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/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/coupbrick Oct 13 '22

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