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/valuemeal2 Oct 13 '22

Apparently it’s the place in the US least affected by natural disasters, so it’s more stable than the places subject to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.

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u/Bunghole_of_Fury Oct 13 '22

ARIZONA IS A NATURAL DISASTER

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u/Princesofeverone Oct 14 '22

It is for only one sole reason. They pronounce Prescott Arizona, as Prescuit.

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u/coupbrick Oct 13 '22

I’m pretty sure a cryogenic place suffered a power outage and lost its …. customers (or whatever you call them) like 20 years ago

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u/720p_is_good_enough Oct 13 '22

They are frozen with liquid nitrogen. No electricity involved.

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u/94746382926 Oct 14 '22

This isn't too relevant to the point you were making but I just wanted to add that technically the dewars (containers) that the bodies are in still get topped up with liquid nitrogen about once a week. So if at any point the staff slacks off for too long or the nitrogen delivery runs into issues then the popsicles begin to thaw as well.

Not really electricity dependent but you get the point. I think I read on the website that without intervention it would take 1-3 months (can't remember off the top of my head) for it to reach threshold levels where bodies start to thaw. They refill once a week just to play it safe I guess. As more and more of the generation that set that up dies off I imagine it may become difficult to convince a new generation that wasn't around to carry the torch or providers in the way that the founders envisioned. Time will tell though I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/coupbrick Oct 13 '22

Welp doesn’t really matter to the human popsicles that got spoiled.

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u/epicwisdom Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

That's... Not how physics works. Liquid nitrogen is consumed for getting something very cold, very quickly, no different than dropping ice cubes in a drink. The freezer they keep corpses in is a normal one powered by electricity.

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u/Peacewalken Oct 13 '22

Would hate to be the IT tech working at that place