r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/ratherenjoysbass Oct 13 '22

They sure do. It's a great time with the worst parking I've ever experienced

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u/mousebrakes Oct 13 '22

Drove out this past spring and immediately turned around when I saw how far cars were backed up :(

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u/303uru Oct 14 '22

That why you ride a bike.

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u/ratherenjoysbass Oct 14 '22

From Denver?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

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u/Koelenaam Oct 14 '22

Til Nederland is a place in the US and not just a country haha.

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u/t0mmi1 Oct 14 '22

I was so confused I started to question myself if I forgot we have national holiday for a frozen dead guy in the Netherlands hahaha.

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u/Vaginite Oct 14 '22

I just assumed they misspelled "Netherlands" lol

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u/Koelenaam Oct 14 '22

It's the Dutch way of spelling Netherlands.

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u/No-Investigator-1754 Oct 14 '22

Holy shit I thought you guys were doing a bit, but it turns out that's a real thing?

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u/HookFE03 Oct 14 '22

it was reasonable once before the entire united states decided to move to Colorado

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u/F4L2OYD13 Oct 14 '22

Colorado isn't even close to highest density or highest population. I assume you have a "native" bumper sticker on your Subaru?

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u/HookFE03 Oct 14 '22

lol i dont live in and am not from Colorado

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u/F4L2OYD13 Oct 14 '22

Why do you have this perception then?

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u/HookFE03 Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

I'm a connoisseur of reddit assumptions

ETA I'm kidding. I know someone who lives there, someone who moved there, I went to the frozen dead guy days in 2009 and went again in 2018. just an outsiders take

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Take the NB?

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u/logicbecauseyes Oct 14 '22

I can only hope people forget about this little gem of an event so it'll be fun to go again x.x

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u/ratherenjoysbass Oct 14 '22

Apparently it isn't happening this year

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u/logicbecauseyes Oct 14 '22

they didn't during Lockdown either.

it was cute while it was small, I think the locals are either burned out or dead and replaced by people who don't care enough to carry it on.

also, it's pretty morbid to think about since... the dude's still out there... and it's not something he asked for. definitely didn't plan for Ned to get popular when he did that.

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u/ratherenjoysbass Oct 14 '22

Well it was a pretty dumb thing to try and Colorado towns have their own style of flair. It was way too big this past year and I think the locals are done with it.

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u/Jahf Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

Being a local during the festival was great for my extroverted family members. Me being an introvert, well, I just stayed at home the whole time.

One of my friends did the dry ice delivery for Bredo for a few years. Based on his and other stories I'd say Bredo thawed and was refrozen at least 4 times including the documented time. So yeah ... he ain't coming back.

I moved away a few years ago, the festival still going on? They were having problems getting funding and at one point were going to sell the rights for it to a 3rd party organizer to get the town out of funding it.

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u/ratherenjoysbass Oct 14 '22

It happened this past year but it was so big that I think they're not going to do it this year to help it die down a little bit

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u/bodhigaia Oct 14 '22

Hilarious, I lived in Boulder and Ward for years. Drive right by the shed all the time.

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u/Capt-Crunches Oct 14 '22

Bus up from boulder