly after revival. If you could track down the mouse reference that’d be great, “mouse liquid nitrogen” on Google isn’t bringing up much.

  10. This? Not even below freezing, but cool and potentially useful.

  11. Cryonics is the only chance we have at life extension, as SENS won’t come until 2101, long after we are all frozen.

  12. Wow, 2101, how did you know?

    With such specific prediction dates, you sound like your anti-namesake…

    I like how you say “long after we’re all frozen” instead of “long after we’re all dead”, though.


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