248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics
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I mean, if they're frozen their cells are ruptured.
Not strictly true, biologists freeze cells all the time.wrote last edited by [email protected]But whole humans are too big to quickfreeze. The cold just doesn't travel fast enough through the torso and brain to not cause damage.
Ok, there's maybe a workaround. There was some news years ago, about someone that replaced a pigs blood with cold saltwater + glucose to keep them in a stasis and then just pumped the blood back to revive them. That aparently worked up to a few weeks but if you find a chemical that keeps liquid at -100°C or less (and isn't poisonous)...
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But whole humans are too big to quickfreeze. The cold just doesn't travel fast enough through the torso and brain to not cause damage.
Ok, there's maybe a workaround. There was some news years ago, about someone that replaced a pigs blood with cold saltwater + glucose to keep them in a stasis and then just pumped the blood back to revive them. That aparently worked up to a few weeks but if you find a chemical that keeps liquid at -100°C or less (and isn't poisonous)...
Yeah I won’t pretend to know or care about the way it’s done for whole humans. I am dubious of its feasibility, leaning strongly towards thinking it’s just plain old exploitation of grieving people.
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Are there any even half plausible ways cryogenics might work with the technology we have? I mean, if they're frozen their cells are ruptured.
Yeah - its all bullshit. Just a pie in the sky thing to sell to people with lots of money. Reminds me of the Pharaohs being buried with all their shit as if they would live again and still have all their stuff
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Oh god the smell
I've never had the misfortune of dealing with it IRL myself, but the stories from cops who've had to retrieve bloated 'floaters' from shorelines or bodies of water are pretty daunting - describing 'the deceased' as sometimes coming apart in their hands like an overcooked pot roast ("fall off the bone ribs, $9.99 this Thursday at Al's Cookhouse!").
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I've never had the misfortune of dealing with it IRL myself, but the stories from cops who've had to retrieve bloated 'floaters' from shorelines or bodies of water are pretty daunting - describing 'the deceased' as sometimes coming apart in their hands like an overcooked pot roast ("fall off the bone ribs, $9.99 this Thursday at Al's Cookhouse!").
I once had the opportunity to visit a dead whale on a beach and the craziest thing is the smell. It's so aggressive and overwhelming. Because the whale died at sea it started to decompose and the rancid oils covered the beach. The belly had popped and the meat was dark blue blackish. My sinuses got PTSD.
Nothing compares to a massive rotting meat sack marinating in salt water for a few days.
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Thawing out scientists whose research is stalled because aliens have blocked sub atomic particle research.
I gotta see my spell work damn it!
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I once had the opportunity to visit a dead whale on a beach and the craziest thing is the smell. It's so aggressive and overwhelming. Because the whale died at sea it started to decompose and the rancid oils covered the beach. The belly had popped and the meat was dark blue blackish. My sinuses got PTSD.
Nothing compares to a massive rotting meat sack marinating in salt water for a few days.
Sweet Jesus, I can well imagine, except for the scale on account of some whales being school bus-sized. Rotten rodents don't hold a candle given the 1000:1 or more ratio.
