I wonder what leads people to believe that anyone in the future will be interested in applying their staggering new re-animation technologies to centuries-old frozen corpses?
There's a comment somewhere in this thread about perpetual motion. This tech seems to be its mirror-image, equal in impossibility, but opposite in aim. To stop all motion and decay, forever. Sometimes, it's wise to be circumspect, and to admit the possibility of a future technology that will change everything.
In the case of cryogenic storage of viable humans, however, I think it is straight-up, bona-fide, no-exceptions, impossible.
If we found a caveman now we would definetely thaw it out to try to ask it some questions and study it. Why anyone
Would actually want to be put in such a position in the future, I'm honestly not sure. You would be more akin to a zoo animal than a person allowed to walk around in a certainly completely alien society, I'd imagine.
I watched a pretty horrifying scifi recently (I think it was on netflix) about a guy who chose to be frozen and was thawed in the early experimental stages of the reviving process and ends up as a lab rat basically.
why not? i think it would be an awesome experiment. If we somehow had a few hundred frozen people from say the middle ages, I think it would be very interesting and worth it to wake them up. So I believe it comes down to technology to do that, and these clumsy horrible initial attempts will hopefully improve over time.
There's a comment somewhere in this thread about perpetual motion. This tech seems to be its mirror-image, equal in impossibility, but opposite in aim. To stop all motion and decay, forever. Sometimes, it's wise to be circumspect, and to admit the possibility of a future technology that will change everything.
In the case of cryogenic storage of viable humans, however, I think it is straight-up, bona-fide, no-exceptions, impossible.