Freezing !!

daveyb · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:08

tbh freezing yourself at like 40 and being woke up 300 years later would be pretty awful, all your family and mates would be dead and even if you did manage to track down descendents from your family going up to some familys house, knocking on their door and saying "im your great great great great grandfathers grandson" and throwing photo albums at them of you "300 years ago" would probably result in a one way trip to the psych ward.

Fubsy · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:18

Don't these super low temps just destroy tissue? What's the point if all your limbs just fall off?

Nevakonaza · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:28

Im no scientist,But i think this is not possible..i mean how do you freeze,then revive not only the human body,BUT the human brain and expect it to work all fine and dandy 300+ years or more later.

Only a few minutes without oxygen and your brain can get seriously damaged.
So to freeze one,Nah im having none of it..tech is way off i think.

Would i do it if i could,No..once my time comes thats it.

signs · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:36

Did Walter Disney get his head frozen , or was that just a myth ?

Akagi · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:43

Nevakonaza said:
Im no scientist,But i think this is not possible..i mean how do you freeze,then revive not only the human body,BUT the human brain and expect it to work all fine and dandy 300+ years or more later.

Only a few minutes without oxygen and your brain can get seriously damaged.
So to freeze one,Nah im having none of it..tech is way off i think.

Would i do it if i could,No..once my time comes thats it.

Its a gamble with a slim chance of a payout, but you don't know how far things will have advanced in 300 years.

RoboCod · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:55

If anything it will be a case of "growing" the person again from their DNA. The problem with that is, how do you grow the memories? You won't be the same person.

thenewoc · 18 Nov 2016 at 19:59

If the freezing process was proven not to damage anything then perhaps as we just don't know what will be possible at some point.

thenewoc · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:01

Maybe a synth will come about sooner than a way to defrost someone, so then the issue becomes whether you could transfer someones memories and personality into a synth whilst the human is still alive.

neoboy · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:05

Why was a UK court ruling needed on this in the first place seeing how this is a procedure done in US?

Greebo · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:08

neoboy said:
Why was a UK court ruling needed on this in the first place seeing how this is a procedure done in US?

Cause she was a minor and her mum was in favour but her dad was against. That's all the ruling was about.

Gerard · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:11

A cheaper option offered by the companies is to preserve a person's head instead of the entire body

Would be just like Futurama then.

norm · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:20

Gerard said:
Would be just like Futurama then.

Or Robocop.

norm · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:23

thenewoc said:
Maybe a synth will come about sooner than a way to defrost someone, so then the issue becomes whether you could transfer someones memories and personality into a synth whilst the human is still alive.

That'd be more like a snapshot of that person than a recreation, as it'd be dependant on whatever computer AI to control decision making and future learning.

E.g. a snapshot of you 10 years ago would respond and behave differently to the person you are now.

FortuitousFluke · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:36

I think it can only end in disappointment. I'd get myself frozen in the expectation that in 100 years I'd be awoken to a world replete with hot, green, alien chicks where I can spend my days flying around in a space ship and can connect to the Internet using a coax port implanted into my forehead. Chances are I'd wake up to a world where the only discernible difference is that phones are slightly smaller.

norm · 18 Nov 2016 at 20:47

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FortuitousFluke said:
Chances are I'd wake up to a world where the only discernible difference is that phones are slightly smaller.

Chances are you'd not wake up at all. There will probably be some global crisis/catastrophe that'll interrupt the cryo process.

Here's a thought though, what if in the future it's possible to make an exact neural map of somebody's brain, use their DNA to clone a new body and implant the neural map. In effect you've not had to touch the old body, only used it as a reference, but the end product would be the same, if not better because you could edit their DNA to cut out any fault causing genes that rendered them ill.