Originally posted by: IGBT
I did it 1500 years ago and I'm black.
Not really. Just means people close to you can't ever find out what happened to you.Originally posted by: beat mania
Is this a trick question to see who actually posts an answer?Topic Title: If someone offered to cryogenically freeze you for a thousand years, would you do it?
Topic Summary: You can't tell anyone about your decision
Originally posted by: BoomerD
The way we humans are fucking things up, I doubt the planet will survive, so why the hell would I? It'd really piss me off to sleep for 1000 years just to wake up dead...
I have to disagree. The planet will survive just fine. The earth has been through far more than humans could ever throw at it. Now, the human race, that's another story. We could kill all of ourselves off quite easily. This is why I laugh at all the save the planet shit. The planet will survive, it's our sorry asses that won't. Big distinction.Originally posted by: BoomerD
The way we humans are fucking things up, I doubt the planet will survive, so why the hell would I? It'd really piss me off to sleep for 1000 years just to wake up dead...
Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: KDOG
No because the crap doesn't work, - you'll be dead as soon as your frozen....
Read up on modern cryogenics. They have the whole "not forming ice in your cells" thing down.
Most of the major hurdles in fact have been conquered, the unfreeze process is a big problem, also the lack of laws that really help cryogenics are an issue.
You can't be frozen until legally dead, which isn't a big problem in most cases, but for some diseases that kill slowly it can really ruin the chances for people.
The big thing to me is, who would want to wake up with no friends, no family, no guarantee your money will be worth anything, the chance of being destroyed/robbed while frozen, the chance that you get stuck in a limbo like state...etc..
I wouldn't do it unless I could be frozen for 30 minutes to an hour then unfrozen to test the waters, also I would never do it for such an insane length of time.
Originally posted by: oogabooga
Originally posted by: guyver01
Originally posted by: ironwing
If I outlive my wife, then yes.
If?
is there something about your wife's aging process we don't know about that would allow her to live for 1,000 years?
It's a secret process called nagging. Everytime she nags she steals a year from you and takes it for herself...
Originally posted by: Gibsons
Under highly idealized conditions, where there is zero ice formation, you can expect about 20% of the cells to die. Move over to a entire human body and that number will certainly go up. It will probably vary considerably depending on tissue, but don't expect more than 80% of the cells of any organ or tissue to survive a freeze/thaw cycle.
In June 2005 scientists at the University of Pittsburgh's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research announced they had managed to bring dogs back to life, most of them without brain damage, by draining the blood out of the dogs' bodies and injecting a low temperature solution into their circulatory systems, which in turn keeps the bodies alive in stasis. After 3 hours of being clinically dead, their blood was returned to their circulatory systems, and the dogs were revived by delivering an electric shock to their hearts. The heart started pumping the blood around the frozen body, and the dogs were brought back to life. Scientists hope to begin human testing and have already begun discussions with hospitals to use "suspended animation" if everything else fails.
While most of the dogs were fine, a few of the revived dogs had severe nervous and movement coordination damage, causing them to be mentally disabled, and demonstrating behavior that was deemed "zombie" like. This has been pushed further by the media which named them "zombie dogs".[3] There is concern that this technique, if used on humans could result in brain damage similar to those suffered by some of the dogs in the experiment. Doctors now in extreme cases, use induced hypothermia, bringing brain and heart activity to a minimum. This allows doctors to have more time to heal or diagnose a patient.
On January 20, 2006, doctors from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced they had placed pigs in suspended animation by a similar technique. The pigs were anaesthetised and a major blood loss was induced. After they lost about half their blood the remaining blood was replaced with a chilled saline solution. As the body temperature reached 10 °C the damaged blood vessel was repaired and the blood was returned. The method was tested 200 times with a 90 percent success rate.[4]
Originally posted by: CatchPhrase
Originally posted by: BoomerD
The way we humans are fucking things up, I doubt the planet will survive, so why the hell would I? It'd really piss me off to sleep for 1000 years just to wake up dead...
You can't wake up dead...
Originally posted by: boomerang
I have to disagree. The planet will survive just fine. The earth has been through far more than humans could ever throw at it. Now, the human race, that's another story. We could kill all of ourselves off quite easily. This is why I laugh at all the save the planet shit. The planet will survive, it's our sorry asses that won't. Big distinction.
My answer to the original question is no.
Originally posted by: BoomerD
The way we humans are fucking things up, I doubt the planet will survive, so why the hell would I? It'd really piss me off to sleep for 1000 years just to wake up dead...
Originally posted by: darkxshade
Don't forget to deposit $10 into a savings account for every bank you can find... one of them is bound to survive a millenium.
Originally posted by: loki8481
assuming it's a magical world where it's guaranteed to work perfectly and at the end of it, I'd at least have enough money to be comfortably middle class in the future?
yeah, I totally would... I don't have a whole heckuvalot keeping me in the here and now.